American Idol 10 New Orleans Auditions Recap Roundup

New Orleans Recap Roundup people! All your favs right here. I’ll be adding more as they come online

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‘American Idol’ recap: The Big Easy Listening

Deep down in the celebrated music town of New Orleans, 6, 500 young creatures gathered on the banks of the Mississippi. Not all of them could sing, but if each one hummed, even slightly, something resembling a song could waft up from the river, an oily beacon of hope. Instead, the hideous vocal box attached to a single lost soul croaked out the final few lyrics of Nat King Cole’s “Smile, ” then promptly burst into tears. Just another day at the American Idol auditions, where dreams go to die.

Read more at Entertainment Weekly

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‘American Idol’ Hits New Orleans, Steven Tyler & Randy Jackson Lose Their Shirts

While Wednesday night’s (Jan. 19) season premiere of American Idol saw the judges mostly playing it safe, things got a whole lot feistier during Thursday’s New Orleans episode — so feisty, in fact, that at one point Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson even showed some skin.
In perhaps another sign of Jersey Shore’s bizarre influence on Idol’s first week back on TV, Tyler and Jackson lifted their shirts and flashed their abs for the cameras, Situation-style, when 23-year-old Jovany Barreto decided to unbutton his own shirt after performing Luis Miguel’s “Contigo En La Distancia.”

Read more at Hollywood Reporter

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American Idol Recap: The Big Easy Does It

I’ve never been a huge fan of Sob-Story Idol, that maudlin little show-within-a-show that rudely injects itself into the early weeks of American Idol. For starters, it takes up valuable time during which I could be forming unreasonable attachments to unknown, unheralded vocalists based on 30 seconds of a cappella singing. It’s not that I don’t feel for folks who’ve overcome hardscrabble backgrounds or unspeakable tragedies — or that I’m trying to thwart Ryan Seacrest from using his somber Ann Curry Delivering Tragic News Voice ™ — I just don’t think said hurdles make these kids any more qualified for/worthy of becoming singing superstars. Or, putting it in the poetic form of a Paula Abdul lyric: “I’m just here for the music.”

Read more at TVLine

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American Idol Keeps the New Niceness Alive

Tonight’s audition episode of American Idol continued the theme established last night of Being Nice. Oh, sure, you had your costumed freaks and your pitchy types, but they were pushed to the side for the most part in favor of Good Singers and filler material. (We got to meet Randy Jackson’s football coach! Can you feel the excitement?)

Read more at Popdust

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‘American Idol’ Episode 2 Recap: Revenge Of The Nerds

Wednesday’s “American Idol” premiere was all about the judges. But now that it’s been quickly and firmly established that Jennifer Lopez is tolerable, Randy Jackson is disposable, and Steven Tyler is THE COOLEST PERSON ON THE PLANET, on Thursday the producers’ and viewers’ attention turned to the contestants. You know, the people who may potentially win this thing.

Read more at Reality Rocks

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Youngest singers shine, older ones screech on ‘Idol’

This is the first year that 15-year-olds can audition for “American Idol, ” as 19 Entertainment and Fox look to jump on the Bieber bandwagon and catch that next big teenage star before the Disney Channel snaps them up.

Jacee Badeaux because the first one to benefit from that, or at least the first to get on camera. The judges loved the 15-year-old’s rendition of “Sitting on the Dock of the Bay, ” so he became one of the 37 out of 6, 500 New Orleans auditioners to make it to the Hollywood round.

Read more at MSNBC

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‘American Idol’ 10th season premiere continues in New Orleans

Once upon a time, struggling young music artists who were not feeling quite themselves sat down at a piano and interpreted a work by one of those Russian composers nature had provided for this purpose. These days, wannabe Idolettes, whose auditions have gone badly, sit down at a piano and shred the Charlie Chaplin tune, “Smile, ” for the TV camera.

Like Blake Patterson, who, “Idol” wants to make perfectly clear as Blake gnashes and gnaws at this lovely tune, “won’t be going to Hollywood.”

Thank you, “American Idol.”

Read more at the Washington Post

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American Idol’s Second Night Was Tolerable at Best

So much angst about the new season of “American Idol” – will the new judges, Steven Tyler and Jennifer Lopez, blend well with the holdover from “Idol” 1.0, Randy Jackson? Will it be able to finally mint another bonafide pop star, not a mope-rocker who moms want to cuddle, but not buy their music? Will Ms. Lopez be barred from performing on stage? Who does Jimmy Iovine’s teeth?

It’s enough to almost forget about the singing, and maybe that’s on purpose: on Thursday, for the second straight night, the auditions ranged from tolerable to unbearable, and that was from the people who made it through to Hollywood.

Read more at the NY Times

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Night Two: ‘American Idol’ Lets the Good Times Roll In The Big Easy

What can you say about an episode that included Randy Jackson’s old football coach, a chubby 15-year-old soulfully crooning “Dock of the Bay, ” a mother of a special needs child who brought Jennifer Lopez to tears and a kid who won a radio station contest for a Steve Tyler lookalike? The “American Idol” crew pitched its tent in New Orleans for the second night, and while it turned into a bit of an anticlimax from the much-anticipated two-hour premiere, it was not without its own affecting moments.

Read more at Fancast.com

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‘American Idol’ recap, auditions, episode 2: shake that belly!

New Orleans, known for its musical roots, harvested plenty of talent tonight on night two of “American Idol.”

Ryan Seacrest said 37 made it through. We only heard seven of them. Of those, I especially liked Jordan Dorsey and Paris Tassin. And Jacee Bordeaux is Scott Savol before Savol went sour.

I’m getting used to the judges. Jennifer Lopez seemed a bit braver this time around saying no. Steven Tyler was wacky fun. And for once, even Randy Jackson showed off a couple of funny lines in (as well as his tubby stomach).

Read more at AJC

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New Orleans Auditions: Fat Lips + Fat Ass + Just Plain Fat = VFTW Gold

Tonight, the Big Easy sure lived up to its name. New Orleans made it incredibly easy to stack the Hollywood rounds with VFTW picks. We had a guy who takes his shirt off because someone dared him, a Carrot Top wannabe, and a fat boy who sings like a woman. Louisiana is the best thing to happen to Idol in a long time. Idol has decided to highlight “the talent” this year over showing people who don’t make it, and the talent has been hilariously subpar. Idol needs to continue on this path for as long as possible and this season will be a huge success… because VFTW will own it. Wow, Nigel really was the reason this show was any good. Who knew?

Read more at Vote For the Worst

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‘American Idol’ Recap: Are the Judges Already Losing It?

With only an hour to showcase their talents, American Idol’s loudest stars outdid themselves in making their characters known. Below, a breakdown:

S.Tyler was as high in the second installment of American Idol as he was the night before, only this time he had a focus. Lips. A freakshow named Gabriel Franks arrived, with lips Steven insisted did not look like his (though Gabriel badly wanted them to). Gabriel’s were more like Mick Jagger’s lips, according to Steven, and no matter what history Gabs pulled out – the Steven Tyler look-alike competition he’d won, the people who’d sworn up and down that you, Gabriel Franks, look exactly like Steven Tyler – the real Steven Tyler resisted.

Read more at Rolling Stone

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American Idol: Season 10

Once upon a time, after Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken had fought their epic battle of the ballads, American Idol was deemed so family-friendly it won an award. In the intervening years, it’s become a funny kind of family fare. A viewer once told me that Idol helped him teach his kids how and how not to behave, and every season we do get lots of values-laden stories that advertise the overcoming of adversity. But we’ve also become intimately familiar (maybe too intimately) with the floating, bleeping icon that censors contestants who curse the judges and America as they stomp about in frustration, or who are dragged screaming out of the audition room by security. Last night, the logo was on the other side of the (appropriately, blushing pink) table, lodged over Steven Tyler’s much discussed mouth.

Read more at Slate

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