The jury must lie – to save the idols

Alexander Kronlund probably reflected last week's desperation when he judged Tua and Williams in duet: "You are doing a decent job." Now, thankfully, I do not have all the power, it's the viewers who vote in the house, they are the Riksdag, and we are just the royal house, waving, wearing nice clothes and mingling with sponsors, just like a little bit. "

A few neighbors? The jury's job should be to judge on all fronts. Otherwise, it's actually useless for TV4 to have recruited a charismatic vocal coach, two world-renowned songwriters and a great genius. Regardless of the "idol" deficiencies as a program, the jury feels vital and TV4 can boast of having dared to focus on a completely unknown, but sharp and talented woman, like Nikki Amini, two years ago . But now she is sitting and watching her own words.

It was obvious, for example, that no one dared to say what it was about the duo of Ki and Maximilian. Kishti Tomita has practically started speaking in tongues, then to say "passport" and to move on to Nikki pushing a sparkling "nobody has already had the audience you have, you will certainly have it. "

Idol 2018: the system is locked

And why should they get it? Because Nikki Amini knows that too many negative critics are likely to end up as a backslash in the form of compassionate or rebellious critical voices on two cute guys who may not sing well.

Just tonight, the jury was a little tougher against Ki (though Bagge tried to wrap it up saying it took a lot of time), but chose the Maximilian case to focus on the (very kind) emotional effort, which also meant the always good idiotic song.

This system where viewers have unlimited power is actually held. In "Let's dance", it is distributed between 50 and 50 spectators between the public and the jury. During the Melodifestival, the result is the opinion of the viewers, combined with that of groups of international jurors. If only viewers had decided, they would probably have sent Hasse "Women's Box" Andersson to Eurovision each year, and we know how that happened.

But in "Idol" you just do, and the result will be afterwards. As in 2009, when Tove Strength (assisted by Anders Bagge) was canceled, the boys Calle Kristiansson and Erik Grönwall remained. Where the jury can see a whole career, the public perspective unfortunately seems to be aimed only at the festive Globenfinalen.