Posted on 01/19/2006 6:14:17 PM PST by pissant
Ryan Secreast lets viewers know that Denver, Colorado is “the highest city” in which American Idol has ever held auditions. (He means in distance above sea-level.) As is par for the course in this stage of the auditions, the really bad contestants dominate the show. First up is Marlows Davis, who compares himself as a performer to Usher and Michael Jackson. Paula Abdul says his audition was “just strange,” which just happens to be how a lot of people describe Michael Jackson.
After a couple more bad auditions, sixteen year-old Lisa Tucker sings “One Moment In Time” by Whitney Houston. Simon Cowell says “I think the best 16 year-old we’ve ever had throughout this whole competition,” and Lisa advances to Hollywood.
Other singers that make it through to Hollywood include Brett “Ace” Young, Rochelle Elaine Dye, Chris Daughtery, Garet Johnson, and April Walsh. Heather Cox is told that she had a good audition, but it isn’t 100% clear that she makes it through. Just like in previous years, some of the contestants get background stories that can’t help but make viewers root for them. Rochelle has recently gone through a home eviction, and Chris is trying to make a better life for his family.
Perhaps, the most interesting background story though goes to Garet Johnson. Garet is a cowboy who sings to the Turkeys on his ranch. He is so nervous that he can’t get the name of his song out, but he winds up making it through to Hollywood. Garet can barely contain his enthusiasm when he gives his family the news.
Contestants who don’t fare well with the judges include Tiffany Christensen, Olivia Dudley, David Horning, Amanda Berg, Naomi Guse, Jacob Garcia, Erik Mena, Angela Garcia, Nick McCord, Ben Hausbach, and Zachary Travis.
Nick McCord and Ben Hausbach are paired up in an obvious attempt to recreate the magic of when Adam met Dirk on the last edition of American Idol. Nick dresses in yellow pajamas and goes by the nickname “flawless.” He is also an entrepreneur, who runs a house-cleaning company called Paradise Cleaning. Ben is the inventor of the cosmic coaster and doesn’t like to boast about his intelligence because sometimes it intimidates people. Simon calls Nick, “the worst we’ve had in Denver,” and Simon tells Ben, “You’re a terrible singer, the invention isn’t great.”
Zachary Travis tells the judges that people confuse him for a girl which he thinks is so funny, because he's a boy. After Zachary sings a Whitney Houston song and gets the thumbs down from the judges, he doesn’t think it is quite so funny. Zachary claims “Typical thing, American Idol, it fits America, and America is prejudice and racist, and god, I wish I could hit him. I think it’s totally prejudice to not accept someone because someone’s a boy and they’re singing girl songs, and they don’t fit the song and the vocal range of the girl.”
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