American Idol

It’s about to get contemporary up in here! American Idol Season 11’s Top 7 are going to sing songs that they’re actually old enough to remember this week.

American Idol’s Nigel Lythgoe isn’t one for keeping secrets. The spoiler-happy producer dropped some tantalizing tidbits on his Twitter account this afternoon about what we can expect when the Final 9 perform tonight. We always knew we liked him!

American Idol producer Nigel Lythegoe has been dropping hints left and right about what we can expect when the Final 9 compete this week. Thanks to him, we not only know who’s mentoring the contestants but also which artists some of them will cover as they perform music from their personal idols on Wednesday.

We hope you like Billy Joel because we’ll be hearing a lot of him on American Idol next week! The Top 10 have been tasked with covering his work, which will be interesting, considering that pretty much none of them are old enough to remember him. Hopefully they’ll do justice to his hits, including “Uptown Girl,” “Piano Man,” and “The Longest...

The theme of the week when the Season 11 American Idol hopefuls take the stage again will be “songs from the year they were born.” Considering the age ranges, Elise Testone is 28 and Shannon Magrane is 16 — with everyone else’s age skewing closer to their teens — we’re going to hear a lot of ‘90s music. Shannon and Jessica Sanchez were both born in...