Seated L-R : Blake Lewis, Alaina Alexander, AJ Tabaldo, Haley Scarnato, Stephanie Edwards and Sabrina Sloan. 2nd row L-R: Gina Glocksen, Melinda Doolittle, Leslie Hunt, Lakisha Jones, Nick Pedro, Amy Krebs and Sundance Head. 3rd row L-R: Sanjaya Malakar, Brandon Rogers, Nicole Tranquillo, Antonella Barba, Chris Richardson and Chris Sligh. Top row - L-R: Rudy Cardenas, Phil Stacey, Paul Kim, Jared Cotter and Jordin Sparks.
February 7th. Show #7
This show included good singers, bad singers, terrible dressers, and excruciating dancers.
The first girl they showed wore black and white checkered pants, some sort of veil, a pink shawl of some sort, and one black and one white glove. Plus her singing was extremely weird.
One woman I really liked was Tami Gosnell. She had a very bold and defined voice. She was definitely very good, and I think she will go very far in the competition. Also with a unique and “smokey” voice, was Paul Kim. He reminded me of a celebrity, but I couldn’t quite pin point it. However, he was almost too boy band-ish, but was still amazing.
This time, the video montage was of the judge’s fans…or non-fans. There was a very cute one named Edward who loved Paula. He wasn’t a good singer, but was so happy that he got to meet Paula, he didn’t even care.
There were three girls that auditioned together, which I thought was a very bad idea. They worked together as roller skating waitresses. One of them accidentally referred to Paula as “motherly.” It was really funny, and lightened the mood. I felt bad for the one girl because two of them made it. But they all seemed happy so it was okay. Ebony Jointer, who’s modeling picture is shown here, is one of the three roller-girls that made to Hollywood.
Basically this show was just a look back at some of the greatest and worst moments of the season so far. At the end, they showed some clips for next week, which begins “Hollywood week.” In all, 172 people have made it through to Hollywood. Next week looks extremely tough, and I just hope that some of the people I liked will make it through.
San Antonio, Texas
February 6th. Show #7
This is American Idol’s last stop on the tour for the year. The line to audition seemed much longer this show as it was the last chance for contestants to audition. Unfortunately for the judges, the first contestant didn’t have a voice which you would wish to hear early in the morning. He claimed that he had won a “mock” American Idol competition, but he basically yelled the entire time. It hurt my ears.
Another contestant, Jasmine Holland, kept Simon laughing through out her whole audition. Her mother said that she had been in the gospel choir since she was 7, but she was just terrible. After the audition her mother pointed out that Simon should go back to “French or British or wherever he was from.” She actually called the countries by French and British. I thought that was hilarious.
One girl who did make it through was sixteen year old Baylie Brown. She was interesting because she came from a very small town, but wasn’t a typical country girl. I didn’t think she was that amazing. She could have had better control, but she definitely had a voice. Although, I think her song choice, “Stronger” by Faith Hill, was not a very good one. Simon said that she was a complete pop star, but didn’t have a perfect voice right yet. Needless to say, they let it through.
They did a video montage of people attempting to exit the audition room. There were two doors leading out of the audition room, and they were making fun of how many people chose the wrong one. Some of them even took running starts towards it. It was really funny.
My favorite contestant of the show was Akron Watson. At first he sang Sam Cooke “A Change is Gunna come,” but Simon said that his personality was lacking. Paula challenged him to prove to Simon that he was wrong, so he sang again. I was so happy because it was like he was a completely different person. I’m looking forward to seeing him in Hollywood…he just seemed very sweet.
One girl completely ruined the song “Black Velvet.” As Simon said it was “literally like some language I’ve never heard in my life.” Then he made her cry by asking her if it was serious. She literally was the worst singer I have ever heard. It was just so weird.
Overall, there were a few good contestants who made it through to Hollywood from this show.
