American Idol: Atlanta Auditions
Atlanta has been the home of many previous Idol contestants (Clay Aiken, Fantasia, Jennifer Hudson) – can it do it again? I don’t know from this week’s show. There was Josh Jones, who kept doing a weird eye thing even when Simon told him to stop. The judges finally had to tell him to turn around and sing. They decided he could sing, but like Simon said, are you going to have him sing like that to the audience forever. Then, there was poor little JP, who was two people a head of Carrie Underwood for the 2004 auditions, but light years behind her in singing.
Asia’h told a heartbreaking story about her dad dying in a car crash only two days before the audition. Paula was so upset, she had to leave for a minute. But Asia’h was a good singer and even if she wasn’t – how do you tell someone like that no?
Brooke Helvie was a beauty pageant queen who came to the auditions to prove to Simon that pageant queens could sing. Unfortunately, she didn’t prove to him that they are not annoying! After she left, he called her “possibly the most annoying person I have ever seen in my life” with Randy in the background saying “Oh yes.” Simon also had to deal with Eva Miller, who couldn’t sing, but could do a great pratfall! He thought falling on her number sheet was part of the act, but sadly, I suspected it wasn’t. After she got adamant that it wasn’t a joke, the two hugged it out.
There were plenty of goofy contestants, including Nathan Hite, who claimed himself to be a ninth grade repeater as if that was a good thing. He tried to backtalk Simon, but Simon pretty much shut him down with “Do you want to listen or be a smartass?”
The biker nurse Amanda Overmyer tried channeling Janis Joplin (don’t they all?), but when Simon told her to sing something else and she went with a CCR song, they all decided she could sing. Paula even called her the “female Christ Daughtry.”
The last contestant was Josiah Leming, who seemed happy to be living out of his car…at least for a while before he started crying, saying it was lonely. He sang a song he wrote and although Simon thought he was “weird,” all three said yes, so Josiah is off to Hollywood, which just made me wonder what would happen to his car/home.
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