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Contestant #83298
Angie respects Lady Gaga's performance style and also likes to make everything she does a performance.
In front of the judges, Angie sang When You Got It, Flaunt It from The Producers. During the performance Angie strutted around the stage and then loudly dropped down hard onto her knees, prompting Randy to react with, "Ow!". Angie then squirmed around the stage a bit, singing and out of breath from the physical performance. Angie apologized that she didn't get down more because her tight dress was too restricting.
Jennifer was impressed by the performance but Randy is turned off by showtunes because they tend to bring out that type of vibratto that he doesn't like. Angie offered to sing something that wasn't a showtune but Randy said he was good. Jennifer pushed for her to sing something else so Angie sang the Linda Ronstadt version of Blue Bayou. Randy admitted that the song changed his mind and Angie was passed on to Hollywood.
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Contestant #83136
Jenni describes herself as "overly energetic, to the point where people have to tell me to stop." This point is proven as we see her mauling some guy's head with her hands and then walking backwards while making the obnoxious "BEEP-BEEP-BEEP" construction vehicle noise.
The 24-year-old music teacher from Sterling, VA mentions that her least favorite part of the job is teaching the recorder because "30 recorders in one room with beginning recorder players makes me want to vomit."
Jenni admitted that she has three celebrities on her "celebrity pass list" (for kissing):
- Steven Tyler
- Lady Gaga
- Adam Levine
So clearly the focus was to take the Idol auditions as a great excuse to kiss Steven. As soon as she got in the audition room, Jenni turned on the flirtatious act and explained her arrangement to the judges. Steven told her that she better sing well.
For her audition Jenni sang Pat Benetar's Heartbreaker and did well enough to get a unanimous vote through to Hollywood. She walked over to Steven, who gave her a full-on kiss on the lips. She reacted by screaming with glee and jumping up and down. It's hard to say whether she was more excited about Hollywood or Steven's lips.
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Contestants #1162 & #1163
Samantha came to audition for American Idol and she brought along her sister Patricia, a.k.a. Patty the Pittsburgh Planker. The sisters agreed that Samantha sang better when Patty was planking.
Ryan got down on the floor to plank but put his arms up in the air in front of him as well, Superman style instead of planking style (arms at the side).
Before Samantha sang Faith Hill's Like We Never Loved At All, Patty got down on the stage to plank. Apparently unaware of the rules of planking, Steven asked her how long she could hold that position for. Of course, he received no response from Patty. She held the proper form for the entire singing portion of the audition but did collapse for the judges once Samantha finished singing.
The judges enjoyed Samantha's voice enough to pass her on to Hollywood. We didn't hear the judges discussing Patricia's fate, however when they emerged they both held golden tickets, so it looks like Samantha will have her lucky plank with her in Hollywood!
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Contestant #8002
American Idol kicked off in Pittsburgh by showing us Heejun Han's complete boredom while he was sitting in the waiting room outside the auditioning area. When asked in the pre-audition interview why he was there, he simply replied, "I don't know." When asked if he had what it took to be the next American Idol, he also answered, "I don't know," and revealed that he felt he was good until he heard some of the other auditioning talent.
Heejun (pronounced hee-joon) then interviewed with Ryan Seacrest and told Ryan that his face was as small as a fist, especially compared to his own face. Ryan said that their faces seemed to be of similar size and moved in to show how different their face sizes were or weren't, but Heejun backed away and said, "No, it's just — comparison's too much."
In the audition room, Heejun said the entire experience was unreal and likened the judges to being at a wax museum. Randy tried to turn that comment into a compliment about them being supermodels but Heejun only conceded that Jennifer was of supermodel quality. He tried to take the comment back and simultaneously tried to expelled some nervous energy by raising his arms and flapping his hands. Jennifer and Randy mimicked him and told him he couldn't take it back.
Outside the room, Ryan asked his friends and family about how he sang and discovered that they hadn't heard him sing before. (This is often a clue that the auditioner has no singing experience and is about to bomb.)
Heejun started singing Michael Bolton's How Am I Supposed to Live Without You and Steven reared his head back, startled — not because Heejun's act was a joke, but because he had what Jennifer would call "a beautiful voice". Needless to say, he was unanimously passed through to Hollywood.
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Contestant #45585
Seventeen-year-old David Leathers, Jr. is a self-proclaimed ladies man. In fact, he says his nickname is "Mr. Steal Your Girl". We see David talking to an older girl (Fatia) and he hands his phone over to her so she can punch in her phone number in his contacts list.
David also revealed that in 2009 he was in a local competition with Scotty McCreery and claims to have won. Seacrest tries to clarify whether he beat Scotty or not and David has a big grin and replies with a vague, "You could say that," leading us to wonder if he's lying about winning and whether he has any singing talent at all.
In his audition David sang Remember the Rain? by Century 21. The judges enjoy his singing and he reminds them so much of a young Michael Jackson that they ask him to sing a Jackson song. David obliges by singing Never Can Say Goodbye.
The judges passed David on to Hollywood by simultaneously yelling "YES!"
Want to see more of David Leathers, Jr.? Well, you won't have to wait for the Hollywood episode — you can check out David's YouTube channel for seven videos!
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Contestants #246 & #2247
The day they met, Rob asked Chelsee onto the stage to sing with him. From there, they continued their career together and moved in together, but since then the couple has split. Rob mentioned that they had continued to live together after they had broke up. Ryan asked Chelsee if she dated people while the two were still living together and she admitted she had. Ryan's response was to give Rob a hug and tell Chelsee: "That's so uncool!" Ryan later asked them, "Are you friends?" to which Rob replied, "Uhh, at this point, not really but it'll . . . in time it'll work out."
After they went into the audition room, Ryan asked Chelsee's current boyfriend, Josh McClintock, if he was the reason for the breakup. Josh clarified that he didn't cause the breakup and that he didn't know Rob before and didn't really know him now.
In the audition room, Jennifer quickly jumped on the topic, calling herself a hopeless romantic and trying to find out if there was any way they might get back together. She even tried to enlist Steven's help. Together, the pair sang The Bee Gees' To Love Somebody and the judges couldn't stand how well they sang that romantic song together. Steven started talking about how the deepest passion comes from friction and that he could see how in love they were.
The two then sang separately for their own auditions: Rob sang Marvin Gaye's What's Going On and Chelsee came up and sang Brandi Carlile's The Story. The judges commented that they sang beautifully both separately and together. They were both passed through to Hollywood. After they left, Jennifer whispered that they were going to get back together.
The two came out and Chelsee was greeted by her throng of relatives (and boyfriend) while Rob had Ryan's hand to shake. After a moment, Ryan goaded Josh into congratulating his girlfriend's ex on his success as well. Yes, I can imagine how thrilled he was to know that his GF was heading to Hollywood with her ex without him.
Once the group left, Ryan heaved a sigh of relief and sent the show to break.
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Tiffany started out by demonstrating for America "the typical Jersey hairdo." (Step one is that "you need your teaser brush with you at all times.")
As a Puerto Rican dance instructor, she admires Jennifer Lopez because she "made the mark that you don't have to be a stick figure to be gorgeous." Tiffany got choked up when she got in front of Jennifer, so Jennifer came out front and gave her a nice, long hug.
Tiffany chose to show off her Puerto Rican accents by wearing two strategically placed silver stars on her shirt.
Tiffany sang an original song that she made just for American Idol:
Oh, baby you've got to
You've got to put me through
the next round
Oh, baby you need me
Oh, baby they need me
America needs
America needs me
for higher ratings on TV
After that song, Steven had to ask, "What's with the jujubes on your ooh-ooh-bees?"
Tiffany sang a second song but closed her jacket again because the song was "more emotional". She sang Celine Dion's I'm Your Lady and received three Yes votes based on that performance, putting her through to Hollywood. Tiffany got down on her hands and knees and excitedly kicked her shoes on the ground, prompting Randy to clarify, "Yes to the singing!"
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