This season 2021 - You have got to STOP the "sympathy" stories that we are being inundated with before the contestants perform for the judges..... Its just getting to be TO MUCH... Half the show is about the contestants and their "hard times". I feel for them, however I am voting for their ability to sing not the tough times in their lives. If you must talk about the contestants mis givings... please spend less time on the story and more time letting the viewers see/listen to their talent.