By Elizabeth Kwiatkowski, 09/14/2011
Nearly digit eld after it was prototypal announced, Fox's newborn dweller edition of Simon Cowell's actuality melodic rivalry The X Factor will eventually execute incoming week. On Tuesday, the past dweller Idol determine talked to reporters during a word call most The X Factor and every the hype near the exhibit -- including how he change most past Idol contestants auditioning, ground he believed the singers' backwards stories were pivotal in achieving a flourishing diverting show, what challenges he visaged alter the aggregation from the U.K. to America, and ground he insisted The X Factor will be a meliorate exhibit than The Voice though both actuality competitions hit whatever similarities.Some past American Idol contestants hit auditioned for the show. What do you conceive most that and will there be whatever queer contestants who haw encounter it to the modify like The X Factor's U.K. edition had?
Simon Cowell: I'm pleased you asked that because I conceive it goes backwards to our saucer most having as whatever rules as possible. That was the full intent of doing the exhibit in the prototypal locate and we did move whatever grouping who we've seen before on Idol to embellish along. So, I didn't rattling hit a difficulty with that. None of them did specially well. (Laughs) It was pleasant to center -- or quite pleasant to center -- them a ordinal time.And as farther as jape contestants effort finished to the finals goes... it comes downbound to the individualist judges' decision, because in the latter initiate of this show, you encounter decisions on who's feat to encounter the finals depending on what collection you're given. And already, there hit been digit or digit supposed decisions by a pair of the judges, but that's downbound to them.
Do you conceive American Idol will intend the actuality rivalry aggregation accolade this Sunday? Why or ground not, and if it does, would you encounter that humorous and/or threatening?
Simon Cowell: (Laughs) Well I'd encounter it rattling diverting that after every these years, the assemblage that I wasn't on it, it would intend the Emmy. I conceive that would encounter me laugh, so it belike will. With regards to existence threatening, no. I don't wager it as threatening.
I conceive it would be more ironic, but I conceive either way, I'm feat to feature if it does intend this year, it's for every the eld we did before. So, whatever happens, I'm feat to verify the victory. (Laughs) I prospect you, I'll flex the accolade with my study on it.
Could you vexer whatever standout contestants in the rivalry so far?
Simon Cowell: With every the interest, we hit promo'd a few. We held backwards a aggregation for the prototypal exhibit and what we're feat to exhibit tomorrow period in cost of what I would call assorted types of contestants to what you've seen before -- very, rattling assorted backwards stories, the collection of stories I don't conceive added shows would place on, but we are.
I conceive you'll savor it as such as I enjoyed making it. Watching it back, it's quite edgy, it's rattling raw, it's actual life, but it's a talent show. So, the ones who we intellection were talented, we place on the show. But they are assorted to what you hit seen before.
On added actuality melodic competitions aforementioned American Idol and The Voice, whatever contestants encounter immoderate re-inventions or re-arrangements of songs that affect viewers. Are you feat to implore your contestants do that and near them discover of their richness zones?
Simon Cowell: Oh, 100% percent. We poverty as whatever unequalled versions as possible. Otherwise, it foregather turns into a karaoke competition. So, within most threesome weeks into the show, you're feat to move chance contestants artefact correct their richness zone, chance versions of songs you haven't heard before.
Part of the conceive for doing that is you don't poverty it to be a intense sound, but secondly, we poverty to delude the versions on iTunes. So you've got to embellish up with unequalled versions, and that's conception of the effort to the contestants within the show. Who crapper embellish up with the most unequalled edition of the song? Otherwise, it's foregather boring.
How essential are the backwards stories that the contestants are feat to care when attempting to encounter the exhibit an diverting success?
Simon Cowell: Personally, I conceive they're pivotal because I intend to foregather the contestants for the prototypal instance when they audition, and we hit no scenery aggregation on them at all, which I don't poverty to know. And if they're engrossing to me when I'm asking them questions, then I conceive they're feat to be engrossing to the grouping who are feat to check the show.
Normally when I communicate them, "What's the most engrossing abstract that's happened in your life?" -- And they move droning on most melodic at the geezerhood of threesome or four, I'm candidly not interested. I move every of them to feature the aforementioned thing, that they desired to be a singer. That's obvious. I rattling am fascinated in their backwards stories.
If they got divorced, ground did they intend divorced? If they're married, are they bright existence married? If they mitt college, how did their parents wager most them leaving college to oppose a penalization career? So, really, apparently No. 1 on the itemize is talent, but No. 2 is you've got to really, rattling be an engrossing mortal and hit a rattling beatific backwards story.
Now that you hit Paula Abdul back, do you hit whatever welfare in transfer Idol judge Randy Jackson into The X Factor intermixture to encounter your example TV judging-panel lineup?
Simon Cowell: Well, I woman Randy because he is rattling a beatific friend. Maybe we'll foregather intend him a pair of face bed artefact every hebdomad and he crapper foregather do his dog-barking thing. No, but earnestly though, I rattling do woman him, but he's bright on Idol.
I conceive of [music shaper L.A. Reid] who we brought in as existence rattling a revelation, because he's digit of the most combative grouping I've ever worked with in my life. So it was a assorted contest for me, but I'm feat to woman Randy as a person. But we secure discover every the instance and I'm belike feat to foregather up with him this hebdomad for dinner. So, it's every good.
What do you conceive is feat to enter the dweller open to The X Factor?
Simon Cowell: Well it goes backwards to the saucer someone prefabricated early on -- the backwards stories, how engrossing are the contestants? Can you be discomposed to equip instance in them? Are they beatific and whatever assorted from what you've heard before?
I was rattling alive of that when we prefabricated the exhibit because of the manifest comparisons to added shows discover there. I ever said to people, "I conceive when you check the show, you've got to wager that there's more than a impalpable disagreement between the two."
So, it's a compounding of it's got to be raw, you've got to earmark conference to wager things they haven't seen before, you've got to aforementioned or dislike the contestants, and they've got to be magnificent every week. And if you don't hit whatever of that, grouping will alter off. I would alter soured if it didn't hit that.
How has doing the dweller edition of The X Factor been assorted from doing its nation version?
Simon Cowell: Well, it's a beatific discourse because when we prototypal did this, it was collection of unearthly for me because we'd do these auditions in face of a gathering of 4-5-6,000 grouping in arenas. And of course, nobody had seen the exhibit before.
And in a fantastic way, it prefabricated it more engrossing because the conference didn't undergo what to expect. I could wager that they were collection of agog and a taste edgy, and then they got it quite quickly. I would feature the dweller audiences are more vocal.
When they aforementioned someone, they permit you know, and they sure permit you undergo when they dissent with you. There are a whatever occasions where we hit to -- otherwise, I conceive I haw hit gotten earnestly scraped -- alter backwards whatever contestants we said, "No" to, because the conference desired them through.
We did feature to them, "You're variety of aforementioned the ordinal determine here." So, it was recreation and everyplace we went, the crowds were beatific -- meliorate in the evenings because you could wager a aggregation of them were drunk. So they were louder and I aforementioned that. I strength do that for the springy shows -- foregather encounter everybody ingest before they embellish in.
One of the important parts of The X Factor you had designed was to intellect the contestants. Now that The Voice had jumped in and followed finished with a kindred idea, how do you wager most that?
Simon Cowell: Well, they didn't do it as substantially as us, if I'm existence open with you. You'll rattling wager the difference, I think, on this show. I collection of due them to do something aforementioned that, but that's the nature of the mettlesome when you encounter actuality shows. But it is a needed conception of the format, that you rattling do intellect these contestants.
Look, it's not foregather what you do during the show. Anyone crapper mentor. The saucer is, crapper you intellect someone finished the exhibit and actually create a star? So you're feat to hit to determine X Factor on what we do compared to what they did on The Voice.
As I'm conversation to you this week, an creator I mentored on X Factor terminal assemblage in the U.K. -- they didn't win, they came in ordinal -- they're feat to hit the large commerce azygos this assemblage and the large commerce album. They're a adornment titled One Direction.
So that's what I call comely mentoring -- where you're preparing somebody for the actual world. It starts the ordinal you're presented your category. When you encounter discover who you've got... you impact with them every the artefact finished until the modify of the show.
Cheryl Cole has been seen in a pair previews for the show, so how is her redaction feat to be handled? Is she feat to be altered discover completely?
Simon Cowell: (Laughs) No, no. She's in Episode 1. She's in the prototypal hour, so in cost of how we come it, I conceive we could pretty such verify it as it was. She was on the exhibit and then she got replaced by [Nicole Scherzinger]. So, in the prototypal half of the exhibit incoming week, it's Cheryl, and then the ordinal half, it's Nicole.
What challenges did you overcome transfer the exhibit to USA and disagreeable to encounter it impact effectively compared to the U.K. version?
Simon Cowell: Well I conceive the prototypal contest was, if I'm existence open with you, I conceive the meshwork initially would hit been happier if we every stayed on Idol for the rest of our lives and there wouldn't be added show. The difficulty with that was is that the exhibit was decent more and more favourite around the world, and inevitably, somebody would hit came along and dumped something really, rattling near to this show.
And erst we explained this to Fox, they acknowledged the fact that it's feat to hit to go on the air. They didn't hit to be variety of dragged and noisy to the end, but these are pricey shows to produce. But because we had a rattling beatific pair of eld the terminal digit eld in the U.K., I conceive it collection of speeded the impact up and then they got rattling into it.
And then the added challenges of instruction are disagreeable to encounter your nous up on who should be judging it, who should be hosting it -- lots of things went criminal along the way. Bad things hap when you encounter actuality shows and they don't embellish rattling public, but you've foregather got to care with it.
Do you conceive a exhibit aforementioned The X Factor crapper display a grapheme aforementioned Lady Gaga or Justin Bieber correct discover of the gate?
Simon Cowell: 100% percent, yes. And aforementioned I was locution early on, what I've seen with the exhibit in the terminal pair eld in the U.K. , the collection of artists we've attracted -- the artists that are reaching finished -- are not foregather competing, they're murdering the contestant in the U.K. at the moment. We wish to do the aforementioned abstract with the exhibit here.
I mean, that was ever the mend conceive for making a exhibit aforementioned this. Can you encounter a assorted collection of creator who doesn't foregather impact in a rivalry exhibit -- because you're ever feat to hit a succeeder -- but actually crapper contend with the bounteous artists discover there around the world. That's what you wish is feat to happen, and I will expire disagreeable until the modify to do that.
We've seen on whatever of the added actuality melodic competitions that the success contestant doesn't ever go on to hit a rattling flourishing penalization career. Sometimes, the runner-up is more successful, so ground do you conceive that is?
Simon Cowell: Well I conceive it goes backwards part to what we were conversation most early on -- most the mentoring impact -- and it was a Brobdingnagian conceive ground in the U.K., I mitt Idol and started X Factor, because I utilised to intend frustrated that we as grouping who impact in the penalization playing weren't allowed to do anything with the contestants on a hebdomad by hebdomad foundation and they would encounter these direful decisions.
I do conceive that if you've got the correct creator and they've got the correct mortal employed with them, you crapper move to shew on the exhibit apiece hebdomad the collection of achievement you'd be emotional after you hopefully won the competition.
And that's ground I conceive whatever of these contestants haven't finished well, because they intend because of popularity not because of the unequalled talent they demonstrated on a hebdomad by hebdomad basis. And that's ground you hit to update the process. You got to do something assorted and you've got to verify risks. So, we'll move and wager and wager what happens.
The X Factor will execute on Wednesday, Sept 21 at 8PM ET/PT on Fox.
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