Yes, We Stuck With ‘American Idol’

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The New York Times

Music Commentary, Music, Music Interviews

3.4 • 1.7K Ratings

🗓️ 26 May 2018

⏱️ 54 minutes

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Summary

Maddie Poppe won the show, rebooted on ABC with a new cast of judges. What worked, what didn’t and who really stood out? Two longtime “Idol” enthusiasts discuss.

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0:00.0	Welcome to the New York Times
0:03.2	podcast, my beautiful grandchild of music news and criticism.
0:09.2	I'm your host, John Caramonica.
0:12.1	I'm staring at the ceiling the clock it won't stop ticking I feel like I've been
0:17.7	sleeping for too long now it's like my heart stopped beating and I'm hardly breathing and I'm afraid of leaving
0:26.2	scared to break down and what am I waiting for because I don't want to wait no more and I'm the only soldier
0:37.0	in this only war and I don't want to find myself no more.
0:45.0	Maybe I was meant to run.
0:49.0	Maybe I was born to blame.
0:52.0	I don't know who I'll become but I'll be going going gone
0:59.5	and even if it starts to hurt, I want to feel it till my whole heart first.
1:08.0	Because I will be forever young.
1:12.0	So I'll be going going going
1:16.0	going gone gone.
1:18.0	Oh we're back.
1:22.0	We weren't gone.
1:24.0	That's true.
1:25.0	That's true.
1:26.0	I think it's pretty likely that most pop-cast listeners probably have no idea what song we played
1:30.0	at the beginning of this week's pop-cast.
1:32.0	So, let me lay it out. That is Maddie Poppy, P-O-P-P-P-P-E, for all the reporters in the room, who is the winner of the new season of American Idol,
1:43.4	and that is her debut single called Going Going Gone,
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