Anthony Andolino

Contestant #75439

Anthony's singing style was distinctly off-tune. As Anthony begins singing, you can see Simon's expression immediately sour.

Anthony is undeniably overweight, so of course, Simon threw in a weight joke as Anthony left.

Anthony's background story included the fact that he and his girlfriend own 75 animals!

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David Mandzak

Contestant #73245

Often, you can tell from someone's speaking voice that they probably won't be the best singer in that city, and David was no exception.

David chose to sing a Backstreet Boys song. His singing style was nasal and off-pitch.

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Princess Brewer

Contestant #78285

Princess claimed to be a conceited, blunt, sassy perfectionist that sounds a lot like Aretha Franklin. Three out of five ain't bad, I guess.

For a perfectionist, Princess missed a whole lot of notes and basically screamed the off-pitch lyrics at the judges. Simon tried to stop her, but she kept on singing.

After even more horrendous singing, Simon whispered "Will you shut her up? Shut her up." followed by "Stop it. Stop it. Stop it."

Finally, Princess stopped, and Paula's best compliment was that "there were sweet moments in there." Simon quickly added, "Yeah, the end." He also told her that she had given him a headache with her singing.

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Deborah Dawn Tilley

Contestant #33254

Deborah Dawn's style was pure rock, and it looked like she had rocked a bit too hard in her (at least) 27 years on this earth. I'm a poor judge of age, but Deborah Dawn looked much older than 27. To me, she looked more like 35 minimum. Like I said, I could have been wrong.

Her extremely long and frizzy hair may have been what made her look older. She said, "People recognize me by my hair. 'Hey! . . . Lady Big Hair!'" Yeah, that's the name that'll get you into American Idol — if it were the 80s.

Now that I think about it, Deborah Dawn really looked and acted just like a Molly Shannon character . . . a lot like a Molly Shannon character, right down to the crazy eyes. Simon said that she looked like "somebody's mother who for a day has been told to look like Cher for some ghastly fancy dress party and does a song. That's how the whole thing came over." Simon then said that it was like he needed to hear her with his eyes closed because her image was so off-putting. Paula reminded Simon that this is what he said about Clay Aiken, but Simon denied it.

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Marcus Phillips

Contestant #32387

Marcus (who refers to himself once as "Kid Chaos") is a self-proclaimed AT, "All Terrain Entertainer: singer, rapper, songwriter, dancer, comedian, actor."

Marcus started out by singing This Little Light of Mine in falsetto. Simon tried to stop him at the end of the song, but Paula insisted on seeing all of the All Terrain Entertainer.

In order to showcase all of his talents, Marcus moved on to dancing, followed by some beatboxing.

One would hope that, being an All Terrain Entertainer, that Marcus would have been good with at least one of the skills, but he really wasn't. Marcus' only skill seemed to be auctioneer-like fast-talking.

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Matthew "Wolfie" Paulsen

Contestant #32051

Wolfie described himself as "sound a little bit like Clay, but maybe a little bit different than Clay, but I think my voice range is around Clay Aiken's. I'm definitely going to Hollywood today." Matthew even chose to sing Aiken's The Measure of a Man.

The differences quickly became apparent when he started singing in a shakey, quivering voice. The similarities never made themselves apparent. The producers even played Matthew and Clay side-by-side as an easy comparison.

Matthew is called "Wolfie" because — why else? — he likes wolves so much.

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John Williams

Contestant #31585

John recently took leave from the military after nine years. Before auditioning for American Idol, he took vocal lessons for only six weeks, and you'd never know it — unless you heard him sing.

John started by singing semi-normally, but he then quickly turned around, put some sunglasses on, and started beatboxing and singing a remix of the same song. Needless to say, it didn't go over well.

Simon was "puzzled that someone from the Air Force comes in and does quite a strange routine, and after that bizarre element, you stood there with a very serious look on your face, as if, that's just normal."

Perhaps John could get some musical guidance from the composer of the same name.

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