Luke Bryan dropped new hints over his future as an American Idol judge. "Idol is kind of a year-by-year, 'Do we do it or not?'" Bryan, 49, told A Taste of Country in an interview published on Thursday, July 31. The "Country Girl (Shake It For Me)" singer originally joined American Idol in 2018 and most recently weathered a shakeup on the judge's panel that saw Carrie Underwood replace Katy Perry. (Like Bryan and fellow judge Lionel Richie, Perry joined American Idol when the show was revived by ABC in March 2018 after two years off the air.