American Idol, Night 7 Auditions

Wow, this is the last of the auditions already! Next week is HELL Week in Hollywood. Is it just me, or did the audition process seem faster this season?


Tonight, AI showed San Juan Puerto Rico and New York City together, that is, they bounced back and forth from one city to the other for every audition. In 1957 New York and Puerto Rico came together in West Side Story and they are reunited in 2009. Ryan says we are going to see 2 times the talent and 2 times the terrible too.


Adeola Adegoke, compares herself to the likes of Mariah Carey and Mary J Blige. She even tells the judges that she QUIT her day job because she is so confident that she will get on American IdoThe l. She sings "I am Telling You" by Jennifer Hudson. She is shockingly awful. Simon even helped her by calling her former boss and asking for her job back. She gets it. BIG sigh of relief.


Jorge Nunez sings his audition in Spanish (Puerto Rican?). It was very nice. They asked him to sing a song in English and he produced on the spot. The judges really like him and send him to Hollywood.


20 year old Jessica Baier won the most beautiful baby contest as a child. She sings "I Surrender" by Celine Dion. The judges are not impressed, especially Simon. She stamped her feet like a child and repeatedly begged for another try. Randy says her voice in not on point, Paula says her voice was shrill and yet Jessica keeps begging and begins to cry. Finally, she leaves.


Great montage of rejected singers is set to "You're No Good [you're no good, your no good, baby you're no good........". Awesome.


Melinda Camille, 23 years old is a very happy gal. She says she likes to dance, especially naked in her room. She wants to uplift humanity with her singing. The judges commented that in her bio she wants to join a nudist colony, and she confirms. They asked her if she wanted to be naked right then and she replies "If all of you were too". She sings "Feeling Good" and has a very pleasant voice. She gets the golden ticket.


Jackie Tohn has been singing for 10 years. She choosed "I'm Yours" by Jason ???. She has a deeper husky voice for a girl and it sounds sort of like she is pretending to be someone else. The judges ask her to sing something in her natural voice. This one is much better and they give her 4 yes's. It has come to my attention that she is a little known actress who had parts on the Sopranos and The Closer.

Joel Contreras is a wild and crazy guy. Calls himself a crazy rocker. He comes in to the audition room as a Human Guy-Pod. It is very hokey and he attempts a song and is quickly interrupted by the judges. He asks for another chance and is denied. He was not good at all.

NIck Mitchell a.k.a. Norman Gentle sings "And I'm Telling You" and does not do very well. He 'pulls" a bunch of strange faces when he sings. The judges ask if he can sing something else without pulling the faces. He sings Amazing Grace - and though he performs it much better - he is still making faces. Kara and Paul are entertained by him and they entice Randy to vote yes with them. Simon abstained - but Nick goes to Hollywood.

Nice little montage video of several people who have a successful audition. These included Ashley Hollister, Kenny Hoffpauer and Kendra Beard. Hopefully we will learn more about these folks and others next week.

16 year old Monique Garcia Torres is very sweet. She has brought her kid brother Christopher ( age 9) into the audition with her. He presents the judges with one broken shell as a gift. Christopher is very confident his sister can sing well. Monique sings "You Can't Hurry Love by the Supremes. There was some talk by the judges that she wasn't singing exactly in her range. She then sings "I Turn To You". I thought she had a very nice voice, but for one of the only times this season - the judges are actually split in their opinions. However, they go ahead and send her through.

Season 7's Alexis Cohen returns as a kinder, gentler Alexis. Last year, she did not react well to the judges criticism's of her poor singing. There was quite a bit of video of her bad mouthing, cursing and flippling people off last year. She is really kissing butt with the judges about how she has changed and even thanks Simon when he makes a rather mean comment to her. Alexis sings Madonna's "Like a Prayer" and she is just horrible. Simon's says the audition was "fairly horrendous" to which Alexis reverts to her old self and flips Simon off. Then she calls him an asshole.

Last in line to audition is Patricia Lewis Roman and her huge family. She sings "I Want To Dance With Somebody" by Whitney Houston. The judges just hate it. PAtricia then sings a song in Spanish and though the judges are not unanimous - they let her have a golden ticket.

In all, 9 people from San Juan make it to Hollywood along with 26 from New York City.

See you next week after the first Hell Week show.