AI:5 - The Las Vegas Auditions

February 1, 2006 · Filed Under popmedia

Just let me get the Crankinalysis(tm) Machine started up, ok?

>*click*<

That’s better…

Worst. Audition. Show. Ever.

And by ‘worst’ I mean most boring, least compelling, most stunningly disappointing & blah installment of American Idol that I have ever seen. What happened in Vegas should’ve stayed in Vegas.
Lest you think I’m overstating things, this installment’s top 3 talents were: the 18 y/o belly dancer, the ‘Redneck Woman’ of color, & the kid with naturally gray-hair. Now, Mecca is certainly a cute, tiny little thing, and has a decent voice (albeit one the judges agreed was a better recording voice than a live singing voice!); however, she ain’t no Paris Bennett, Kellie Pickler, or Katharine McPhee! Heather the corrections adviser actually had a better than average voice, but I’m not sure that she’s “Pop” enough to get to the semis (besides, she made us endure some ‘oh-so-hip’ banter about Simon’s bondage fetishes :shock:) And Taylor has a nice, old-school R&B vibe about him, along with a nice Joe Cocker-esqe stage presence. Neither of them, however, are anything more than fodder for the necessary Hollywood audition storylines.

And what did they give us as the main theme for the obligatory bad auditions? Recycled auditioners — either those who had auditioned in the past & were trying again, those who had auditioned & were now ‘managing’ a (barely interested) family member, or those who were certain to be repeat auditioners even in the face of all logic, good taste, & self-respect. And no Elvis impersonators? In Vegas!?!

11 people made it through from Vegas. I just hope that the producers didn’t show us the best folks to make it through, as the only thing to keep me from trying to purge this episode from my memory is the oh-so-slim hope that something useful actually resulted from the Vegas sojourn. Somehow, though, I don’t think the 103 kids who made it through from the previous stops have anything to worry about from the 11 Vegas survivors.

Next up: Austin.

-ghp

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