American Idol 9 – Road to Hollywood
Feb 18, 2010 Brainwaves
Ryan’s promising the “best” of the auditions before Hollywood in February 3rd’s episode… are these actually the best, or are some misfits sprinkled in?
- Ah, Larry Platt. Next…
- Returning from last year, Jessica Furney takes a swing at a Simon Cowell-co-written song to start… and gets a hit.
- Amanda Shectman, thankfully, doesn’t bring any of her imitative voices to her audition, and does really well. Simon gives her a hard time about acting first.
- Lee Dewyze and Crystal Bowersox get through without needing the security blankets of their guitars.
- Heh, the fakeouts are always fun
- Lots of repeat attempts, including Lacey Brown, who was cut going into the top 24 last year. She punches her Hollywood ticket again.
- Stephanie Fisher, is from Jamestown, NY (a few hours from here, as well as from where I grew up), but doesn’t really do very well in front of Victoria Beckham. So, we do have some misfits in the bunch.
- Rachel Hubbard, Thaddeus Johnson and Genesis Moore headline a fresh crop of 16-year-olds newly eligible to audition.
- Quite a few folks with athletic backgrounds, including Adrian Chandtchi, a tall young man with very tiny voice.
- Michael Lynche has very nice voice in a big, muscular trainer’s body, and gets through easily.
- Her late friend Rebecca has inspired Didi Benami in her audition, who does a very impressive version of Hey Jude, while Aaron Kelly gets through to Hollywood.
- Kimberly Bishop kinda butchers some Katy Perry (the song, not the singer). Shaddai Harris doesn’t do any better.
- Hope Johnson sings one of my favorite songs. I thought she might have missed a note, but if she did, it wasn’t enough to derail her audition, as she goes through to the next round.
- 181 have made it through to Hollywood, and the next round begins with the next episode… which I will somehow find time to blog.
