After 13 years and nearly as many changes to its judges’ table, the American Idol is parting ways with its most important magistrates: the wise council of giant Coca-Cola cups that oversee all, imparting their corporate benevolence to the many minstrels that come to warble before it. Coca-Cola has announced that it’s cutting ties with the reality series, more than a decade after it all but redefined product placement by plastering its logo all over every available surface of the Idol stage, transforming its traditional “green room” into a “red room,” and replacing Ryan Seacrest’s blood with Diet Coke. The absence will be felt in the upcoming 14th season, when the judges slowly go delirious with dehydration.