My big question has always been why they have twenty-two year old singers performing in front of an eighteen year-old audience but singing thirty year-old songs.

I endured fifteen minutes of it because I was in the middle of a timed computer puzzle and couldn't get up to turn off the TV. Long enough to get the sense that everyone in the competition this year is going to have a dramatic backstory to go along with their satisfactory Celine Dion covers.