No… it’s just that his pitch and tempo were beyond awful, so you couldn’t tell he was singing the lyric “big wheels keep on turning/carry me home to see my kin” from Sweet Home Alabama. I think they also cut and spliced his singing.
Dang! Now I’m really sorry I missed it! Well, at least I recorded tonight’s episode, so I’ll watch that right after the SOTU.
(How did I even get into this thread? I’ve never even seen the show!)
Believe it. My former roommate was one of em. Took singing lessons, read books on vocal theory/how to sing, tried out for choirs and such (never got in) and was horrible. And didn’t know it. She, well, sounded a lot like Kermit the Frog. One day, I stayed home from work with a migraine and she was singing along to Guns N Roses. In her horrible Kermit the Frog voice. Trying to do Axl Rose.
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The horror.
The horror.
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I’m thinking that the Army girl was passed over because she talked down about herself. When mentioning her awards, she said she was the worst at everything. I’m sure Simon isn’t looking for that type of personality. He wants people who believe they are the best. Just some thoughts because it’s the only way I can reason why she was passed over.
See, now I’m not a watcher of this show, my wife is and I had failed to find something else to do that night and ended up seeing a few. I happened to see Army Girl and a few others.
In short the Army Girl treatment is exactly the reason I don’t watch the show (That and the Japanese Rap). Here was an excellent singer, fun to talk to, reasonably attractive, knocked out Dancing in the Streets like a pro. Paula and Randy liked her, Simon said something completely and unnecessarily nasty and implied that she wasn’t any good at all. Randy and Paula said she wasn’t what they were looking for. Simon is cruel to everyone, not just the people who NEED to hear it. There is a right way and a wrong way to critique someone. None of them really do it properly, but Simon is intentionally cruel. He’s like the teacher who meeting a student in the front office, pokes their books across the counter messing them up. The student asks the teacher to stop, to which the teacher replies: “You can’t make me, in fact your grade depends on my happiness, which is right now up to you. I have all the power in the situation.”
I’m tired and have gone on again. Someone needs to teach Simon the adage “With great power comes great responsibility”
These are the auditions. Nobody who fails here gets recalled later. The wild Card selectgions will come from people who are cut in a later stage of the contest, when they’re cut from 32 to 12.
There was nothing very interesting about last night…so I’ll go back to the first night and say, that in addition to Scooter Girl’s story sounding like a load of horse puckey, she was wearing way too much of the wrong shade of lipstick. Watching her mash her big garish lips around was turning my stomach.
Yeah, but that rack bouncing around…
“Dad, you only liked her because she wasn’t wearing a bra.”
Houston looks like it will be fun, with that person attacking Simon.
Wife thinks some of the worst people are ringers, like on The Gong Show. I wish they had a gong sometimes.
What about the chick who stripped off her sweatpants and then did a funky dance while attempting to sing? She was horrible. Then she went outside to tell her friend and they both got indignant because she didn’t make it. A real friend would tell you the truth before you make a fool of yourself on national television. 
I thought both nights were very entertaining. It should be interesting to see what tonight’s show brings.
Last year the Wild Cards actually came from any one of the 250 people who made it to Hollywood, not just the final 32. You may recall the girl who sang “Angel” for the third or fourth time in a row (and despite having a great voice was cut for that reason) - she was cut in the very first Hollywood cut when they trimmed down to about 80. Simon Cowell openly stated it was just a boneheaded move and he couldn’t understand how he’d made such a blunder (or so he thought before she sang the same damned song again.) So you don’t have to make it to the Big 32 - you just have to pass the audition.
You’re right, of course, that Airborne Girl can’t be wild-carded if they follow precedent, since she failed the audition. I guess nothing’s stopping them from brining her back if they really wanted to though. They can invite or kick people out for any reason they want, it’s their show.
Actually, that kind of skeeved me out too. I was afraid the left one was fixing to come off!
Funny, I mentioned the same thing to my wife. They also need the guy to come out with a broom and sweep people off the stage.
I’m sure there are people who go on and are intentionally bad, but I think alot of them really do believe they are great singers. Look at the “Sweet Home Alabama” guy last night, who cried when he didn’t make it. He seemed really convinced that he’d gotten a raw deal by not getting picked to go to Hollywood.
I got a kick out of the spaced-out “spread the love” guy last night. He seemed to totally miss the point of the audition - to quote Simon “this isn’t Love Idol!” And the guy who owns the cleaning company - he was so stiff, he looked like he should have a big wind-up key in his back.
The chick who sang What a Feeling absolutely cracked me up. She was the one who yanked off her sweat pants to reveal a WAAAYYYY too short and tight skirt for her body frame. She danced like a penguin on crack. She sang horrible and she actually thought she was good. When she said she had tried her best and started crying I truly felt sorry for her to be so deluded.
Did anybody think it was rather odd for them to tell the one blond girl that she should dye her hair to a different color so people wouldn’t think she was going for the Kimberly Caldwell angle?
And the dude that sang Somewhere Over the Rainbow??? OH MY GOD.
I am predicting one of the top 10 will be that little hottie that sang Unchained Melody. He had an amazing voice.
I think I’ll be watching the rest of this season just to see how far Red-Headed Kid gets. He had a wonderful voice and he’s the only one that I heard that I wished hadn’t stopped singing.
Scat Girl was hilarious. She should take that show on the road.
I wasn’t too impressed with the rest of the lot, except for the hottie that sang Unchained Melody, because, as Aries28 said–he’s a major hottie.
I remember last year (maybe) there was a story in Television Without Pity from a contestant which said that before these people get to Randy/Paula/Simon, they’ve been vetted at least once by other judges. I’m guessing these people think because they made it past the true first round (untelevised), they’re on their way to stardom. It’s funny in a car wreck kind of way to watch these people’s hopes be dashed.
Some of the people have been painful to watch. The scat girl. The flashdance girl. The “Sweet Home Alabama” guy. The miserably out of tune twins. I had to look away.
I also liked the redheaded Dean Martin guy (but then again, I adore that whole Rat Pack type music), but could not stand Scooter Girl. Too damn perky/weird.
I’ll second that prediction. He has a great combination of voice and looks.
Regarding the atrocious singers, I continue to be astounded that these people really think they can sing. That it’s not a big put-on. Simon used the word delusional last night. A perfect attribution.
You’d think that people, if they’d watched the show before, would have clued in to the fact that not only to the top x percent of people get to see the judges, but so do the bottom x%! I know if I was auditioning and made it through to see Randy, Paula and Simon I’d be wondering “am I really that bad.” Of course, I know I can’t sing.
Over at the Television Without Pity board, there’s a link that shows that Kristin, the Flashdance girl, was planted by a radio station. I think she was coached by someone and intentionally did bad so she’d get on the show.
That’s only because of the editing. They picked something like 30 good ones in NY, something like that in Atlanta too, but only showed 1 or 2 of them from each. The audition episodes are for humor only, before they get to the good stuff in the real competition.
Simon did say, and I believe him, that the quality of the talent pool and the height of the bar the judges would have to use were both higher than in the first two series.
ArmyGrrl was pleasant, and would probably have moved on in AI1, but just may not have been as good as the 30-odd people they took in NY. That’s a good sign, I think.
The Good
The red-haired crooner - wow, how hot can you get? Alhough I don’t know if he’ll make it to the main competition. (Don’t they have to do pop songs in groups to get through? I can’t see that working out well for him.) But I really hope we get to see more of the cutie.
I liked the girl in Atlanta who did “Proud Mary” and got selected to go to Hollywood. She had a great voice, and tons of confidence. You could tell she walked in there knowing she was going to make it. Her and the crooner, those are my picks so far.
The Bad
Scooter girl. Did anyone feel like she rambled on about her life story, her journey of self disovery and healthy weight gain for waaaay too long? Other than that, alright, I guess she’s kinda cute, in an especially irritating way.
The creepy military guy. Didn’t he understand what he was auditioning for? What could possibly make him think that scaring the judges and doing nothing but an impromptu lame rap in Korean would send him straight to the top?
“Flashdance” girl and her friend. I thought this was kind of sad:
“I am a good singer. I mean, I can sing!”
“I know.”
“I CAN sing.”
“I know you can.”
I think I’d rather have my friend tell me the nasty truth instead of allowing me to do that to myself on television. Some has got to stop deceiving that girl.