For an American Idol division allegedly after drama, there already seems to be a lot of tears shed. "I've cried," accepted new adjudicator Jennifer Lopez at the Los Angeles auditions for Division 10 on November 4. "All of us accept cried a lot this audience season," added Randy Jackson. "Me, Steven, Jennifer and Ryan."

The tears, they say, are a aftereffect of accepting to abort people, article both of the new board still acquisition difficult. While Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler tries to abolish his admiration to "flambé" bad contestants, Lopez opts for effective criticism. "I anticipate everyone's aggravating to be as honest as they can after breaking too abounding spirits," she said. "We're not out to cut them bottomward or accomplish a antic of them. What we're aggravating to do is absolutely coach them and advice them to the abutting footfall if we anticipate they're account it and if they're not, aloof be cool honest with them and let them apperceive this is not for them."

Lucky for the three judges, it appears this division is abounding of abeyant talent. "I apperceive we say this all the time, and I say it a lot, but dude, this year the aptitude is bigger than what we've had in many, abounding a season," Jackson said. That includes the anew acceptable 15-year-old contestants. "Obviously it's a accomplished new basin of talent, and we've got some really, absolutely abundant adolescent ones," said Lopez. "We've put a agglomeration of bodies through, apparently added than they accept in the past, and we're assured that we accept 15 to 20 absolute superstars."