Simon picks his favorite contestant as American Idol takes it to MEMPHIS
There was no one to be found on the city streets as everyone was in the line-up for American Idol auditions. The first contestant of the day seemed promising, considering he had an entire marching band and cheerleading squad to back him up. He actually wasn’t too bad, but not good enough to be on the show. When Simon starting telling him he hated it, he decided to start singing again. I don’t understand why contestants keep doing that. It’s really funny.
The editing team of American Idol does a really good job in making the show more entertaining by making fun of people. 
Also through out the show, I’ve noticed that a lot of singers, or people that call themselves singers, don’t annunciate their words, and half the time you have no clue what they are saying.
Something amazing happened in this show. Simon declared that one of the contestants, Jason “Sundance” Head, was going to be in the top two. His dad was actually a famous singer in the 60’s named Roy Head. He definitely doesn’t look like an American Idol, but somehow his personality and singing puts a smile on your face. He was the first person that really gave me chills. Simon even made a comment on how he blew Taylor Hicks (the winner from last season) out of the park.
One of the contestants claimed she liked to be sexy but not over the top. However, it was safe to say she was the exact opposite, and that we saw a little too much of her. Rather than sexy, she was sleazy and a little disturbing. She was indeed extremely terrible.
I found this episode to be much better in that there was a better balance between the bad and good singers. I really enjoy hearing amazing singers, and this show had more of them than the last two, including a woman named Melinda Doolittle. It was one of the few times Randy, Simon and Paula agreed on something. Simon was also a really big fan of her, but was a little worried with her nerves.
This episode also had an extremely endearing story of one of the male contestants. Philip Stacy’s wife had a baby the day of his audition, so he had to miss the birth. Luckily he had a decent voice, and they put him through. They showed a clip of him going to the hospital to meet his new baby girl. It was very sweet.
Memphis was definitely a success in my books. They also did a video montage of a bunch of terrible singers singing Elvis songs. Apparently, they thought singing his songs in his hometown would do them good. Very unoriginal.
