The crying girl that sang for the mayor of Houston? I don’t know that I’ve ever seen Simon laughing that much. It seems like if people are trying to sing badly to get on TV, he’s bored. When someone is sincere, but can’t sing? He’s in hysterics! He’s one evil bastard! I love it! I was laughing through the whole thing, especially the end when he said (while looking at her bio), “The worst part is she’s a music teacher!”
I did feel bad when he said, “Was that serious?” and she started crying.
That was the best part of the whole awful audition series. Not that she started crying (she was spectacularly awful), but that by doing so she immediately deflated the judges, and put a sock in Randy’s yuck-yucks.
I think R/P/S tend to forget that these clowns brought forward for their amusement are real people. They can deal with people getting indignant and belligerent…but the fact that they made a girl *cry * dashed some needed cold water in their faces.
I’m still holding a grudge against Paris for auditioning like the next Bianca Ryan, and then going to Hollywood only to blow it all with a half-hearted work ethic. So it won’t bother me if Paris 2 doesn’t get through after all.
I did like Country Girl With Fashion Sense. Her voice is as beautiful as the rest of her. I think a few knees might be quivering, fearing a Pickler 3. But something tells me this girl isn’t like that. When she gets to Hollywood, it’ll be Katie bar the door.
Maybe it’s because I didn’t know the song, but she just sounded off. But of course it was clear from the footage of the Krum water tower that she would make it.
I liked Ashlyn Carr, but she really does need to stop bugging her eyes out while singing. If she settled down a bit, she could be really great.
Country girl with the stuffed closet was pretty good too.
The girl who bleated nasally and then got pissed at Randy, et.al. for laughing elicited very little sympathy. Simon needs to go back to “British”? They lost any credibility they might have had.
Seriously, every contestant who can’t stand it that Paula doesn’t record these days, that Simon is from England, and that Randy is no longer working with Journey needs to take themselves home and not enter the audition room at all.
I really liked the last guy who sang “Cupid.” He gave me the chills. I thought country girl was pretty good too, actually, even though I despise Faith Hill. The cousin with the blue hat brought back memories of standing next to my dad in church. That then led to flashbacks of having to stand between dad and grandma in church. shudder Neither one of them can carry a tune in a bucket.
Seems like they might’ve gotten their story a little wrong. According to this article,
So he certainly wasn’t recently arrested for possession, which your portrayal of the report implies. Not to mention that his prior misdemeanor conviction wasn’t even officially cited as the reason – in fact, the show refuses to give any reason whatsoever, either publicly, or to the contestant himself.
It sure does suck. The show needs more contestants who don’t take themselves too seriously, and the guy had a nice voice. I was hoping his cousin would travel with him.
I think there’s only a mild level of suckage here. The guy deserves an explanation, but I don’t think he would have gone very far. His voice was OK but nothing terribly special.
Watching tonight’s episode left me feeling like Simon after a bizarre audition. I mean, what the hell was that? The couple of minutes of actual good singing could have been included in prior shows.
Yeah, they didn’t really deliver on “The Best of the Rest” did they?
The Asian guy was okay, but he sounded too much like he was forcing it. I also wasn’t as impressed as the judges seemed to be by the girl near the beginning of the show that had the lip ring.
I liked the “Guess what song they’re singing” segment. I would have never gotten the last one, performed by the girl from last night’s show who claimed to have sung for the mayor of Houston. (“Chantilly Lace… Seriously” ) She was totally incomprehensible.
I felt really bad for the one rollerskating carhop girl that didn’t make it while the other two did. That sucks. But, wow! That Ebony girl is gorgeous!
Because I was watching in the bedroom and not the livingroom (where the computer is) last night, there was no stream of concious blatherings from me last night. Consider yourselves super-duper lucky. These are a few things that stuck with me until this morning:
Bizzaro William Hung was a cutie. Plus he sang a song that I think is one of the more touching love songs to come out of hip hop in, forever.
Large woman in yellow with the 3 year old daughter nearly decapitated herself with her own boobies in her dance of joy. Also- I don’t think her daughter wanted her to go to Hollywood. That is tempering my usual enthusasim for big, black AI contestant women.
Pedi-cap Girl (who is seriously dinging my gaydar) was perfect. Unassuming, natural with a power voice. The only thing she’s missing to mark her as one of my all time favorites is being big and black.
Did rollerskating girls go in knowing their relative talents. The went in meh, better, good order. Pauler was right, that girl put her make-up on with a trowel.
And why did they play up the cousins at all. They surely knew even before the audition show started that cousin would be kicked out. Here’s a question: the producers and everyone else-- know who will be the final, um, 24 I think they said, before the season starts. Did cousin make it to the final 24 AND THEN get kicked out or was it known before last week that he was disqualified and yet they showed his audition and his acceptance (and showed it again last night) anyway? There were 174 contestants that got through to Hollywood, surely they could have spotlighted someone who did not get disqualified.
) She was totally incomprehensible.