Season 7, Episode 8
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Contestant #6907
Joshua Moreland goes by the name "Jay Smoove."
Jay Smoove sang his own song, Beautiful Lady. After singing the first two words, he tossed a combination of glitter and rose petals into the air.
In typical fashion, Simon summed it up as a "horribly over-the-top, corny, revolting audition."
After Joshua left the room, an assistant walked to the stage with a broom. Simon quickly jumped up and called Ryan in to have him do the American Idol housework, but Ryan said he wouldn't feel comfortable with not letting her do her job. As Ryan walked out, Simon asked if they were still on camera and took the broom to sweep up and prove that he was the better man. As Simon swept the glitter and rose petals, Randy said he didn't think Simon had ever swept before and Paula pointed out that he didn't even know how to hold the broom properly. Ryan returned and explained that the tool was called a "broom". Once told the cameras weren't rolling, Simon quickly told the assistant that the mess was all hers again.
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Contestant #3032
Alesha has been singing since she was eight years old. She said her sound was unique and that she didn't sound like anyone else, but the judges would eventually disagree with that sentiment.
Alesha sang Celine Dion's Surrender. Her vocal stylings were odd, particularly in the more powerful sections of the song.
Simon cut her off and asked who her vocal coach was. Alesha told him that it was Ron Harris at Talent Boot Camp, and Simon noted that "someone just lost their job." (Little did he know that Ron Harris is one of Christina Aguilera's producers.)
Paula noted that she liked Alesha's voice when she wasn't trying to sing powerfully. Randy mentioned that she had the same tone as Dolly Parton, and Paula wholeheartedly agreed. Alesha didn't know any Dolly Parton songs, so Simon instructed her to learn a Dolly Parton song and come back to sing it when she was comfortable.
Alesha returned to the holding room and watched YouTube videos of Dolly Parton's Islands in the Stream. After rehearsing it for a while, she returned and sang it to the judges. With a Dolly Parton song, Alesha did much better. Simon refrained from voting because it wasn't "his" audition any more. Simon and Paula both passed Alesha through to Hollywood. Simon said, "Welcome to Dollywood."
After Alesha left, Simon said to Paula, "I hate to admit it, you were right. . . . That wasn't the ending that I wanted."
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Contestant #59580
Ashley is the girlfriend and ex-girlfriend of Cory and Chris Lane, respectively.
Ashley immediately stole Simon and Paula's heart when she walked in carrying Panda, a 6 week old Pomeranian puppy.
Ashley sang Kellie Pickler's Red High Heels, but since she had black heels on, she sang it as "black high heels".
Outside the audition room, Cory and Chris admitted that they told her that her voice was up to par so she's try out, but they didn't actually believe she had a chance to make it through.
As it turns out, they were right because Simon called the audition "excruciating."
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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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