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Contestant #79220
Lloyd "Big SuccSexy" Thomas is a big personality. We first see him doing the robot and repeating his nickname, a hybrid of "success" and "sexy". As he pulled out photographs of his daughters from his wallet, one of them fell on the floor as the camera zoomed in. Lloyd asked if they would cut that part out.
Lloyd is a dock worker at an airport and says that "the worst part about my job that I have is . . . probably the job that I have."
In the audition room, Lloyd sang Stevie Wonder's Overjoyed and did a great job — even Simon called it the best audition of the day. Neil Patrick Harris suggested that Lloyd work some of that personality into his performance.
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Contestant #70593
At the outset of his audition, Cornelius told the judges that he could dance and that he had learned from his friends who are "adult entertainers" and who "dance for money". Cornelius sang Tina Turner's Proud Mary (Rolling on the River). During the chorus, he jumped high into the air and landed in a split, hitting his legs and knee hard into the stage, but Cornelius kept on singing . . . until he went to get up, that is. That's when he informed the judges, "My pants done ripped."
Simon said that Cornelius deserved to go to Hollywood. Cornelius said that he had some more moves and Simon quickly replied, "I don't want you to move at all right now!"
Cornelius got a unanimous Yes from the judges, along with encouragement to go buy some new pants.
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Jay stone came in and immediately started beatboxing, but then he started singing The Beatles' Come Together while still beatboxing.
Randy asked Jay if he could sing, so Jay started singing Bill Withers' Ain't No Sunshine. While he sang, Kara and Randy started beatboxing under him, and eventually Jay started dancing to the judges' beats. As soon as he finished, Randy said, "So it's a No," but Kara protested.
Jay told the judges that no one else did what he did on American Idol. The judges brought up beatboxing Blake Lewis, but Jay said that Blake didn't sing and beatbox simultaneously. Kara continued to argue until Randy finally gave him the second Yes vote.
Keep your eyes and ears out for some beatboxing in Hollywood week!
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Contestant #91872
Skii Bo Ski wore an interesting haircut to his audition — the American Idol logo was shaved into his hair.
Pointing to his shirt, he spelled his nickname out: "S – k – i – i -b- o, S – k -i". The producer pointed out that his shirt had "Skibo Ski" with only one "i" on the first name. He simply responded, "OK, we got — misprint." When his name later comes up during the audition, we see that it's not even "Skiibo Ski" but "Skii Bo Ski" . . . so there is a missing space as well.
Antonio gave it his all when he sang Marvin Gaye's I Heard It Through The Grapevine. Kara was grooving to the music and Mary J. Blige started clapping when he finished.
After he finished singing, Skii Bo Ski told the judges, "It's a package deal because I'm like the dollar store. You know, with the dollar store — even with the dollar store, you can have everything you want in that one package and it don't cost you no more than a dollar. I'm worth a lot."
Randy countered with, "That doesn't even make sense, what you were just saying," and Kara noted that he said he was only worth a dollar.
Antonio got a No vote from Simon and a Yes vote from Mary and Kara. Antonia cut Randy off with: "And before you speak, acknowledge that I am acknowledging good music and you made some."
Randy looked completely confused by Skii Bo Ski's ramblings and replied, "What in the world are you saying?!? Shut up! You're through to Hollywood! What is all of this nonsense? My God!"
Skii Bo Ski ran into the waiting room with his golden ticket and the crowd erupted into cheers. Based on some of Randy's advice, it looks like we'll see more Antonio Wheeler than Skii Bo Ski once he gets to Hollywood, but you never know!
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Contestant #94976
Holly, better known to you and me as "Guitar Girl", dressed as a guitar for Halloween. Her friends thought the outfit was so cute that Holly figured she would wear the costume to her American Idol audition. The costume was highlighted by some very large guitar sunglasses.
Holly sang Loretta Lynn's You Ain't Woman Enough to Take My Man. After she finished singing, Simon asked Holly, "Do you understand how — you can keep [the guitar glasses] on — how slightly bizarre this is that you're dressed as a guitar but also look a little bit like an insect singing country and western?"
Mary J Blige's comment was simple: "I don't get it," but Kara said she respected that Holly was ballsy enough to go dressed like that. Holly received 3 Yes votes and will be moving on to Hollywood. I doubt we will see the guitar outfit again, though.
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Contestant #54995
Joshua came in and sang Rascal Flatts' Bless the Broken Road. He got some compliments, but Simon complained that Josh sounded more like a 14 year old: "No presence, no power, no originality".
Victoria Beckham asked him if he was maybe playing it a little bit safe for the audition and Joshua admitted that he had been told that he needed to be more assertive. Randy jumped right in and gave Joshua some impromptu assertiveness training by instructing him to shout, "Simon, shut up!"
Joshua timidly repeated, "Simon, . . . shut up, please" and gave Simon a look of apology. He then repeated the line with a bit more force but was unable to wow Simon with his attempts at disapprobation.
Randy suggested that he instead singing in a group of the same type as Spandau Ballet, but Joshua did not like that idea at all. Simon encouraged him to forcefully tell Randy that he was wrong about that suggestion, but Joshua couldn't do it.
Finally the judges voted and unanimously passed Joshua through to Hollywood. Once he had that news, Randy tried to pump him up by having him repeat the phrases, "I'm gonna be great," "I am great," "I am the American Idol," and "I'm somebody." Randy had Joshua also repeat the phrase "Ain't nobody gonna beat my A." but then said that sounded a little weird coming from Joshua.
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Contestant #54248
When we first see Tyler, he is doing a bit of a goofy dance and we can see that he has a cast on each wrist. The reason for the casts is that Tyler recently fell out of a tree and shattered both his wrists, necessitating some surgery where titanium plates were inserted into his arms.
Shattering his wrists didn't help Tyler's drumming career much, but he claims that he prefers to be the front man and decided to audition for American Idol to help that dream come true.
Despite the injuries to his hands, Tyler came out and sang Marvin Gaye's Let's Get It On. The judges loved his look, his demeanor, and his voice, so Tyler was passed through to Hollywood with four Yes votes.
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Katrina is better known by the masses as "Bikini Girl" from American Idol. Though she didn't wear a bikini in Hollywood, she did fall back on the "little black dress" option.
Katrina sang Faith Hill's Breathe. Kara and Paula complained that her voice thinned out as she progressed through the song. Simon and Randy (once again) argued that her voice had improved on the audition round.
Before we find out the result, Ryan asks: "But with just her voice stripped down, does she have enough to get through?"
As it turns out, Katrina did have enough, because she and the rest of her group was passed through to the next round.
Read about Katrina Darrell's original "bikini" audition.
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In Hollywood, we first flashed back to Nick's original audition, along with additional footage of him throwing his Norman Gentle costume in the garbage.
Nonetheless, we see his Norman Gentle character take the stage in that same costume, red sweatbands and all. As he took the stage, he introduced himself with, "All right, time for some honesty. I'm here to have some fun. I'm Norman Gentle. I am 27 years old. I'm from Stratton, Vermont and I am gonna rock it." Norman then pulled out a pitch pipe and played it off-key.
Norman then broke into Jennifer Hudson's And I Am Telling You I'm Not Going, except he changed the lyrics to sing about himself and he gave a shout-out to the balcony and to Seacrest to sing along:
I'm the best man you'll ever know
there's no way I could ever, ever go
Darling there's no way
no no no no no no no
no way I'm living without you
BALCONY!
I don't want want to be free
SEACREST!
I'm staying. I am
I am staying
And you and you and you and please you
Please won't you love me
Randy started with, "So listen, this is the funny thing about you, man. You are hilarious, dude. You are like banoodles kind of a guy but you know what? You actually can sing. You've got some skills in there, dawg!"
Simon, of course, chimed in by saying that "without the glasses and the silly haircut, [he's] just a boring person" and that when he puts on the costume he's a "joke".
Paula said it would be interesting to hear Nick sing a song "all stripped down". With a guy like Nick, you know you can't get away with a comment like that without a stripping joke. So as Nick started unbuttoning his shirt, Paula quickly said, "No, I don't mean you strip. That's OK. Nick, Norman, Nick, Norman." She also noted that she would like to hear him sing without all the silliness.
We're not sure what Kara had to say about Nick, but it seems that at least Randy and Paula agreed to pass Nick onto the next round because he was accepted!
Offstage, Nick told Ryan that he was going to retire the costume on American Idol, so we'll see what happens.
Nick Mitchell, you've got the combination that Idle Idols has been waiting years for: A quality singing voice with a great, comical act!
Read about Nick "Norman Gentle" Mitchell's original audition.
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Season 8's auditions are over and so is the fun . . . or is it?
This year, this site highlighted 38 Idle Idols in Season 8. Seven of these 38 contestants received a golden ticket and are headed to Hollywood!
Here's a quick recap of the contestants featured on Idle Idols who are headed to Hollywood:
- Katrina Darrell — Who could forget the bikini-clad contestant who sparred with Kara? Will she wear something revealing in Hollywood, and will her voice or her looks be enough to keep her from getting cut?
- Alex Wagner-Trugman — The mold-infested closet singer promised to become most popular in Abkazia, Zimbabwe, and Canada. But how about America?
- Michael Castro — Jason Castro's little brother started singing 20 days before his audition and was passed through to Hollywood.
- Tatiana Del Toro — The drama queen passed her press kit out and showed off her attitude.
- Joshua Ulloa — This catchy-but-gimmicky "Inspector Gadget" entertained the judges.
- Melinda Camille — This singer who enjoys dancing naked would get naked if all the judges did, too.
- Nick "Norman Gentle" Mitchell — One of the most entertaining auditions this year, Norman cracked wise and had the whole panel laughing with his routine, which included a joke about Simon and Seacrest getting it on.
As usual, Idle Idols expresses our sincere thanks for these contestants' wonderfully entertaining auditions. We wish you each the best of luck in Hollywood!
Stay tuned to Idle Idols, as we will continue to track any entertaining activity from these contestants as they try their best in Hollywood.
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Contestant #95437
Nick Mitchell, a.k.a. Norman Gentle, was dressed in a pretty crazy fashion: A bright red headband and matching wristbands, big glasses, a gaudy shirt, and khaki shorts. He ran into the audition room, jumped onto the stage, struck a pose, and shouted, "American Idol!"
Simon said that he didn't want Norman to be funny, but he just wanted Norman to be serious. Norman said, "OK then, it's done" and quickly transformed into Nick by removing the headband, wristbands, and glasses.
Nick sang Jennifer Hudson's And I Am Telling You in a serious manner, but certainly not up to Idol standards. Simon cracked a joke, thereby forcing Nick to revert back into Norman, and consequently kicking off the following banter:
Simon: Norman, you told me you weren't going to make this funny.
Norman: Oh! You hurt me where you get kicked sometimes. That was very hard!
Simon: I'd have thought you'd quite like that.
Norman: You mean the way you like it when Seacrest does it?
[All the judges yell "Whoa!"]
Norman: Whatcha say now, Simon?!?
Simon: That was funny! That was actually funny.
Simon said that Norman was becoming more likable, but that they weren't looking for "a ghastly cabaret comedy singer". Norman got a chair and did his best to belt out Amazing Grace. While he sang, Simon kept warning him not to pull faces, but Norman eventually slipped one in and Simon started yapping about his faces. Norman yelled in a shrill voice, "It's addictive!" and the judges started cracking up.
Paula said she loved him and Kara said it was the first time she had been entertained all day. Norman promised he wouldn't beg and then immediately screamed "[BLEEP] PLEASE!", and fell on the floor, prostrate. Paula gave Norman a "Yes" and Simon immediately retorted with "a categorical 'No'". Kara convinced Randy to give Norman a "Yes", so we'll be seeing him again in Hollywood!
Read about the rest of Norman Gentle's American Idol run.
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