5 reasons why the next American Idol judge should be outsourced from India

22nd February, 2010 - Posted by Rob - 1 Comment

Simon Cowell - Americal Idol Judge

Simon Cowell is leaving American Idol at the end of this season. So, who will be the new American Idol judge? You can pick a singer, musician, song-writer or a producer from Hollywood or you could look towards Asia to outsource the next American Idol judge. After all, Simon Cowell himself was outsourced from Britain!

Here are 5 reasons why an Indian would make the cut for the next American Idol judge.

1. Everything else is being outsourced from India, so why not this?

From custom software development to call center support. From clothes to shoes to toys. Many things are outsourced from India for the US markets. Indian Java programmers are working on US banking software; Indian web designers are working on American e-commerce websites; Indian dressmakers make clothes for American women; so, an Indian judging on American Idol will only be the next progressive step. What say you?

2. Bollywood music meets Beyoncé among most Indians!

So, you’re wondering if an Indian judge would know enough about music to pick the next American Idol! Sure, he would. Most Indians begin their lives listening to Bollywood music. And they continue to live with music, every day of their lives. And these days, Beyoncé, Usher and Jay-Z are as much a part of the Indians favorite list. So, your Indian judge is sure to know a thing or two about music. If nothing else, you’re Indian judge can go on stage and do some Bollywood ‘jatkas’ to add some livewire entertainment and boost American Idol’s sinking ratings.

3. Save on huge pay checks with an Indian judge!

Now, we come to the real reason why outsourcing an Indian judge makes perfect business sense. You don’t have to pay your Indian judge $36 million-per-season. In fact, you can just pay him 1/10th of Simon Cowell’s salary and a free two-way ticket to LA from Mumbai. A visa to continue to work in US after the season’s is over is all the incentive an Indian judge will need. Now, that’s huge savings for the show, isn’t it?

4. Huge crowds and ‘weirdos’ won’t unsettle your Indian judge!

That’s because your Indian judge sees more strange things everyday as he commutes to work in India – like cows on busy highways and humans dressed as scarecrows. Crowds don’t upset him at all because he gets jostled and manhandled on Indian city buses on a day-to-day basis.

Also those pretend-idol-aspirants who dress like ducks and Japanese sumo wrestlers to grab their 5 seconds of fame, they won’t even get an eye-roll from your Indian judge, because he has seen weirder things in India.

5. A slumdog judge is what American Idol really needs!

Did you see how A.R.Rahman appears on every other award show these days – be it the Baftas or the Oscars or the Grammys – and collects a few of those coveted statutes every time. And now the whole world talks about Indian film music. It’s simply called the ‘Slumdog Millionaire’ effect. American Idol, too, can ride on this ‘Slumdog Millionaire effect’ to boost its popularity ratings, by outsourcing an Indian judge.

We, at Indiansoftwareoutsourcing cannot help you outsource an American Idol judge from India. However, we can help you outsource all your software development, web design and development and web application development from India.

Give us your views on why the next American Idol judge should/shouldn’t be outsourced from India.

1 Comment

KPO India

February 23rd, 2010 at 9:23 am    


This is very interesting and entertaining. I’d actually love to see A.R. Rahman judge on the show. He is after all knowledegable of the music industry so he’ll do just fine.

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