# American Idol is back! 1/12-1/13 Audition shows **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [January 12, 2010, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653 "2010-01-12T13:36:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 5
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/81 "2010-01-14T01:38:33Z")
She might have played up the hill person schtick but I dunno. It could be legit. ---
**Author:** ![gonzomax](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e8c25b/32.png) [@gonzomax](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gonzomax)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 1:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/82 "2010-01-14T01:40:26Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > She’s more authentic than Kellie Pickler. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNzc5UtUu8s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNzc5UtUu8s) I don’t think she is unauthentic. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 1:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/83 "2010-01-14T01:42:25Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > Oh please, oh _please_ don’t play the retarded bumpkin, Country Girl. I don’t like country but I can appreciate a good country song. Naive is fine, intentional stupidity makes me really fucking angry (Kellie, I’m looking at you). Her song choice shows some rootsy sensibilities and is out of the mainstream. I have hope. But man, if that last girl made Kellie Pickler look like she was from Brooklyn this guy makes that last girl look like a valley girl. But Christ, the lady judges are being assholes to everyone. It’s not even carefully constructed snark like Simon dishes out. It’s just a casual contempt for all these losers they trot in. Come off as the wicked girls in some teenaged comedy. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 1:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/84 "2010-01-14T01:44:34Z")
> [@gonzomax](#): > > [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNzc5UtUu8s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gNzc5UtUu8s) I don’t think she is unauthentic. I don’t doubt that Kellie Pickler is dumb, and I don’t think this girl was. I mean authentic country. Kellie played up the bumpkin, but it was a schtick. I bet that last girl knows how to clog dance and her daddy makes moonshine. ---
**Author:** ![Sublata](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7cd45c/32.png) [@Sublata](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublata)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/85 "2010-01-14T01:45:16Z")
Wow, that was just mean-spirited, the way they tore up Near-Death Guy. I mean, he can’t sing, but what did he do to deserve to be treated like that??? ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 1:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/86 "2010-01-14T01:48:47Z")
Here’s your Kellie Pickler. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/87 "2010-01-14T01:50:07Z")
P.S. Guitars don’t have little guitars on them. ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/88 "2010-01-14T01:52:13Z")
> [@Sublata](#): > > Wow, that was just mean-spirited, the way they tore up Near-Death Guy. I mean, he can’t sing, but what did he do to deserve to be treated like that??? Agree. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 2:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/89 "2010-01-14T02:01:55Z")
I don’t know how they all keep from laughing in half of those people’s faces. But I’m mean that way. Skiboski is an idiot. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/90 "2010-01-14T02:03:35Z")
Wait – what was that last guy’s name? I don’t think I caught it. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 2:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/91 "2010-01-14T02:06:10Z")
> [@cricetus](#): > > Wait – what was that last guy’s name? I don’t think I caught it. I think it’s the name of a chain of dollar stores. Or something like that. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/92 "2010-01-14T02:08:27Z")
“I’m Carmen and Ahm Nazi!” My daughter, “No mommy. She said she’s nahnteen.” Did the one who isn’t a Nazi say she was gonna sing Jizz In My Pants? ---
**Author:** ![River\_Hippie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/river_hippie/32/26_2.png) [@River\_Hippie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/River_Hippie)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 2:08am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/93 "2010-01-14T02:08:47Z")
BFFs look like look like escapees from the JonBenet style pagent circuit. ---
**Author:** ![LilyoftheValley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/54ee81/32.png) [@LilyoftheValley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LilyoftheValley)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 2:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/94 "2010-01-14T02:14:59Z")
> [@River\_Hippie](#): > > BFFs look like look like escapees from the JonBenet style pagent circuit. I was thinking “not-Carmen” was an escapee from the Littlest Pet Shop. Maybe I spend too much time around kindergarteners. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/95 "2010-01-14T02:21:26Z")
See, I understand going all crazy and showing off what you can do during an audition. That’s why so many good singers do all those vocal gymnastics. Why are they arguing with that lunatic? P.S. I love Mary. She knows what to do when some guy comes out of his face-- duck for cover! ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/96 "2010-01-14T02:23:23Z")
Well, you may not have got on Idol but at least you didn’t lose your dignity. ---
**Author:** ![Nzinga\_Seated](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/b5ac83/32.png) [@Nzinga\_Seated](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Nzinga_Seated)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 2:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/97 "2010-01-14T02:23:40Z")
Ok, I gotta post this here, because my best friend won’t answer her pohne…she knows it’s justt going to be 3 minutes of me silently, body shakingly laughing into the phone, but dude is Funny As Hell!! hahaaaaaa!!! la la LA la la la la la LA LA LA !!! ---
**Author:** ![Drain\_Bead](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e47774/32.png) [@Drain\_Bead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drain_Bead)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 2:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/98 "2010-01-14T02:25:03Z")
Jizz in My Pants was hilarious. If it weren’t for the histrionics, I’d think she went in there to make the other friend look better, like that sister pair India and Asia from last year. ---
**Author:** ![tnetennba](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/7993a0/32.png) [@tnetennba](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tnetennba)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/99 "2010-01-14T02:27:19Z")
I like the message of this guy’s song. ---
**Author:** ![Biggirl](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/biggirl/32/3294_2.png) [@Biggirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biggirl)\ **Post date:** [January 14, 2010, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-idol-is-back-1-12-1-13-audition-shows/524653/100 "2010-01-14T02:27:56Z")
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