The commercials for American Idol have been talking about a big change for this year, and I immediately hoped they were going to start including instruments, something that Australian Idol has done for the last two years to great success. And I was right! I’m really excited now. Incidentally, I hadn’t meant to stop posting Australian Idol highlights, but I got so far behind watching them that I just haven’t done much with it. They’re done with the season now (and I’ve managed to stay unspoiled, which I didn’t last year), but I’m still about eight weeks from the end in my watching–hopefully I’ll finish it in the next few weeks and give y’all a few of the best performances.

Let’s hope the addition of instruments on our Idol brings on some singer-songwriters who do well, because that would be AWESOME.