Man, that nanny chick was nauseating.
What was so great about the nanny? I’ve forgotten her voice already. Meh.
Why didn’t they show the cute guys? Huh? Why?
The nanny did the same thing DreadGuy did, I was floored when she found a new note six lines into the damn song. She was cute in an Amish kinda way, but you know there’s no way she’ll make it out of H’wood.
If the winner comes from Philly, it’s someone they didn’t show. I got about a two-second glimpse of a MAJOR hottie with his ticket at the end–I’d kinda like to see more of that.
Other than that, no goosebumps moments.
I felt really embarrassed for Princess Leia’s grandparents. Having to stand there listen to her rant and rave to the cameras about how they didn’t want someone different. Well, duh, of course they don’t, they want nice plastic singers they can stuff into the AI mold and control their recordings in perpetuity! Plus she sang through her nose.
Although I totally think she and caped Star Wars Plumbers Butt guy should have traded costumes…
I thought the guy who lost 200lbs actually had a pretty good voice; other than that everyone was a big meh.
Is that the horse riding chick from Oregon? She’s *really * hot.
I now remember why I hate the audition rounds. I don’t like to laugh at pathetic people. If they are sad and pathetic, I don’t want to see them. And if they are angry and pathetic, I want them to get hit by a bus.
Yep. Naturally pretty, the kind of face you used to see in Breck ads.
I liked her, but Simon was right – she needs to show some confidence. She’s got it, but she doesn’t want to flaunt it.
Best line of the night:
If you were a bathtub I would caulk you.
Princess Leia girl was right - they do only want pretty cookie-cutter boring pop people.
BUT!!, if you want to break that image, don’t show up to the audition looking like a reject from the Greenwich Village Halloween Parade, and then get all huffy when they look at you like you have problems, and most importantly you must be able to sing!
Once, just once, I would like to see one of the “weirdos” actually have talent! It’s just not funny anymore. Once we got past the first season, everyone seemed in on the joke. All the strange people are either not all there in the head, or complete famewhores who just want to be on TV.
If you were Columbo I’d Peter Falk you.
At least the guy could carry a tune. It wouldn’t surprise me if he was a ringer, maybe a local DJ. He was too funny.
One of the weirdos won it in season five, although I can see how you might have forgotten seeing as we’ve heard nothing from him since.
I remember a guy from last season who looked kind of like Fidel Castro making it to Hollywood, but I’m pretty sure he was cut in the next round.
Oh, I felt terrible about all the effort he put in, and then they shooed him outta there in like, thirty seconds! I say cut the guy a break.
I read an article that said they’re going to give us more backstory on contestants this year so we’ll get more attached to them. Ugh.
At least Glitter Girl left with her dignity. 
My fiance can’t stand Idol, and not only did that send him into hysterics, he’s threatening to put it in his vows.
No Sex Allowed was pretty great, too. Milo was a dead ringer for Tobias Funke.
Bring on the rest of the auditions!
Yes! Holy crap, you’re totally right!
I noticed the name Latrina and I wondered why parents would do that to a child and I wonder why a child wouldn’t change it once they reached legal age. If you can’t afford a name change just tell people your name is Trina. Did no one ever call her latrine or toilet when she was growing up? Maybe her parents didn’t know what a latrine was but there had to be other kids in school that did.
It seems like they spend more and more time on the delusional/famewhores, it went on way too uncomfortably long for Glitter Girl and Princess Leia. Personally, I think both of them were just after the attention, Glitter Girl cinched it when she said she was going back to being an actress. They didn’t even insult Glitter Girl, they said she’d be great in a 60’s cover band but she wasn’t right for the show and then she just goes off on how mean they were. I think she had her shtick planned out and was a little surprised when they weren’t mean to her but in the end just decided to go for it. Princess Leia knew she wasn’t going to get on TV if she dressed normally, so she went for the wacky.
I thought they were nicer to people than they normally are. But the hugging the big girl and walking her out to her mom and all that went on way too long. Most of that stuff goes on way too long so we barely get to see the ones that get through. I could tolerate it better if they would show an equal amount of good and bad and not waste 15 minutes of time on each whackadoo.
The fact that she called it “actressing” made me feel like she hadn’t done it before. To be fair though, her art wasn’t terrible. She has some skills there.
I really wanted the guy who had lost 200 pounds to do well, and was surprised when he did.
I fast-forwarded through most of the Grace Slick impersonator and Princess Leia. Though I will say that I think Princess Leia had a point. She wasn’t a bad singer, but wasn’t particularly great, either. If she’d been hot, like the girl who followed her (the nanny), she might still have gone through. Personally, I didn’t think the nanny was all that great, either. But she was hot, so she got through.
The one I felt the worst for was Temptress. First of all, I hate her parents for naming her that. Who names a child Temptress? It’s just cruel. (So is naming your child Latrina.) Secondly, I think she kind of knew deep down that she couldn’t sing that well, but was deluded into thinking she could and/or pressured into “doing it for her mama who’s ill” by her family. That’s why she was scared to face them after she’d been rejected. Thirdly, it’s pretty obvious that the reason her mother is “ill” is because she’s morbidly obese, and I fear that Temptress is heading down the same path. Poor girl.
I will say that it didn’t seem that heavy on the commercials last night. I recorded the first hour and started watching at 8. I finished at 9:30, and that was with fast-forwarding through much of the filler stuff and the temper tantrums. Later, of course, I will pay for mentioning this when it gets to the song-commercial-song-commercial format as the top 10 (or 12, or whatever) starts dwindling down.