Season 9
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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 #81788
Julie auditioned way back in Season 1 and got on the air for her horrible rendition of Labelle's Lady Marmalade. Julie returned again for season 9 with a sign reading "THIS IS MY YEAR 2009 Julie Kevelighan"
This time, Julie sang Alannah Myles' Black Velvet. To be honest, she sounded horrible but she sounded better than her previous audition.
When asked what he thought, Neil Patrick Harris said, "My first problem was the bottom line of your sign. The letters just get real small at the end. It seemed like you might have wanted to start over." When Simon gave his bad review and tried to start the voting, Julie broke into Somewhere over the Rainbow. They cut her off and voted No, so Julie started singing Let's Give Them Something to Talk About. At that point, security picked up her sign and showed her the way out.
Outside the audition room, Julie blamed her breathing and breath control on her poor audition. She even tried to fit a fourth song in during Ryan's interview. Maybe we'll see Julie again in 8 more years.
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Contestant #5262
Jason said that he would be the next American Idol because he has talent . . . and he believes in magic.
Jason sang Divinyls' I Touch Myself to the judges and Kara pretended to sing along. By the end of the song, Jason was down on his knees on the stage. Simon said, "Jason, if you're comfortable down there, I'm cool with that." When Katy had to vote, she simply said, "I feel . . . dirty."
Outside the audition room, Jason gave Ryan his number and told him to call. Ryan said, "Jason, as much as you may believe what you read, here's the one you should be giving it to." Ryan then handed it to a large man who smarmily smiled at Jason and made a face at the camera.
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Contestant #10037
Austin wore a tight, shiny red and black shirt and said, "I'm the kind of guy who would bring people on the stage and I wouldn't care if people touched me. I don't think there's anybody on American Idol that's sexually ever been like me."
Austin when he came in to sing Cheap Trick's Surrender and threw in some faces and dance moves. He also sat down and clapped both his hands and feet in the air. Kara said that his act sort of looked like Mick Jagger and Katy Perry said he sort of looked like Iggy Pop.
Simon asked him why he couldn't just clean water and Austin said that cleaning water was boring.
After Austin left, Simon said, "that was one disturbed young man," and Katy Perry asked if the contestants were frisked before they came in the room.
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Contestant #11473
A.J. sent his demo tape to Adam Lambert and said that Adam had only great things to say about his voice.
A.J. sang Living Colour's Cult of Personality for the judges. Simon said it looked like he had just gotten a shot of anesthetic at the dentist's office, Kara said that he didn't move his mouth, and Randy said it looked like a ventriloquist act. A. J. asked, "Oh, is it a visual thing or is it a sound thing?"
Simon replied, "It's a both" and Randy made A. J. practice saying "Ahh" with his mouth wide open.
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Contestant #1995
Damien starts out by telling us that his first great love was martial arts. He is also a pacifist and said, "Sometimes that means swallowing your pride and looking like a fool," and that's exactly what Damien ends up doing.
In the audition room, Damien says that he makes sandwiches for a living. He tells Simon that pepperoni is the popular "thing" in sandwiches right now.
Damien remembered that he was going to sing a Righteous Brothers song but couldn't remember the title of You've Lost That Loving Feeling. After a couple guesses by the judges, he started singing in a timid, raspy voice. After his voice cracked, Damien looked up at the ceiling, whistled a few times, and told the judges that he couldn't believe that just happened." Simon told him to just leave, and he promptly walked out.
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Contestant #2488
Neil starts out by saying, "I have an IQ of 168. That makes me a pretty smart guy."
Neil is a self-proclaimed geek who says, "In my heart is the love to perform. The love to touch the souls of others. To exhilarate, to exaltate, to exalt in what it is is to be human: To be vulnerable, to have strengths and weaknesses and passions and loves and hates and everything bundled up inside . . . until you can let it out."
Neil came into the audition room with a thick layer of sweat covering his face. He sang Meatloaf's Rock and Roll Dreams Come True and Simon called it ironic when Neil sang the opening line, "Remember everything that I told you" and then forgot the next line. After being told that he wasn't cut out for the music business, Neil refused to leave and seemed to take the view that if he confidently said that he was going to Hollywood enough times, it would actually happen. Simon asked him if he was going to leave with or without an escort and Neil said he could walk himself out.
On his way out, Neil told Simon not to hit anyone else with the door, which Simon does not understand. We then see previous footage where Simon hits Neil when he opens a door — Simon did not apologize Neil after hitting him.
In his exit interview, Neil said, "I think American Idol really lost out today. I really do think that in the grand scheme of things, they are going to be the bigger losers."
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