American Idol Season 6

The beginning of the show was dedicated to explaining the successes of previous American Idol contestants, including Kelly Clarkson, Chris Daughtry, Carrie Underwood and more.

The first few shows of American idol are always interesting. You can hear people who are the most amazing singers you have ever heard, but can also hear things that can’t even be classified as singing. There are many of those auditions in the first show that I can’t even explain them all. The thing I wonder about most is how these people can be completely oblivious to their lack of talent.

For this first week, Randy, Simon and Paula will be joined by the well-known singer Jewel. They presented a blurb on her career, showing some clips of her music videos as well as her most popular songs. She seems like a very sweet person, and her voice is rather unique

The first audition started with a young girl named Jessica Rhode who claimed that her idol was Jewel. It was hard to expect anything bad of her as she seemed like a sweet girl. However, her singing was no where near perfect, and Simon sent her off with his infamous rude comments. Needless to say, she was heartbroken, and started crying in the audition room. It hard to watch someone’s dream go down the drain.

The show contained its share of interesting auditions as they turned down more than they let through. A man who called himself “Urban Omish,” sang a disturbing song which included the line “and your spit drips into my face.” He disturbed me quite a lot, and required me to fast forward through his audition. Other weird auditions included a guy who left his audition to get a sip of water, and came back five minutes later, a man with scary bug eyes dressed head to toe in American stars and stripes, and a girl obsessed with the Wizard of Oz.

There were very few good people, two of which was sixteen year old Denise Jackson and nineteen year old Michelle Steingas. They both had amazing voices considering their ages. Watching them makes the show worthwhile. There were actually more girls than they showed going through to Hollywood than men. However, one of my favorite contestants was Jarrod Fowler who was an intelligence specialist in the US Navy. He sang “God Bless the Broken Road,” and sang it very beautifully I might add.

All in all, the show involved a lot of laughing coming from Randy, and a lot of rude comments from Simon. Jewel and Paula were of course a little nicer and quieter. Randy especially got a little nasty with a vocal teacher who auditioned. It was almost borderline unacceptable.

Another one of my favorites was a sixteen year old boy named Matt Sato. He was really inspiring because he came to audition without the support of his parents. He did an awesome job and got through to Hollywood. He was so sincere and cute.