American Idol Winner, Scotty McCreery on Road to Failure!

Posted by Ben Johnson

June 8, 2011

American Idol controversy regarding sexism continues to exist as the tenth season of American Idol declared Scotty McCreery as the winner and couldn’t manage to clear the controversy.

Scotty McCreery, born on October 1993, was excessively praised by judges for his performances but in real he is being accused of copying famous American singer Josh Turner singing style. Jimmy Iovine, a multi award winning record producer, the in-house mentor of American Idol, also warned Scotty to bring some variations in his singing in order to become more applause worthy.

American Idol Season 10 judges have also been criticized for their wasteful use of Judges’ save on Casey Abrams. Saving such a singer made them pay when most talented and praised singer Pia Toscano was eliminated in Top 9 eliminations. Judges felt sorry because they couldn’t help her as they had already used their only option for Casey. In response to criticism, the producers of American Idol considered tweaking the voting format for season 11 and considered elimination of few judges too.

Apart from Scotty McCreery’s inability to sing diversified songs, many other winners of American Idol also suffered a failure in terms of Post-idol sales and success

As, the above mentioned statistics and classification of American Idol winners post idol sales indicates that female winners have taken a lead whereas bottom 3 winners Ruben Studdard, Lee DeWyze and Taylor Hicks experienced lowest ever post-idol sales. Moreover, the bottom three winners are mostly criticized for their stagnant way of singing.

Ben Johnson is Alliance Manager at Logoinn, a logo design company. He writes about the effect of design on marketing and brand identity and helps small businesses find design solutions for effective marketing.