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Contestants #54304 & #54303
Cory and Chris are identical twins. They came with Cory's girlfriend (and Chris' ex-girlfriend), Ashley Lawing, to audition.
At the audition, Chris beatboxed while Cory rapped about being better than the Brittenum twins:
Yeah, baby.
We comin' for y'all, Brittenums.
The new rivalry. 2007 Idol.
Here's how we gonna do this.
Sit back, please relax.
This is not –
At this point, Cory loses his place in the song and can't find his way back into the song:
– all right, don't –
All right, Brittenums, this is how we gonna do this.
Aight, here we go.
Aight, here we go, let's go.
Here we go.
Aight, here we go, let's go
Finally, Cory gets himself back into the song and picks up at the line he originally missed:
Don't get it wrong 'cuz it ain't our audition.
So sit back, just relax, and please just listen:
The name's Chris and Cory Lane and we look the same.
Kinda like them Brittenum twins, just not as lame
We ain't cocky, we just want you to see
We got that look, got the voice, got that personality.
So I'm gonna cut it short and I'm gonna leave it at this:
If you don't put us through, man, we gonna be really ticked.
Hey!
Simon called their audition "amateurish" and they left without a fight.
Outside the audition room, Ashley admitted she was shocked that they both hadn't made it through to Hollywood.
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Contestant #1069
Tiffany has been "singing ever since church choir" and her pastor told her that her voice is "more maturing." It's quite possible that he's right, but if that's true, I'd hate to have heard her when she was starting out. Tiffany admitted that she is still trying to train up her voice.
Pre-audition, Tiffany did some warm-ups from her vocal lessons for the camera. Her scales sounded more like a bored, tone deaf race car speeding through its gears.
Tiffany sang the gospel song Hallelujah. She sang very loudly and very poorly.
Tiffany told Simon that her voice was a gift from God, and after her audition, Simon asked if there was a return policy.
In the holding room, we see Tiffany singing Loggins & Messina's Run River Run. As she's belting out the song, we hear a voice loudly say "Shh!!!"
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Contestant #43369
Jared sang Henry Purcell’s I’ll Sail Upon a Dog Star in a very high voice — even higher than most girls.
In case you couldn't understand the lyrics he was singing simply because your ears can't hear pitches that high, here is what we hear him singing:
I'll sail upon the Dog Star,
And then pursue the morning,
And then pursue
And then pursue the morning.
I'll climb the frosty mountain,
I'll climb the frosty mountain,
And there I'll coin the weather.
At this point, we hear Simon say, "OK, this is like something out of a science fiction movie."
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Contestant #39283
Chris has a full beard and wore what looked to be a leather kilt. What better to complement this clothing choice than a striped collared shirt and sneakers?
For his audition, Chris sang Indigo Girls' Summertime:
Summertime
And the living is easy
Fish are jumping
The cotton is high
Chris may not look like an American Idol, but at least he had a monotone voice that was sure to carry him all the way to . . . the audition room door.
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Contestant #41506
Eva is a very extroverted woman who always seems to be smiling. Paula complemented Eva on her smile as she entered the audition room.
Eva chose to sing Vanessa Carlton's A Thousand Miles. As she started singing poorly, Eva started dancing around and twirling. After her first twirl, her contestant number sticker fell off and onto the back section of the stage. Eva continued dancing around, and eventually stepped on the sticker, which stuck to the heel of her high heel shoes. On Eva's next step, she suddenly had no traction and slipped to the floor. Luckily, Eva was wearing white stockings so she didn't flash the cameras.
Simon called it out as an act, but Eva vehemently defended herself and said that she was just trying to be energetic and entertain the judges.
After being turned down by the judges, Eva left the audition room, tore up her contestant number sticker, and jumped up and down on it.
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Contestant #
Brooke was the 2007 Miss South Florida Fair and she wanted to prove to Simon that pageant belles can sing.
Regarding the Miss South Florida Fair contest, Brook said, "It was a lot of fun. I would definitely do it again, if I don't do American Idol, which I hope I do do American Idol. I just said 'Doo doo American Idol.'"
Brooke sang The Jackson 5's Who's Loving You and she sang well enough to prove that at least this pageant belle could sing.
Brooke got a unanimous vote through to Hollywood.
As Brooke left screaming with joy, Simon described Brooke as "possibly the most annoying person in the world I have ever seen in my life." He noted that he didn't want her to sing well, but obviously she did well enough to get his vote.
Read about Brooke's Hollywood audition.
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Contestant #47719
J.P. auditioned three years ago and was two places in front of Carrie Underwood in the audition line.
J.P. sang Rascal Flatts's Me and My Gang, but he didn't come through with the star quality he earlier claimed to have.
After some poor feedback, J.P. told the judges he didn't want to spend four years in school as a music major.
Simon told J.P., "My pen has got more charisma.
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Contestant #47503
Josh Jones is a glassworker, but if he makes it to Hollywood, he wouldn't mind throwing his glass cutter as far as he can.
In Josh's audition, he sang Queen's Don't Stop Me Now, but that's exactly what Simon did. Simon was distracted by Josh's eyes as he sang because they would open a bit too wide during parts of the song. Even Paula admitted that he had a good voice but that his eyes were distracting.
After advising him not to do the thing with his eyes, Josh did it again the second time. Randy told Josh to turn away from the judges so they could hear his voice without being distracted by his eyes.
While Josh was singing to the wall, Simon noted, "He can't make it through to the finals if he performs like that every night."
Simon declared that the performance was a bit too "karaoke-y", but Paula and Randy pushed Josh through to the next round.
Outside the audition room, Josh revealed that he had three four-leaf clovers stuck to the back of his contestant number sticker.
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Contestant #74656
Brandon Black (a.k.a. Bran B) burst into the audition room wearing a wig and screaming various seemingly nonsensical phrases, starting with "Get down! 742!" It's possible that he was playing an agent-type character named Damon, but it was hard to tell exactly what was going on.
Brandon assured the judges that he wasn't just funny, and Simon assured Brandon that he wasn't funny.
Brandon said he sang the Boyz II Men hit I'll Make Love to You for Paula, which seemed to offend Paula. The singing was over the top and Brandon followed that song with his own creation titled I Am the Next American Idol. Simon cut him off mid-song.
After having his singing interrupted, Brandon slipped into some hat tricks and continued again with the random, high pitched talking.
As Simon and Randy got up and walked out on his audition, Brandon asked, "So, that's a yes or a no?" Simon quickly answered "No" on his way out.
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Contestant #71409
Julie was one of the top 20 on the only season of American Juniors, so she figured that she'd try out for American Idol now that she's old enough.
Julie sang Janis Joplin's Me and Bobby McGee, but it didn't go over well with the judges. Simon asked Julie if she had ever been called precocious, and Julie asked him what "precocious" meant.
Simon complained that the audition was over-rehearsed. While Simon was giving her advice, Julie broke into Mariah Carey's Butterfly. Simon reaffirmed his feeling that she needed to stop the playacting in front of the camera.
After the audition, Julie complained that the judges had said she was acting, and then she went off into a drama queen act that involved even more acting than in her rehearsal.
As we watched Julie's tirade out the building, we were also treated to Julie's 12-year-old performance on American Juniors.
Julie parting words: "Don't audition for American Idol. Don't watch the show."
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Contestant #70866
Carroy's hair was large with black roots and white ends. In fact, he sort of looked like Eddie Murphy with a skunk on his head.
For his audition, Carroy sang Aretha Franklin's Chain Of Fools as loudly as he could.
Simon noted that it was "a bit over the top," and that's the last we saw of Carroy.
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