Image Credit: Albert L. Ortega/PR PhotosDuring a routine scrape, American Idol producers found Miley Cyrus at the bottom of a barrel next to some Hannah Montana doll hair and decided to make her a guest mentor on tomorrow night’s show. Cyrus will bestow unto the Top 11 contestants bits of wisdom such as “Wear boots” and “Sound like a chain smoker,” and then she’ll perform her hit “When I Look At You” on Wednesday’s results show, according to a press release from Fox.
Are we really that surprised? The point of American Idol is to become a successful recording artist, not a good singer. It’s nice when the evidence of both co-mingle in the bloodstream of a teenager with a perfect face for extreme close-ups, but let’s not forget that this singing competition is also a three-month-long audition to star in a car commercial. I am a little shocked, though, that the Idol people don’t think we’ll immediately turn the channel if Miley attempts to explain herself via “singing.” That’s not gonna be good for business. That’s not gonna be good for anyone.
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Eww…So much for saving this season.
im sorry but this 17 year old idiot is not fit to mentor anyone let alone hopefuls on AI. have the producers lots their minds? BRING PAULA BACK and kick miley in the head!!!
Wow, I’m not a fan of hers, but there is no need to be so hateful to her. However, I would suggest Renee Olstead – she is a young talented singer who is more about quality than commercial notoriety.
Forget Paula…bring back Jordin Sparks, she can do the teen scene better than Miley.
Sign of the apocalypse: Miley mentoring Crystal.
RCB, right on!
Forget Milye Cyrus, Jordon Sparks and Renee Olstead!!!
Bring Taylor Swift in and let her give the advice she has a better voice then all three of them put together! Sorry people I’m not hating on any of them I just don’t think they can sing and face Taylor can:):):):):):):):):):):)
Taylor can sing?? Ruthie dear just one word — Grammys.
As Beyonce would say “this is a disastuh” , only one she could mentor is Tim
taylor can def. sing better than miley, but not as well as some others. tim could outsing miley. dying alligators can make a better sounding sound she can live. only adam lambert cant outsing miley. for insp. week im kinda hoping for Michael W. Smith who has a crazy amount of experiance and also works with idols later if they become Christian Artists such as mandisa, chris sligh, and even melinda.
Michael W Smith should have been a mentor long ago.
Christian music is a huge genre and totally ignored.
Don’t worry. This will have high entertainment value — even if it is unintentional. The sight of Miley Cyrus giving musical coaching to Crystal and Siobhan will be hilarious.
LOL!! .. Miley will call eveyone ‘dude’ in every other word … man are we getting drunk !!
oh yeah…i’ll be tuning in for the unintentional comedy of it all!
why! why! why?
what were they thinking bring miley as a mentor….
what a joke
I’m glad that Miley is here to teach DiDi. They deserve each other.
Siobhan and Crystal better watch out. Miley is going to help DiDi win. Yeah!! DiDi in the finals.
When Idol hits the bottom they REALLY hit the bottom. Is Milli Vanilli next week?
Yay! American Idol meets Hooterville. Can’t wait! (Actually, I can – it will defintiely be an NCIS night for me!)
You must mean Vanilli cause Milli’s dead.
Aw, come on, guys. Don’t you see this is part of TPTB’s plan? If someone like Mariah Carey were to mentor this group, we would all be complaining about their lack of talent. But when we see Miley “Auto-tune” Cyrus trying to give them advice, we’ll be “thankful” for this season’s lack-luster finalists.
Well, welcome to the USA all. This is the country that buys up Miley’s CD’s in bulk, made Susan Boyle #1 for more than a few weeks and that loves Kate and her 8 manufactured babies. So what do you expect?
what next? normand gentle? elvis impersonator? taylor swift dressed as a vampire?
And obsesses over “Jersey Shore” and “The Bachelor”, and made “Transformers 2″ gross over $400 million, and love to hail Tony Romo as a God in football.
Need we any more sad evidence AI has officially jumped the shark!!
I miss Lacey. Both she and Paige are the nicest. Siobhan too.
Yeppers. That’s it. AI is dead to me. DEAD. I have put up with cheese, schmaltz, hokum and Ryan Seacrest. Sure I got Adam Lambert, Kelly Clarkson and Carrie Underwood. But Miley crosses a line. Were all the other skankzillas busy? First thing when I get home, the DVR is gonna get fired up to “delete”! (After I let the pooch out to pee, that is.)
“After I let the pooch out to pee” is that some Southern’ slang for nookie?
yikes! I guess katie stevens will finally have her “moment” sigh.
I don’t like DiDi
. Please vote for Siobhan and Crystal.
DiDi sucks!!!
@Sugar, Did doesn’t suck! I’m the first one to love Crystal and Siobhan, but DiDi has a very nice, distinctive voice. I hope for that all-female finale that Slezak was predicting
Agreed. I was hoping this was joke… but looks instead to be an epic fail. Truly the only mentors are the folks who are responsible for her marketing, because her singing is only mediocre (even with the autotune) at best and if it wasn’t for the marketing folks at Disney, she definitely wouldn’t be where she’s at today…. RIP, AI!
oh good lord can they do any more to make this season a travesty?!?!?!
Annie, who are you kidding that you would change the channel!
nice–calling her on it!
I think it’s a brilliant move. We must always remember, A.I. is NOT about finding America’s next best singer, it’s always been about delivering a very desirable demographic to advertisers. That’s a demographic that’s been slipping away this season. Now that Miley will safely bring back the tweeners, I have only one thing left to say…Go Siobhan!!!
Oh no more tweens. That means Tim Urban, Katie Stevens and Aaron Kelly will be probably be saved. This is bad news for Paige and Andrew.
did the producers even realize that for billboard number ones they brought an artist who never had even one number one?
What are you all thinking? That Shiohban girl sounds like a choking, screaming animal.
American Idol has officially jumped the shark. Oh boy….I just laughed to myself….can you imagine Miley trying to tell Crystal how to sing or phrase things…snicker. That would be just funny. Though Siobhan would just say “What does that mean???”
I can hardly wait to see the ratings. I don’t think it will be more viewers. Hannah Montana gets about 6 million. This is 19 doing a favor for Disney for the wider viewership for the Disney stars and then Disney gives some past Idolers guest spots later.
eeeewww, is right!!! What does she know about mentoring others??
Who picked her to be on the show? they should be fired. HA
“And remember, Auto-tune can be your very best friend. I’m looking at you Paige, especially after that horrible Crocodile Hunter-inspired look from last week.”
What does autotune have to do with her look? She is a capable vocalist and does NOT need autotune.
Miley is Auto-Tuned regalarily. Have you heard her part on the new We Are The World. Totally Auto Tuned. On the bright side maybe she will make some this season’s useless contestants seem talented. I’m looking at you Casey.
She is awful! Girlfriend needs autotune and some hearing aids.
If she’s capable then I’m Best Female Vocalist of the year. XD
Oh you did not go there! She doesn’t need autotuned…she needs AUTOmatically voted out!
dude. every single pop artist is autotuned (especially miley, ustin bieber and co.).
DiDi is annoying. I like her.
And just when I thought this season couldn’t get any worse. I hope that Crystal or Siobhan laugh at Miley when she tries to give singing advice. If not that, maybe Big Mike can sit on her by accident.
haha–epic
It will be worth tuning in just for the look of disdain that Crystal will give her.
I’m not an AI fan, but based on the suggestion that some contestants will take this with a huge eye roll, I’m actually considering watching!
Crystal will handle this with class, but I would love to see a bubble over head so we could read her thoughts.
Oh please, oh, please let there be a thought bubble over Crystal’s head…wow, I guess this really is the last season.
LOL – I love the thought bubble over Crystal’s head!
Well considering at the beginning of this season, Crystal smugly said she was only doing AI to get a “better paycheck” than she should be glad to learn from Miley, because Miley has made more money in one teenage year than Crystal will earn in her lifetime.
i love the thought of it. can’t wait
I totally agree.
@grace Yes because all the other contestants joined a reality show so that they could change the world by sharing their God given talents to humanity. So a big FU Crystal for saying what everyone is thinking! You should be fake and superficial so that humanitarians like Grace will start liking you! Shame on you Crystal
lol, one can only hope.
maybe Crystal and Siobhan can explain to Miley the difference between actually singing on-key and whatever the frip it is Cyrus does.
Lol I forgot for a moment about big Mike. I think it’s going to be hillarious when Miley is “coaching” him! Buhhaahaaaa!
Does that mean they are all going to be singing. Miley Cyrus songs? God help us all!!
No, They’re singing Billboard’s #1 hits. http://www.americanidol.com/news/view/pid/2831/
I think its #1 hits- which Miley hasn’t even got!
um…theres this song called party in the usa? and the climb? school up “z”
Sorry Caroline – Party in the USA topped out at #2, The Climb at #4.
Caroline W is as smart as Miley is talented.
Seriously. If Canadian Idol had Kelly Clarkson as their mentor, can’t the American Idols have a talented singer mentoring them?
I suppose they could have a talented singer mentor them, but I think applying the words “talented” and “singer” to Miley is a bit of a stretch.
Well, Beth, I think that’s the point. Yes, they should have a talented singer mentoring them. Instead, they’ll have Miley.
I like Miley (she’s a gifted comedian, see Hannah Montana) but mentoring on Idol? Please, no, thank you.
She’s a gifted what?!! Stop the madness. Right now.
She’s got great comedic timing and is very likable as an actress on Hannah Montana. Miley should focus on the acting rather than singing.
I watch “Hannah Montana” sometimes and I can tell you right now that she’s a notch below ALL of the regular actors on the show. Yes, that also includes her father. I’m hardly impressed with Miley.
Really! One day I had to watch that show with my niece . I have never seen such bad acting and comedy.
Maybe she could try to be worse than Avril? She could say things that make her sound more entitled than Avril sounded. Or maybe she could give even more mediocre advice? Maybe she could wear a halo over her hoodie? Ya know, just to, like, show the difference? Maybe the producers could make an already painful season, even more unbearable for those of us over twelve.
Oh god. I had almost forgotten about Avril. I love Idol but I am near-depressed over this move. Miley Cyrus is like nails on a chalkboard.
Oh. My. GAWD. Is she coming so Crystal and Siobhan can give HER some pointers on how to be an artist?
This is seriously a joke! I know she’s been in the business for a while, but she’s even younger than some of the contestants. How can they take her seriously? Anyhow, this is going to make for a good show, watching Miley trying to give these contestants advices. ;D
Maybe cheesy ol’ Big Mike will EAT her! In one tiny mouthful. Now THAT would be some quality t.v!
My idea of mentor would be a choice from the following: Shania Twain, Bon Jovi, Dixie Chicks, nice mix here
Yeah, someone on another site joked that this could be another version of “Idol Gives Back” where some of the contestants teach Miley how to sing.
LOVE the Kenny Roger’s Roasters Seinfeld reference!!!
Vile Weed!
Miley Cyrus is going to give Crystal and Siobhan singing advice? Are the producers intentionally trying to kill this show> What possible credibility does it have to have Miley Cyrus, who couldn’t carry a tune in a bucket, giving singing advice? What a joke!
Slezak called it… there is no longer a “bar that is being lowered, it has now become a trench in the ground to be hopped over” (paraphrasing…)
you are so right… Miley Cyrus cannot sing and is not credible as a MENTOR. It is such a joke.
My guess is that she will try really hard – she is still young and earnest. It might be interesting to get a teen perspective; no jaded view yet. Can’t hurt based on so many failures from previous mentors.
I agree,though she won’t be the best mentor ever by any stretch of the imagination, she might offer some good critiques. AI has never had a teen mentor before, the different perspective might be interesting. Plus the younger contestants (Katie Stevens, Tim Urban) might really get some good tips from her because teens are obviously their target audience.
sure. She might teach Katie the fine art of the stripper pole.
If anyone has the right to be jaded it is Miley Cyrus. The girl brought pole-dancing to children’s television ffs. Talentless and skanky and yet a child star. If that ain’t cause to be jaded I don’t know what is.
You just HAVE to be kidding!
Well, at least she’s a step up from Ke$ha…
LOL! Sadly true…
I’m of two minds on Annie’s post:
1. Bottom of the barrel isn’t exactly a platinum selling singer who’s releasing a movie and still has a big tv show on the air. It’s not like they are trotting out Stacey Q as a mentor.
2. That being said, they may be trotting out singers with limited range like Miley and Ke$ha to make their own crop sound better.
Oh god, please let STacey Q mentor this season…please…
Can her 15 minutes be over soon. I’ve read some of her comments lately (hard to avoid) and she needs to learn one little tidbit of historical advice. Pride goeth before the fall. She really thinks she’s something.
if you haven’t noticed she’s been around too long. Unfortunately she has a stable career.
I think AI just jumped the shark.
That was my exact thought when I read the headline.
Gee, I never heard that phrase before….
Saying “jumped the shark has Jumped the shark” has jumped the shark.
Saying ““jumped the shark has Jumped the shark” has jumped the shark” has jumped the shark.
starting to see a pattern here…
BINGO!!
Forget jumping the shark – AI just got eaten, digested and then regurgitated by the shark.
So true! Simon must be laughing himself silly – saying good-bye to the sinking AI ship as it spirals downwards with such ‘credible’ mentors as Miley Cyrus. The show has jumped the shark, the whale, and whatever else swims beneath the depths. Are we sure the Miley Cyrus episode doesn’t actually air until April 1st? That would make more sense.
Good luck with the “mentoring”! Sadly, some of the eliminated semi-finalists have much more musical talent than Miley will ever have. *** I bet Lilly Scott, Alex Lambert and Kately Epperly are better singers than Miley when she doesn’t have auto-tune to help her out!***
Lacey is better tan Miley. Definitely.