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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Contestant #?
You might remember Ben from season five's Denver audition when he brought in his Cosmic Coaster invention and mingled with the judges.
This year, Ben sang Elton John's Crocodile Rock, though he changed the lyric to "Me and Paula had so much fun." Simon wouldn't have any of that, and that was the end of Ben's audition this year.
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Contestants #75918 & #76599
Corliss and Brittany sometimes claim to be sisters because they share so many similar interests — except that Brittney likes skinny men and Corliss likes her men "beefy."
Corliss told Randy that Ryan wasn't his type. She then sang, "I want you, baby," to Randy, which put a huge grin on Randy's face. Simon encouraged Corliss to sing her song directly to Randy, and Simon and Paula moved to the side. Corliss impressed the judges with a jazz tune: Al Jarreau's Take Five.
Brittany took the audition stage and sang Mary Wells' My Guy to Simon.
All three judges agreed to pass both Corliss and Brittany on through to Hollywood. Once they had gotten the good news, Paula invited them both to come plant kisses on Simon and Randy, and the girls happily obliged.
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