Miley Cyrus Mentoring the Contestants  

I haven't really been watching American Idol anymore but when I heard about this I just had to laugh. Exactly what is this show coming too? I mean I admit that I do listen to Miley's music every once in a while but I thought that when it comes to bringing mentors it was all about people that have been in the business for a long time and have had a lot of hit songs. People like Prince or Barry Manilow. I just don't understand but I guess they are trying to bring in the younger viewers because now everything is about the ratings.

Agreed! This show has been heading down the wrong path for quite some time now. Ridiculous! I just posted on my blog about this. http://www.reality-tv-junkie.com/ UGH! I like Miley Cyrus but give me a break.

Miley Cyrus is a great singer.. but I think with this mentoring thing, they are trying to bring up the ratings, like one responder has said.. I think that makes sense there. With the exit of Paula, there might be a dip for all we know.. so ratings must be back up. If I'm right about this though..

I think we are been a little too critical about Miley Cyrus, yes she is young however she have achieve a lot more that many of us have done. The youth of today have grown up too fast and age really might just be a number. I would not put her down before I see her in action, she might just surprise us and rise to the occasion.

I think she's too young to be a mentor, myself. I haven't watched American Idol in a long time but I would think most of the contestants would be around her age or a little older. I would think they would need a mentor who is a little older. Miley has had some experience but not enough to be a mentor, in my opinion. It doesn't make any sense to me, either, and I'm sure she gets a lot of help from her father, Billy Ray. I'm a big fan of his, lol! Kathy.

I just finished watching the show...Miley didn't do bad, but I wasn't impressed either. She told Andrew to lose the guitar (but it didn't help his performance). She told Didi, everyone gets nervous before a performance that seemed to help Didi, but her performance wasn't great. She told Paige to watch her pitch; she didn't and her performance was awful. What else can someone tell some of these contestants? (Some of them were just plain awful tonight. I had to fast-forward through a couple.)

I think since she's been there done that the young people would probably relate to her more than they would some others. Seems as she is pretty popular w/them.

I saw that awhile ago. And Miley is really doing great as in especially to Katie about Girls Don't Cry. I really like it.

I liked Miley Cyrus on the Disney channel, and I really thought she would turn in to a good role model.

However last night was the first time I've seen her where she wasn't acting and I gotta say - she's nowhere near ready to Mentor anyone. Just b/c you sell a lot of records doesn't mean you have enough experience to tell others what to do. Her advice was always so basic and something ANY of us would say. Plus, I thought she wasn't that good at talking on her feet.

She is young, I still have hope she'll be a good role model, we'll see :)

Ok some commented that she was a good Mentor b/c she is current and not like the old outdated people they usually have. Howevere, there are plenty of "current" artist they could have picked that have more years of experience.

Who's next? Britney Spears?

Yeah that was funny I tape Idol so I just skipped her parts. There is nothing she could add to help these kids. I will also be skipping her performance I can't stand her voice. I didn't care for The Rolling Stones week either not a fan of theirs. Hopefully we will get better mentors later in the season.