What kind of a dickwad skips out on his wife having a baby to audition for American Idol?
I saw on an interview or something (maybe or an article in EW) that said there is a song that they make everyone sing along with that person’s auditions song.
Simon was right. That guy couldn’t start his songs on key. Plus he’s an asswipe just for being there.
Sundance and the backup singer were my favorites. Between those two, Sundance by a hair.
I actually liked the chav. His voice could be improved with coaching. But his look was like Seattle of the 90s meets Haight-Asbury of the 60s. Very interesting. I’d have liked to have seen him again.
I was ambivalent about Castro. I was pulling for him to make it, but then was disconcerted when he did. Don’t know why. His personality changed, for one thing. Before the audition, he was all guru on the mountain top. After, he was like a valley girl at a pool party. He moved surprisingly well on stage.
What else… oh, yeah. The blonde doing Aretha. I don’t know why Randy didn’t like her. I thought she had a certain almost Marilyn Monroe quality. And definitely a very sex voice.
I’ll watch through the auditions, then I won’t watch anymore. The auditions are funny and entertaining. The show, though? It seems to be primarily about that god-awful singing style that I hate so very, very much.
I liked Sundance, but I’m not so sure I like his singing. Abhorred the goatee, ick!
Loved the backup singer, I really hope she makes the finals.
The kind who was surprised by an unexpected delivery maybe? I rewatched his audition, and when Randy asked where was his cigar, the guy answered, “I wasn’t prepared for this.” And I took the this to refer to the birth that they had all just applauded and that Randy had just alluded to. He said the baby was more important than Hollywood in any case. And he didn’t seem to have a shred of inflated ego or anything else that would indicate he had “skipped out on his wife”. Then immediately after the audition, he was on a full run out the door.
I think you were overly harsh on him (especially with a follow-up post calling him an “asswipe” to boot) and for no discernable good reason.
It was so un Idol like. Like Simon said, most come in thinking they are all that, and stink, and she looked so surprised when they said she was good.
I didn’t like her. Her voice was okay, but far from great. Something about her, in both the singing and her look, struck me as revoltingly fake.
Just wait. If she gets onto the viewer-voting rounds, she’ll be the little blond diva princess, an obnoxious snot without the talent to live up to her plastic Barbie doll image.
Was the baby premature? Don’t think they ever said.Maybe she came out early.
I liked them both, too, in reverse order. Back-up singer has a familiar sound, but Lord, she can sing. She’s also adorable and has what looks like honest to God humility. Sundance, despite the weird look, is fun to watch and has a completely unique killer voice.
The he should have left the audition as soon as she called. It couldn’t have been THAT much of a surprise, regardless. Only a piece of crap decides it’s more important to try to get on TV than to go to his wife’s side immediately. If the baby was really more important to him than Hollywood then he wouldn’t have been in line. He wasn’t even that good of a singer.
Which style do you mean? If you’re referring to “melisma” where they do all those “runs” with their voice going up and down the scale (which I hate), then it seems to me like they’ve actually had less of that and have moved toward more variety over the last couple of seasons. Season 4 had Carrie Underwood and Bo Bice (a country singer and a rocker) for the final two, and last season had Taylor as the winner and some others like Chris, Kellie, and Bucky who all did well without that awful melisma.
If you’re referring to a different sort of style, then never mind. 
I’ll venture a guess it’s not just the melisma, but also the power balladeering that inevitably ends in a ten second belt, the money shot. While I’ll agree with you that the last season or two has moved away from generic R&B pop to a wider variety of styles being sung by more diverse contestants, I hope there’s no argument that the orchestrations too often lead to that big climactic “LAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA”
I liked Sundance, Castro bin Laden, and Backup Singer best. It wasn’t as freakily entertaining as the previous audition shows, though.
I wonder if they consciously toned down their edits after the criticism they got last week. There’s another two hour episode tomorrow, let’s see if they bring back the circus.
Kill it kill it kill it!!!
If only the dumbass live audience would stop the crazy applause for this sort of thing. Yelling a note for 15 seconds is not singing. It’s not. Stop clapping! The judges jumping up for a standing ovation every time someone uses this amazing technique isn’t helping things much, either.
I seem to have an instinct: So far the hair has stood up on the back of my head for ALL the yesses, and ONLY the yesses. My hair knows. I was surprised it did so for Castro, but it did. When it did, I thought, *“He’s got a lot of potential as a great ‘alternative’ solo act, like the Mountain Goats or Will Oldham. I’m gonna have to make a note of his namebecause they are SO not gonna pick him.”
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But my nape hair knew better. Ohmygod, my neck hair is SIMON COWELL!!!
I would give New Dad a break. He’ll have years to be with his kid, and his wife and other kid. AI carries the potential to help him provide for his family.
I liked Sundance, and his singing, but I’m tired of AI jerking me around with these big guy, big voice, big heart contestants. I always root for them and they always get cut.
Okay, the guy whose wife left him for another guy? Dude, don’t act in a way that makes people say “Who could blame her?” Also, learn to perform the song (FOOTLOOSE?! WTFF?!) in a way that doesn’t require you to stand in place and jiggle during what would be the instrumental break*.
Liked Backup Singer, too. And Blonde Hottie would get a yes from me, because not only did I like her voice, but she didn’t sound anything the way she looked.
Castro Bin Laden blew my mind. That so rarely happens: that a freaky-looking person gets a yes.
*On another message board, some guy was talking about going to the auditions planning to sing “More Than a Feeling.” I don’t know if that would have been a good choice in and of itself, and in fact it was moot, because he didn’t make it through the producer line, but he did say that one of the reasons he chose that song was because without the guitar breaks, it’s about a minute and a half. And, he said, he’d rehearsed it lyrics-only: no standing there air-guitaring while waiting for the chorus to come in.
I liked Castro’s song choice. “God’s Gonna Cut You Down” by Johnny Cash. Kind of edgy in a weird way.