I stopped watching this show years before it ended. It was supposed to be about the new contestants and their talent, but it became about the well placed coke products and the corny Ford commercials the kids are forced to do. The judges became the focal point, as well as established celebrity guests coming on to make us watch as they hock some new single of theirs. Scale it back and simplify it and make it about the kids and maybe ill watch again. I know this won't happen so I guess I won't be watching.