Edited sentence: As a mentor on the tenth season of the U.As it turned out, both contestants' song choices were a hit.Both Abrams and Durbin stuck to their guns and sang their original song choices, much to the chagrin of Iovine.On April 13, 2011, he made public statements of disparity over the song choices of contestants Casey Abrams and James Durbin.S singing competition show American Idol, Iovine's credibility as a long time music man is under scrutiny for disagreeing with the contestants' song choices only later to be proved wrong