Hello,
Before we get to part 2 of the awesome Louisville auditions I would like to comment on a couple of things. First the blogosphere seems to be in an uproar about Joanna Pacitti and whether she should be considered too much a professional to try out for "American Idol". My opinion is let her try out. She has a good voice, is very attractive and has yet to become a household name. If someone is willing to go through the whole grueling "AI" process, then they should be allowed to go for it. If they can handle those group dance numbers they should probably win a medal. ("AI" producers please get rid of those!) One more thing about Ms. Pacitti, she chose the wrong song for her audition. Her take on Pat Benatar's "We Belong" was sort of blah. The Joanna Pacitti song that Britney Spears covered on "Circus" is actually "Out From Under". I apologize for the error.
Other "AI" news the other three remaining audition cities will be next week, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. Each show will be one hour long. One of those cities will be Salt Lake, I am expecting a lot of good performances from there. By my count 85 of the 147 people making it to Hollywood have come from the first 4 audition cities. So that makes 62 more people coming from the final 3 cities. One final thing before going on to the second part of the Louisville auditions, this blog not does not intend to be the be all end all of "American Idol" sites. If you want a lot more details go to mjsbigblog.com. She has all the official news you want plus a lot of the spoiler info that interest some people. She also has all the clips from this season's performances.
Now back to Louisville. Yesterday's blog I wrote about Tiffany Shedd, Joanna Pacitti, Mark Mudd, Brent Keith Smith and a run of 5 bad auditions that followed.
5) Matt Giraud was next, another Hollywood bound contestant. I liked his husky voice on Gavin DeGraw's "I Don't Want To Be". I love this song and loved his take on it.
6) Ross "Super Nerd" Plavsic who noticed commonalities between Chinese symbols and organized them by radicals or some other other such nonsense. He sang "Cara Mia" by Jay and the Americans. Dude stick with the radicals not the New Radicals. My favorite thing about this segment was when Simon asked him about being current. He then sang an Elvis Presley song? A song from 30 years ago is not current Super Nerd.
7) Day 2 started with Alexis "Amazing" Grace who I like very, very much. She has a great voice, great personality and is very quick on her feet. She is also attractive in an unusual way with a great sense-of-humor. I predict she goes a long way. Although I would suggest stay away from the more obscure Aretha Franklin songs.
8) Aaron Williamson: don't remember much about this audition, other than it was bad.
9) Rebecca Garcia, who had been on the local news that morning, then sang Carrie Underwood's "Before He Cheats". Kara DioGuardia was embarrassed when she said she thought it was a joke, but it wasn't. Another dream smashed.
10-13) There was then a montage of 4 contestants who I all liked. Kris Allen singing Leon Russell's "A Song For You". Felicia Barton sing Corrine Bailey Rae's "Put Your Records On". Barton is rumored to have made the Top 50. Ryan Johnson singing Sam Cooke's anthemic "A Change Is Gonna Come". (I would highly recommend adding the original song to your collection. A song that seems to foreshadow Barack Obama.) He is also rumored to make the Top 50. Then last but not least of this montage is "I've Got The World On A String" by Shera Lawrence. She is the one who came out of the audition room acting like she was crying, but really hiding the golden ticket behind her. She did that well and has a good voice.
14) Leneshe Young. Every episode so far this season seems to have a heartbreaking story with the "AI" producers milking every ounce of drama out of it that they can. She is this episode's heartbreaking story. Her story is very sad. I am not making light of her situation in anyway. I just hate how the "AI" producers are milking it for ratings. In spite of everything she has an amazing attitude. She has a great personality, a great look and she has a very nice voice. She also wrote her own song, "Natty", which was good as well. She looks like she is the complete package and I predict she will go far. She is the kind of performer who I would like to go see in concert.
Louisville was a great episode after the dreck of San Francisco. Have a great weekend, themusicaddict
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