American Idol Ramiele Maluaby Exit Interview
Ramiele Maluaby was voted off American Idol on April 2, 2008 (4-2-08) during the Dolly Parton Theme Week. Ramiele will join tour this summer with the American Idol TOP 10. Here are bits and pieces of Ramiele’s exit interview.
About Her being voted off:
“I kind of felt like I was going home last night, not to be like all negative or anything, because I’m really not that kind of person,” Malubay tells reporters the morning after. “I just felt it a lot more when Dolly [Parton] sang that song. I was praying while she was singing and I’m all ‘Oh, I’m going home.’ But it’s OK. All of us have to leave sometime. There’s only one winner.”
About her performance:
“I actually didn’t know the song and I didn’t know any other songs aside from ‘I Will Always
Love You,’ [which] is the obvious song that everybody knows,” she says. “I picked it and it was either that or a ballad and I listened to the song and I wanted to challenge myself to see how I could take a song and make it my own even though it wasn’t in the same genre or the kind of music that I’m kind of into. I’m proud of myself that I actually like moved on stage, performance-wise. I felt that I grew that night.”
About her height:
“I’m older than [David] Archuleta and he’d walk by me all the time and pat me on the head like I’m his little sister,” she laughs.
About the pressure each week:
“Honestly, the first week, I didn’t know it was such a big deal, up until people were telling me like, ‘You did really well’ and I’m like ‘Did I?’” she says. “So I was like, ‘Crap.’ And I let that get to my head and I’m like ‘Crap. Now I need to try and do better than that.’ When you overthink things like that, pretty much you just overthink it so far that you don’t know how to handle yourself anymore. Sometimes you just overthink it and the song just gets out of hand, it’s not in your control anymore.”
On her professed desire to be the first Asian-American Idol winner:
“I felt a little bit ofpressure, just to see how the fan-base would grow and stuff. It was so flattering and it was really exciting, but then again I was like ‘Oh, I have to do well, not only for myself and not only for my parents, but for people of the same race and the people supporting me.’ I got as far as I could and I hope nobody’s disappointed.”
On whether or not her height was a disadvantage:
“I just hate wearing heels. If I don’t need to, I really won’t. That’s why last night I was like ‘Oh screw it. I’m gonna flats tonight.’ I wore flats last night and I was like, ‘The world’s gonna see how tall I really am’ and standing next to Carly in that long line, you saw how tall I really was.”On what she learned from her Idol run:
“I learned to be more of a humble person. I learned totake things in more, to appreciate the little things and to be more courteous to people and to acknowledge every person who works on the show, because it doesn’t work without every single person who helps you out.” Source: Zap2it
Ramiele said she will tour with the Idols then stick around Los Angeles to continue here career. She said she will room with former booted Season 7 Idol Danny Noriega.
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