Video: David Archuleta on Kara DioGuardi

The one aspect of last night's American Idol season premiere that wasn't coated in nostalgia for last January was Kara DioGuardi, the former Ashlee Simpson Show bit player who made her debut behind the judges' table in Phoenix. DioGuardi proved to be Cowell-like in her ability to be acerbic, mocking a pink cowboy-hatted hopeful who was there to meet her and attempting to have a sing-off with Katrina Darrell, a.k.a. that girl who wore the bikini . I, personally, welcomed the presence of a female judge who didn't have to tell [...]