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We’ve had two full weeks of our newest judge on American Idol, Kara DioGuardi, known in some circles as simply “the new girl” or “the fourth judge.” Seeing her make a newbie faux pas last night, it made me start to consider how she is doing so far in the two key areas.

Congeniality (aka, putting up with Simon) First we have to realize that we aren’t seeing the auditions in the order they occurred. So far we’ve seen Phoenix, Kansas City, San Francisco, and Louisville, but the actual order of the auditions the way they occurred were San Francisco, Louisville, Phoenix, Salt Lake City, San Juan, Kansas City, Jacksonville, East Rutherford, and New Jersey. Things seemed a little disjointed in San Francisco, and that would make sense, as that was their first audition city, and Louisville was directly after.

We can’t judge by that then, and maybe a truer case of how everyone is getting along would be last week’s auditions of Kansas City and Phoenix that occurred third and sixth. While many expected to have cat fights between Kara and Paula Abdul, there really doesn’t seem to be animosity, and they seem quite comfortable with each other, even siding the same way on most occasions. Randy Jackson always seems to get along with everyone, so it would be odd if she didn’t get along with him. As for Simon Cowell, he seems to have the same playfulness with her that he has with Paula. I think he was the guy that liked to put tacks on girls’ chairs. (more…)