This is her seventh time auditioning for American Idol. Seventh.
I watched a lot of the videos on the Jacksonville site, and if I could just get one message out to those folks waiting in line it would be this:
Stop trying to sing like Mariah Carey or Whitney Houston. You are not pulling it off and you look like an idiot. Try to cultivate the lost art of just singing a song straight out, without the tiresome habit of making every word have eighteen notes in it.
Full disclosure: my daughter is in that line too. Her friend asked her to wait in line with her and my daughter agreed, and figured that if she’s going to wait in line, she might as well audition. But she’s not going to be the next American Idol. She sings opera, and this isn’t exactly Paul Potts territory. More’s the pity…
lol. My daughter always wanted to try out for the show but she said she’d never get in because…… she sings opera. She got a vocal performance degree, sang with the Houston symphony for a while and a special choral group in town but has “retired” since having her daughter… she sings lullabyes now.
Only kid in our family that gets opera for bedtime songs.