American Idol 10

The San Francisco auditions were the last ones before Hollywood week. I thought Inessa Lee was not that bad in her audition but she did not get through. This is a funny girl- she has released an album with the word "me" in all of her songs and guess what the album is called.

On a more serious note, this year it looks like the show has really saved the best for last. The story of James Durbin is one of tragedy and adversity . Here is the video of it . This year it seems like he is the one that deserves to win it.

American Idol 10

Many of the the auditions in Los Angeles were not good but I was quite impressed by the cover of "Lean on Me" by the Guttierez brothers. Here is the video of it.

American Idol 10

The fifth episode featured auditions in Austin. There was an audition which reminded me about Julie Dubela who sang off key in her audition some time ago. However, Julie was not given a second chance to try again. Hollie Cavanagh was given a second chance and almost messed it up as well. She finally got herself together to sing the chorus well enough to get through to Hollywood week. Here is the video of it. Apparently the spoilers are out and according to them, she got through to the top 40.

American Idol 10

I fell asleep and missed the first 15 minutes of the fourth episode.

The fourth episode featured auditions in Nashville. There is talk from one of the judges that the best singer in this season could be in this episode - the 15 year old Lauren Alaina. There is also a touching story behind her singing. Her cousin, Holly who was suffering from a brain tumour, inspired her to sing. Here is the video of it.

Funniest audition for that episode was probably Latoya Moore' s one. I remembered there was a Latoya some time back in Idol who could really sing. Here is the video of it.

American Idol 10

I was surprised in the third episode that J- Lo said no to the 15 year old girl called Emma. However I still think American Idol is probably the best thing J-Lo has ever done since the movie Selena.

I thought the funniest audition was the person dressed as a soldier in 19th century America - Nathaniel Jones. The person after him Mason Wilkinson is also quite funny as well. Here is the video of it.

In this episode, I was most impressed by the singing of Steve Beghun - the big goon as he would joke about his surname. Here is the video of it.

American Idol 10

The second episode featured contestants from New Orleans. Funniest audition was by Gabriel Franks. Here is the video of it. He is meant to be a Steven Tyler lookalike but actually looks more like Mick Jagger in a comical way.

There is now a bit of controversy surrounding Paris Tassin - that she is not really a single mother of a special needs child - that she is actually married. Anyway as the story in the show goes, she was pregnant at 18 and not ready for it. The doctor told her that the child was not normal and probably would not survive so she was advised not to have it. However she decided to have the child and turned out to be the best thing she ever had. Here is the video of it.

American Idol 10

Watched the first episode of this season yesterday. Funniest audition was by Yoji "Pop" Asano. You can watch the video here.

As far as I know Oriental men have never done very well in the competition. The women have fared better with Jasmine Trias coming third.

Best singer was Robbie Rosen with his cover of "Yesterday". Here is the video of it