Who got voted off American Idol – American Idol 2011 Season 10

Tonight’s auditions take us to Music City – Nashville, Tennessee.  While we’re watching the auditions on Jan. 27, 2011, the auditions actually took place months ago.   I’ll be your live blog host for this evening (01/27/2011), so stick with me, Lizaio, to hear all about the auditions that thrill and chill.  We know for sure that several of the talents we’ll be seeing tonight will be going through to Hollywood.  Who will be your favorite?  Let’s tune in and see.

We jumped right into an audition with Darius Thomas, The Man of Very Tall Boots and Very High Notes.  He screeches out this whale of a note and the editors do a funny little bit with a collapsing mirrored building.  And that’s all before the opening credits.  Is this foreshadowing of what’s to come?

This is just the second time auditions have been held in Nashville.  17,000 people turned out, which I guess is pretty good.  The auditions are held in the Ryman Auditorium.

Squeaky-voiced blonde Christine MacCafferty walks into her audition singing…something?  It’s something else, and Jennifer Lopez collapses into Steven Tyler in a fit of giggles.  She decides to sing “I Hope You Dance” and all I could think was “I Hope You Stop.”  She seems a little off.  She’s also, apparently, not a mind reader.  She squeaks her way out of the room, and Jennifer tells Randy he was mean.  It was awful.  She tells her mom she got one yes and two nos.  Steven Tyler did not say yes.  Christine is hallucinating.

Chelsee Oaks and Rob Bolin are both from Nashville.  They’re exes, but they still sing together.  And they still lived together after they broke up, while she proceeded to date other people.  Ryan decides Rob needs a hug for that.  Ryan asks if they’re friends, and Jennifer asks if there is any way to get the two of them together.  Really?  Who cares?  Let them sing.  Chelsee’s current boyfriend is there at the audition.  Awkward.  They sing together, and I already like Rob more than Chelsee.  Steven says something about love and friction or some nonsense, and Rob breaks out some Marvin Gaye, which is a little pitchy but soulful, and he has some big pipes.  Chelsee gets up and sings some Brandi Carlile.  The judges like both of them.  Wonder how Chelsee’s boyfriend will feel about them going to HOLLYWOOD together?  Poor Rob didn’t have anybody there for him.  That makes me sad.

It appears that Rob and Chelsee have tried their hand at TV before, on CMT’s “Can You Duet?” and they made it into the top ten.  Let’s see where Idol takes them.  Spoiler man – any spoilers you want to give us?

Someone comes in all tarted up, and then a little brunette touches her tongue to her nose for Steven Tyler, who does his best impression of a chicken having a conniption fit.

Tattoo artist Allen Lewis is SUPER intense.  And big.  And he reminds me of a lot of different people.  His rendition of Simple Man, by Lynyrd Skynyrd, made me want to hit him with a tire iron.  That song is sacred, folks.  All the judges laughed at him, but he laughed too.  We all really are who we are, Allen, and you’re not the next American Idol.

Stormi Henley is from Crossville, TN and was Miss Teen Tennessee 2009.  Her name is STORMI, and she wants to see how far she makes it on her TALENT.  Steven loses his mind and then she breaks into “Father Can You Hear Me.”  Steven says she has a “beautiful, squeaky little voice.”  Steven says yes (shock), Jennifer says no (she’s right), and it’s up to Randy.  Randy says yes, because Stormi comes out with her golden ticket.  Jennifer is ticked, because she knows Stormi made it through on looks alone.

We have a montage of “no”.  A world of NO.  Tears, etc.

Adrienne Beasley is from a farm in Kentucky, and Carolyn and Freddie Simmons adopted Adrian when she was two years old.  She busts out a Lady Antebellum song, and Steven says he hears something so special in her voice.  She almost made him cry.  The acoustics were good.  Great.  And they put her through.  Her daddy says he’s tickled.  And I am too.

Toilet paper isn’t sexy.  I don’t care what the commercials say.

We’re back with shots of people eating and farming and printing things on printing presses.

Kameela Merricks was the junior regional soloist for her hometown.  She chews up some Chaka Kahn and spits it out…in a bad, bad way.  Steven tells her to go home and practice.  Randy says not to even bother, that it was loud and that it hurt.  It’s a no for all the judges, and Kameela leaves with a sweet little smile.  Steven thinks Randy shouldn’t tell people that they’re not good.  What is the point of the contest, then?

Some guy in a purple bodystocking sings.  A girl named Polina sucks, Patrick Counts sucks, and I think he cries about it later.  Yep.  There he goes.  He’s crying on Ryan’s tiny shoulder.

Jackie Wilson has the jitters, but I’m sensing a good audition.  She’s 28 (yay!) and she does a little Aretha and it ain’t half bad.  They clapped for her.  They all say yes.  Jackie’s going to Hollywood.  And, check the spoilers, ’cause you’ll get good news.  Her boyfriend is tall.  That is all.

LaToya “Younique” Moore says she’s a recording artist.  And that people see a glow about her.  She has loads of self confidence.  And she’s sorta creepy.  Ryan looks creeped out by her.  She has on a full-length evening gown.  She brought her CD, caseless, for the judges to share.  I don’t even know what she sang, but it was really bad.  Oh, it was Tamia.  Whatever.  It was bad.  Randy said it was annoying.  She walks out singing.  See?  Creepy.  She walks out singing.  She thinks they would have liked her better if she’d taken the song a litle slower.

Paul McDonald is all grungy and hipstery, but they like him.  Jimmie Turner does a good job too.  Danny Pate does a little Papa Was Rolling Stone.  They all make it through.

We’re down to the overall-wearing, cowboy hat-wearing Matt Dillard, whose family adopts special needs kids – 700 over the course of 23 years.  I can’t reconcile the soul patch and the hump back (maybe that’s the mic?) but he sings Josh Groban and he’s good.  He takes off his hat to “pretty up” and kisses up to the judges a little.  Randy says yes, Jennifer says no, and Steven says yes.  He’s such a softie.

One contestant left – Lauren Alaina is from Georgia, and she’s only 15 years old.  Her cousin Holly was her hero and like a big sister to her.  Holly got diagnosed with a brain tumor, and as of audition time we don’t know how ol’ Holly is doing.  They bring Holly in, and she looks like she feels OK.  Lauren’s parents are SO YOUNG.  She breaks out some Faith Hill, and the judges lose their minds.  Jennifer says she’ll cry if Lauren cries, and Lauren tells her not to because she’s “too preety.”  They say Lauren’s got it, so I expect (and know because of the stupid spoilers) that we’ll see more of her.  She goes and gets her family to take them in to meet the judges.  Her mom and dad’s song is “I Don’t Want to Miss A Thing” so she sings it and Steven joins in and looks like he might just dissolve into a puddle on the floor.

Steven says they think they found “The One.”  Does he  mean Lauren?

Next week see the Texas (Dallas?) auditions, and apparently a lot of people punch the camera.  Fun times!  Stay tuned!

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