TV Review: American Idol 6 - The Seattle Auditions
Published January 18, 2007
The smile on Simon's face that you see in the photo below didn't stay around too long as the auditions hit Seattle. Not to worry, Minneapolis, Seattle brought about even a worse day of auditions according to Simon. In one day, Minneapolis put through 17 contestants to Hollywood. In two days in Seattle, only 14 made the cut.
A few things remained constant between both audition cities. The level of the talents, both the highs and the lows, are a bit disappointing for me this season. Why the heck are they keeping the left door of the double doors locked in place? It was another evening of "the other door." Not everyone is right-handed, American Idol. I was waiting for someone to run out in horror after a Simon scowl, hit the locked left-hand door, and slither down to the floor like in a cartoon.
There were no guest judges on the panel and Paula seemed to hang in through both days without really odd behaviors. The niceness that Simon seemed to exhibit last night was gone for the most part and Randy wasn't as harsh. Well, except for the ones who really didn't have a clue or were silly to even think of auditioning. I felt sorry for some of the contestants, as I did last night. But, when you think about it, they know the show. They chose to go on national television. They signed releases for the footage to be shown. Me? I'd never want to be a star that bad... and I know I can't sing. Or dance. I shouldn't even really hum.
Tonight's Most Notable of the Odd
Oh, how apt is this? A candidate for the Darwin Awards in relation to American Idol, we endured Darwin "Misha" Reedy accompanied by her Mom. Holding to the idea that she was bringing sexy back, I think her shirt was too sexy for her and not vice versa. And, it was a huge floppy shirt. Like mother, like daughter and she performed much like she portrays herself. She frightened me. Justin Timberlake may never sing his song again if he saw her mention of it.
- TV Review: American Idol 6 - The Seattle Auditions
- Published: January 18, 2007
- Type: Review
- Section: Video
- Filed Under: Video: Music, Video: Reality TV, Video: TV Recap, Video: Television
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I am checking in from Seattle. I heard about how dreadful the singing auditions were. That makes sense. Sure, we can come up with the gnarly rock singers (Ann Wilson, Chris Cornell, Geoff Tate and all) and then we come up with your Kurt and Courtneys also. Well, Ernestine Anderson and such come out of here, but she didn't sign up for the audition...
Come to Seattle for the guitars. The one bright spot for us Seattlites is the interview we got on the local morning broadcast with a very loopy Paula Abdul. Gotta love here....
best,
Douglas
So many of the contestants were super obese.
American Idol has an age limit. They should also have a chin limit.
The girl with the "odd skin color" was wearing sheer pink sleeves that were basically transparent tights; she didn't have any strange skin disease.
So far I like the bald guy (Navy?) and Sanjaya. He has that pure pre-pubescent choirboy sound. Reminded me for some reason of a young Michael Jackson - before he morphed into Jacko. Sanjaya was adorable with his smile and manners.
The door thing, that was irritating me too, for heavens sake put a sheet of paper with arrow, "Other Door". I think it must have been one more way to torture the hapless contestants.
Why do I think I've seen Jonathan Jayne before?
Hi. This is Stania from Jakarta, Indonesia. I really like Sanjaya Malakar, but I admit that his first performance in top 24 is not his best. I hope to see Sanjaya survives the elimination and gives a knock out performance on the next rounds.
Update-
Sanjaya made it into the top 24. Cant wait till this tuesdays episode.
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"The Malakar siblings (brother and sister) both made it through shining. I liked how Sanjaya wouldn't admit that the judges said he has a better voice than his sister."
Is it me or so far this Indian brother/sister combo has been the best we've seen so far?
I hope they both make it to the finals. They both have tons of talent and it would be nice to see not one but two Indo-Americans make it to finals.