“American Idol” Auditions Inspire Much Blogging About Everyone Else’s Outsized Egos

Well-compensated American Idol host Ryan Seacrest is at the show’s tryouts in Denver today, and he let a somewhat surprising factoid about this year’s auditions slip via Twitter: The most popular song at this year’s cattle calls has been Miley Cyrus’ pseudo-inspirational bit of jangle-pop “The Climb,” even though it seems like it would be somewhat unfriendly to the showboating that traditionally gets contestants through to the pre-Hollywood round. (Would Miley get through a “singing competition,” ever? I ask you.) Anyway, to see if this claim bore out, I did a little digging through the blogs of people who have tried out for Idol in the past few weeks, and while I didn’t see a lot of Miley name-dropping, I did notice a common theme! • “So once I came back from Vegas, I went to Los Angelos the following weekend to take Crystal and her friend Krystle (bizarre I know) to Disneyland and California Adventure. It was a blast and I had so much fun. The next day, I tried out for American Idol and didn’t make it. But that’s okay, it’s honestly a luck/no luck situation. I’m only sixteen, right?” Keep talking like that, girl, and you could maybe be a judge someday! [The Negative Side Of Optimism] • “The judge lined everyone up in groups of four. Once you get to your assigned table, the judge points to a person and says, “sing…okay stop…you sing…okay stop…you sing” and so on. The judge either tells everyone they suck or they let one person move to the next round. As you know if you have seen American Idol many people make it through that are TERRIBLE! These people go through rounds and rounds of producers before they get to see the famous judges. I know people wonder why a lot of these people that are so bad look so surprised when they see Simon and the gang and are told, ‘they have the worst voice in the world.’ Well, by this time, they have had dozens of people tell them they are awesome…tragic really.” Or just setting up the joke! Tragedy plus time equals comedy, etc. [Glory… the Nicholsons] • “The first person to audition and receive a golden ticket was applauded by the crowd. The first person to audition and fail received a standing ovation.” See above. [Living Falling Down] • “I’m not saying that I’m amazing by any stretch of the imagination, but there were some people there that could not carry a tune and they thought that they were the next Chris [sic!] Allen. They sat in the restrooms rehearsing. They walked the aisles ‘warming up their voices.’ They didn’t realize that they were annoying everyone around them. They thought they were good though. They didn’t think that there was anything wrong with there [sic! x two] singing. There was absolutely no chance that they would ever be a contestant on the competition.” This is actually a setup for the blogger to talk about people behaving in a similar way vis-a-vis their spirituality. (Oh, the irony of “idolatry” here.) (And no, he didn’t make it.) [Bryan Auton’s Blog] [Photo via AmericanIdol.com]