American Idol: Louisville, Kentucky Auditions
The American Idol judges were at Churchill Downs for auditions tonight. Unlike last night, there were some people that were clearly going to Hollywood.
Joanna Pacitti was recognized by Kara, or at least the producers would have us believe that. Kara recognized her as having had an A&M deal a few years back. I liked Brent Keith Smith, but I think his Southern rock tone turned off Simon. Matt Giraud was a dueling piano player. Now he has the chance to be a superstar. Alexis Grace made it through, as did Kris Allen (who was channeling Elliott Yamin), Felecia Barton, Ryan Johnson, and Shera Lawrence. Leneshe Young was the sad story of the night – grew up in poverty, the child of a single mom. But, the judges liked not only her, but her original song (it was good), so now she has a chance to turn her life around.
Of course, it wouldn’t be American Idol without bad auditions. Tiffany Shedd was delusional in thinking she was a great singer. Honey, if Randy laughs when you open your mouth, it is a bad sign. Mark Mudd, great-great-great-great grandson of Dr. Samuel Mudd (who was imprisoned for setting John Wilkes Booth’s leg after he killed Lincoln), was not a good singer, but I hardly think he was the threatening type the show tried to lead us to believe he was. As he left, he told the judges to be careful. Okay, so he looked like a guy from Deliverance, but to tell someone to be careful in the South is hardly a threat.
Patrick Warner tried to sing “Billie Jean” and do the Michael Jackson dance (apparently that is still cool in Kentucky), but he looked more like Weird Al in the fat suit from the parody video of “Bad.” Ross Plavsic, the nerd opera singer, freaked Paula out when Kara asked him if he wanted some water and he drank from Paula’s straw. Poor Aaron Williamson was a screamer and so energetic, he got the judges going, but when they all said “no” to Hollywood, it was said to see him so toned down.
The real faux pas of the night was by Kara. Rebecca Garcia was not a good singer, but then Kara pointed out that she was voted “Most Humorous” in high school and thought it was a joke. With tears in her eyes, Rebecca told her it wasn’t. Ouch.
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January 22nd, 2009 at 3:59 am
I was the one (Ross Bradley Plavsic) on the show.
I had a lot of misapplied techniques in my performance, one of which caused voice fatigue which caused my “scratchy throat” feeling.
However, I’m a better singer now, and I’m working on spoken word pieces as well. For more info, see my youtube page.
youtube.com/rushandruleit
January 22nd, 2009 at 8:51 pm
Ross, based on what we saw on TV, I totally believe this is you
January 23rd, 2009 at 3:02 am
i felt sorry for Mr. Mudd since they obviously singled him out as the creep de jour
January 24th, 2009 at 6:26 pm
I agree Coffee – yes, he looked a little odd, but I don’t think he meant anything by the “be careful” remark, but the show totally played it up as a threat