First up is someone doing the Cowardly Lion from Wizard of Oz. Go back to Oz. You’re not that unique and you can’t sing. See you later. Use the right door. Oops…she didn’t.

Vocal teacher in green shirt, you’d hope this guy can sing. “I Don’t Want to Miss A Thing” by Aerosmith. He uses a pitch pipe. You’d expect that from a vocal coach wouldn’t you. OUCH! High pitch noises in falsetto, I can’t take it! Randy is really being hardcore. He’s almost playing the part of Simon so far. Jewell and Paula don’t like him. Randy rips into him about a vocal teacher, Simon baits him by saying “You going to take that Steven?”. This is entertainment. Simon is cracking me up. They are having WAY TOO MUCH fun with this guy.

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Michelle Steingas singing Dana Carter. Not too bad for the country side of things. Compared to the other contestants we’ve heard she’s good. She’s made it through. As Simon says “Confident without being irritatingly precocious.”

Lots of people getting fired for trying out, that’s too bad because they should really do anything they can to make money except for a singing career. Another girl’s boss flew her and her sister out for an audition. That’s a cool boss. I think she can sing. Simon’s giving a hard time and implying some really bad innuendos, I really like Simon, but those type of comments really irritate me. Okay, I was wrong on the singing part. The boss wasted his money on this one. Looks like he’s got a secretary for quite a long time.

Up next Matt Sato singing “California Dreamin’” by the Mamas and the Papas. Not too bad, I can’t tell anymore. My ears are hurting from all the people that were horrible. Simon likes him. Jewell likes him. Randy though he was good. Paula Abdul agrees, he’s going to Hollywood.

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Rachel Jenkins, quite the Tomboy working in her parents body shop, which is cool and enjoys it. Her husband is in Iraq. She joined the US Army reserves. She sings “His Eye Is On the Sparrow”. Not related to American Idol, but the best version of this song was the one sung in Sister Act II. Not horrible, but as Simon said it fell apart towards the end. She’s moving forward, everybody likes her but she’s going to have to work on stuff before she makes it to Hollywood. Unanimous heading to Hollywood.

Sarah Krueger singing “Somewhere Over the Rainbow”, of course made popular on American Idol by Katharine McPhee last season. She sounds good until she tries to force it out and belt it. She’s making it through. Everybody likes her, she’s going to Hollywood with Rachel.

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Jason the juggler/dancer/singer is performing. Paula is confused about everything. Simon said he summed up Minneapolis by saying everything was horrible. Randy said he should be on “America’s Got Talent” not “American Idol”. Simon says Jason’s future involves NOT singing. It’s just sad, sad, sad. He’s better at making a dramatic scene on the other side of the door. Simon thinks he “took it in good spirit”. WRONG! Hello! Reality check. The next contestant, the BIG IDOL FAN seems a little worried to be after Jason.

She’s the Idol Super Fan. She and American Idol are BFF. Ace Young is her favorite Idol, and he drew her a heart, which she has tattood on her wrist now. Singing “Under Pressure”. Oh the horror! The horror of it all. Oh wait, she pulled the “10 years of training card” out of the hat. Oh and a “degree in vocal performance”. Simon says the only thing she could do to improve is “Leave.”

Randy calls it Minnehopeless.

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Lots of people trying to sing Prince as a tribute to his hometown. I’m curious as to when they get the potential contestants to sing the clips they want for these little montages. Is it before or after they audition.

Contestant #27186 singing “Another Bad Day” by Fuel. Josh Flom is a rocker and was pushed to try-out by his dad and inspired by Chris Daughtry’s efforts last year. Randy didn’t like it. Simon challenges him to come back in 15 minutes and sing an Abba song as a rocker. Of course it was “Dancing Queen” which he didn’t know the words to and collected them from other auditioners. He infused it a rocker style for sure. He does Barry Manilow in the rocker voice the same way. Jewell asked him if he writes music and said to stick with that.

That’s it for Minneapolis. Only 17 hopefuls made it through.

Tomorrow night we’ll be in Seattle. Looks like some really weird people in store for tomorrow night. After Minneapolis, Simon still said it was the worst city ever. There’s even Taylor Hick’s long lost brother waiting for him.

In retrospect, let me just say it literally amazes me the balls and endurance people have to put themselves through this type of thing. It’s almost like people have lost complete connection with reality when it comes to this show. Are they showing up and trying out just to be seen on TV and noticed because of how bad they are, or are they really sincere and think they’re the next American Idol?

We’ll see. I’m interested in your thoughts. Please share them in the comments.

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Guess discussions never really went anywhere. I’m sure the Idol producers wouldn’t let much action take place with Chris actively on the show. However, since Chris was suprisingly voted off on Tuesday night, Fuel’s bassist, Jeff Abercrombie stated the following on the TV show “Extra”.

‘Chris, if you are watching, we`ve talked about this before, and if you want to entertain it again we`ll take it and go,’ Abercrombie said.

I think this is a great opportunity for Chris if he’s interested. However, I’ve had a friend that tried out for Idol and she said you wouldn’t believe the contractual agreements you have to commit to if you make it to even be a finalist. The producers basically have control over any career you have in the industry until they release you from the contract. Looks like this will be an interesting American Idol sub-plot to keep up with.

Thanks Ben for the heads-up.

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