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Mariah Carey– your new $18 million American Idol judge — has had her wacky moments.But when she takes her chair in next season’s Idol, as one of the show’s three judges, 42-year-old Carey isn’t expected to be a particularly wacky judge, Idol experts say.Instead, she will be — if anything — hard, critical of contestants with her high bar of singing skills.What do the experts say?“What I’m hoping from her, is that she has the potential to be a little bit of a villainess,” Lyndsey Parker, Idol beat reporter and expert for Yahoo!, told Celebuzz, hours after Carey was announced as the new judge.“I don’t see her being like Steven [Tyler] and J.Lo and telling everyone they’re nice and wonderful and beautiful.
