Contestant #96837
Melinda feels like she has a message for the world: "Humanity is kind of taking a shift right now and I just want to be a part of it."
Melinda says she experiences happiness while she dances naked in her room. Simon suggested that this might be her method for sharing happiness with the world.
Kara asked Melinda if she wanted to be naked right then, and Melinda replied, "If you all were."
Simon suggested, "Why don't you imagine that Randy is naked?" and Melinda agreed.
Melinda sang Michael Buble's Feeling Good well enough to get passed through to Hollywood unanimously.
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Contestant #92353
Adeola is a 19-year-old who says she is compared to Mariah Carey or Mary J. Blige.
Adeola quit her job as a bank teller because she was so confident in her singing abilities. (Regardless of one's singing abilities, it may be worth noting how much time elapses between the auditions and the Hollywood show, and how much time beyond that there is before anyone actually sees any money.)
Adeola sang Jennifer Hudson's And I Am Telling You in a warbly, unconfident voice. Simon suggested that she retract the resignation letter because the audition was "shockingly bad." Adeola tried singing again, and Simon even said he would call her boss to get her job back.
Ryan got Ade's boss David on the phone and asked if he would talk with Simon. The boss agreed, and Simon sat down with Adeola and talked with David. They both agreed that Adeola was a great person, and David agreed to give Adeola her job back.
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Contestant #43847
Chris brought with him a shirt with Simon Cowell's face on it, but that was completely overshadowed by the fact that he also brough a six foot tall pink bunny with him, too. Chris brought his friend Greg the Rabbit (a.k.a. "Grabbit") — not to be confused with "Greg the Bunny". Greg came along to support Chris' attempt to get on American Idol.
Chris entered the audition room also holding another picture of Simon on a stick, which he referred to as "Handsome Simon". At that moment, Greg the Rabbit entered and got the judges' attention. Simon told Greg to go stand behind Chris during the audition. As Chris started singing Del Amitri's Roll To Me, Greg got into the music and started bobbing his head, sending his large bunny ears back and forth over his head. It was so distracting that Simon had to stop Chris and have him start again without Greg bouncing behind him.
Chris only got a few notes into Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell's Ain't No Mountain High Enough before Simon said it wasn't going to work.
Greg actually got an informal "Yes" from Randy, and Chris was rejected wholesale. Neither made it through to Hollywood.
Greg gave Simon a big bear (bunny?) hug before leaving.
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Contestant #?
Rich sang Marvin Gaye & Tammi Terrell's Ain't No Mountain High Enough. He didn't sing well, and his style was . . . just plain weird. He had long, wavy hair with red streaks, sunglasses with bright red lenses up on his head, eye makeup, a hemp necklace with large beads, and a completely mismatched undershirt-shirt-jacket set.
Simon summed it up well when he said, "You're never ever in a million billion years gonna win a show like this."
Rich asked to sing another song and awkwardly licked his lips. Randy just replied by saying "Next!"
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Contestant #40030
Tara was described as "Salt Lake City's only goth." Tara insisted that she just liked to dress that way and that she wasn't trying to make a point or be goth.
Ryan mentioned that Tara had ESP, and she explained, "I know when certain people are going to die, whether they're family or on TV." The judges asked her to read their minds, but she explained that she didn't "have it that strong."
Tara belted out and off-key version of the Moulin Rouge song One Day I'll Fly Away while Randy hit his hand against his forehead. When she got to the "one day I'll fly away" lyric, Simon muttered "Yeah, hopefully soon".
Simon said that she sounded like a baby and that it just didn't work, so Tara excused herself and walked out — and kept walking, right past Ryan.
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Contestant #89078
George is studying physics. Ryan told him that many people fear physics and math, but George clarified that "it's all just very basic stuff. You've gotta look at it at the core, not from the outside."
Simon started out by asking him where he saw himself in 11 years' time, in his wildest dreams. George baffled Simon by replying that he'd "probably have a simple house with nice floors — I want marble."
George sang Katrina and the Waves' Walking on Sunshine with a very small, quiet, shaky voice. Simon asked if he had sang in public before and George said that he sang with his friends. Simon asked him what his friends did, and George started explaining that they liked to rock climb, play guitar, sing.
After George left, the judges just exchanged confused looks. Outside, George calmly said to Ryan, "Oh, look, no ticket."
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Contestant #81834
Naomi started out by telling Randy that her friend Samantha was a huge Randy fan. In faux-slow-motion, Randy and Samantha "ran" across the room to each other and embraced.
Simon suggested that Samantha sit on Randy's lap for the audition, so she did. Paula then went over and sat on Simon's lap, so the judges called Ryan in to come sit on Kara's lap. When Ryan sat on Kara's lap, she bounced him up and down and said "good boy" as if her were a baby.
After all this craziness, Naomi finally started singing Minnie Riperton's Loving You. Two notes in, it was obvious that Naomi had no true singing talent, and Paula banged her head down onto the table.
Everyone had a good laugh after the song, and Naomi said that everyone told her she was great. Simon clarified that the audition wasn't a joke, and Naomi started to cry. Randy, Paula, and Kara got up and gave Naomi a good group hug. Post-audition, Naomi was confused because she hit her high note really well.
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