Half way through and we come back to a few nondescript winners and losers. (For my comments on the first hour of the show, scroll down or click here for Part 1)
Angela Martin is our next featured singer. She's another "heartwarming" story, with a daughter with Rett Syndrome (which supposedly is like Cerebral Palsy). Hopefully this ends a little better than Temptress's audition.
She breaks my first rule of American Idol by doing a Stevie Wonder song. She's good, but she's doesn't hold a note, instead doing the whole vibrato thing. Simon mentions that she needs to stop adding "yos" and a few other extra noises. But she's through.
Back from another break, and it's day 2 in Philly. We get a short review of the good, the sad, the bad and the crazy. Well that was fun.
Alyse Wojciechowski is up now and she mentions Eva Cassidy as an influence. You gotta like that. But she starts singing and she's all over the place. Simon is pretty cruel and she's quickly gone. Two more yellers follow her.
Milo Turk, an over-aged balding man with a leopard print vest auditions next with a song called "No Sex Allowed." Although he's over the maximum age, they let him sing. He does the pee-pee dance and stomps his feet as he sings. Sadly his 15 minutes lasted all of about 2 minutes. (Edit: apparently this guy is actually a comedian, so I say "Well done Sir!")
Next we have a horse training, kick-boxing martial artist pretty girl named Kristy Lee Cook. She picks a tough song, "Amazing Graze", but does pretty well. She's not amazing, but she'll get through because she's good looking.
Coming back from the break, we have Ben Haar in a long black cape. His surprise costume, which was under the cape, is Princess Leia's slave costume from Return of the Jedi. They convince him to shave his hairy chest, so we have to wait for him to return.
A few more strange auditions, and it's becoming apparent that they're not letting loose on the bad contestants, at least not on the first night. That is to say, they aren't showing the judges being mean, but they do show a show a bunch of mad contestants. I'm disappointed.
Next we have Paul Marturano who serenades Paula while slowly creeping up to her. He sings about stalking her, "Peter Falk"ing her, and "Caulk"ing her. Not surprisingly they have him escorted out by security.
Beth Stalker is up (get it? first a stalker, now a real stalker? ha! let's move on), and she has a nice jazzy voice. Simon says she wouldn't stand out, but she's through. I'm thinking she might just stand out if she can translate her voice to pop songs. She joins Junot from Bowie in my "I'll be rooting for them" list.
Back from the break and Ben Haar is back with a freshly waxed chest. He gets a half second audition and is out. And no I'm not kidding, half a second. Obviously he was just there for the TV time, but he waxed his entire chest! Yee-ouch.
Chris Watson follows Haar's debacle. He's not great, but as Simon points out he looks like a star. I see him as a candidate for this year's Constantine or Ace Young type.
The last break is up and a bunch of no's go by. 2 ladies are left including a Star Wars fan... just take a wild guess where this is headed. Christina Tolisano (who maybe works at a high school?) is her name and she's not scary bad, but she's definitely not getting through. After being rejected, the last audition begins with her yelling in the background.
Brooke White has a good voice, but I just can't believe that her voice is that much better than a bunch of the people who have been rejected. Also, she's already got a following. She's through though, along with the 28 other people.
They finish with the Star Wars girl pointing out that they keep picking the same kind of people. It feels like they're trying to prove her wrong but she's entirely correct. You could easily pick out a similar looking former contestant from everyone they've picked.
And with that Philly is done. They took it easy on the crazies tonight and concentrated on the heartwarming stories and good singers. Texas is up tomorrow, and they tease it by making it seem like they'll have more crazy contestants. We'll be able to judge better tomorrow, but it does seem like this season might be a nicer Americal Idol tryouts show.... disappointing.
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