tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14829014384150792262024-03-14T05:01:30.800-07:00JORK VS TPTB: Algorithms, Predictions, Analysis of Manipulation.Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger49125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482901438415079226.post-64731604539616514442014-08-16T12:20:00.001-07:002014-08-16T12:20:14.093-07:00YEP, IT'S THAT ROOMMATE PROBLEM AGAIN: ROOMMATE 101<div class="MsoNormal">
8/15/14</div>
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Today, my roommate confirmed my suspicions about him: that
his way of conducting business is savage, vicious, and belligerent. Do not get
me wrong here: when discussing life topics, he seems relatively cordial enough.
When I first moved into Mesa housing two years ago, we had frequent enough
conversations. We talked about the stress of school, how we coped with it,
outside hobbies, etc. He is an international student from Spain who has a good
background: his sister and father were affiliated in medical-related fields,
and he himself received a scholarship for UCSD’s liberal arts PHD program. He
says he speaks seven languages fluently. But there was something about his
international upbringing which seemed to admit what seemed to be a sort of “loathing”
of American culture: not a deep-seated hatred, mind you, but in our casual
conversations, he complained. A lot. When he had a TA’ship with the UCSD
writing department, he complained about the international students from Asia
and how he could not understand how several students could be so lazy. </div>
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He complained about the corruption within UCSD politicos
taking money from students, and that he had joined an organization that tried
to combat those effects. This all falls within the realm of normalcy for
students, but in all my years of dealing with others, I had never faced a
person who complained this much. Friends, family, former roommates, chance
encounters, etc. But then again, that
falls within my modus operandi of surrounding myself with people who know how
to suppress their deepest emotions, rather than projecting their insecurities
upon others. Juan’s complaining cemented a sort of hatred of the institutions
in place within campus, with “hatred” being the key word, because he generally
projected that in his attitude as well. Especially when he got angry. And boy,
does he ever.</div>
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Having lived for two years with Juan, I kind of gleaned his
personality quite early on in the process from these conversations. As
mentioned, I like “positive reinforcement” people, because that is how I have
moved on through life, succeeded in group and research projects, and in my
internship. Everyone needs to be on the same page to succeed, but people need
to be propped up. Juan’s complainer attitude with seeds of loathing really
turned me off almost from the get-go. But he was my roommate, and as usual, you
have to work around the roommate’s limitations—er, I mean, personality. That
sort of attitude was definitely incompatible with my beliefs, especially since
he felt an urgent need to throw curse words possibly every six or seven words
in these rants. So after the
personality-learning process, using my engineering decision matrix, I played it
“neutral” in the apartment—being quiet and unassuming, so he would have less of
a chance to get irritated. “Room to breathe”, as it were—he often had the whole
living room to himself, used the table and microwave I brought over, and I
dealt with most of the bill-handling for gas, electricity and internet. I
always love a quiet place to study and work, and the reality is, when it comes
to sharing apartments, it’s always a blessing when an apartment is quiet. </div>
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My roommate, however, was a real stickler when it came to
cleaning up. Granted, I am not a clean person by any stretch of the imagination—but
I adapted. We developed a schedule through a year of living in Mesa where every
week we alternated cleaning different parts of the apartment. I conformed to
those rules. But prior to this schedule, my roommate would get extremely irritated,
using a very aggressive tone, throwing in curse words every two or three words,
and scaring the heebie-jeebies out of possibly every living soul on Earth. Even
though I would clean, there were times when he would angrily stumble towards my
door, knock hard. Then, he seemed to have reflexive memory to times when I
would not clean as much, and reference them in his hot-headed argumentative
tone. Of course, with the curse words. Prior to this most recent incident, this
had happened about four to five times. His demeanor is all sorts of vicious—he slams
doors, tries to get the upper hand of the argument and closing his mind off to
proper rebuttals, just being very narrow minded. It must be noted that he gets
drunk every now and then, and when I first met him in a graduate student mixer
he drank several beers with other students (I’m not a drinker, of course). So
just bringing this up there…but it is possible that his drinking is messing
with his mind. His personality is rash and impulsive with seeds of loathing
when neutral, but when angry…ugh. Let’s just put it this way: if he ever has to
deal with party animal type roommates who really blast the noise and hog the
living room, imagine how he would act there. I approach the issues from a calm,
rational, reasoning-type manner—he already starts off at 200 mph with bull
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And this has kind of happened already, for him: he told me
that he after celebrating the success of a fellow student’s PHD defense at 1 AM
in downtown San Diego, he came upon several drunken people who were making fun
of that student’s race. Juan told me he was fiercely loyal and wanted to take a
stand to protect his friend, and after the name calling continued, he decided
it was wise to throw a punch. From which he broke his hand, and he called me to
take him to the hospital to get a cast on. So there has been a case where his
argumentative tone has translated into violence. It’s an upbringing issue.
Again, this is why I wanted to work around it, because you cannot change these
people after several decades of living. It is how it is. Yeah, there is a
method to his madness (protecting friends, cleaning up the house) but his approaches
to dealing with those issues are all sorts of wrong. He takes the aggressive
approach, when almost everyone I know takes a far more non-combative approach.
He presents a study in stark contrasts here.</div>
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And of course, with complaints, there are always two sides
to every coin. The difference is? In the terms of the Star Wars franchise, I
take the moral high ground. My roommate basically takes the lower ground—in other
words, he’s Anakin Skywalker at the end of Revenge of the Sith. There were
times where he admits his faults with a false chuckle, but just like everyone
else (including myself), he has his tendencies. While I am not always prompt in
cleaning, as mentioned, he does an absolutely awful job at clearing things from
what I call the “neutral” zone. And that includes the sink, where the both of
us have to wash our dishes, pots and pans, and utensils. He has a grating
tendency to leave the items completely un-cleaned overnight for days at a time.
I told him once, and he told me he would work to correct this habit, but he has
never done it for several months. Similarly, he rests his dirty plates for long
periods of time on top of my microwave. Given that it is my microwave, it would
be obvious to say that it belongs to my zone, but he infiltrates it. I haven’t
told him about it for a long while in my hopes that he would eventually clean
them up, but eventually he reached my threshold of tolerance here—and given how
much leeway he has, I’m pretty sure I have a high level of tolerance. While I
was on jury duty for a week this July, he even admitted that he had been
neglecting his cleaning duties. Of course. That was obvious. I always see bread
crumbs on one side of the sink near his toaster, lying for days at a time. </div>
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So what he does here all strikes as hypocritical, because I
have made a habit of cleaning all my utensils immediately after eating. With
me, you will never ever see dishes lying on counter tops or sinks for prolonged
periods of time after eating. I wash them immediately and put them in the dish
rack. Same with pots, pans, utensils, etc. Usually, the same for stains. We
just do not create much of those, but the ones that do crop up (due to
spaghetti, etc) are taken care of almost immediately. </div>
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That hypocritical attitude stemmed by a desire to focus on
farther-off, past events, in the face of what I perceive to be a lack of equity—as
mentioned, he uses my table, microwave, and I organize certain bills—is enough
to piss possibly every sane person off in the planet. But on top of that, he
sugarcoats his belligerent attitude with frequent curse words. It has easily
gotten to the point where his central argument is rapidly degraded because the
curse words are the only words that eventually stand out. My most recent
encounters of Juan have virtually all been in this negative fashion: yelling,
cursing, spitting, unfocused, drunk?, narrow-minded, etc. What I knew in my
intuition had came into fruition. The “his
way or the highway” attitude has rapidly become tedious, and easily explains
why I have kept a very neutral tone around him. Because he is likely
intolerable for a prolonged period of time.</div>
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That roommate? JC Zabala. </div>
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Live and learn. </div>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482901438415079226.post-65300224384743478382014-05-11T19:24:00.001-07:002014-05-11T19:30:57.824-07:00THE PGSC SCORE, PART III: A LOOK AT CONTESTANT PLACEMENT BASED ON AGE, GENDER, GEOGRAPHY AND GENRE (AGGG)This is part III of an article about the PGSC score metric to quantify Idol placement:<br />
<a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2014/05/american-idol-algorithm-score.html">PART I: THE PGSC SCORE, PART I: PGSC (PERFORMANCE, SONG FRESHNESS, GROWTH AND CONSISTENCY) VERSUS ACTUAL IDOL RANK</a><br />
<a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-pgsc-score-updated-features.html">THE PGSC SCORE, PART II: UPDATED FEATURES (GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION, AGE AND GENRE)</a><br />
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*Part I contains the ranks of the Idol contestants on a season-by-season basis, based on the PGSC score. Think of this as the way the contestants should be ranked, assuming neutral ground and zero pimpage. It is also the way I would rank them.<br />
*Part II ranks the Idol contestants based on PGSC score, according to genre.<br />
*Part III, which is this article, attempts to use historical rank data since AI3 to put actual rank numbers into contestants, based on PGSC score, and based on the features added in at Part II. Unlike Part I, this is how we predict the audience would vote based on these features, and this model gets more informed as we get more data points (more seasons).<br />
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As explained in the title above, from part II of my study I utilized the four features I implemented for the PGSC score, and for greater accuracy of specific trends within the PGSC score, I used the 8-degree polynomial function for each of those features, and took averages of the four. Remember, the smaller the number, the better!--that means you're ranked higher. The average rank corresponds to the average rank within the top ten--an average of 2.54, as was Scotty McCreery's case, means the model is predicting an outcome between 2nd and 3rd place for that particular contestant, or if that contestant is the highest rank of that season, as was in McCreery's case, then he/she is the predicted winner of the season. There are certain errors for sure, but it attempts to create a model using prior knowledge of past seasons to update the current knowledge on how to peg contestant placement. It's not Bayesian, but it's informed to a certain degree.<br />
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There are some quibbles--we can ignore Curtis Finch's high scores, because he has no growth so his numbers are skewed. For all intents and purposes, he doesn't count.<br />
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Alex Preston has an enormously high rank based on his geography--the reality is, the model hasn't seen anyone from the Northeast have a PGSC score within his range, so it is uninformed. I considered using a logarithmic adjustment which will produce a fairer score for Preston here, though. From this <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2014/05/the-pgsc-score-updated-features.html">link</a>, a quick extrapolation using the logarithmic adjustment suggests that Alex's score due to geography is about 5.98 or thereabouts, but it is far less accurate. There is a general consensus that the order is Jena, Caleb and then Alex in that order, and that's what my algorithm predicts. But Alex is really docked off based on geography and the very few data points the model has of him within that PGSC inset--otherwise, his other numbers, particularly his singer-songwriter genre, is something that is ABSOLUTELY winning material. I think it's closer than the model thinks, but I think the general order is correct.<br />
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My informed model has the ranks generally like this; as you can see below, it's predicted the correct top 4 of AI10, had three of the top five in AI11, had four of the top five in AI12, had three of the top five in AI13, had three of the top five in AI3 as well as the right top two, had three of the top five in AI4 as well as the right top two, had four of the top five in AI5, was almost nearly perfect in relative order in AI6, had the correct top two in AI7, had four of the top five in AI8, and had four of the top five in AI9 and the correct final three. Below is the results of that:<br />
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">1</td>
<td style="width: 106pt;" width="141">Scotty McCreery</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">2.539981</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">AI10</td>
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<td>Lauren Alaina</td>
<td align="right">2.90495</td>
<td>AI10</td>
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<td>Haley Reinhart</td>
<td align="right">3.508148</td>
<td>AI10</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4</td>
<td>James Durbin</td>
<td align="right">3.922791</td>
<td>AI10</td>
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<td>Casey Abrams</td>
<td align="right">4.941457</td>
<td>AI10</td>
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<td>Jacob Lusk</td>
<td align="right">6.909581</td>
<td>AI10</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7</td>
<td>Stefano Langone</td>
<td align="right">7.03343</td>
<td>AI10</td>
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<td>Paul McDonald</td>
<td align="right">7.044193</td>
<td>AI10</td>
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<td>Pia Toscano</td>
<td align="right">7.118285</td>
<td>AI10</td>
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<td>Naima Adedapo</td>
<td align="right">10.11886</td>
<td>AI10</td>
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<td>Hollie Cavanagh</td>
<td align="right">2.80847</td>
<td>AI11</td>
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<td>Phillip Phillips</td>
<td align="right">2.825383</td>
<td>AI11</td>
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<td>Skylar Laine</td>
<td align="right">5.119702</td>
<td>AI11</td>
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<td>DeAndre Brackensick</td>
<td align="right">5.632362</td>
<td>AI11</td>
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<td>Elise Testone</td>
<td align="right">5.827453</td>
<td>AI11</td>
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<td>Joshua Ledet</td>
<td align="right">6.1286</td>
<td>AI11</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7</td>
<td>Jessica Sanchez</td>
<td align="right">6.350618</td>
<td>AI11</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8</td>
<td>Erika Van Pelt</td>
<td align="right">6.648269</td>
<td>AI11</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9</td>
<td>Colton Dixon</td>
<td align="right">7.10468</td>
<td>AI11</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10</td>
<td>Heejun Han</td>
<td align="right">7.511101</td>
<td>AI11</td>
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<td>Angie Miller</td>
<td align="right">3.092654</td>
<td>AI12</td>
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<td>Janelle Arthur</td>
<td align="right">3.104103</td>
<td>AI12</td>
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<td>Kree Harrison</td>
<td align="right">3.463586</td>
<td>AI12</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4</td>
<td>Candice Glover</td>
<td align="right">3.650698</td>
<td>AI12</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5</td>
<td>Burnell Taylor</td>
<td align="right">4.941735</td>
<td>AI12</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6</td>
<td>Amber Holcomb</td>
<td align="right">6.307405</td>
<td>AI12</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7</td>
<td>Lazaro Arbos</td>
<td align="right">6.751065</td>
<td>AI12</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8</td>
<td>Devin Velez</td>
<td align="right">6.836016</td>
<td>AI12</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9</td>
<td>Paul Jolley</td>
<td align="right">7.014493</td>
<td>AI12</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10</td>
<td>Curtis Finch</td>
<td align="right">77.59738</td>
<td>AI12</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">1</td>
<td>Jessica Meuse</td>
<td align="right">3.641191</td>
<td>AI13</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2</td>
<td>Jena Irene</td>
<td align="right">3.774365</td>
<td>AI13</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3</td>
<td>Caleb Johnson</td>
<td align="right">3.841272</td>
<td>AI13</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4</td>
<td>Sam Woolf</td>
<td align="right">6.359719</td>
<td>AI13</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5</td>
<td>Majesty Rose</td>
<td align="right">6.388388</td>
<td>AI13</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6</td>
<td>Malaya Watson</td>
<td align="right">6.516274</td>
<td>AI13</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7</td>
<td>Dexter Roberts</td>
<td align="right">6.718637</td>
<td>AI13</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8</td>
<td>CJ Harris</td>
<td align="right">6.78554</td>
<td>AI13</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9</td>
<td>Alex Preston</td>
<td align="right">7.053049</td>
<td>AI13</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10</td>
<td>MK Nobilette</td>
<td align="right">9.139962</td>
<td>AI13</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">1</td>
<td>Fantasia Barrino</td>
<td align="right">2.775265</td>
<td>AI3</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2</td>
<td>Diana DeGarmo</td>
<td align="right">2.805256</td>
<td>AI3</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3</td>
<td>Jennifer Hudson</td>
<td align="right">3.761465</td>
<td>AI3</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4</td>
<td>George Huff</td>
<td align="right">4.333605</td>
<td>AI3</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5</td>
<td>Amy Adams</td>
<td align="right">4.55241</td>
<td>AI3</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6</td>
<td>LaToya London</td>
<td align="right">4.878473</td>
<td>AI3</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7</td>
<td>John Stevens</td>
<td align="right">6.409483</td>
<td>AI3</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8</td>
<td>Jasmine Trias</td>
<td align="right">6.461608</td>
<td>AI3</td>
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<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9</td>
<td>Jon Peter Lewis</td>
<td align="right">6.883238</td>
<td>AI3</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10</td>
<td>Camile Velasco</td>
<td align="right">8.982225</td>
<td>AI3</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">1</td>
<td>Carrie Underwood</td>
<td align="right">3.638107</td>
<td>AI4</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2</td>
<td>Bo Bice</td>
<td align="right">4.361273</td>
<td>AI4</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3</td>
<td>Nikko Smith</td>
<td align="right">4.912391</td>
<td>AI4</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4</td>
<td>Constantine Maroulis</td>
<td align="right">5.372998</td>
<td>AI4</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5</td>
<td>Scott Savol</td>
<td align="right">5.705556</td>
<td>AI4</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6</td>
<td>Jessica Sierra</td>
<td align="right">6.16085</td>
<td>AI4</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7</td>
<td>Anwar Robinson</td>
<td align="right">6.267822</td>
<td>AI4</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8</td>
<td>Anthony Fedorov</td>
<td align="right">6.488099</td>
<td>AI4</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9</td>
<td>Vonzell Solomon</td>
<td align="right">6.511731</td>
<td>AI4</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10</td>
<td>Nadia Turner</td>
<td align="right">6.53735</td>
<td>AI4</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">1</td>
<td>Chris Daughtry</td>
<td align="right">3.105895</td>
<td>AI5</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2</td>
<td>Paris Bennett</td>
<td align="right">4.068508</td>
<td>AI5</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3</td>
<td>Bucky Covington</td>
<td align="right">4.257597</td>
<td>AI5</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4</td>
<td>Taylor Hicks</td>
<td align="right">4.517381</td>
<td>AI5</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5</td>
<td>Elliott Yamin</td>
<td align="right">4.795046</td>
<td>AI5</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6</td>
<td>Mandisa</td>
<td align="right">6.23848</td>
<td>AI5</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7</td>
<td>Kellie Pickler</td>
<td align="right">6.41849</td>
<td>AI5</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8</td>
<td>Katharine McPhee</td>
<td align="right">6.608421</td>
<td>AI5</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9</td>
<td>Ace Young</td>
<td align="right">6.937166</td>
<td>AI5</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10</td>
<td>Lisa Tucker</td>
<td align="right">7.050085</td>
<td>AI5</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">1</td>
<td>Blake Lewis</td>
<td align="right">2.86715</td>
<td>AI6</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2</td>
<td>Jordin Sparks</td>
<td align="right">3.915961</td>
<td>AI6</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3</td>
<td>Melinda Doolittle</td>
<td align="right">4.885022</td>
<td>AI6</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4</td>
<td>Phil Stacey</td>
<td align="right">5.12974</td>
<td>AI6</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5</td>
<td>Chris Richardson</td>
<td align="right">5.337774</td>
<td>AI6</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6</td>
<td>LaKisha Jones</td>
<td align="right">5.629854</td>
<td>AI6</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7</td>
<td>Gina Glocksen</td>
<td align="right">6.120664</td>
<td>AI6</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8</td>
<td>Sanjaya Malakar</td>
<td align="right">6.470392</td>
<td>AI6</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9</td>
<td>Haley Scarnato</td>
<td align="right">6.630615</td>
<td>AI6</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10</td>
<td>Chris Sligh</td>
<td align="right">7.779865</td>
<td>AI6</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">1</td>
<td>David Cook</td>
<td align="right">2.777708</td>
<td>AI7</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2</td>
<td>David Archuleta</td>
<td align="right">4.774595</td>
<td>AI7</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3</td>
<td>Kristy Lee Cook</td>
<td align="right">5.07886</td>
<td>AI7</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4</td>
<td>Chikezie</td>
<td align="right">5.54108</td>
<td>AI7</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5</td>
<td>Carly Smithson</td>
<td align="right">5.98385</td>
<td>AI7</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6</td>
<td>Jason Castro</td>
<td align="right">6.108227</td>
<td>AI7</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7</td>
<td>Syesha Mercado</td>
<td align="right">6.212621</td>
<td>AI7</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8</td>
<td>Michael Johns</td>
<td align="right">6.513024</td>
<td>AI7</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9</td>
<td>Brooke White</td>
<td align="right">6.762671</td>
<td>AI7</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10</td>
<td>Ramiele Malubay</td>
<td align="right">9.361013</td>
<td>AI7</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">1</td>
<td>Adam Lambert</td>
<td align="right">2.186894</td>
<td>AI8</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2</td>
<td>Kris Allen</td>
<td align="right">3.651781</td>
<td>AI8</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3</td>
<td>Matt Giraud</td>
<td align="right">3.95741</td>
<td>AI8</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4</td>
<td>Allison Iraheta</td>
<td align="right">4.558554</td>
<td>AI8</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5</td>
<td>Anoop Desai</td>
<td align="right">4.910723</td>
<td>AI8</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6</td>
<td>Danny Gokey</td>
<td align="right">6.332847</td>
<td>AI8</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7</td>
<td>Lil Rounds</td>
<td align="right">6.762913</td>
<td>AI8</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8</td>
<td>Scott MacIntyre</td>
<td align="right">7.042587</td>
<td>AI8</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9</td>
<td>Megan Joy</td>
<td align="right">8.765894</td>
<td>AI8</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10</td>
<td>Michael Sarver</td>
<td align="right">9.435499</td>
<td>AI8</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">1</td>
<td>Lee DeWyze</td>
<td align="right">1.79351</td>
<td>AI9</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2</td>
<td>Crystal Bowersox</td>
<td align="right">4.169243</td>
<td>AI9</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3</td>
<td>Casey James</td>
<td align="right">4.372274</td>
<td>AI9</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4</td>
<td>Siobhan Magnus</td>
<td align="right">5.468904</td>
<td>AI9</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5</td>
<td>Michael Lynche</td>
<td align="right">6.082346</td>
<td>AI9</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6</td>
<td>Aaron Kelly</td>
<td align="right">6.168853</td>
<td>AI9</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7</td>
<td>Tim Urban</td>
<td align="right">6.429306</td>
<td>AI9</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8</td>
<td>Andrew Garcia</td>
<td align="right">6.695333</td>
<td>AI9</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9</td>
<td>Didi Benami</td>
<td align="right">6.743782</td>
<td>AI9</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td align="right" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10</td>
<td>Katie Stevens</td>
<td align="right">7.131676</td>
<td>AI9</td>
</tr>
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482901438415079226.post-85330042215094930632014-05-10T20:18:00.002-07:002014-05-11T19:31:32.871-07:00THE PGSC SCORE, PART II: UPDATED FEATURES (GEOGRAPHIC LOCATION, AGE AND GENRE)This is part II of an article about the PGSC score metric to quantify Idol placement:<br />
<a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2014/05/american-idol-algorithm-score.html">PART I: THE PGSC SCORE, PART I: PGSC (PERFORMANCE, SONG FRESHNESS, GROWTH AND CONSISTENCY) VERSUS ACTUAL IDOL RANK</a><br />
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*Part I contains the ranks of the Idol contestants on a season-by-season basis, based on the PGSC score. Think of this as the way the contestants should be ranked, assuming neutral ground and zero pimpage. It is also the way I would rank them.<br />
*Part II ranks the Idol contestants based on PGSC score, according to genre.<br />
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I've integrated several features used in previous models to this PGSC score model. Check it out below:<br />
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Geographic location is standard: West, Midwest, South and Northeast. There are several contestants that have moved through several locations during their lifetime, but I used their most common location--i.e. Casey Abrams is from Idyllwild, CA rather than from Illinois, and Sam Woolf is from Florida as opposed to Michigan.<br />
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Age is separated into the three brackets which I think denotes young, middle age and older as far as Idol contestants are concerned. That's 0-19, 20-23 and 24+.<br />
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Genre is a little bit arbitrary, but I chose the genre the contestant presented themselves at during the show. Adam Lambert might have done pop after the show, but for the show's purposes, he was a rocker. There are some which melded genres or couldn't be fit into a specific genre, so for those I lumped them as "hybrid". The categories are hybrid, pop, soul, country, rock, and singer-songwriter.<br />
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Instead of using the 8-degree logistic regression in the previous model, I've decided to use a logarithmic regression here, because the general trends somewhat hold even if there is more noise (the trend is more easily visualized).<br />
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<b><u>This pertains to the first graph</u></b>:<br />
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The first thing immediately seen in the model: singer-songwriters have a very high chance of winning, even past a lowly PGSC score of 100, but especially at the 160+ range. They blow every other genre away.<br />
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Country and pop, in that order, are the next two genres represented, and then hybrid, rock and soul alternate. My PGSC model tends to hate soul contestants due to the low freshness scores, so the at lower scores they tend to make it farther than they should (i.e. Scott Savol, Jacob Lusk, LaKisha Jones). And there are major diminishing returns in soul--the higher PGSC score the contestant gets, the curve stabilizes into a lower value than the other genres. Rockers surprisingly do not fare all that well in this metric, and hybrids are also a mixed bag.<br />
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If were to separate the genre analysis by age bracket, at ages 0-19, country (Lauren and Scotty of AI10 help with this curve), soul, pop, rock, hybrid and country represents in that order. Considering that Jena is a hybrid in this age bracket, I'm not sure if this bode well for her chances here.<br />
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At the age 20-23 age bracket, singer-songwriter represents the most, then country, then hybrid, then rock, then soul, then pop represents, in that order.<br />
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At the age 24+ age bracket, pop represents the most (but we only have three data points--and Blake Lewis's placement helps skew the curve with a higher PGSC score), and then soul, rock, singer-songwriter, country and hybrid is last.<br />
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<b><u>This pertains to the second graph:</u></b><br />
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The second graph generates the logarithmic curves with respect to location. If we were to analyze by location, the South and the Midwest yield the highest probability of advancing far, in that order, and then farther off is the West, and even farther off is the Northeast. In the 0-19 bracket, west does the best, then the south, then the northeast, and finally, the midwest (they have only produced contestants in this bracket that have always finished at 8th place).<br />
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At the 20-23 age bracket, midwest does the best, by far, and then the south, and then the west, and then the northeast (the northeast has always produced contestants in this bracket that finish in 9th place).<br />
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At the 24+ bracket, the midwest also dominates, and then the south and the west are in a bit of a dead heat here, and the northeast does the worst.<br />
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In terms of genres, for country, the midwest does the best, then the south, and then we only have one data point for the northeast and the west, but they are ranked in that order.<br />
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For hybrid genres, the midwest also represents the best, then the south, the northeast and then the west (but west and northeast are close).<br />
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For pop, it's the west, then the northeast, the south and then the midwest (midwest only has one data point).<br />
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For rock, it's the midwest, west, south and then the northeast.<br />
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For singer-songwriter, it is the west, midwest, and then the south. A key issue is that the west's regression curve is based off extrapolations off Brooke White's and MK Nobilette's data points, so this isn't entirely reliable. Alex Preston will provide a data point for the northeast soon on this.<br />
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For soul, the South is most reliable. What's interesting is that midwest soul contestants do really well with lower PGSC scores, but with higher ones, they perform really awfully, even lower than the west and northeast, which are in a statistical dead heat.<br />
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Now, here's a ranking of contestants based on genre and PGSC score, for reference:<br />
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<b><u>COUNTRY:</u></b><br />
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">1) Kree Harrison</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">AI12</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"> 231</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">COUNTRY</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">20-23</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2) Phil Stacey</td>
<td>AI6</td>
<td align="right">213</td>
<td>COUNTRY</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3) Lauren Alaina</td>
<td>AI10</td>
<td align="right">188</td>
<td>COUNTRY</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4) Janelle Arthur</td>
<td>AI12</td>
<td align="right">185</td>
<td>COUNTRY</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5) Scotty McCreery</td>
<td>AI10</td>
<td align="right">176</td>
<td>COUNTRY</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6) Carrie Underwood</td>
<td>AI4</td>
<td align="right">170</td>
<td>COUNTRY</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>MW</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7) Bucky Covington</td>
<td>AI5</td>
<td align="right">157</td>
<td>COUNTRY</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8) Casey James</td>
<td>AI9</td>
<td align="right">155</td>
<td>COUNTRY</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9) Kristy Lee Cook</td>
<td>AI7</td>
<td align="right">143</td>
<td>COUNTRY</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10) Skylar Laine</td>
<td>AI11</td>
<td align="right">136</td>
<td>COUNTRY</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">11) Danny Gokey</td>
<td>AI8</td>
<td align="right">110</td>
<td>COUNTRY</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>MW</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">12) Dexter Roberts</td>
<td>AI13</td>
<td align="right">98</td>
<td>COUNTRY</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">13) Paul Jolley</td>
<td>AI12</td>
<td align="right">80</td>
<td>COUNTRY</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">14) Aaron Kelly</td>
<td>AI9</td>
<td align="right">73</td>
<td>COUNTRY</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>NE</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">15) Kellie Pickler</td>
<td>AI5</td>
<td align="right">57</td>
<td>COUNTRY</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">16) Michael Sarver</td>
<td>AI8</td>
<td align="right">35</td>
<td>COUNTRY</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><br />
<b><u>HYBRID</u></b>:<br />
<br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 384px;">
<colgroup><col span="6" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">1) Haley Reinhart</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">AI10</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">209</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">HYBRID</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">20-23</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">MW</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2) Jena Irene</td>
<td>AI13</td>
<td align="right">173</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>MW</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3) Jessica Meuse</td>
<td>AI13</td>
<td align="right">169</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4) Matt Giraud</td>
<td>AI8</td>
<td align="right">166</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>MW</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5) Crystal Bowersox</td>
<td>AI9</td>
<td align="right">154</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>MW</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6) Casey Abrams</td>
<td>AI10</td>
<td align="right">139</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7) Elise Testone</td>
<td>AI11</td>
<td align="right">129</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8) Erika Van Pelt</td>
<td>AI11</td>
<td align="right">124</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>NE</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9) Majesty Rose</td>
<td>AI13</td>
<td align="right">124</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10)Michael Lynche</td>
<td>AI9</td>
<td align="right">123</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">11)Anthony Fedorov</td>
<td>AI4</td>
<td align="right">122</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>NE</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">12) Nadia Turner</td>
<td>AI4</td>
<td align="right">121</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">13)Devin Velez</td>
<td>AI12</td>
<td align="right">100</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>MW</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">14)Scott MacIntyre</td>
<td>AI8</td>
<td align="right">81</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">15)CJ Harris</td>
<td>AI13</td>
<td align="right">74</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">16)John Stevens</td>
<td>AI3</td>
<td align="right">60</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>NE</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">17)Heejun Han</td>
<td>AI11</td>
<td align="right">52</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>NE</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">18)Megan Joy</td>
<td>AI8</td>
<td align="right">42</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">19)Naima Adedapo</td>
<td>AI10</td>
<td align="right">32</td>
<td>HYBRID</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>MW</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<b><u>POP</u></b>:<br />
<br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 384px;">
<colgroup><col span="6" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">1) Angie Miller</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">AI12</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">230</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">POP</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">0-19</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">NE</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2) Blake Lewis</td>
<td>AI6</td>
<td align="right">192</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3) Diana DeGarmo</td>
<td>AI3</td>
<td align="right">166</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4)Hollie Cavanagh</td>
<td>AI11</td>
<td align="right">165</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5)Jordin Sparks</td>
<td>AI6</td>
<td align="right">147</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6)David Archuleta</td>
<td>AI7</td>
<td align="right">130</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7)Chris Richardson</td>
<td>AI6</td>
<td align="right">127</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8)Jessica Sierra</td>
<td>AI4</td>
<td align="right">118</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9)Pia Toscano</td>
<td>AI10</td>
<td align="right">113</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>NE</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10)Jessica Sanchez</td>
<td>AI11</td>
<td align="right">106</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">11)Katharine McPhee</td>
<td>AI5</td>
<td align="right">106</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">12)Katie Stevens</td>
<td>AI9</td>
<td align="right">106</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>NE</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">13)Ace Young</td>
<td>AI5</td>
<td align="right">102</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>MW</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">14)Stefano Langone</td>
<td>AI10</td>
<td align="right">94</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">15)Didi Benami</td>
<td>AI9</td>
<td align="right">91</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">16)Haley Scarnato</td>
<td>AI6</td>
<td align="right">81</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">17)Jasmine Trias</td>
<td>AI3</td>
<td align="right">59</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">18)Sanjaya Malakar</td>
<td>AI6</td>
<td align="right">58</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">19)Lisa Tucker</td>
<td>AI5</td>
<td align="right">54</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">20)Lazaro Arbos</td>
<td>AI12</td>
<td align="right">51</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">21)Camile Velasco</td>
<td>AI3</td>
<td align="right">19</td>
<td>POP</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<b><u>ROCK</u></b>:<br />
<br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 384px;">
<colgroup><col span="6" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">1) Adam Lambert</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">AI8</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">240</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">ROCK</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">24+</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2)Michael Johns</td>
<td>AI7</td>
<td align="right">230</td>
<td>ROCK</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3)James Durbin</td>
<td>AI10</td>
<td align="right">214</td>
<td>ROCK</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4)Chris Daughtry</td>
<td>AI5</td>
<td align="right">200</td>
<td>ROCK</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5)David Cook</td>
<td>AI7</td>
<td align="right">187</td>
<td>ROCK</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>MW</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6)Amy Adams</td>
<td>AI3</td>
<td align="right">176</td>
<td>ROCK</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7)Caleb Johnson</td>
<td>AI13</td>
<td align="right">168</td>
<td>ROCK</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8)Bo Bice</td>
<td>AI4</td>
<td align="right">159</td>
<td>ROCK</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9)Allison Iraheta</td>
<td>AI8</td>
<td align="right">155</td>
<td>ROCK</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10)Constantine Maroulis</td>
<td>AI4</td>
<td align="right">147</td>
<td>ROCK</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>NE</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">11)Gina Glocksen</td>
<td>AI6</td>
<td align="right">135</td>
<td>ROCK</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>MW</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">12)Carly Smithson</td>
<td>AI7</td>
<td align="right">123</td>
<td>ROCK</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">13)Colton Dixon</td>
<td>AI11</td>
<td align="right">107</td>
<td>ROCK</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">14)Chris Sligh</td>
<td>AI6</td>
<td align="right">88</td>
<td>ROCK</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">15)Siobhan Magnus</td>
<td>AI9</td>
<td align="right">73</td>
<td>ROCK</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>NE</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<b><u>SINGER/SONGWRITER:</u></b><br />
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</tbody></table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 384px;">
<colgroup><col span="6" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">1)Kris Allen</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">AI8</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">216</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">SING-SONG</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">20-23</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2)Lee DeWyze</td>
<td>AI9</td>
<td align="right">190</td>
<td>SING-SONG</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>MW</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3)Alex Preston</td>
<td>AI13</td>
<td align="right">171</td>
<td>SING-SONG</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>NE</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4)Phillip Phillips</td>
<td>AI11</td>
<td align="right">167</td>
<td>SING-SONG</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5)Tim Urban</td>
<td>AI9</td>
<td align="right">109</td>
<td>SING-SONG</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6)Sam Woolf</td>
<td>AI13</td>
<td align="right">106</td>
<td>SING-SONG</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7)Jon Peter Lewis</td>
<td>AI3</td>
<td align="right">98</td>
<td>SING-SONG</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>MW</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8)Brooke White</td>
<td>AI7</td>
<td align="right">92</td>
<td>SING-SONG</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>W</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9)Paul McDonald</td>
<td>AI10</td>
<td align="right">82</td>
<td>SING-SONG</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10)Jason Castro</td>
<td>AI7</td>
<td align="right">68</td>
<td>SING-SONG</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">11) MK Nobilette</td>
<td>AI13</td>
<td align="right">40</td>
<td>SING-SONG</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>W</td>
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<b><u>SOUL</u></b>:<br />
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">1) Anoop Desai</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">AI8</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">224</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">SOUL</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">20-23</td>
<td style="width: 48pt;" width="64">S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2)LaToya London</td>
<td>AI3</td>
<td align="right">223</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>W</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3)Jennifer Hudson</td>
<td>AI3</td>
<td align="right">180</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>MW</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4)Fantasia Barrino</td>
<td>AI3</td>
<td align="right">169</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5)Candice Glover</td>
<td>AI12</td>
<td align="right">157</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6) George Huff</td>
<td>AI3</td>
<td align="right">151</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7)Nikko Smith</td>
<td>AI4</td>
<td align="right">151</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>MW</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8)Paris Bennett</td>
<td>AI5</td>
<td align="right">148</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9)Taylor Hicks</td>
<td>AI5</td>
<td align="right">148</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10)Elliott Yamin</td>
<td>AI5</td>
<td align="right">144</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">11)Melinda Doolittle</td>
<td>AI6</td>
<td align="right">142</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">12)Burnell Taylor</td>
<td>AI12</td>
<td align="right">139</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">13)Chikezie</td>
<td>AI7</td>
<td align="right">129</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>W</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">14)Syesha Mercado</td>
<td>AI7</td>
<td align="right">124</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">15)Mandisa</td>
<td>AI5</td>
<td align="right">121</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">16)DeAndre Brackensick</td>
<td>AI11</td>
<td align="right">118</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>W</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">17)Malaya Watson</td>
<td>AI13</td>
<td align="right">112</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>MW</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">18)Amber Holcomb</td>
<td>AI12</td>
<td align="right">111</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">19)Vonzell Solomon</td>
<td>AI4</td>
<td align="right">111</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">20)Joshua Ledet</td>
<td>AI11</td>
<td align="right">107</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>0-19</td>
<td>S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">21)LaKisha Jones</td>
<td>AI6</td>
<td align="right">76</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>MW</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">22)Andrew Garcia</td>
<td>AI9</td>
<td align="right">72</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>W</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">23)Anwar Robinson</td>
<td>AI4</td>
<td align="right">58</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>NE</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">24)Lil Rounds</td>
<td>AI8</td>
<td align="right">53</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">25)Scott Savol</td>
<td>AI4</td>
<td align="right">52</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>MW</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">26)Jacob Lusk</td>
<td>AI10</td>
<td align="right">46</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>W</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">27)Ramiele Malubay</td>
<td>AI7</td>
<td align="right">28</td>
<td>SOUL</td>
<td>20-23</td>
<td>S</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">N/A) Curtis Finch</td>
<td>AI12</td>
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<td>SOUL</td>
<td>24+</td>
<td>MW</td>
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Look at the company Alex Preston shares at the singer-songwriter slot: all those guys he is clustered with won their respective seasons. As a hybrid genre type (pop/rock), Jena doesn't have precedent for producing a winner. Caleb Johnson is lumped between David Cook and Bo Bice, so he can be winner or runner-up; however, unlike Alex and Jena, he isn't in the top five with respect to genre for PGSC score, so his style has been done better on the Idol stage before.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482901438415079226.post-64798023897158097322014-05-09T22:05:00.001-07:002014-05-11T19:05:01.602-07:00THE PGSC SCORE, PART I: PGSC (PERFORMANCE, SONG FRESHNESS, GROWTH AND CONSISTENCY) VERSUS ACTUAL IDOL RANK<br />
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So I recently created a model which I thought was able to perfectly encapsulate the general fan's assessments of the majority top ten American Idol contestants, starting from AI3 all the way to what we have now in AI13, independent of producer and judge manipulation. We start with AI3 because that's when we are able to chart one of our metrics, as will be explained below. This is the likely ranking of the contestant had every contestant played on a neutral ground.<br />
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I've been able to scour whatnottosing's databases for this project, utilizing four core metrics which I believe make up the general fan's opinion on the contestants. Three of these metrics will be given equal weighting (out of a 100, upon within-season normalization), while the fourth measures the consistency of values between these three measurements. Remember, this normalization is done WITHIN the contestant's respective season. It is not normalized across all Idol seasons, because I want to capture how the contestant was like within their season, relative to their competition. Without further ado, the metrics are:<br />
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1) Song freshness factor. This is my personal favorite metric, based off the song repeatability factor on Idol, the song age, and its freshness.<br />
2) Contestant growth. WNTS uses a linear regression across contestant performances over the course of the season.<br />
3) Contestant performance. Usually the standard to determine the value of the contestant, but just like you can't use points per game to determine the value of an NBA player, we have to consider other metrics. There's a huge reason why the best singers often do not win the show any given year.<br />
4) Deviation between the first three. This acts as a further normalizer, so that one contestant is not gaining the majority of their points in one category while being very weak in other categories (ahem, Tim Urban, Kristy Lee Cook, etc).<br />
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So the first three metrics are the ones given equal weighting, and the deviation subtracts off the normalized summation of those weights. We come up with a consolidate value which I think attempts to capture the value of the contestant, which we take the first initials of performance, song freshness, growth and consistency: or the PGSC score. Due to the song freshness and growth weighting (growth is why we start at the top 10, because we get enough performances to measure that mark), it might also give some value into the marketability of the contestant. Several trends emerge: a contestant that has a high consolidate ranking tends to be more marketable than one that does not. Usually, this mark is above 200 or above for the very high ranking, and there are several contestants who have breached that mark. An exception can the highest ranking contestant of that particular season. Obviously, no model is perfect and there are exceptions.<br />
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But here are some food-for-thought questions that might be addressed by the model (scroll your cursor over the data points to learn who the data point corresponds to, their respective scores for the four metrics, their total score, and other extraneous data):<br />
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1) For AI12: In an even playing field, would Candice Glover have won over Kree Harrison or Angie Miller? Candice delivered great vocal performances, but was sorely lacking in song freshness factor with respect to her season, but she was majorly pimped. There is an argument to made for Amber Holcomb making it over Burnell Taylor as well. In general, TPTB did their job that season: they wanted a girl to win so badly they casted an all-around awful group of guys who would struggle in all four core facets of the algorithm, and right on cue, they all went down easily.<br />
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2) The double elimination conundrum, for AI6 and AI8: there was a lot made that producers really wanted to get rid of AI6's Phil Stacey and AI8's Anoop Desai to make way for who they wanted as their true frontrunners. Both Stacey and Desai had consolidate scores well north of 200, and there's an argument to be made that had Melinda Doolittle and Jordin Sparks, or Danny Gokey and Adam Lambert not been so pimped in those respective seasons, both those guys would have went farther than 5th-6th place.<br />
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3) AI7 was a weird case, with Michael Johns--he wasn't exactly depimped, but he had such a high score. Which goes to show you--a very high score, as we'll see below, has repercussions.<br />
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4) In general...diva belters have been docked off since Jennifer Hudson and LaToya Hudson ranked extremely well in AI3. Largely, this is due to old, un-fresh song choices; but if you wondered why Anwar Robinson, Mandisa, LaKisha Jones, Lil Rounds, Jacob Lusk, Joshua Ledet, and faux belters like Pia Toscano and Jessica Sanchez ranked awfully (and why they were both eliminated early; until Jessica got saved)--that's your answer. Consider all parts of the algorithm here.<br />
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Another issue I wanted to explore was developing a regression curve between genders: for a given PGSC score, how does the audience react to particular gender? For those that are stat-geeks, I've used the p-test to compare the correlation between the genders, and these groups were determined to be distinct. The r-squared value is about 41%, so there is a lot of noise, but that's to be expected when you are dealing with so many data points (between both genders, there are 110 total). To ensure the highest r-test value, I've decided to use an 8-degree polynomial model (8 is the highest it can go to). There are several things to note:<br />
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1) A PGSC score within 160-190 is the proverbial sweet spot for a male singer. Every male within this range has made it to at least the top five, with winners David Cook, Scotty McCreery and Phillip Phillips coming out of it with scores in that range. The regression curve reflects that as the sweet spot as well. With scores of a 168 and 171, respectively, for Caleb Johnson and Alex Preston, those two aren't going to buck that trend, because they are both in the top three. Within this range, it's been a foolproof method for a top five contestant. Females tend to have it rougher in this range, but to be fair it's mostly due to the early seasons with shock eliminations (Amy Adams, Jennifer Hudson).<br />
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2) It is VIRTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE to win with a PGSC score of 200 or above. There's a saying that you are too good for your own good...well, the contestant is TOO good for the audience's good, in this case. Males especially have it rough with a score this high, but there is ONE major exception: Kris Allen. But AI8 was a weird season: that season had THREE contestants with scores over 200 or above: Adam Lambert, Anoop Desai and Allen. And Allen was third in the pecking order of those three in score, so while he was very good, there were contestants that season who were better. So he wasn't exactly "too good for his own good" relatively speaking. Of the guys, there were also shocking eliminations with Phil Stacey and Michael Johns here too. The girls also produced no winners here, but had several in the range of 2-4: LaToya London, Kree Harrison, Haley Reinhart and Angie Miller. But again: too good for the audience's good.<br />
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3) It's hard to make a great argument that the audience votes for competent guys more than competent girls. According to the regression model, there are a few bumps here and there, but up to a PGSC score of about 160, the regression lines between males and females both oscillate and seemingly alternate in favoritism. The biggest issue is when we actually get to the very competent girls: at scores between 160 to 190, the girls get shafted in voting rank compared to their male counterparts. Like every model, there are key exceptions: in fact, our four female winners had PGSC scores between 140 and 170; it's just that there are many other female data points around that range that brings the regression curve downwards. In general, the regression argues that a girl's best chance to get far (but not win) is to get a score over 200. But ultimately, the best chance to win is a score in that 140-170 range for a girl. Jena Irene is right at that range, and she's in the top three. She has a good chance of winning, given that there is precedent. <br />
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<b><i>This season</i></b>: So yep, we have already spoiled it: Jena Irene, Alex Preston and Caleb Johnson (our top three) are locked in a dead heat. Jena's PGSC is 173, Alex's is 171, and Caleb is 168. (Hell, Jessica Meuse's is 169, making this is the most natural-entropy-guided top four in recent memory; in other words, this is the correct top four, based on PGSC scores, in spite of producer manipulation). All three of those scores are locked within a bracket that can produce winners for a male or a female, so this is literally anyone's game, especially given how tight the PGSC scores are, especially compared to past seasons. In the past, I can use the scores to make key predictions on who would win with a certain accuracy, but it's hard to do exactly that this season. It's a virtual toss-up.<br />
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Also, http://public.tableausoftware.com/views/idol_score_rank/Sheet1?:showVizHome=no#3 is the link to use, if you want to play with the larger model than what is shown below.<br />
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If you're not into visual data and you need the rankings spelled out for you, they are listed below. Below is the listing, or "camp-should-have-been", if you want to use that term, of the contestants, the way they would have ranked had TPTB or producers not interfered or done any sort of pre and within-show pimping, and let the contestant's performances speak for themselves. Also listed are the average PGSCs of the contestants within the top 10, and that can represent the ratings flow of the particular season (but not necessarily quality), based on those four factors. Without further ado, the PGSCs:<br />
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<b><u>AI3</u></b>:<br />
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<td align="right">176</td>
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<td align="right">169</td>
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<td align="right">166</td>
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<td align="right">151</td>
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<td align="right">98</td>
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<td align="right">60</td>
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<b><u>AI4</u></b>:<br />
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<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">170</td>
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<td align="right">159</td>
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<td align="right">151</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4) Constantine Maroulis</td>
<td align="right">147</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5) Anthony Fedorov</td>
<td align="right">122</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6) Nadia Turner</td>
<td align="right">121</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7) Jessica Sierra</td>
<td align="right">118</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8) Vonzell Solomon</td>
<td align="right">111</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9) Anwar Robinson</td>
<td align="right">58</td>
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<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10) Scott Savol</td>
<td align="right">52</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><b>AVERAGE</b>:</td>
<td align="right">120.9</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<b><u>AI5:</u></b><br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 128px;">
<colgroup><col span="2" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">1) Chris Daughtry</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">200</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2) Bucky Covington</td>
<td align="right">157</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3) Taylor Hicks</td>
<td align="right">148</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4) Paris Bennett</td>
<td align="right">148</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5) Elliott Yamin</td>
<td align="right">144</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6) Mandisa</td>
<td align="right">121</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7) Katharine McPhee</td>
<td align="right">106</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8) Ace Young</td>
<td align="right">102</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9) Kellie Pickler</td>
<td align="right">57</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10) Lisa Tucker</td>
<td align="right">54</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><b>AVERAGE</b>:</td>
<td align="right">123.7</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<b><u>AI6:</u></b><br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 128px;">
<colgroup><col span="2" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">1) Phil Stacey</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">213</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2) Blake Lewis</td>
<td align="right">192</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3) Jordin Sparks</td>
<td align="right">147</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4) Melinda Doolittle</td>
<td align="right">142</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5) Gina Glocksen</td>
<td align="right">135</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6) Chris Richardson</td>
<td align="right">127</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7) Chris Sligh</td>
<td align="right">88</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8) Haley Scarnato</td>
<td align="right">81</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9) LaKisha Jones</td>
<td align="right">76</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10) Sanjaya Malakar</td>
<td align="right">58</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><b>AVERAGE</b>:</td>
<td align="right">125.9</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<b><u>AI7</u></b>:<br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 128px;">
<colgroup><col span="2" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">1) Michael Johns</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">230</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2) David Cook</td>
<td align="right">187</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3) Kristy Lee Cook</td>
<td align="right">143</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4) David Archuleta</td>
<td align="right">130</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5) Chikezie</td>
<td align="right">129</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6) Syesha Mercado</td>
<td align="right">124</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7) Carly Smithson</td>
<td align="right">123</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8) Brooke White</td>
<td align="right">92</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9) Jason Castro</td>
<td align="right">68</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10) Ramiele Malubay</td>
<td align="right">28</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><b>AVERAGE</b>:</td>
<td align="right">125.4</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<b><u>AI8:</u></b><br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 128px;">
<colgroup><col span="2" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">1) Adam Lambert</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">240</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2) Anoop Desai</td>
<td align="right">224</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3) Kris Allen</td>
<td align="right">216</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4) Matt Giraud</td>
<td align="right">166</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5) Allison Iraheta</td>
<td align="right">155</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6) Danny Gokey</td>
<td align="right">110</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7) Scott MacIntyre</td>
<td align="right">81</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8) Lil Rounds</td>
<td align="right">53</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9) Megan Joy</td>
<td align="right">42</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10) Michael Sarver</td>
<td align="right">35</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><b>AVERAGE</b>:</td>
<td align="right">132.2</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<b><u>AI9</u></b>:<br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 128px;">
<colgroup><col span="2" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">1) Lee DeWyze</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">190</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2) Casey James</td>
<td align="right">155</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3) Crystal Bowersox</td>
<td align="right">154</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4) Michael Lynche</td>
<td align="right">123</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5) Tim Urban</td>
<td align="right">109</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6) Katie Stevens</td>
<td align="right">106</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7) Didi Benami</td>
<td align="right">91</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8) Aaron Kelly</td>
<td align="right">73</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9) Siobhan Magnus</td>
<td align="right">73</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10) Andrew Garcia</td>
<td align="right">72</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 128px;"><tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64"><b>AVERAGE</b>:</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">114.6</td></tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<b><u>AI10</u></b>:<br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 128px;">
<colgroup><col span="2" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">1) James Durbin</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">214</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2) Haley Reinhart</td>
<td align="right">209</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3) Lauren Alaina</td>
<td align="right">188</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4) Scotty McCreery</td>
<td align="right">176</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5) Casey Abrams</td>
<td align="right">139</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6) Pia Toscano</td>
<td align="right">113</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7) Stefano Langone</td>
<td align="right">94</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8) Paul McDonald</td>
<td align="right">82</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9) Jacob Lusk</td>
<td align="right">46</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10) Naima Adedapo</td>
<td align="right">32</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><b>AVERAGE</b>:</td>
<td align="right">129.3</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<b><u>AI11</u></b>:<br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 128px;">
<colgroup><col span="2" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">1) Phillip Phillips</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">167</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2) Hollie Cavanagh</td>
<td align="right">165</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3) Skylar Laine</td>
<td align="right">136</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4) Elise Testone</td>
<td align="right">129</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5) Erika Van Pelt</td>
<td align="right">124</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6) DeAndre Brackensick</td>
<td align="right">118</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7) Colton Dixon</td>
<td align="right">107</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8) Joshua Ledet</td>
<td align="right">107</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9) Jessica Sanchez</td>
<td align="right">106</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10) Heejun Han</td>
<td align="right">52</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><b>AVERAGE</b>:</td>
<td align="right">121.1</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
<br />
<b><u>AI12</u></b>: (note: Curtis Finch had no growth rate, so his data was omitted; not that he would have rated well, anyway):<br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 128px;">
<colgroup><col span="2" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">1) Kree Harrison</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">231</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2) Angie Miller</td>
<td align="right">230</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3) Janelle Arthur</td>
<td align="right">185</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4) Candice Glover</td>
<td align="right">157</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5) Burnell Taylor</td>
<td align="right">139</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6) Amber Holcomb</td>
<td align="right">111</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7) Devin Velez</td>
<td align="right">100</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8) Paul Jolley</td>
<td align="right">80</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9) Lazaro Arbos</td>
<td align="right">51</td>
</tr>
</tbody></table>
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And where we are at now...<b><u>AI13 so far</u></b>:<br />
<br />
<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" style="border-collapse: collapse; width: 128px;">
<colgroup><col span="2" style="width: 48pt;" width="64"></col>
</colgroup><tbody>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt; width: 48pt;" width="64">1) Jena Irene</td>
<td align="right" style="width: 48pt;" width="64">173</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">2) Alex Preston</td>
<td align="right">171</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">3) Jessica Meuse</td>
<td align="right">169</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">4) Caleb Johnson</td>
<td align="right">168</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">5) Majesty Rose</td>
<td align="right">124</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">6) Malaya Watson</td>
<td align="right">112</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">7) Sam Woolf</td>
<td align="right">106</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">8) Dexter Roberts</td>
<td align="right">98</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">9) CJ Harris</td>
<td align="right">74</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">10) MK Nobilette</td>
<td align="right">40</td>
</tr>
<tr height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;">
<td class="xl65" height="20" style="height: 15.0pt;"><b>AVERAGE</b>:</td>
<td align="right">123.5</td>
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CHR is essentially "pop", or mainstream music. It gets the big audience numbers--for instance, right now, the #10 song on the pop charts sees similar audience numbers as the #1 song in country, which carries the next highest audience. The #12 song on pop, relatively speaking, can be the #1 song in HAC in audience share. #15 on pop gets #1 in rhythmic and urban. #24 in pop translates to about #1 in urban AC and AC. #28 in pop translates to #1 in alternative. So CHR is the major chart, and it more or less drives a ton of single sales: every song in the top 33 of CHR right now, for instance, is in the top 100 of itunes. With the exception of two songs, every song in the top 15 of CHR right now is in the top 21. This does not necessarily translate to album sales that hit expectations, given that acts that chart high in CHR tend to have outsized expectations compared to those that chart high in other genres, but when you drive singles sales, it builds up your brand, and over time should help album sales. There are acts (like Jason DeRulo, etc) that are more singles than album-driven, but many acts that hit it big in CHR, with over 100K in sales (a very good number in today's awful album-selling market).<br />
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What constitutes CHR? Here they are:<br />
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<b><i>Established CHR/pop artists</i></b>. Obviously, there are types where CHR is the home-base for the artist--established artists who are known to get a slew of number one or even top ten hits in the past get that fast-track, higher-than-normal audience share and bullet at their song's initial stages (Justin Timberlake, Jason DeRulo, Miley Cyrus, Selena Gomez, Demi Lovato, Katy Perry, Rihanna, Eminem, are some that come to mind).<br />
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<b><i>Disney or Nickelodeon-bred acts</i></b>. Disney has become a churner for what we call Disney princess types--a string of acts, from Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera in the late 90s to now, to Hillary Duff, to Demi Lovato, Miley Cyrus and Selena Gomez and possibly to a future wave that includes Zendaya and others. They make pop their home-base, after extensive Radio Disney play during their formative teen years. These can include other acts like the Jonas Brothers, and earlier in the mid-2000s, Jesse McCartney, as well. XFUS tried to create several of these Radio Disney-to-CHR, or "teen" connections if you will, for Emblem3 and Fifth Harmony, to launch them as a direct-to-CHR pop act. But Idol sees virtually no success for straight to pop acts, because as a singing competition, as we'll see, it relies more on HAC transitions.<br />
<i>*Teen acts, essentially: like Cody Simpson, Austin Mahone, Justin Bieber initially before he became established.</i><br />
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<b><i>The European/British import (DJs, singers, boybands)</i></b>. There's another strong group I'd like to call the European imports, primarily from Britain around 2009 to now, but lately, also showing up with DJs and the like from Netherlands, Sweden, and elsewhere. This started with the EDM wave which picked up from the autotune shenanigans of 2005-2007, with people like Taio Cruz from the UK introducing their dance-pop into the mainstream. These usually started with about a one-year lag time from Europe to the states: these artists have had major hits with their song throughout Europe, and America is the last part to conquer, although as of late, a few acts have been aiming straight for the American audience after seeing the floodgates open. Notably, there was a brief invasion of XFUK, with Olly Murs, Cher Lloyd, but most notably, One Direction hitting the top ten in CHR, and 1D in particular became a CHR mainstay (their home base, along with the other types mentioned above). The Wanted and Icona Pop had a hit single. Adele became a huge albums-seller with her old-school soul as well as churning out hit single after hit single, paving the way for other similar singers like Emeli Sande from the UK. With the electronic based dance music DJs like David Guetta (Sweden) and Calvin Harris (UK) got in the act and became relative mainstays, and soon Ellie Goulding and Ed Sheeran, both from the UK, picked up the baton and became mainstays with strings of several hits.We saw Of Monsters and Men (Norway), one-hit wonder Gotye (Belgium) start out at HAC and impact pop, and UK band Bastille got in the mix (starting out as alternative). Now, we have Sam Smith and the boyband Rixton from the UK really making a dent, and others like 5 Seconds Of Summer (from Australia) trying to capture the One-Directionesque teen demographic where American boybands have failed (such as Emblem3 and Midnight Red, among others). Tiesto is a DJ from the Netherlands, and Nico and Vinz are a singing group from Norway. Where once there might been only a space for maybe up to three or four European acts at any given time in CHR, there is absolutely no barrier to entry now. Once you stake your claim and make a name for yourself here (Sheeran, Adele, Goulding, 1D), you'll get that initial bullet and audience number, and that has paved the way for a number of European acts who have had hit singles overseas that they feel confident enough to bring their sound to America. And many of them are finding radio play and singles success, at the least.<br />
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<b><i>The HAC "Crossover". </i></b>The last group, some of which overlaps with the European imports, are what we call the "crossovers". Crossovers primarily occur with HAC, as HAC is virtually synergistic and operates hand in hand in CHR now (even ten years ago, HAC would abstain from anything that approached R&B and hip hop-esque quality; now, we even see Eminem and Jason DeRulo's songs played there). If a song does well in HAC (say, top five or even top 8) there's a good chance the artist's handlers will attempt to cross that single over to pop. HAC is still a natural home for the 25-35 market, so they tend to like their songs more meaningful, folksy, a bit of a rock edge, and somewhat adult contemporary. So, while we were in that "folk" revolution which we are still somewhat in right now, Of Monsters and Men, Gotye and others used that leverage to cross over to pop. Phillip Phillips, from AI, OneRepublic and the Lumineers did the same thing. Christina Perri and Sara Bareilles represent for the girls here, with singer-songwriter vibes. Right now, American Authors is doing this with "Best Day Of My Life". HAC also leeches off from pop, as songs that do well in pop almost always get play in HAC now, as mentioned due to the synergy; HAC doesn't drive singles sales, even though their audience share goes from 20-40 for a top 15 single in this branch, but it creates a reasonable audience share that can propel singles to pop, and it can drive singles in the bottom half of the 100s in itunes sales, depending on the song. A lot of songs in HAC are pop crossed over to HAC songs as mentioned, and a few songs rising on HAC that will attempt pop. Of course, there will be many HAC starting songs that peter out and don't make it anywhere. This is also the branch that many of the Idol contestants typically take--the singer/songwriter chops are typically what racks up votes since AI7, and that jibes well with the standards of HAC. In the early iterations of AI7-AI8, HAC was a great platform to propel the Idol contestants to create at least a reasonable pop hit before they fade. But lately, they stay and peter out at HAC, and stay HAC; second or third singles peak lower down the ranks, and starting HAC acts do not make it far in general. This goes for many of the contestants cast in the Voice as well, although they haven't signed anyone to experiment with how long those contestants could stay at HAC (or make it to pop). Usually, HAC acts need to cross to pop to generate not just single sales, but also album sales. So it provides radio ears and provides the CHR-platform, but does not do much to move the needle in relevant aspects, unless your name is established (like OneRepublic).<br />
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<b><i>The Rhythmic "Crossover".</i></b> We've been talking a lot about how European imports have dominated pop from either a HAC crossover or pop-entering setting. Well, here's one format that the Europeans cannot (or have not, yet) really invaded: rhythmic. Nope, DJs and European dance-pop don't count here. While established US acts still carry their weight, as well as the few that attempt via HAC, it's really rhythmic which has the American stamp on it. It's obviously beats and hooks-oriented, and the subject material is sketchy for anyone who is not in tune with the vapidness of the pop or hip hop scene for the past fifteen or so years. But, beats and hooks sell. In the rhythmic, and frankly, urban format's heyday, it was like what the European imports are to CHR today: you churn out a song that gets high on the rhythmic and urban charts at around 2000-2008, you'd likely have a hit at CHR. T-Pain, Lil Wayne, Chris Brown (not now CB, but younger CB) absolutely feasted off this synergistic relationship between pop, rhythmic and urban, and made names for themselves for both singles AND album sales. Now? There is synergistic quality with rhythmic and CHR, with Rihanna, B.O.B. and Jason DeRulo, among others, who release singles to both platforms immediately. But still, songs that hit the top five of rhythmic (ideally top three) get chances at pop, with reasonable success (John Legend's "All Of Me" being a major one, but others like DJ Snake and Lil Jon's "Turn Down For What" and Kid Ink feat Chris Brown's "Show Me" also doing quite well). CHR music currently might be mostly European import dance music (which bypasses rhythmic) and established pop acts to counterweight the HAC crossovers, but there are always about 5-6 rhythmic-to-pop crossovers on the CHR charts at any given time. The hip hop and rap aspect of rhythmic tends to be album sellers, because the artists generally have a strong social media presence, and are featured and connected with the top dogs in some way (like T.I., Eminem and Jay Z), but singles sales are really dependent on whether they can get that audience and potential CHR crossover. However, some rhythmic songs (such as Iggy Azalea's "Fancy" and DJ Snake feat Lil Jon's "Turn Down For What") go viral, and as will be mentioned below, that helps with the propulsion in radio for the single. Rhythmic is completely avoided in singing competitions, because face it, rhythmic and urban formats don't really require singing, and there's little to no creativity or motivation to cast contestants with that sort of creativity on the part of the shows. XFUS has attempted rhythmic and urban types primarily with XFUS1 with Chris Rene and Marcus Canty's singles, but they didn't really go anywhere.<br />
<i>*Note that there are more rhythmic than actual urban crossovers, since urban is the format which really houses the rappers--although there are a few exceptions, such as Drake, Macklemore and Jay-Z ("Hold On We're Coming Home", "Can't Hold Us", "Thrift Shop", "Suit and Tie", "Holy Grail") who can get songs on to CHR, but not with regularity. But these rappers can cross to rhythmic, and they have a really reliable album-buying audience. Where Chris Brown has moved from CHR to rhythmic, Beyonce has increasingly moved from CHR to urban. Juicy J, Schoolboy Q and Wiz Khalifa release their singles onto urban as well and move albums, and all of them have been featured rappers in CHR-aiming audiences. Rap has been a big part of CHR in the early 2000s, and while that has declined, there is always a space there for the heavy hitters of rap.</i><br />
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<b><i>The Alternative "Crossover"</i></b>. So far, in the 2010 and beyond, really, only Imagine Dragons has made a name as a relative mainstay for itself using the alternative crossover format. Many, but not all, of the alternative songs go from alternative to HAC to pop to build up, and that process can typically take almost half a month. Imagine Dragons did it. This multiformat synergy was also seen with Capital Cities "Safe And Sound", which went from alternative to HAC to pop, and it was such a slow grower in pop that it was nearly a year from its initial alternative charting that it fell off the charts. That was forever. In general, a song that is a hit in the alternative charts doesn't want to stay there--the audience ears are very low, and it doesn't really sell (typically, top five in alternative sells in the lower half of the 100s to the early 100s). But, alternative, like rhythmic and urban, was once a HUGE part of the CHR brand in the early 2000s, especially with bands like Linkin Park, Simple Plan, Good Charlotte and others really impacting CHR that way and becoming CHR mainstays. Now...like rhythmic, not so much, but there is always space for about 5-6 of them at any given time, and usually at any given time there is one in the top 15. We recently saw Bastille's "Pompeii" and The Neighbourhood's "Sweater Weather" do the same thing Imagine Dragons' "Radioactive", "It's Time" did, for instance. Now, it looks like the next one up is Kongo's "Come With Me Now". The alternative sound is beats-oriented now instead of whiny emo as it used to be, but it still houses familiar rock acts like Coldplay, Kings Of Leon and others. So, there is international flavor to it, from Britain to South Africa (Kongos). Alternative has a beats-oriented and vocal/lyrical hipster edge to it that usually makes it hard to cover for singing competitions, and differentiates it from HAC, which is why most contestants never target alternative. Emblem3 of XFUS seemed as if it could have branched here though. Like rhythmic, alternative groups tend to sell really well, with Arctic Monkeys and the Black Keys, groups that have been touring nad been around for a while, always maintaining a very loyal fanbase with large album sales especially compared to their poor singles sales and small audience share. In that sense, it's kind of like rhythmic, in a way.<br />
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<b><i>The Song Gone Viral</i></b>. These can come from anywhere, but namely, these are singles that are released and chart very high (think top 10-20) for a prolonged period of time, that the song's handlers just have to release it to pop to see how it can last. This can consist of joke songs that go far (like Psy's "Gangnam Style" or The Chainsmokers' "#Selfie"), ones that don't go far (Ylvis' "What Does The Fox Say?"), soundtrack songs that usually do not make it far on radio (because it contrasts heavily with the playlist; such as Idina Menzel's "Let It Go"). Aloe Blacc's "The Man" is a song that went viral when it was released, which really gave it that initial propulsion and audience rating. The high charting aspect is important for initial propulsion, and if the song keeps rising up the itunes charts, that usually creates the larger bullet to help the song keep on rising.<br />
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<b><i>The Organic Attempt, or "Slow Grower"</i></b>. Direct to CHR songs that take a long team to chart. MKTO's "Classic" for example.<br />
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<i>A few notes: Active Rock and Country have no crossover. Active Rock houses indie groups that have little chance of drawing an audience, and post-grunge groups like Three Days Grace, Theory of a Deadman that have completely evaporated from the modern scene. As many have covered, many of those post-grunge listeners have turned to the increasingly dominating bro-country on country radio, with Florida-Georgia Line taking the role of Nickelback (and even having a hit with Nelly on CHR with "Cruise"). But country as usual, unless you sell out like Taylor Swift, has no hope of going into CHR, as usual.Singing competition types do not use active rock, as the contestants are forced to sell mainstream songs and indie types would never sell out like that; they mostly go to country, but most of the country females are screwed since country radio never plays females anymore, with Miranda Lambert, Carrie Underwood, and possibly Sara Evans and Sheryl Crow being major exceptions, although Cassadee and Danielle created moderate hits (Cassadee sold that single in particular). But their album sales are lukewarm, and largely, album sales have been fairly moderate for most country acts, unless you are Luke Bryan or a traditional country act who can hoard the old-timers who buy albums.</i><br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482901438415079226.post-4204659283407921252014-04-11T17:19:00.001-07:002014-04-11T17:19:40.927-07:00ALTERNATE WNTS, THE VOICE (SEASONS 5 AND 6)<span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">We currently don't have anything that consolidates the quality of Voice performances, and the amount of buzz contestants have, into numbers. Well, with the power of social media...anything's possible. So we've used youtube shenanigans again and started normalizing things to illustrate the power of performance level across all the contestants who had their full auditions shown (sorry, Joshua Howard, and Austin whoever...among others, we can't quantify you). At this point, we have a ton of contestants so it's hard to normalize between so many, but here's what we have so far:</span><br />
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<a name='more'></a><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/thevoicewnts_zpsd753b3a1.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">I've separated by two things: by performance, and by buzz level. Obviously Grimmie has the buzz, and Paula Deanda as well because of her planty past...but surprisingly, Stevie Jo has received a great vocal reception. Interesting. Sam Behymer rounds off the bottom of the vocal list, but she has pretty good buzz--mostly about how poor her vocals are. </span><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Of course, this page will be updated as we get into battles and performance rounds.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Updated, although the numbers for Blake's lives will be changed after we get all the teams to perform (I'd like to group them together like I grouped all the Battles: Round 1 and Battles: Round 2). More data points </span><img alt="wink.gif" border="0" emoid=";)" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/wink.gif" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/thevoicecontestants_zps9dd7d276.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">And here's my ranking of the contestant, based on their "power" average; power basically adds up their performance quality and buzz meter. </span><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/thevoiceranks_zps6cdeac46.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br />
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As far as I have know, there have been no numbers before, so this can be a good comparison point.</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Overall ranks, organized by performance quality and buzz levels. There will be revelations:</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/voiceseason5overall_zps27dd42ec.jpg" style="background-color: #f5f9fc; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Individual contestant ranks:</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; 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border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/voiceseason5third_zps3829d472.jpg" style="background-color: #f5f9fc; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/voiceseason5fourth_zps0ccb259a.jpg" style="background-color: #f5f9fc; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Performance night ranks (Red is eliminated, blue is in the bottom two/three depending):</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/voiceseason5rank1_zpsf31c72fd.jpg" style="background-color: #f5f9fc; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/voiceseason5rank2_zps3fe0f5e6.jpg" style="background-color: #f5f9fc; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/voiceseason5rank3_zpsbf55d361.jpg" style="background-color: #f5f9fc; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/voiceseason5rank4_zpsa10f67c8.jpg" style="background-color: #f5f9fc; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Revelations: Matthew Schuler fell off a cliff performance-wise. His performances in the beginning had it all: excellent top notch buzz plus good performance quality, but after the first three it was hell from there. Jacquie Lee's singing really started to fade, and at the end only bested two other finalists. She had a ton of buzz though. Tessanne was the most consistent with performance quality and extremely high buzz, from her Jamaican supporters. Will Champlin was extremely consistent is producing decent to pretty good performances, with no lows but no extreme highs either; the problem was he had little buzz to begin with.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482901438415079226.post-48621970770623201272014-04-11T17:13:00.004-07:002014-04-11T17:13:43.437-07:00THE ALTERNATE WNTS, X FACTOR US (ACROSS ALL SEASONS)<span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">I know the show's canceled, but having already done this for the Voice's Season 5 and the beginnings of Season 6 (see </span><a href="http://idolforums.com/index.php?showtopic=711571" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">) and also having done rudimentary work on AI13 with this metric (see </span><a href="http://idolforums.com/index.php?showtopic=711555" rel="nofollow" style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank">here</a><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">), we can make cross comparisons between the three shows. It's not super exact, but it's the best we can do with these numbers, since social media is everywhere for all three shows.</span><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">First, here's the contestant ranks, organized by buzz and performance levels. There will be revelations...</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xffinalists_zpse7dcd157.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Yes. Look at Alex and Sierra's buzz score. A 94. That's an insane mark. And that's for a full reason. On Idol, Malaya Watson currently has the highest buzz (at 88.25) but a lot of that seems to be allocated on the Filipino aspect, and it's way too early, not to mention her performance is merely 56.25--compared to A&S's 77...and for the Voice, Tessanne Chin had the highest buzz, but was only! a 79.2 by comparison. That makes A&S look very interesting when they debut their album/singles, because they had a buzz virtually throughout.</span><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Somehow...Josh Levi had the best performing ability, and the third best buzz...and even with an initial save, he still was booted at the midcard. Guess anything that straddles towards urban just doesn't get votes, even with the performance and buzz are there. Restless Road is a concept that was massively pimped by Simon but only had the 9th best buzz throughout their run...pathetic. No wonder why they broke up.</span><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Also, look at Carlito Olivero's performing score. Lol. That's lower than every one in last season of the Voice and also lower than everyone on Idol currently. He wouldn't be cast there.</span><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Individual contestant ranks:</span><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xfcontestants1_zpsd1453ce2.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xfcontestants2_zps4de21478.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xfcontestants3_zpsa0d56fc9.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xfcontestants4_zps1de2139f.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xfcontestants5_zps1d6600fe.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Performances:</span><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xfactort40_zps1b20945f.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xfactort16_zpsa5c0694b.png" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xfactort13_zpseaca63ba.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xfactort1210_zps51b73fdf.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xft86_zpsd17329af.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xft43b2_zpsfa2b603b.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Take the time to digest! =) Of note is that I wanted to do XFUS2, but it appears that XFUS took down all the pertinent youtubes. Which sucks, but it is what it is.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Hey guys; great news! I know XFUS2 is the most popular among XF fans, so I've used some backchannel social networking aspects to get social media data. Here's what I have:</span><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Let's organize by contestant performance buzz and performance level, as usual:</span><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf2finalists_zpsbe9beab8.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Revelations! Fifth Harmony had the best performance quality throughout, and the third best buzz. Had Simon invested in them earlier, perhaps they could have bottled more of it. Carly Rose was the buzziest contestant, and it wasn't even close; she's not as good Alex And Sierra was in XFUS3 in terms of buzz, and her performance quality is slightly lower, though. What's funny is that the top five contestants in terms of performance level are all females. This was a talented girls' season, especially with the younger girl contestants. What's funny is look at winner Tate Stevens--he had the second least buzz all season, and was 10th in performance level--and he won. That goes to show you how strong that country vote was, and it also explains why the label didn't even bother investing--he was awful, in just about every way. Tate also had two single-digit clunkers in his resume, not exactly something you want in a winner. Not that I need numbers to show it, but here they are served up in a platter. Also look at Simon's prize pet Emblem3--their performances and buzz were both mediocre in the aggregate, and both really slipped over the course of the season as we'll see below--their buzz slipped a ton after "One Day", and after their first four performances they took a tumble in performance quality. Still, they had an average performance and buzz score about six points higher than faux created Restless Road, so they were better. Oh, and one more thing: Beatrice Miller is really underrated.</span><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Let's move on to the contestants themselves for further analysis:</span><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf2contestants1_zpsae51f71a.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf2contestants2_zps2a1d6064.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf2contestants3_zpsf2a60ebe.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf2contestants4_zpsdca7bec1.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Now let's look at the competition:</span><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf2jh_zpsd89e408e.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf2top1613_zpscfb577fd.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf2top12108_zpsfe4f3054.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf2top643_zps39609bd2.png" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf2b2perf_zpsc7bbe61e.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">A lot to digest there, but man, that David Correy was robbed: I did the social media stuff before all the Brazilians started swarming over those networks a few months later, and even his top 16 performance was well received. This season was marked by a ton of bad moves: CeCe Frey might possibly be the worst contestant ever in these competitions, with a performance score of 7; for reference, the worst in season 3, Carlos Guevara, is about 24, or more than 3x better than CeCe was. Even Carlito Olivero was nearly 4x better than her. CeCe had 10 performances; she threw in 8 single-digit clunkers. Awful. The fact that the judges kept her over Beatrice Miller was hilariously awful, and she outlasted Jennel Garcia, another who had a lot of potential as well. Tate Stevens and possibly Emblem3 also advanced too far over the underrated Diamond White and the aforementioned Miller. That's why the season was a letdown; the wrong people surfaced to the top, due to the manipulation shenanigans. It's a talented season, but very heavy-handed. Now we even have the Carly Rose fans (and she had a ton based on the season) who are pissed due to the lack of exposure off show now.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">I've also done XFUS1 now. I wanted to do the judges' houses portion, but scanning the social media archives I'm missing data points for quite a few contestants, so I decided to skip it. It's a bit unfortunate, since several contestants had moments in JH; having done it for XFUS2, it makes for more interesting comparisons. </span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Anyway, here's the contestants by rank of performance and buzz. Note that LeRoy Bell had the best overall performances, then we have a virtual three way tie of our top three--Chris, Melanie and Josh and then everyone else. Melanie and Astro were the most buzzed about contestants, then a little of Rachel and Drew. Check below:</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf1finalists_zpse66d79f7.jpg" style="background-color: #f5f9fc; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">And here are the contestants (without their JH performances </span><img alt="crying.gif" border="0" emoid=":'(" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/crying.gif" style="background-color: #f5f9fc; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> )</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf1contestants1_zpsce55d1e0.jpg" style="background-color: #f5f9fc; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf1contestants2_zps683a039c.jpg" style="background-color: #f5f9fc; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf1contestants3_zpsf7426eae.jpg" style="background-color: #f5f9fc; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">And here are the performances:</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf1week1_zps0f2cb013.jpg" style="background-color: #f5f9fc; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf1week2_zps5398d43b.jpg" style="background-color: #f5f9fc; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf1week3_zps9e57c3d9.jpg" style="background-color: #f5f9fc; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">The biggest problem with XF was producer shenanigans, particularly with ramming Marcus Canty down America's throats. Canty was actually decent through half of his performances (not great, but decent), but he fell off a cliff starting from when he first hit the bottom three, around top 9. From there, he outlasted the very underrated LeRoy Bell, who got eliminated despite putting up a showstopping performance as far as save me songs go, and he also outlasted Drew and Rachel Crow, who also put showstopping performances, particularly Rachel. No wonder she cried, especially since aside from his first B3 performance, Marcus's next two B3 performances were absolute clunkers. He should have been eliminated at the top 7 mark, which would have allowed two decent-singing, decent-sized buzz contestants to duke it out in Drew and Rachel. Of note is that Drew was already faltering--she had two absolute clunkers squeezed in between very good performances, and her buzz was also fading along with the clunkers. The groups had zero buzz and after top 17 week delivered clunker after clunker.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">And here's a little map comparing contestants across all seasons:</span><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xfallcontestants_zps5a1b5837.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">And here are the buzziest and best overall performances:</span><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf1buzzbest_zps5fe908ed.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Least buzzy, and worst overall performances:</span><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/xf1worstleast_zps92ec285d.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br />
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<span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">One thing I like to look at are "irregular performances". For example, there can be a decent to good performance >50 with little buzz <50. Or there can be a buzzy performance >50 that is not performed that well <50.</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><b style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">So, from that list above, here are the decent to good performances with little buzz:</b><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">James Kenney "Red"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Jeff Gutt "I Just Died In Your Arms"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Tim Olstad "Always"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Tim Olstad "I'll Be There"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Josh Krajcik "Dirty Diana"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">LeRoy Bell "We've Got Tonight"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Jason Brock "Total Eclipse Of The Heart" </span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Tim Olstad "You Raise Me Up"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Marcus Canty "A Song For Mama"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">LeRoy Bell "Angel".</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Hmmmm. I sense a trend.</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><b style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">And here are the buzzy performances that are not performed well:</b><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Carly Rose Sonenclar "How Do I Live"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Astro "Hip Hip Hooray/Get Ur Freak On"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Rion Paige "Skyscraper"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><b style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Then there are also the well sung (>80), well buzzed about (>70) performances. These are often what we call showstoppers, in the singing competition lexicon. Here they are:</b><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Melanie Amaro "Earth Song" </span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Rachel Crow B2 performance "I'd Rather Go Blind"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Chris Rene "Where Do We Go From Here" (original)</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Josh Levi "Straight Up"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Josh Levi B2 performance ""When I Was Your Man"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Emblem3 "One Day"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Carly Rose Sonenclar "Rolling In The Deep"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Carly Rose Sonenclar "As Long As You Love Me"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Carly Rose Sonenclar "If I Were A Boy"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Alex & Sierra "Addicted To Love" </span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Alex & Sierra "Best Song Ever"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Fifth Harmony "Anything Can Happen"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Alex & Sierra "Blurred Lines"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Fifth Harmony B2 performance "Skyscraper"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Alex & Sierra "Give Me Love"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Alex & Sierra "Gravity"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Carly Rose Sonenclar "Hallelujah"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Melanie Amaro "Desperado"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Josh Krajcik "Wild Horses"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Josh Krajcik "Hallelujah"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Carly Rose Sonenclar "My Heart Will Go On"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Fifth Harmony with Demi Lovato "Give Your Heart A Break"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Josh Krajcik ""The Pretender" </span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Alex & Sierra "I Heard It Through the Grapevine"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Alex & Sierra "Say Something"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Yay. It's an Alex and Sierra and Carly Rose list!</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><b style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Then there are also the truly awfully performed songs (<10), with little buzz (<20). These songs completely lack purpose and are a waste of space. Here they are:</b><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Marcus Canty "I'll Make Love To You"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Lakoda Rayne "Landslide"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Tate Stevens "Fall"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">The Stereo Hogzz "Ain't No Other Man"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Marcus Canty ""Careless Whisper"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Marcus Canty "Ain't Nobody"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">inTENsity "Kids in America/ Party Rock Anthem"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Carlito Olivero "Rhythm is Gonna Get You"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Carlito Olivero T3 "Maria Maria"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Stacy Francis "It's All Coming Back To Me"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Carlos Guevara "What's Going On"</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Yep. It's a Marcus Canty and Carlito Olivero list. The little engines that could?</span><br />
<span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">And here's what everyone is looking for..in honor of the top 40 charts, let's create the top 40 best and worst performances across all XFUS's, by adding up the performance and buzz values. Without further ado:</span><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/bestworstoverallperformances_zpsd8182b67.jpg" style="background-color: #eef2f6; border: 0px; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><br />
<span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><br /></span>
<span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Let's talk "perfect games" here, where performance scores are always >50:</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">*There is an asterisk if the collaboration performance at the finale was below 50</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; 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font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Lillie McCloud</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Josh Levi</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Jeff Gutt</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Alex & Sierra </span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Jennel Garcia</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Beatrice Miller</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Diamond White</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Fifth Harmony</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Carly Rose Sonenclar*</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">LeRoy Bell</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Of the 11 contestants with perfect games, 4 of them are overs. 2 groups. 4 girls (3 of them in the 15-17 age bracket). And one boy. </span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Just keep that in mind.</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">And there is also the perfect buzz game, where buzz scores are always above 50.</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Alex & Sierra</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Melanie Amaro</span><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f5f9fc; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">But Carly Rose was close. Only two make up this list. Funny how Melanie had a lot of buzz during her season but didn't amount to much.</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482901438415079226.post-17905136464796584762014-04-11T17:04:00.000-07:002014-04-11T17:06:55.641-07:00THE ALTERNATE WNTS, AMERICAN IDOL SEASON 13<span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">So, we all know WNTS scours the interwebs to take aggregates of scores--whether from IDF, frauen blogs or other places. Lately, they have been taking in email submissions from people to submit their scores, because of the paucity of this stuff online.</span><br />
<br style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" />
<span style="background-color: #eef2f6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">I've got an alternate option: using the social media aspect to scour the performance value of contestants. But I'll also have something that WNTS doesn't have: a buzz meter. The social media aspect also presents an international flavor to the rankings, since it's just not centralized to America; this might make it different from WNTS, which tends to update their rankings East Coast first, then West Coast. Obviously, there's a ton of factors for what goes into the social media rating: the song being sung terribly is obviously one, but boring songs, the song being sung less well than the original, are all reasons for low(er) rankings. Higher rankings may involve creativity, good singing/emotion, good song selection, etc. The buzz meter shows who is really raking in the views. Let's note that I've consolidated each ranking for each particular night and used a Gaussian normalization to equalize the values between 0-100, much like what WNTS does. The performance ratings are somewhat similar, but also have some key differences. Take a look for yourself.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Dexter Roberts should have been in the bottom three 3 other times, but wasn't, for instance.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Another thing? It measures contestant's momentum. By calculating the contestants' average drop/rise score, we see who is actually improving week to week, or who is slacking off and losing power in their performances. Without further ado, up to the top 8b, here's what we have:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">1) Malaya Watson 7.12</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">2) Jessica Meuse -0.76</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">3) Jena Irene -1.32</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">4) Caleb Johnson -5.93</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">5) Alex Preston -11.54</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">6) Sam Woolf -15.00</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">7) Dexter Roberts -16.18</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">8) CJ Harris -20.04</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">This jibes well with the general feeling: the guys have all peaked, and are yielding diminishing returns on power scores with each passing week. Caleb represents best, but even he is yielding lower scores each time. Only Malaya is really improving (over 7x as much as the next contestant), but Jessica and Jena are both close to breaking even (as seen in the scores above, Jena is using buzz to build up her power score, while Jessica is staying level with her performance scores, more or less).</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">My impression is that for a particular week, contestants base their votes on the rise/drops of the contestants for a particular week. This doesn't always work, so it's a crapshoot. As mentioned, Dexter survived this three times. But still, that would indicate that Malaya, Jessica and Jena are in trouble (in that order), with Malaya being eliminated.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">And this also gets rid of the huge fudge factor in Malaya performances by her fans, since it's relative to her other performances.</span></div>
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But, we also have data. Through wiki, we know what percentage of the voting audience is within the elusive 18-49 age bracket that advertisers want to sell their goods to. For comparison purposes, we will cause these the non-frau, making the key assumption that people below 18 do not count. As you will see below, I've compiled this data through the three major singing competitions, 2011 and beyond (excluding the first season of the Voice since for some reason, wiki does not provide the 18-49 numbers). And you will see that Idol...really lags behind this 18-49 demographic, for the most part, compared to the other two competitions. So that "type" might amplified on Idol precisely because, well, the 50+ types who were ages 15-30 in the '70s and '80s really want to harken to that type of music...and that's good ol' Americana--country, rock, coffeehouse, what have you. Without further ado:<br />
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We can ignore the above graph, since it's basically littered with the data points of all these singing competitions. But do note that, as a wholesale comparison, that the Voice S6 and AI13 are in the bottom of these data points. Yep, the core audience has rapidly lost interest. Where once, we were seeing perhaps a 35-40% 18-49 split with 60-65% age 50+ types, it's now become uhhh....a 25-75% split, more or less. That's huge, since we are talking about millions of viewers.<br />
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The above image might be a bit small, but now we have parsed the data to measure the competition's ability to get 18-49 viewers, as side-by-side comparisons to each other. You don't need to look at the explicit data points, but just note the general trends. Note how the Voice and XF have higher 18-49 shares than Idol, with the percentages listed on the graphs. Here are scale-ups of the same images:<br />
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Yep. That is correct. The Voice during its very buzzy season 2 and season 3, had ratings north of 35% in the 18-49 share. This large share has helped the Voice have the 18-49 bracket comprise nearly a a third of the total viewers overall. X Factor also has a fairly good share: a 23.2% rate, nearly a quarter of the viewers being in the 18-49 bracket. During Season 2, the teen season with the boyband, the girl group, and all the teenagers helped XF to over a third of the 18-49 share, increasing it from Season 1. Idol is just sad here: with the exception of a few early episodes in Season 10 and one very early episode in Season 11, it's all downhill. Only 4.2% of the data points had a share north of 35% of the 18-49 bracket, a far cry from the XF and the Voice overall, since 2011. Idol is and just was not a core audience catering show; it's a show for older folks.<br />
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Now, take a look at the data points above, which compares ratings between singing competitions in the years 2011, 2012, 2013 and 2014 (from left to right). We'll zoom in at the next several graphs, but for now, look at the general trendlines. 2012 was the high water mark for 18-49 composition watching, especially for the Voice and for X Factor. 2011 saw reasonable numbers for both X Factor and American Idol, but the constant through 2011-14 is that Idol has always been lagging behind in the 18-49 percentage compared to the other competitions, especially in 2012. It's starting to make back ground between 2013 and 2014, but that's because the Voice and the now-canceled X Factor really fell from their lofty perches in 2012 rather than Idol actually improving. Idol's the first competition since 2011 to actually consistently see percentages south of 25% in the 18-49 demographic, especially starting this season (2014). Yes, older folks are primarily the types that are watching your favorite Alex Prestons, Dexter Roberts, Caleb Johnsons, Jena Irenes and Jessica Meuses. Which really makes sense, if you think about it.<br />
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If we were to rank all the seasons as of now, in terms of 18-49 hipness (or less frau intrusion), then we would have<br />
1) Voice Season 2--37.4% (winner: Jermaine Paul)<br />
2) Voice Season 3--35.1% (winner: Cassadee Pope)<br />
3) X Factor Season 2--34.9% (winner: Tate Stevens)<br />
4) X Factor Season 1--33.1% (winner: Melanie Amaro)<br />
5) American Idol Season 10--32.2% (winner: Scotty McCreery)<br />
6) Voice Season 4--31.8% (winner: Danielle Bradbery)<br />
7) Voice Season 5--30.1% (winner: Tessanne Chin)<br />
8) American Idol Season 11--29.7% (winner: Phillip Phillips)<br />
9) X Factor Season 3--29.2% (winner: Alex & Sierra)<br />
10) American Idol Season 12--28.3% (winner: Candice Glover)<br />
11) Voice Season 6--27.2% (TBD)<br />
12) American Idol season 13--26.0% (TBD)<br />
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Yep. We've become reduced from 35 to 25, as mentioned, which means, it's only harder to get the right winner for mainstream music when you're likely catering to age brackets that are predominantly 50+ and above, when ideally, getting them into CHR loving 18-34 is where it is really at, or HAC loving 25-35. But the likely age brackets, through that 25-75 extrapolation now, are likely in the high 40s to even 50s, which makes it very tough sledding. And one wonders why the outside-the-show success rates of these contestants are even less than baseball at-bat percentages. No wonder why Interscope has ran away from Idol, in particular. Even though XF made a Faustian bargain that really reduced its total viewers and ultimately got it canceled, at least it maintained a pretty good 18-49 percentage, since Simon really catered his show towards marketing teens. The reality is, with the viewing environment, it's tough to get a winner that fits within the radio environment when you've radio wants one thing, and the viewing audience wants another. Can't find that happy medium.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482901438415079226.post-15626178791001866622014-02-13T11:38:00.000-08:002014-02-13T22:59:32.262-08:00RANKING THE TOP 31, PRE-RUSH WEEKOkay, now that we're pretty informed on how TPTB is shaping the season, who they are promoting, and the contestants' singing ability and personalities, here's one man's educated guess on how the rankings (for getting votes) are shaping up heading into rush week:<br />
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1) Majesty Rose<br />
2) CJ Harris<br />
3) Sam Woolf<br />
4) Dexter Roberts<br />
5) George Lovett<br />
6) Brandy Neelly<br />
7) Briana Oakley<br />
8) Malcolm Allen<br />
9) Alex Preston<br />
10) Austin Wolfe<br />
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11) MK Nobilette<br />
12) Jessica Meuse<br />
13) Kenzie Hall<br />
14) Casey Thrasher<br />
15) Ben Briley<br />
16) Jena Asciutto<br />
17) Caleb Johnson<br />
18) Spencer Lloyd<br />
19) Jillian Jensen<br />
20) Kristen O'Connor<br />
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21) Briston Maroney<br />
22) Marrialle Sellars<br />
23) Emily Piriz<br />
24) Ethan Harris<br />
25) Maurice Townsend<br />
26) Malaya Watson<br />
27) Emmanuel Zidor<br />
28) Bria Anai<br />
29) Jordan Brisbane<br />
30) Andrina Brogden<br />
31) Neco Starr<br />
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1) Majesty Rose--She has very expressive eyes, and a friendly disposition. Couple that with the fact that she defies stereotype extremely well, and has a very expressive softer register even with guitar, and that's a possible winner. She's one of the more creative types we've seen on Idol for a long time. "Violet Hill" was genius and enough to catapult her to the #1 spot alone. Harmonious. She's also shown underrated ability to belt, but not overdo it. Just has a great sense of what she wants to represent. Calm vibe inside and out, and she could navigate through the theme weeks, which is largely why I put her above some of the others immediately below. She did falter at the end, but it's hard for me to move her down when her style has been quite reliable.<br />
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2) CJ Harris--This guy is a frontrunner for votes, for this reason: his face always looks emotional, but in that awwshucks way. Alabama. He reeks humility, like he doesn't have a bad apple to his bone. A true family man with a big backstory, but with the emo looking face and the very emotional "my life depended on it" belting vibe to back it up. He covers up vocal imperfections with emotion and pure vibe, and for him, with him being a country boy, it really works. He's a decent singer, but it's just that the emotion overrides it very often. He's alternated between old school Civil Rights soul and down-home country, two genres with a ton of meaning, and he's going to milk it for all it's worth. He's playing this perfectly, representing himself personality and song styling-wise, but also with the songs themselves. He's really, really consigned with his guitar because as he saw in Hollywood, he's all sorts of awkward without it, and even his acapella he needed to slap himself to maintain beat. Still, he has so many ingredients, it doesn't matter. A real major frontrunner.<br />
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3) Sam Woolf--I think CJ for now hits so many attributes he seems like an automatic frau grab. Sam is grounded and has the look to be a teenbait, and even his original song in green mile showed a tendency to show good melody in particular. He has a good sense of what he represents musically, is consistent and has the backstory. He doesn't smile, but neither did DeWyze. He probably won't do much without the guitar, but it doesn't matter. If CJ loses ground musically, which very well could happen for sure, Sam has the musical consistency to move up a notch.<br />
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4) Dexter Roberts--He personifies down-South country with the bro aspect--everything that's current about country music. He looks like your Southern brother and doesn't look like that country star, but I don't think it matters since his vibe is completely there. He's got an extremely deep twangy bro country sound, has one of the best identities on the show, and is extremely relatable to the frau. Down home, humble, wears the cap.<br />
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5) George Lovett--This might be an utter bomb of a ranking, especially since he was the only contestant who didn't have their audition featured. But man, he's the contestant who shows the best emotion and lays it out there on stage, even more than CJ Harris. He seems to have a constant cheery attitude which is super refreshing when you see so many glum emo faces that characterize the Idol crowd. I think that could endear him to audiences , and he's got a very cool R&B vibe. I'm kind of surprised they never pimped him, but this ranking reflects what could possibly happen, and how highly I thought of his performance.<br />
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6) Brandy Neelly--This one was another one that was tough to pigeonhole, actually,because she has definite strengths that can allow her to do well in the show, and she fits the mold easily. There might be a few subtle weaknesses though, but we'll see. For a country singer, and at her age, she's surprisingly developed with her voice: she doesn't even tread all-out country, as seen in her youtube videos, as she's really like pop country in the vein of Dolly Parton. Old style emotional poppy country. That gives her a bit of a leg up in terms of singing versatility. She's well-trained on the flow of notes and how to modulate them and express emotion, but sometimes feels like she's overdoing it on the high notes and lost within the music as opposed to connecting with the audience. Also, she's more on the self-assured, and possibly cocky? realm in the country aspect, in the Lauren Alaina vein for sure. The thing is, I don't sense TPTB are going to pimp her in the vein that they did for Alaina, and there's a lot of fraubait up top as well. She lacks the down-home awwshucks outside personality of a Janelle Arthur or a Kree Harrison, for sure. Still, she's a legit singer, and she will navigate through themes easily and get a lot of the country girl votes, but I'm not sure if she's a great long term buy.<br />
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7) Briana Oakley--She actually fits the old school/young girl with bubbly personality prototype that gets votes on these shows. She's from California, which typically docks points, but it's about the representation here; also, she lacks super bubbliness the way Jordin Sparks or Rachel Crow had, but still. she smiles, is nice enough, etc to be slotted in. She's just a belter and there could be problems off show, but for the show, it's exactly what they want. That being said, she has a great confidence, knows what notes to hit, and plays with a super large range, expressing good confidence. Pretty much the prototype of an Idol belter, including the low-key personality.<br />
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8) Malcolm Allen--This guy has such an effortless voice and has shown that through all of his performances. It's amazing how consistent and fresh it sounds, actually. It cuts through with a very rich and pleasant sound, and he has a great sense of musicality. That living and breathing music comment he made rings true. I like that he doesn't have to belt to get his point across. He might very well be the best technical singer in the competition. And there's definite vulnerability in his voice with the smooth R&B tone. Two things though: while he's in the R&B vein, I get the sense he's getting pigeonholed into covering older songs or older style songs, and that's why Connick brought up marketability--it sounds like something from the '70s instead of now. And it's unfortunate, since I think he has a few current bones to display. Also, he's a nice guy, but I don't think he has the awwshucks aspect or super accessibility the other contestants have up their sleeve. It's a bit unfortunate, so I have to take some differences here, although the possible vulnerability does prop it up a little.</div>
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9) Alex Preston--This guy is a very mixed bag with some very interesting positives and some very weird negatives. He has a very good musicality and a reasonable aptitude for hooks, but he looks completely unkempt, chipmunky and makes weird scrunched up faces when he sings. He has a very defined view of what he presents, which is both good and bad. It might mean that he's less receptive to change, and because his style is a bit unidimensional, it might mean that he'll plateau fast. Also, he really lacks the awwshucks aspect we see from Idol WGWGs, so that's a very interesting wrench on things. I kind of feel like he's always consigned to his guitar and will be extremely awkward without it, which might be fine in the real world, but under Idol's constraints he might extremely exposed. Also, he's done two original songs--his audition and green mile--and while his youtubes show aptitude, his only cover song--a very clever song choice--was slightly underwhelming in execution, because he really twisted that song up into a vein that fit his somewhat niche vibe. That song felt sort of in-accessible, which is weird for a twist up. That being said, compared to other contestants, he's here for his song twisting and original quirk, and that always presents a fresh look on things. Just don't think he has enough tricks up his sleeve, both artistic-wise and personality-wise, for the long haul.<br />
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10) Austin Wolfe--She's a nice and cute girl, but she seems to be a tad too self-assured personality-wise to really rake in the votes. Carly and Jacquie may have let their performances speak for themselves more, since we're dealing with a similar age bracket. That being said, she's incredibly polished for her age in singing chops--big voice, clever choices, mature beyond her years. She's a good fit for the show, for sure, but for vote getting? Within Idol constraints, Adele and Imagine Dragons present different belting mediums for her, and I like how she's going current. But that's another problem: between the self-assured aspect and the current song choices, she's not really getting major vote valves. Carly and Jacquie made names for themselves by belting out tunes from another age. She's got the musical goods, but little to go with on personality at all. Hasn't been super memorable thus far.<br />
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11) MK Nobilette--I think there's a real sense of vulnerability about her in her sound, something that was readily detectable even in her youtubes. She's the first contestant to declare herself "out" on the show, and she might really mobilize those votes, especially since she has the emotional, heart-tugging sound to back it up and has a good sense of artistry. As J-Lo said, a quiet storm she is--she seems very humble personality-wise, and draws in you in with a quiet sound singing-wise, and has artistry. Beverly McClellan did this on the Voice and went far, and there's precedence. Can be a real dark horse, even if she's barely been shown. That's how much of an impact her green mile might have had. Seems fairly legit with and without guitar as well.<br />
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12) Jessica Meuse--This one is extremely tough. She's had a ton of things happen for her--up, down, up. At the end, as I figured, TPTB tried to rehabilitate her image after the group round personality teardown. I still think she's just way too self-aware of what she wants to represent, and she's prickly and just too sensitive. But she peels away those layers by really pouring her emotion and heart into everything she sings, she shows some of the best hooks in her original songs, and that's real artistry. She's got a unique outlaw vibe that wasn't necessarily seen in the show. Her sensitive, fighter, misconstrued aspect might actually get votes as well, as she's casting herself in somewhat of a relatable light. She has one of the more defined personalities, but one that could interestingly get votes.<br />
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13) Kenzie Hall--I'm giving points to Kenzie because she has a super friendly general look, which puts the cuteness in a better light when it comes to voting. She has a great sense of timing and sings in a low key range that differentiates her from many of the girl belters. For those reasons, not to mention her twist up of a hip hop song, not seen since Kris Allen's days, she's extremely memorable. She might really rope the casuals in. But for vote getting? That's another story. Her low key style and the quasi hipster attitude within performances aren't exactly what frau vote for, and indie girls have a pretty poor track record of getting votes on this show (not on the Voice, which is why she might have fared better there). Also, her performance style has a welcoming, soft approach but she might be too green: she comes across as someone who has a good knack for more current songs, but older songs are a bit out for her, and this might really hinder her. She's a bit youtube artist-y for better or for worse so it's not exactly an organic fit for the competition, and it's cutesy.<br />
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14) Casey Thrasher--I' was never convinced from the massive pimping Idol gave him at the get-go. He's just got a very ordinary voice for the genre--decent-ish, but interchangeable. His choices within songs are a bit awkward, as if he doesn't fully embody the vision of what he wants to be. He did a bro country song acapella, but Dexter does it better, and he seems to have a bit of a confident, quasi-hipster air about him that might not be super accessible for the frau, and he's way less accessible than CJ for sure. More or less he's presented himself as going for the country emotional ballad angle which coupled with the dad story can be a good play, but he's a bit awkward without his guitar and pretty generic even with it. I don't think he has a great enough vision of him to establish a niche, not to mention vocally and personality-wise he's even questionable. If it weren't for the pimping he'd be lower down the list.<br />
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15) Ben Briley--Emotional country singer, but just kind of there in interchangeable fashion. We've seen his voice coupled with his family backstory before. There's not much there, and he tends to go up for higher notes which are kind of questionable, not to mention sometimes he's nasally. It presents a slightly different twist, but the whole representation is kind of like does a little bit of everything, but not good at any one thing. Still, there's no denying how much emotion he puts in, especially his "Stars" performances, and he's got a more down to earth aspect than Thrasher, seemingly, and that moves up a couple spots. He is fraubait, but with so many country types it's hard for TPTB to get invested in all of them, and as seen in the vote-off, he's the odd one out, seemingly. But this rank represents how frau could vote for him,<br />
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16) Jena Asciutto--She really had the Hayley Williams' Paramore voice down pat especially twisting up Lana Del Rey's "Video Games" and putting her big belting voice to the forefront. She has a very defined image as a alternative rock belter, a great touch for Idol. It's a unique tinge, but her pimping is fairly moderate at best, and her memorability is just OK because her personality is just shy above anything else. For those reasons, it's really hard to put her above this, even though she has potential to navigate through theme weeks. We'll see. Empty slates personality-wise, or near empty-ones, just don't really seem to get anywhere on the girls' side, and Italian girls really seem to struggle in particular. She might falter down the line, but I think her voice is going to hold up against some of the weaker ones, but I have to put her below some obvious fraubait.<br />
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17) Caleb Johnson--I think Caleb's just super overconfident, which he puts to good use to propel his powerful vocals in his Southern rock/metal vibe. It's just that he gets so caught up in what he's doing sometimes he really loses eye contact and the essences of getting votes. Of all the contestants, he the most seems to have the most hipster, full of himself vibe actually, especially in performance style, but even in a few quirks as seen in the group rounds. He seemed to hog all the spotlight to himself in the group rounds, showing a major lack of awwshucks. People have compared this to James Durbin, his former group round teammate, but he doesn't have anywhere close to the backstory, and he lacks the Southern charm to make up for it. He seems even hipster than James does as well. He's unique for this competition which really lacks male power rocker voices, and TPTB's pushing him hard for that seemingly, but still. No guitar wielding, he's acting like a front man, as seen with the mic stand. Can be a surprise elim, but his rocker voice is sorely needed in this competition and I think TPTB might prop him up a little. Rockers tend to do well, even if not of his ilk, and people below him are far less defined than he is<br />
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18) Spencer Lloyd--Spencer's ranking is largely solely off his CW-type looks which really appeals to tweens, and the Christian angle to the frau. It's as if Ace Young gamed Idol and grabbed a guitar and played the Christian card, as I've said before. His vocals are extremely weak, he knows it, and also his songwriting is a like a homeless man's Jason Mraz. It's very wannabe. I think he might flame out vocally even before this but the tween base will really sustain him for a while. I wanted to put him above Caleb, because Caleb has the opposite problem, and at the end it's about raking votes. But I don't think Spencer can survive too long on a vocal basis and pretty soon he'll drown from those limitations. That Great Big World song, anyone with a tinge of emotion can sound good. It was an obvious fluke. Had that song not existed, he would have been screwed. He's also been given obnoxious edits in Hollywood and also bad vocal and song choice type stuff, so I really don't think he can sustain on that basis.<br />
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19) Jillian Jensen--She's really going to ride that X Factor fanbase that can relate to her bullying story, and she already has a huge headstart in twitter and the social media aspect compared to other noob Idol contestants in this respect. As usual, she puts her emotional vibe before singing, but she's trying to establish herself as a songwriter. Just a decent sound though. She always seems so angsty and emotional though, and wears the pain in her face probably the most out of the contestants. That's not a recipe for getting frau votes, especially with the piercings, and I'm not sure she has the voice or really the artistic creativity to really flesh it out through theme weeks. But she's living off that X Factor fanbase and this ranking reflects that.<br />
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20) Kristen O'Connor--She's got a good vibe and is extremely polished, knowing all the steps, choosing all the hard runs, has the current pop disposition both with look and singing choices. Her personality is awwshucks accessible, with a great smile, but her performances are a bit stilted and rely on her voice, kind of in the Jessica Sanchez slant. She has a lot of things that are marketable, especially if we're playing with a 50:50 singing/looks aspect in the market today. The Jessie J song showed some artistry and a different blend of confidence, which she seems to have with her guitar. Still, her personality within songs is somewhat robotic, tested and by the book, and general personality seems "generic nice" above anything else, and that's largely the vote valve she just might not valve, especially since TPTB just doesn't seem all that invested in her. She's a hard worker, but that might not be enough.<br />
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21) Briston Maroney--Based on TPTB exposure and his own personality quirks, this guy lacks memorability beyond his rough voice. His eyes are some of the least expressive in this competition, and frauen take that into consideration; in a similar vein, he's just very forthright, almost like treating this like a business meeting. He's got a fairly expressive voice within the roughness, for sure, but that voice lacks range and won't work for every song, so theme navigations will be a real problem. Still, he wields guitar, looks innocent enough to get in tweens, and that's the bulk of this ranking. The tween vote can be strong, especially if you stay true to yourself and don't overextend the boundaries, and Briston at least has that; but he's not accessible, and that could be a problem.<br />
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22) Marrialle Sellars--Somehow, she's an awfully weird case. I'm not convinced TPTB will just throw her to the wolves like that after giving her the major pimping during audition week. But after that, she's just never had any airtime during Hollywood week. She does have her family story to fall back on for votes, but her look is too negatively arresting for the frau--in that it reeks pop star. It's sort of like XFUK's Tamera Foster all over again, but the US is far less receptive to the pop star look than the UK ever was. Still, she was portrayed as incredibly underwhelming in her green mile, so it's hard to get read on where this is going. She does have a very weak voice, and moments where she tries to act swaggy or sing pop songs straight-up are an utter disaster because her voice just lacks range and is just decent as opposed to good. But, I think TPTB will rehabilitate her, and for now she's plummeted down to here, over a few people who also might not appeal to the frau or lack the voice to make the move.<br />
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23) Emily Piriz--She sings emotionally with a piano, but she almost seems like a copycat of Julie Zorrilla, down to the confident get-up. She lacks Zorrilla's accessible smile, and I think she'll run into a lot of problems with the frau with her confident get-up, especially with performing style (it's good, but that's a double edged sword on these shows). She is polished though, so she'll be above a few people who will falter simply due to awful song choices, but I don't think she has a long term recipe for votes.<br />
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24) Ethan Harris--He hasn't been seen during his initial audition, and it appears that TPTB have staggered the visibility of contestants based on who has stood out--suggesting that Ethan just hasn't stood out. It's not surprising. His voice is very thin, and he was heavily relying on Keith Urban pandering in his song, suggesting that his musical identity just isn't there. Not surprising, as he heavily relies on adult contemporary emotional-laced songs as opposed to his voice. His boy-bandy look and squeaky voice also stand out, and that might really be the crux of the ranking. But in terms of song choice and singing, he's going to falter. He's likely pitted by TPTB to gain a spot against Spencer Lloyd, but he might falter in getting it. His songs are just generic as hell, even in Green Mile, as figured.<br />
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25) Maurice Townsend--He's got a pleasant, decent voice that knows its limitations for sure, but he's progressively getting more unmemorable in a sea of more memorable people. He still has that humble, family angle that he's working, but so do quite a few others, and he's just getting overshadowed on that aspect. On the R&B aspect he's also getting overshadowed by a few others. In other words, he's just very expendable, and he doesn't have more tricks up his sleeve musically.</div>
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26) Malaya Watson--She has a very emotional angsty voice which she showed in her last song, and has a great belting voice. She was noted for staying on the center of her own pitch for most of her performances, and she's surprisingly polished for a belter, but also for her age. Still, she gets excited and sometimes is behind the beat, so she's still raw in that regard. Her nerdy look could earn points, but I'm not sure if her general personality is super accessible. It's decent, but it comes off extremely kid-dy, even for frau standards. Even her performing style seems somewhat on the kid vein, in both group and green mile rounds, and that could really hinder her.<br />
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27) Emmanuel Zidor--He's getting so much screentime and is extremely memorable, I think he could possibly get more votes than some of the less-shown, more unmemorable characters in the cast. He does show emotion, and he has a sensitive side which he showed in his audition. He teeters on the ridiculous, but still.<br />
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28) Bria Anai--She seems to have a tendency to really be extremely loud, almost like showboating in an attempt to show emotion. That's a bad habit she needs to break, but she might be too young to realize it. It's an awful recipe to get votes, because she doesn't seem to have great control in leveraging her voice to really create moments, because she uses it excessively to artificially force moments rather than naturally create them organically. Cart before horse, and even the pop star look and confidence swag is something that's going to be a turnoff for frau voting. She seems far more like a fit for X Factor, but I do give her credit for trying to rake back in the votes with a very friendly, smiley, bubbly personality. She's got that marketability factor, but I don't think TPTB will know how to optimize her, much less the frau taking to it even in spite of her range, confidence and personality.<br />
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29) Jordan Brisbane--He has a sweet disposition and a bit of a baby face, so he might get votes that way. He has an eager-beaver approach to singing with jazz hands, but some breathing and coordination problems; very much like Thaddeus Johnson, he tries to power through the song as opposed to really slowing the song down in his mind and breaking it down organically. It's very typical for someone his age. He needs more years of seasoning. I'm putting him below Bria because he's far more undeveloped vocally, and Bria has that smile she can get to while Jordan only relies on his baby face representation.<br />
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30) Andrina Brogden--She sounds a bit copy cat and lacks depth and richness in her voice, with her "Burn" cover--she just didn't bring anything to it, like a lazy rendition to it. She seems to have a pleasant voice, but it doesn't go beyond that. I like that she chooses current songs, but it's copycat. She sort of looks the part, but she's way too welterweight personality-wise but primarily with singing and choice-making. Nothing really relatable to the frau, and wasn't portrayed as memorable.<br />
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31) Neco Starr--TPTB have displayed Neco enough particularly throughout Hollywood to perhaps push this ranking a little higher, but scour through most of Neco's youtubes on the Idol channel and you'll see how many down votes and comment criticisms he's getting with how he's oversinging, seems un-likable, etc. There's a high correlation between those comments and how the frau actuate, barring sympathy votes and major pimpage. Neco has found a groove belting out modern music with swag, but that's exactly the problem: this fits far better on X Factor. With a bunch of fraubait, more humble people and more people playing sympathy cards, Neco's brand just won't survive. Not to mention he' doesn't quite know how to leverage his voice, as seen in his initial audition and Green Mile. He's the last person to attempt to get a spot, but I think there's too much against him, and he won't get it against the far more frau-accessible Ben Briley. Obvious.<br />
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Nah, just playin'. There's a ton of reasons that have already been touted by the masses--awful judges, awful staging, the awful scheduling, awful hosts, awful post-show track records...a lot of awful in the essential ingredients.<br />
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<b><u>Introduction: Why Simon is leaving, Why XFUK works, and the British-US Music Backchannels</u></b><br />
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X Factor touted itself, when it first came to America, as being able to find the international superstars. It actually had the track record to back it up--many of the contestants churned out of the UK X Factor had number one or at least top ten hits in their native country, both in albums and in singles. It certainly helps that as the primary singing show in England, the audience is extremely receptive to the music churned out by the competition. Leona Lewis certainly qualified as such for a period in the mid 2000s and had two hit singles in America, and Simon was coming off the heels of XFUK7, which churned out the show's highest selling act internationally, manufactured group One Direction, and Cher Lloyd. 1D to this day is still going extremely song internationally, consistently being a number one album seller here in the US even with releasing an album every year. While the radio reception is less friendly relative to their album buys and general exposure, largely because their music is too youthful and poppy for the 18-35 demographic still, that could look to change as they grow deeper into that age bracket. Cher Lloyd has at least spawned a hit single here, and while album sales were underwhelming, she's focusing all her resources by relocating here to the States. Olly Murs had a hit single teaming up with Flo Rida as well, but like Lloyd has had underwhelming album sales. Still, that's four acts that have at least made some name for themselves in American pop culture lexicon, and it's helmed by the very strong One Direction.<br />
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It also helps that we're in the midst of a wave where there is very little barrier of entry between music from the UK and the United States now. During a huge swath from 2000-2010, only the aforementioned Leona Lewis, Coldplay, and one-hit wonder James Blunt were really a part of the American pop culture lexicon. The unofficial demarcation of the opening of the floodgates began during a period when the beats-oriented hip hop transitioned into a more electronic dance music sound somewhere along 2009-2010, with people like Jay Sean and Taio Cruz were really making a market on the American CHR scene. The EDM wave then really caught fire, with DJs (Calvin Harris, the Swede David Guetta) leading the pack. Once the folk wave kicked in, Ellie Goulding and Ed Sheeran entered the fray and became household names churning off hits based on name recognition. Boybands like XF's One Direction and The Wanted entered, as well as girl group Little Mix, the latter two really latching onto the EDM sound. There is generally a one-year lag time between hits in Europe and songs that enter the chart in the US, but we're at the sweet spot where if the song is a hit at Europe, then it's likely to be a hit in the US. The Wanted's "Glad You Came", Avicii's "Wake Me Up", Passenger's "Let Her Go", John Newman's "Love Me Again", Bastille's "Pompeii", Naughty Boy feat Sam Smith's "La La La" and Disclosure feat Sam Smith's "Latch". It's a steady stream of hits that join together to create a British presence in the American charts, all the time.<br />
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And it might be why Simon's returning back to the UK: with the name-brand recognition of XFUK, their audience's reliability to generating chart and album toppers, the constant British presence in American CHR charts, and the idea that hits in Europe seem to become hits in America right now, it's quite easy to see a thriving business. In fact, those backchannels appear to be far more receptive for radio than the more direct business of Idol and The Voice, both of whom have struggled to create CHR chart toppers in recent years.<br />
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<b><u>Part II: Simon Through the First and Second Epochs of American Idol</u></b><br />
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Simon's grand goal has always been money, rather than music: he's willing to set the trends (see starting back the boyband fad mainstream by inventing One Direction; making girl groups like Fifth Harmony and country boy bands like Restless Road) but also willing to piggyback, as seen by the pimping of Chris Daughtry and Adam Lambert in their respective American Idol seasons to capitalize on the post-grunge and the image-based pop culture aspect, respectively.<br />
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He didn't necessarily think money all the music before, particularly in the early incarnations of Simon: back when he was unknown (early Idol), he liked the belting forms of music: Kelly Clarkson, Ruben Studdard, Kim Locke, Clay Aiken, Trenyce, Fantasia. But then again, back around 2002-2005, radio was game for anything, Idol was extremely fresh, and singing was still (somewhat) important. R&B, for starters, still had singing over beats, rather than beats over singing. Even through the second epoch, he threw the phrase "vocal masterclass" at people like Elliott Yamin and Melinda Doolittle, and back then, when Simon was Simon, that meant something to the frau.<br />
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By the way, through the second epoch, and for a huge swath from 2000-2010, it's instructive to note that Idol operated under a different set of standards from radio. CHR, during this period, was dominated by a bunch of stateside-bred hip hop, crunk, R&B and trap music. There is also a great helping of post-grunge and emo alternative rock, as well as female rockers, produced stateside or in Canada. Akon, Sean Paul, Lil Wayne, Baby Bash, Chris Brown, and Ne-Yo were absolutely ubiquitous during this time period and were either primary artists or featured in a bunch of songs. On the surf music end we were littered with American Idol-bred Daughtry and Kelly Clarkson, Nickelback, 3 Doors Down, Simple Plan, Good Charlotte, and Avril Lavigne being a major part of the lexicon. And of course, there are just the image-based pop types that always populate CHR, like Christina Aguilera, Britney Spears, Rihanna, Beyonce, etc.<br />
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Only in the Idolsphere, where the core frauen weren't exposured to CHR music or where there are music purists who absolutely loathed what was on the radio, was there a mass market for pure vocalists. But back then, Idol's record label was heavily invested, the show as mentioned extremely fresh, radio relatively receptive, so Idol pushed through the constraints of their old-age theme weeks and helped to gain success for quite a few of their contestants. The philosophy was that with enough identity, with enough beats, with enough of an image, were the transition through Idol's core audience and into the radio casuals possible. Fantasia became a mainstay in UAC with her image and backstory, Kelly Clarkson reinvented herself as a rocker chick which led to "Breakaway" and made a major name for herself, and Chris Daughtry piggybacked his way onto the Nickelback and became "America's answer to Nickelback" throughout his blazing hot success in 2007-08.<br />
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Simon wasn't necessarily impatient during this period, but with a record exec's eye, it's pretty obvious to see what the landscape offered, compared to what Idol offered. Even with his British roots, it isn't hard to see that Idol, throughout the early epochs, was really avoiding current music. Besides old British producers who grew up listening to the Beatles, Tom Jones, and Lulu between the '60s and '70s, a lot of this was as mentioned, due to the hip-hop/post-grunge/surf rock infested music climate. Idol branded itself as a singing competition, and frankly, a pure family-oriented show that mothers and their daughters could watch together after dinner. That completely omits the hip hop spectrum side of things: a bit unfortunate, since radio at the time was extremely receptive to the stateside bred hip hop, and anything with a heavy beat and slick raps could instantly hit 5000 spins and a 30 million audience share. But it's not singing, a common theme touted by the producers and the frauen alike. Idol penetrated into the post-grunge angle a bit, especially testing the waters here in the second Epoch when trying to convert Southern rocker Bo Bice and theatrical rocker Constantine Maroulis into something approximating post-grunge. But like trying to fit a square peg into a round hole, that wasn't going to work.<br />
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So between old executives like Lythgoe and producers like Fuller, combined with the heavy use of a '60s-'70s-'80s theme weeks and song lists to avoid doing any of the blasphemous music in current and relatively recent radio, Idol put itself into a mild constraint that would have long term repercussions if they did not evolve fast enough out of it. Simon is still a culprit: as mentioned, he has a love of diva belters, which continued well into the likes of Stacy Francis'es and Lillie McCloud's that we saw XFUS1 and XFUS3, respectively. For those reasons, it's hard to even say he was impatient. He was certainly receptive, and Idol was evolving, albeit slowly: still avoiding the very modern songs, but their contestant pool started to have creative ones, as mentioned with Bo Bice and Constantine Maroulis. Song rearrangements started with Chris Daughtry who made almost every song he performed into a post-grunge joint, which was met with both delight and fear: delight from certain subsets that Idol was becoming creative, but fear because Daughtry's post-grunge undertones are absolutely loathed, exemplifying all that was wrong with modern day music for many purists and frau.</div>
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Kelly Clarkson was perfect in that sense: not only was she the original, she was able to establish a "rebel-heroine" niche with her pseudo-rock persona and melancholic undertones of her early songs, but she was also accessible, personable, friendly and emphasized her vocals, all attributes that have helped her maintain her Idol fanbase. For the executive, that was perfect: she bridged the gap, and because she had both sides, she sold a ton, and still to this day. Carrie Underwood as well fit the bill, on the country scale, even though it was clear that Simon saw her as a huge money grab since he didn't necessarily understand the genre. In addition, as we know with Simon's obsession with the international superstar, due to his British sensibilities, Carrie wasn't one, because country only permeates through parts of Canada and Australia. Still, both Carrie and Kelly are regularly cited as one of the Idols that many of the aspiring AI hopefuls are influenced by; does anyone cite Daughtry?</div>
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Daughtry might have represented a slight philosophical shift in Simon's thinking: Daughtry received a "no" from Cowell at his initial audition, but his rebel "frau-loathing" rock was a hit in the States. Simon saw that. As the resident "douchebag" in Idol's judging panel, Cowell's always had a contrarian view of pop music: he likes the male contestants to have edge, or swagger (we'll get to this in detail in a little bit). And frankly, this is what jibes with the state of modern radio: post-grunge, as a genre, is aggressive, sounding like someone is hawking a loogie, and focusing on darker topics or darker sounding beats. As for the hip hop of the time, it goes without saying that it is aggressive. To Cowell's mind, this showed that "edgy" contestants do work on this show and can go on to have outside success.</div>
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The take-away from Simon's thought patterns were this: he really likes diva belters, and that's probably the only prototype of contestant he does not mind, regardless of marketability or not. AI3 and AI6, considered two of Idol's worse seasons, were stacked with diva belters, likely because Cowell had a heavy hand in casting in those seasons. In general, though, he likes the females to be pop stars that are huge money grabs: Kelly is the gold standard, Carrie was great for the American market, but fell short of Cowell's international standards. </div>
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In particular, Simon wants the diva belter pop star: a young-ish black girl who has the image down pat, or can develop the image over time, with personality, but also with belting skills. It was around the time of Daughtry that Simon really developed momentum on this front: Leona Lewis came from XFUK at around 2006-07, and Jordin Sparks as well came after Daughtry's season in AI6. Jordin wasn't a diva belter, but had enough sensibilities in that front, and had that youthful image. Both Jordin and Leona were able to churn out CHR hit songs during this time period, and all had crossover appeal. Jordin gained a massive teen following, something that Simon requires due to his boyband expertise, and she's amazingly, to this date, the only person to have teamed up with a R&B/hip hop type in Chris Brown that was a major hit, and which also gave her broader international appeal (Haley Reinhart did team up with B.o.B. and Stefano Langone teamed up with New Boyz later on, but both singles did not make a dent at all). </div>
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Idol's song playlist freshened up more because of the contestants themselves rather than the producers actually proactively doing something about it, but Cowell worked around the constraints: the next two seasons after the Jordin Sparks season were used to test out the musical viability of other male contestant prototypes: Adam Lambert (image-based pop), David Archuleta (awwshucks boybander), and David Cook (post-grunge). Lambert in particular worked around some crazy constraints on the show: he billed himself as a old-school rocker during his run, but Daughtry'd them up to fit his style, which is yet another influence of Daughtry on the show. He largely did this because his style of pop would have flew in the face of the audience, and as mentioned TPTB at the time just did not clear the songs. Archuleta filled the clean-cut young boybander image that may or may not have been used to influence the filling out of the members of One Direction, especially given Cowell's history with clean-cut boybands. David Cook brought another "edgy" type to the table, to prove that Daughtry's style might work.</div>
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Archuleta, Cook and Lambert all saw decent success, but Archuleta wasn't Bieber, and Lambert wasn't the next great pop act that the show attempted to prop up both to be. In that respect, Simon, who by this time probably had an enormous ego after seeing the success of Kelly, Daughtry, Jordin, and Leona, was disappointed. Archuleta and Lambert did amass a pretty size-able international following, though, a feature that wasn't really seen since Kelly. Relative to the hype, all three of them had fleeting success, and radio was already starting to constrict on Idol play. </div>
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For those reasons, Cowell started to lose interest in the Idol brand. Obviously, under the Idol flagship, he was an employee, and his feud with Simon Fuller is well documented. Cowell knew that, and likely was using Idol as a learning tool from the very start: he had his inclinations for which contestant types he liked, as documented above, and saw what worked, and what didn't. Daughtry worked. Kelly worked. Jordin worked. Lambert, Archuleta, Cook kind of did. For the UK during this time, Leona Lewis worked, and another act, JLS, brought urban edge to the forefront that was never before seen on Idol. As for the old song choices? They did improve slightly with the evolution of the contestant prototype, but Cowell didn't mind; he loves the diva belters, so Whitney and Celine was always on the preferred list for him.</div>
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So when X Factor came to the US, Simon was confident that his formula would work out. He thought he saw a happy medium where the more marketable contestants could appease (or survive, as it were, with a lot of pimpage) the core frau who watch the show and navigate their way into the marketplace. </div>
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There were problems though: Simon grew soft. It's hard to attribute a specific reason, but it's worthy to note that when he was manning XFUK and Idol in the same time, Simon would present a "soft" persona in XFUK, routinely cheering for his acts even when they were awful (and he always cast joke acts on the show) while when he returned to Idol, he'd carry his "douchebag" hard-to-satisfy persona. Perhaps the concept of "mentoring" on X Factor required that, but there was a huge dissonance when he switched his personality from Idol to XFUS. He routinely clapped, he seemed less grouchy, etc. His comments lost all meaning. It's worth noting that Simon used to say the phrase "vocal masterclass" somewhere in Idol's Epoch 2--but by X Factor, that was all gone. He started getting into complete marketability mode after seeing Daughtry, Leona and Jordin, saying stuff like "You're not the best singer, but you've got something about you." Eventually, he cut to the chase of what he was getting at, "You look like a pop star" telling that to people like Summer Reign (of Sweet Suspense), Stone Martin, and Paige Thomas. </div>
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It wasn't just Simon: Demi Lovato and LA Reid towed Simon's company line. Demi was as polarizing as Daughtry was in Idol: she's beloved by her own faction of fans, but within the X Factor-sphere, her "desire to represent her own generation's style of music" bombed. She was anti-frau, in every sense of the word, and represented a bratty teen in the eyes of said frau. She looked at everything through pop-tinted lenses, even hilariously telling Vino Alan after a live show performance that it "wasn't a pop star performance." Completely and utterly hilarious--Vino was as hardcore soul/grunge as you can get, and pop star? The show was already deluding itself with its desire to fall head over heels over pop stars, and wasn't making any bones about it. With her young age, she also really lacked major credibility to judge, although to be fair, the other judges were in the same boat. </div>
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Demi didn't care about XFUS3 as much for those reasons; because the teen-season was widely panned, even with an over winning, the show operated more conventionally. There were still teens, but the majority of them were subdued. There were still a few stage and performing-based types like Carlito Olivero, Josh Levi, Sweet Suspense and Ellona Santiago, but the majority of them were far subdued (Alex & Sierra, Restless Road, Rion Paige, Tim Olstad, Carlos Guevara, Khaya Cohen, Danie Geimer). Josh had potential, but was too young to be taken seriously, and Sweet Suspense and Ellona Santiago seemed to be overdoing it and almost playing dress-up (of note is that Demi, despite dressing down her acts in XFUS2, didn't really seem too excited for Ellona throughout the competition, even hesitating in her decision in the 4-chair, despite Ellona's willingness to even dress down; perhaps she didn't see her as an organic pop act). Carlito was all sorts of cheese who lasted well beyond his expiration date on the show. In the aggregate, Demi just wasn't interested; everyone was underage except Carlito, who was just poor. She couldn't dress down Rion (for obvious reasons), only half-dressed down Khaya (she was too young), and couldn't care less about the non pop-star looking Danie Geimer. Her lack of interest resulted once again in all her acts getting eliminated, even over Paulina Rubio's contestants, who were widely panned. Demi tried to learn from her mistakes, but she's just not cut out for non-pop acts at all in terms of direction; one wonders if she had to mentor the overs, but one also wonders what would have happened if she had chosen Bree Randall, Jamie Pineda, Rylie Brown and Primrose Martin (acts that are more her speed) rather than the four she chose. Kind of hilarious how that works out.</div>
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LA Reid had the same agenda as well, but did it in a more callous way than Demi (and that's saying something, since Demi sometimes made scathing comments out of the blue as well). LA was a candidate for American Idol back in the day, which would have been hilarious to see how he would have operated there. He was stone-faced and frankly, it would have been hard to tell if he was ever being truthful, because like Simon he saw the world through hip hop, urban or pop-tinted glasses. LA was widely panned for fielding a R&B/hip hop crew of Astro, Chris Rene and Marcus Canty into the finals, omitting obvious fraubait acts like Tim Cifers and Brennin Hunt at judges' houses and Phillip Lomax at the semis. It was obvious at the time he was looking for people he was comfortable with, which was R&B and hip hop. Look at his wiki--he's a R&B/hip hop based guy, since the '90s, with pop like Avril and P!nk. Despite being an exec, he's not even fit to criticize guys like Josh Krajcik or Tate Stevens. </div>
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Speaking of Stevens...we'll get to that in a second. But LA's narrow-minded focus was quite interesting for one reason for the casual: he brought urban flair into singing competitions. Granted, XF wasn't a "singing" competition, but introducing songwriting rap artists like Chris Rene and Asro presented a different, fresh look to the table that to date no singing show has even come close to right now. Both lasted long enough and had signature moments, introducing a bunch of new songs to the table due to their genres. For those reasons, LA's team was very interesting, even if it was heavy-handed on the way to getting there. Back to Stevens now...LA, again showing his uni-dimensional youth-obsessed R&B/hip hop persona, was extremely angry to get the overs in season 2, and phoned it in from there. He sacked David Correy, who one would have thought would have been an obvious Reid choice, given that he was the youngest of the overs, slanted R&B/pop with a dash of hip hop and was influenced by Chris Rene. Tate Stevens and Jason Brock, two obvious misfits for Reid's R&B/urban slanted edge, remained. And then he didn't have a crap. A scarecrow could have helped Tate Stevens win--Reid wasn't really doing anything. And he willingly sabotaged Jason Brock and Vino Alan, the latter at Simon's orders when he kept placing third in votes over his golden boys' Emblem3. At times, to be frank, it looked like LA was paying more attention to Emblem3 than any act in his category--he routinely praised their performances, his eyes lit up in ways that weren't seen in any other performances, and given the youth/hip hop aspect, it perfectly made sense. At the end, his label Epic started a bidding war with Columbia for E3 which they lost out to. So like Demi and Simon, just another chapter in a desire to get pop acts.</div>
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Simon, as the show's producer, played the game, but it was very easy to see how artificial he was. As mentioned, he did a complete 180 in personality, and that largely would have been enough. But it was easy to be cynical about how he was acting: beneath the flashing lights, the heavy beats, the staging, the swag, the rap and the image-based dress-up, there were actually (gasp) straight-up singers and WGWGs. To the casual, those tend to get lost in the clutter of the pop-oriented shenanigans, but to the frau, that's a wailing siren to dial their fingers and vote for said contestant. Simon definitely tilted the scales toward marketability, as mentioned, and hired yes-men like LA Reid to do the same, and filled the rest with various pop stars (Demi, Britney, Nicole (star in the UK, at least), Paula (in the '80s), Kelly Rowland (image-based throughout '90s and 2000s) and Paulina). With the exception of Kelly, who seems candid and well meaning and is willing to put in the effort to showcase her acts in the best possible light, even if they are out of genre for her, no one else is relatable to the core frau. No one. The judges, the staging, the casting of certain contestants all branded this as a pop show, and Simon's softening and pop-slanted comments (i.e. "You look like a pop star", as mentioned) only furthered that. He routinely championed his acts even with mediocre or poor performances, and Emblem3 and Restless Road were shoved down America's throats while he was mentor, even though America never really took to them the way their massive pimpage would have suggested. </div>
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It's worth noting that there is Simon, the "judge" on the show, and then there's Simon, the "music producer" after the show. These present two different faces. After three seasons of data, it's readily obvious that Simon only cares about the tweens, especially in the throes of the One Direction success here in the States. In fact, there seemed to be an air of One Direction over every XF episode Season 2 and beyond (after 1D caught fire), to the point where the show was pretty much a promotional platform for them at the expense of the other contestants. And, it was clear that Simon was blatantly trying to get a One Direction variant here in the States, without sidestepping on One Direction themselves, as he had the groups category for two straight seasons. Playback looked too much like One Direction, rap-style, so they were shelved; instead, Emblem3, which attempted to cater to a reggae/hip hop/songwriting enlightened group, was pushed to the forefront. Similarly, Cowell at XFUS3 sidestepped 1D with Restless Road, which was largely a boyband venture for the country market (a failed one at that, because Colton left Restless Road). He pretty much devoted all his resources to them while on the show and early on had Fifth Harmony and Alex & Sierra, respectively, as his secondary options; both ended up finishing higher than the two other acts, which might be another blemish in Cowell's record and judgment. </div>
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"Music producer" Simon was said to have only gained interest in Fifth Harmony after they proved that they had many fans, and even then, they relegated them to extremely unreliable Epic Records as opposed to giving them the priority label, Columbia (which was given to Emblem3). Simon only really ramped up his attention to Alex & Sierra mid-way through the competition, when he saw that their songs were routinely charting in the top ten on Itunes. And then, there's the rest: it's hard to say Cowell was sleepwalking in XFUS1, but to the casual observer it was quite obvious that Melanie's gospel-tinged voice would have no place in the current music climate, so there was definite concern about why she was being pimped with the judges' houses shenanigans. It was an epic fail that could have been seen from day 1, and in a show where they had the more marketable Chris Rene, Marcus Canty, and Astro, they followed through on it. Anyone could see the script: Melanie was forced to do dance pop to fit into the environment, failing completely because she's just not of that ilk and didn't represent herself as such on the show, and upon failure her potential album got shelved, wreaking havoc on both her and XF's name in the process (because their first winner was such a flop). It's hard to see Simon getting excited about Rachel Crow (too young) or Drew (too sensitive/young) as well, and their breakdowns on stage were well chronicled.</div>
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Which brings to the other point: what the hell, exactly, is the point of the overs, or frankly, WGWGs in this competition? We have foresight now, but based on the track record, it seems that this show as mentioned just pays lip service to the WGWGs to appease the core frau and give the pretense of a singing competition. Josh Krajcik was massively pimped throughout his run with a completely incompetent coach in Nicole Scherzinger, who just wasn't fit to handle the genre, but he completely disappeared post-show. Tate Stevens is another case of this; in his case, the show used subtle backchannels to de-pimp him (bootcamp, judge's houses) but then Simon made a dumb as hell comment stating that "Tate represents all of America". Those comments are instant credibility killers, especially with foresight. It's clear that Simon, LA , Britney and Demi knew nothing about country, and while Tate kind of received lukewarm comments the rest of the way, there was nothing negative or ways to de-pimp him, and he won by absolute coasting. This once again shows that the frau have a foothold in the competition. Tate was completely uninvested in, released a very basic lazy-as-hell music video,, sold nothing in albums, and was dropped. His presence on the show was completely pointless if that was the end result. </div>
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The problem was really just execution in the face of presenting something to the core frauen audience. Simon put the cart before the horse on this one, giving some pretense of a competition when everything around it screamed pop. And frauen hate pop, especially the sort of pop played on the radio. Simon was able to push some of the more unconventional, aggressive-guy acts (Chris Rene, Emblem3, Marcus Canty, Carlito Olivero) but largely due to mass-pimping or sympathy. Simon wasn't able to generate any diva belting pop aspiring clone here, although he did attempt this with Tamera Foster in XFUK recently. The pop types churned out were all just too aggressive (Ellona), misconstrued (Khaya, Drew) or simply didn't have vocals, especially with CeCe, Paige in XFUS2. He couldn't find any sort of balance in three seasons. He wasn't able to overcome the storm, which is why many of the top three acts are more frau-type acts than what the show would normally push forward.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482901438415079226.post-83144680022713726452014-02-10T13:32:00.002-08:002014-02-10T13:32:36.690-08:00Ranking the Urban Acts Across All X Factors<span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">I'm going to organize the acts by category:</span><br />
<a name='more'></a><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">We'll start with urban acts. The acts that you won't find in any other show (cough *Idol*Voice*) because they're too "street" for the frau, which is why X Factor gets awful ratings whenever a cast is too urban. Routinely, these are the acts that need a ton of prodding to make it far, as you'll see below. Their songs are characterized by heavy beats, heavy production, movements, backwards caps, Paul Pierce gang signs among other things. Of course, rappers and general coolness included. Note that any group with a rapper, even if the others aren't exactly urban, are thrown into this list just because rap takes precedence. There are a few borderline cases (particularly with pop girls) mostly due to R&B/pop influenced stage presence above anything else. Sometimes it straddles R&B for the singing acts, but it's very easy to tell when someone is influenced by Usher or Ciara rather than by Luther Vandross or Diana Ross. Anyone who is clearly influenced by Vandross or Ross is excluded from the list. Finally, I'm going to include all acts starting from judge's houses (or 4-chair in the case of XFUS3) and beyond. For the UK version, I'm going to start with season 5, and AUS season 3, because that's when the urban really picked up on the show. Without further ado:</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">53) Barry Southgate. XFAUS3. Guy was clearly earmarked as fodder and was constantly off pitch and off key. You could also hear the stench of desperation when he sung, an it's clear he's not a natural with music. It's funny how they transformed him from old soul into R&B-izing a bunch of pop songs. Kung fu swagger lands him on this urban list.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">52) James Tanner, XFUS2 JH. Partty like a wock. Party like a wock star. Party like a wock? Party like a wockstar. Never thought you'd see a Reed Deming clone rap. You should have heard his original work. Made MattyBRaps look like Eminem.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">51) Adira-Belle. XFAUS3. Just lost in the clutter, interchangeable...nothing. That's obviously worse than being entertaining and awful.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">50) Miss Dynamix. XFUK10. An overhyped next Destiny's Child experiment gone awry, these girls had zero chemistry and sang off key at times and were undone by one of the members getting pregnant.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">49) Tiah Tolliver. XFUS1. She seemed too low key to be immersed in X Factor's performance garments. Subpar vocals. Nothing there.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">48) Belle Amie. XFUK7. These girls did some urban stuff such as with Airplanes but it was mellow. Tried hard, but very underwhelming in execution.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">47) Marlon McKenzie. XFUK7 JH. Soulful voice. Later got put into The Risk and got replaced out. Not particularly memorable.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">46) Nick Youngerman. XFUS2 JH. Rapper with verve, but sounded like he was doing this for fun. Party rapper. </span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">45) Allison Davis. XFUS3 Chair. Ranked her this high because she mashed up two songs and showed a little bit of creativity for that, but otherwise it was a very predictable, poor performance that got boos. True Ke$ha clone</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">44) Brick City. XFUK10 JH. Group concept looks interesting. Decent harmonies, but really lack a lead to grab attention and just lacked spazz. Seem over-rehearsed</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">43) 4Shore. XFUS1 JH. Drew comparisons to Boyz II Men from LA Reid in initial audition, but over-rehearsed their boy band moves and one of their guys always sounded very choppy on the high notes. Too old school and also lacked spazz.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">42) Simone Battle. XFUS1. Had a decent showing with her judge's house performance spliced between two performance-heavy numbers showing stage presence, but more or less lacking in vocals, vocal creativity and vocal dynamics. But effort was there</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">41) The Keys. XFUK8 JH. Had two core members--Charlie and Dan, their rapper. The other three were kind of interchange-able. OK group, but didn't look like they were catering to many subset and seemed like it was just for fun, besides Charlie always leapfrogging groups to desperately get on XF. He later got shoved into The Risk, a smart choice.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">40) Nathan Fagan-Gayle. XFUK9 JH. A plant with a long resume before XF, this guy is style over substance and does dance-R&B complete with backflips and jumps off stage. Decent voice who probably should have gotten the chance.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">39) 2Squar'd. XFUS1 JH. Showe some fairly tight harmonies, a pop-R&B ready image and had some recordable music pre-show, but were sabotaged</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">38) FYD. XFUK7. Dance-obsessed man band with cheesy choreographed moves but at least they tried to bring the vocals. </span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">37) Arin Ray. XFUS2. Was just kind of there and didn't establish his identity. Showed some vocals particularly in JH, showed some stage presence, but didn't excel at any one thing. Very serious personality didn't allow for votes. Homeless man's Usher</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">36) Straight Up. XFUAUS5 JH. Sounded like the girl was doing most of the heavy lifting, and three people weren't pulling their weight. Backflips appear to distract from vocals more than anything.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">35) Wild Thingz. XFUS3 Chair. Rock-tinged rap group with a fun side and major stage presence. </span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">34) Duke. XFUK9 JH. Beatboxing group with a 39-year old in it who is mad good at creating crazy beats. Vocals aren't special, but have a guitar player. But I'm putting them here sheerly due to the beatboxing</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">33) Paige Thomas. XFUS2. Eh. Just like Ray, kind of there, and like Tolliver, low key personality outfitted into loud garments. She's ranked this high because she had several good performances like the rickroll song and Paradise and Everytime for her save me songs, but otherwise...</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">32) Nu Vibe. XFUK8. R&B boyband made to capitalize on 1D's victory and cater to the urban types, but failed miserably with chemistry. Had several swag demons in the group who were way more bark than bite and Ashford largely carried the group before he got shoved into cyborg group The Risk. Ranked here due to swag demons+Ashford.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">31) Dope Crisis. XFUS2 JH. Who the nicest? Guy sounds really good, but the rapper is a bit amateur. Still, interesting duo.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">30) Young Men Society, XFAUS4. Swag based group down under. Vocals are very choppy, but have stage presence for days. </span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">29) Code 4, XFUK10 JH. America's Best Dance Crew type backflips and urban choreographed moves, but subpar blends and individual vocals. But their stage dynamics lift them here</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">28) Carlito Olivero, XFUS3. Goat vibrato voice and he really sings like he's in pain, like his vocal chords are going to burst. Doesn't have great range but gives it his all to emote feeling. Swag moves come off very cheesy, as does his serenading the ladies. Tries hard to do everything but lacks clean execution in everything.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">27) Playback, XFUS2 JH. One of the two possible options to give America a One Direction option, Playback was the urban answer, stuffed with two rappers (Owen and Johnny). It even had its Zayn clone in Brandon Hassan. The singers though were kind of subpar, but they just provide the types for the teens to fawn over. Had a decent showing in their JH performance</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">26) Illusion Confusion, XFUS1 JH. Showed smooth R&B harmonies in their initial audition which was not aired, with boyband cheesy dance moves when they are a man band. Really looked amateur at JH though. Border on cheesy, but their mash-up of a Drake and a Alicia Keys shows creativity.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">25) Times Red, XFUK9 JH. Have their swag beatboxer combined with a WGWG and the third guy to get the teens, to form their man band. Very good concept that took Duke to another level. Should have had a chance but Louis wanted boybands that year, not man bands</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">24) MK1, XFUK9. Lost a leeching member in their initial audition. The girl can sing and rap, but the singing got a little choppy later on. Rapper on the side who's pretty good. Cheesed it up later in the competition which is why they're loer.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">23) The Stereo Hogzz, XFUS1. R&B band with multiple rappers on the side that bring to days the early 2000s with Ginuwine and Bobby V dominating the scene. Slightly outdated sound and dance moves, but have stage presence, a good idea of what they represent and look cool doing so, with shades and matching black jackets. </span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">22) Tamera Foster, XFUK10. Very underwhelming given the hype train early on, and also was saddled with by and large older songs rather than true urban songs to cater to the frau. That didn't work, either. Stage presence isn't all that there yet.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">21) Omar Dean, XFAUS5. Falsetto addict who improved over the course of the season, but lacked confidence and had nerves at times. Doesn't have the confidence to be completely a swag type, so this is the difference</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">20) David Correy, XFUS2. Very elastic Bruno Mars-ian type voice that emotes and can go for high notes, but was sabotaged for being too try-hard. Swag tattoos and image. Should have gotten a chance.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">19) Fourtunate, XFAUS4. Very polished R&B Filipino man band with swag dance moves but also fairly tight harmonies. Lack a major lead, but still</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">18) District3, XFUK9. White version of Boyz II Men catering for the teen subset is how they billed themselves, with tight harmonies especially for their age. Broke free and did backflips later on. Had good potential, but had very inconsistent performances throughout</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">17) Marcus Canty, XFUS1. Good R&B emoting vocals which sometimes sounded nasally and whiny, but good image and high performance value type performances. Did a backflip, the only XFUS contestant to have done it in show. Represented himself fairly well as a modern R&B artist, and even brought some trap music and Southern crunk in a Wale team up off show. </span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">16) Rough Copy, XFUK10. Pushed very hard by TPTB to counteract the frau who wouldn't vote for them, and really whitewashed their sound throughout their run. Many of their performances were vanilla R&B covers of frau favorites instead of out and out urban. Natural stage presence and personalities, decent harmonies, decent voices, billed as Boyz II Men types.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">15) The Risk, XFUK8. Cyborg, hybrid group made up of The Keys and Nu Vibe as well as pre-existing members, this group surprisingly found good chemistry, with Charlie as the lead, Derry as the rapper, good harmonies, good dance moves and solid swag. Once Ashford entered helped a lot. Underrated group.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">14) Josh Levi, XFUS3. Had very intriguing performances with Come And Get It and Straight Up that would have put him insta-top five, and Treasure was good. Potential with the Bieber/Chris Brown contingent here. Stage presence for days. It's probably hard to encounter someone like him for singing competitions in general.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">13) The Collective, XFAUS4. A group led by rapper/singer William Singe, with pop rocker Trent Bell on the side, and then eye candy and interchangeables to round up the boy band. They peaked with Domino and had been chasing that since, but they are what Playback could have been. Good stage presence</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">12) Ellona Santiago, XFUS3. Excellent stage presence and belting high vocals are what made people say she was a wind-up robot who can sing and dance. Could have used a few more softer performances, but it's hard to ask for more at her age. Also, had a cavalcade of current songs to learn from the Jessica Sanchez fiasco. Of course, the frau didn't vote for her performances</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">11) Lyric145, XFUS2. A trio of rappers led by XF's counter to Nicki Minaj in Lyric, who is a major battle rapper. The other two are OK but fit on the side well. Major stage presence and really major creativity with the Miley and Mary Poppins songs, which is what elevated them here. Sabotaged</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">10) Misha B, XFUK8. A Missy Elliott type rapper with pretty good vocals and high production values. It's hard to get any better than this</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">9) Three Wishez, XFAUS3. Interesting group. The girl can really sing, they had a really aggressive rapper, high production values, they did a Linkin Park and Eminem song. The third guy just didn't really fit though. In the end, they made Third D3gree using Three Wishez as the sort of prototype</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">8) Third D3gree, XFAUS5. Built off Three Wishez, this was a girl-led group led by a Christina Aguilera clone and a Nicki Minaj one. Big personalities there. The guy was fodder and interchangeable, and also, they only had like one or two big performances throughout their run, otherwise it could have been higher. Great presence and concept though</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">7) Chris Rene, XFUS2. This guy combined the WGWGness with hip hop, the former of which really allowed him to amass votes once he plucked out his guitar. But the street, the Paul Pierce gang signs, the unnhhhs, the baggy pants--this guy was clearly hip hop. Inspirational Common like rap. Subpar vocals. Good songwriter. Giving him credit for the uniqueness of the blend, albeit a bit Mike Posner.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">6) JLS, XFUK5. R&B four-piece who did dance music off show. Had backflips and stage presence, but more known for their blends above anything else. Were the prototype for future urban acts in the UK on this show</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">5) Cher Lloyd, XFUK7. Had high stage and performance value performances blending emotional singing with hard hitting rap in what has become her signature style. Big personality which really alienated a ton of UK frau and they really, really had to push her to 4th place.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">4) Emblem3, XFUS2. Hybrid group of reggae, alternative surf rock and Weezy rap that further tried to add the One Direction contingent as Simon tried to bill them as a boyband to get votes. Wesley's a very good lead for the group, and Drew's the singer/songwriter providing the major rap and inspirational lyrics, while Keaton grabs the tweens. It's a well organized, unique group which is what puts them up here</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">3) Astro, XFUS1. Huge personality especially for age, but it's amazing how refined he is for his genre. Major songwriter too, not to mention he oozes personality in his rap. He's here for those reasons, but also because it will be hard for XFUS to uncover someone like him again. Brought a genre stateside that was completely ignored by the other shows</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">2) James Arthur, XFUK9. Brought a really refined blend of WGWG guitar strumming and rap, and a bunch of emotion. Kind of like Chris Rene, UK version, except way more emotional instead of Rene's laid-backness. That emotion probably landed a ton of votes. Big personality.</span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><span style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">1) Little Mix, XFUK8. They won in a cleverly staggered season by TPTB that lacked WGWGs. Urban group with a big voice in Perrie, a rapper in Jesy, and the other two are very good in filling in their blends. Had huge production values and a great sense of identity throughout their run which is very rare in manufactured groups, especially the production. Fresh attempt in bringing back '90s R&B, but also fit well with modern songs. </span><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /><br style="background-color: #f4eef6; color: #222222; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 11.818181991577148px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482901438415079226.post-1900907061116985972014-01-24T00:30:00.000-08:002014-01-29T22:50:18.286-08:00AI13 RANKINGS, UPDATEDBased on portrayal in auditions:<br />
Out of 85<br />
Singing (out of 10)<br />
Presence (out of 10)<br />
Marketability (out of 10)<br />
Song Choice (out of 10)<br />
Relatability to Frau (out of 25)<br />
Pimpage (out of 20)<br />
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So far:<br />
1) Sam Woolf--69<br />
2) Casey Thrasher/Marrialle Sellars--63<br />
4) Alex Preston/Majesty York--62<br />
6) Jessica Meuse--61<br />
7) Brandy Neelly--60<br />
8) Briston Maroney--59<br />
9) Dexter Roberts--58<br />
10) Ethan Harris--56<br />
11) Austin Wolfe/Jordan Brisbane--55<br />
13) CJ Harris--54<br />
14) Kenzie Hall--53<br />
15) Ben Briley/ Maurice Townsend--50<br />
17) Bria Anai--49<br />
18) Caleb Johnson--48<br />
19) Briana Oakley--47<br />
20) Spencer Lloyd--46<br />
21) Malcolm Allen--45<br />
22) Jena Asciutto--42<br />
23) Malaya Watson--39<br />
24) Emmanuel Zidor--36<br />
25) Jillian Jensen/ Kristen O'Connor--35<br />
27) MK Nobilette--32<br />
28) Emily Piriz--31<br />
29) Neco Starr-27<br />
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Sam Woolf<br />
Total Points: 69<br />
Singing: 9. Has really understated dynamics with his choices, and for his genre it's perfect. You don't necessarily need a huge range, but for his age, he knew how to navigate through a wordy song. Pitch was great.<br />
Presence: 5. Understated presence actually with his voice, but this is to take the difference with his actual stage presence, which might be very poor, especially with the lack of confidence. But that's the compensation for the awwshucks we see below.<br />
Song Choice: 10. Super current and perfect for him<br />
Marketability: 10. I guess getting the Bieber/Sheeran/folk movement is really, really going to work. Seeing how Phillip navigated in that environment Sam should also breeze by this<br />
Relatability to Frau: 25. Awwshucks. Awwshucks. Awwwshucks. That lack of direct eye contact strumming musicality aspect for folksy rock is absolute the bulls eye for frau votes, an he has it, combined with possible hordes of tween votes.<br />
Pimpage: 10. Full Audition<br />
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Casey Thrasher<br />
Total Points: 63<br />
Singing: 5. His voice is just OK. We have heard it all before. Eh. He tries to go for high notes but it comes out very weaksauce.<br />
Presence: 7. He just works the emotional angle. But nothing loud feeling like CJ Harris or vibe-based like Dexter. Organic, but whatever<br />
Marketability: 3. If Tate Stevens' country balladry weepers didn't work, what makes this guy think it will work? He seems way more in it for the break than for actually bringing anything new to the table. Gokey's story didn't work long term for music, Thrasher's won't either. The up-tempo vibe is what sells<br />
Song Choice: 8. Sort of current, not done before, fits his vibe<br />
Relatability to Frau: 25. Playing the dad with babies card. I actually think his "I need this" desperation borders on Danny Gokey-esque, so there could be some self-sabotage on that front--something to monitor. I don't sense the awshucksness, but Jeff Gutt also played the single dad card and went super far.<br />
Pimpage: 15. Pimp spot</div>
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Marrialle Sellars<br />
Total Points: 63<br />
Singing: 6. Good tone, didn't show excessive range<br />
Presence: 9. Has a great presence when she sings, even through the guitar, both in voice and in the way she stares<br />
Song Choice: 8. Current, decent.<br />
Marketability: 10. She pretty much looks and acts the part, that Rihanna look and Miley personality and her super young age is a large chunk of the battle. Singing pop and possibly R&B also works.<br />
Relatability to Frau: 10. I guess there's a wide eyed personality to her, and she's personable for sure in that Hannah Montana Miley vein. A few points off for some glares she gives off when she sings, and a certain confidence, and really, the pop girl aspect. But her sob story about her dad was featured heavily, which is the bulk of the points here.<br />
Pimpage: 20. She completely broke the scale here. A bunch of previews, shown in two separate shows plus the pimp spot in one of them.<br />
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Alex Preston<br />
Total Points: 62<br />
Singing: 8. Good-ish dynamics for his genre, but more about the vibe and songwriting ability than anything else. Still, decent chops for what he represents, for sure.<br />
Presence: 6. Voice cuts through decently, but he'll largely be constrained to a guitar. Self-assured voice which helps.<br />
Marketability: 10. He actually doesn't sound too unlike many of the guys in the alternative charts, and he has some of that Passenger folk vibe right now. Folk and alternative crossover is absolutely in right now, and has notable songwriting, with decent but not great hooks. Still, has an ear for that, and that's why he's ranked this high.<br />
Song Choice: 10. Original which showcased himself well.<br />
Relatability to Frau: 15. He's a WGWG who loves the folksy sound that has created past winners, but I don't sense the awwshucks vibe here. He seems very self-assured and frankly at another level with respect to the audience, which will get him far on merit but in terms of the brownie points he might be lacking, which could hurt him compared to some of the others. East Coast vibe, clearly a transplant.<br />
Pimpage: 13. Full audition plus preview.<br />
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Majesty York<br />
Total Points: 62<br />
Singing: 10. Awesome because of the disconnect, but also because she knows how to modulate and not overdo, letting a softer tone speak for itself. Brings a far different tone to the song too<br />
Presence: 9. Great modulation into a captivating soft voice and then opened up well. As Connick said, quiet and elegant. A point off because of the actual stage presence, but her voice really speaks for it<br />
Song Choice: 10. Mostly because of the disconnect and the twist-up, she earns major points, and this is one of Coldplay's best songs, even if they're about several years dated now. But still, can't ignore the twist-up.<br />
Marketability: 8. She's like a very polished, skilled Haeley Vaughn in get-up, and her desire to sing softer folk type stuff here helps a lot. She might be able to carve a place here, depending on how it shakes out. Points because Idol never goes in the switch up direction much<br />
Relatability to Frau: 15. Personable, and humble. Playing guitar will help. I can see a path here, actually.<br />
Pimpage: 10. Audition<br />
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Jessica Meuse<br />
Total Points: 61<br />
Singing: 10. We just haven't heard this sort of voice on Idol before, so there's a ton of points, and she knew how to use it within her song, even with a cool hooky sound in the middle<br />
Presence: 9. Great vibe<br />
Song Choice: 10. Original song that sounded good on her<br />
Marketability: 9. Great look and has the voice and vibe to match; in the throes of Paramore, she could be able to carve a niche<br />
Relatability to Frau: 10. She gets points because she really has that legitimate musician vibe, but her pre-snippet showed a very independent, outlaw vibe, although that really helped out Crystal Bowersox, and she comes off more legit than some of the older contestants like Erika Van Pelt and Elise Testone. Her rocker style isn't an immediate vote grabber, and the red-tinged rawker independence as well, but Crystal's dreadlocks didn't stop her.<br />
Pimpage: 13. She had a middle-placed audition but her preview was also shown.<br />
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Brandy Neelly<br />
Total Points: 60<br />
Singing: 8. Good vocal dynamics with great modulation. A bit nasally and somewhat forced, but still<br />
Presence: 7. Good vocal presence for sure<br />
Song Choice: 8. Good song choice, current, gender switchup<br />
Marketability: 7. She's in the Dolly Parton country belting vein, kind of like how Janelle Arthur did it. She is five years younger than Arthur, and seems to play the part even with the girl lockout in country radio most of the time.<br />
Relatability to Frau: 20. She's got the Lauren Alaina perks down pat, including the very old fashioned bob now and the perky personality. Southern charm vibe. Female country types that are young tend to do well when they follow this pattern.<br />
Pimpage: 10. Full audition<br />
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Briston Maroney<br />
Total Points: 59<br />
Singing: 6. Actually has a cool defined voice but it feels like it is stretching its limits, albeit affected. He might lack range<br />
Presence: 6. Has a really good up-tempo vibe and his rasp cuts through, but might easily seem awkward without the guitar.<br />
Marketability: 7. Eh, I'm going to take some differences here. Young, folksy works, and there can be a specific marketing path involving teens and the genre that could work. Or, he's just too green. Not sure we see super young folksy types out there for this reason<br />
Song Choice: 5. Old song choice, but not done on Idol before at least<br />
Relatability to Frau: 25. Self assured type, but still has that combination of folksy vibe, guitar, and is absolute teenbait and fraubait due to that combination. He'll still get votes<br />
Pimpage: 10. Full audition<br />
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Dexter Roberts</div>
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Total Points: 58<br />
Singing: 7. Good sound that's actually great for the current marketplace, up-tempo twang. Bluegrass country style.<br />
Presence: 7. Up-tempo driven guitar. Don't think he has actual stage presence, but he's as close as it gets to swagger anthems as Idol will get, so hence the extra point.<br />
Marketability: 8. Most of the bro country types are perceived as cute guys for the frau, and they really get after the swagger. Roberts has a sound in that direction, but actual swagger?...not sure, and doubt it. Also, he isn't perceived as a cute guy either. That being said, he presents a different direction on Idol due to his style of country, and that's what sells.<br />
Song Choice: 6. It's a decent song in the right direction as Casey James did have up-tempo guitar jams, but he's unknown on radio right now and he could have went more direct with F-G Line and others<br />
Relatability to Frau: 20. He's a stereotype down from plaid, baseball cap, ducks, twang...and plays guitar. That being said, he doesn't look like a type that will get mass votes, and while he's awwshucks, his bro country aspect might not completely resonate with this sort of audience. <br />
Pimpage: 10. Full audition</div>
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Ethan Harris<br />
Total Points: 56<br />
Singing: 7. Peaceful voice but it's hard to get a specific vibe, and didn't show much dynamics.<br />
Presence: 6. Decent-ish based on what we saw<br />
Song Choice: 4. Eh, I'm not sure if this represents him, and it's been covered several times on Idol.<br />
Marketability: 6. Might kind of look and act the part, but there might be a musical disconnect and the whole vibe feels very AC-ish. The bulk of the points is due to the "looks" and "acts" part here<br />
Relatability to Frau: 20. Wide-eyed stanning of Keith Urban might get votes, but he has that AC guitar-strumming aspect in combination with the boyish voice, looks and hair will get a ton of frau votes. Lack of rock or country aspect is what loses the extra five.<br />
Pimpage: 13. Also had the preview in addition to the full audition.<br />
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Austin Wolfe<br />
Total Points: 55<br />
Singing: 9. That's a very good, mature voice especially for her age. Very understated lower register and pretty good upper register, with rasp. Clearly she's been at it.<br />
Presence: 8. Good vocal presence, but lacks the extra oomph which we can attribute to age at this time.<br />
Marketability: 9. She's super young, looks marketable, and sings in a style for pop that might have a fighting chance, with the proper connections.<br />
Song Choice: 9. Very current song, which always helps, and the gender switch is creative, even if it's overdone by females in youtube covers.<br />
Relatability to Frau: 10. I wanted to go 15 here, actually, because precocious teen girls who can sing have shown a tendency to really rack up the votes, and she's nice an innocuous enough. But she sings in a genre that might not necessarily get those votes, and your Jacquie Lees and Rachel Crows sang belting songs that really got the frau votes.<br />
Pimpage: 10. Full audition<br />
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Jordan Brisbane<br />
Total Points: 55<br />
Singing: 8. He paused several times to gather himself, so there wasn't a continuous flow, but very good confident voice especially for his age. Connick was right a few people will do runs better than him<br />
Presence: 8. Very good vocal presence<br />
Song Choice: 7. Current, R&B choice, even if that song is overdone<br />
Marketability: 7. Very young, actually looks the part, has the personality for it, but his style isn't really hat's going on right now.<br />
Relatability to Frau: 15. Pre-package showed him to be a very bubbly kid, and frau will take to that. Like-able personality. Connick was right that people will take to him<br />
Pimpage: 10. Full audition<br />
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CJ Harris</div>
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Total Points: 54<br />
Singing: 7. Decent, but it feels like it is vibe and emotion-driven above anything else. Maximized there<br />
Presence: 7. Very emotional pouring, especially with the high notes, but it gets shrilly and sometimes it feels screamy. Good vibe, and acts the part looking scrunchy for the emotion.<br />
Marketability: 3. I really like what he represents, because we rarely see that, but the reality is besides Rucker, who else does this? And Rucker grinded hard for decades to ply his trade. Swagger anthems are represented by the super young, and CJ's in his early 20s and doesn't appear to have any of that unfortunately.<br />
Song Choice: 7. It's a 20-year old song, but never been done before, and the BG doing country twist on guitar is interesting, so I'll give him a few points there.<br />
Relatability to Frau: 20. The five points off are because he's not a WG, but otherwise he has everything else made: he's a man on a mission, family based, looks very emotional, hardened, crying, sings emotion, etc.<br />
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Total Points: 53<br />
Singing: 8. Very self-assured type Colbie Caillat with a rasp. Switches keys a ton but maintained her composure well throughout, showing great poise there. Versatile within range. Not a wide range but for a songwriter that's what you need.<br />
Presence: 7. Colbie's more of the quiet type, and she actually showcases herself well, but that's the limitations due to the Colbie aspect.<br />
Marketability: 8. She looks good, super young, has a clear identity. That said, it's about five-six years out of date with the Colbie sound, especially for CHR and even for HAC. This showed a great songwriting twist, but even Ellie Goulding transformed herself from folksy guitar strummer to electronic pop type. Wonder if Kenzie has to do something similar to have a fighting chance. Her clear identity here gets the extra point<br />
Song Choice: 7. John Mayer songs are current, but that's not a well known song, even if it fit her voice.<br />
Relatability to Frau: 10. Very friendly and personable, which is why I went to 10, but singer/songwriters with cutesy looks in the past have really struggled, but to her credit she might win some off merit.<br />
Pimpage: 13. Full audition plus preview<br />
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Ben Briley<br />
Total Points: 50<br />
Singing: 6. A-ok. He didn't really stretch himself here, but decent sound, even if we've heard a lot of this<br />
Presence: 2. I really didn't see much of it, if any, from here.<br />
Song Choice: 5. Good choice for him, and unique to Idol, but there's a reason Amos Lee stayed indie.<br />
Marketability: 2. I didn't sense any hook-grabbing aspect to him, or songwriter-y sensibilities here, so no real Passenger-potential, so I'll give him a low score here.<br />
Relatability to Frau: 25. Southern sensibilities, being a guy with a guitar really earns pretty much all the points you need. His wife story also works. Hard working vibe.<br />
Pimpage: 10. Full audition<br />
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Maurice Townsend<br />
Total Points: 50<br />
Singing: 8. Good tone and very polished within that range, but didn't display an excellent range.<br />
Presence: 5. A-OK based on what we saw, but nothing special.<br />
Song Choice: 8. John Legend songs will always get a ton of points from me here. Good work<br />
Marketability: 4. I guess he's sort of like Aloe Blacc "The Man" KG style as the upside, but nothing major. But a cool vibe here that's understated<br />
Relatability to Frau: 15. The family card is a huge one, and he's personable and very friendly. He got a very "Rough Water" treatment pre-package. Bringing kids to audition are absolutely huge for points<br />
Pimpage: 10. Full audition<br />
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Bria Anai<br />
Total Points: 49<br />
Singing: 8. Makes good choices and displayed a wide arrange of lower and upper type runs. On the Idol stage, we have kind of heard this before though<br />
Presence: 9. Has a natural confidence in her voice and presence.<br />
Marketability: 8. Looks the part, acts the part of the R&B/pop diva type, and extra points because Idol hasn't had one of these types for a while. But it's about five-ten years out date in today's environment<br />
Song Choice: 4. A current song, but it's by the overdone Adele, and she's a niche brand in today's market; also this song never really made it big in CHR.<br />
Relatability to Frau: 5. Bright purple lips and pop type Beyonce get-up is a major turnoff, but has the wide-eyed charisma that earns back a few points as a precocious kid belter. Her dance moves at the end don't really help here either. But her trade-off isn't conducive to getting votes.<br />
Pimpage: 15. Received the pimp spot, likely for the OMG15 aspect.<br />
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Caleb Johnson<br />
Total Points: 48<br />
Singing: 9. His rocker voice and rocker tinged mannerisms are typically only filled by one slot every season, what with James Durbin and Colton Dixon, so there's extra points for potentially filling that role<br />
Presence: 8. Yeah, big presence with his voice, and he looks willing to use the entire stage although his look somewhat belies that<br />
Song Choice: 10. Because it's an original song. That always works.<br />
Marketability: 6. I think fronting a band is the best bet, but his harder rock is a few years out of date. But he has the vibe down, and I think that should count for something.<br />
Relatability to Frau: 10. There's a sort of confidence especially when he goes into the emoting--it sounds good, but perhaps forced to the point where he loses points with the frau. Hipster attitude does not exactly help here. He'll get more if he wields a guitar, but somehow, I don't think it's heading in this direction. But rock-tinged guy always helps<br />
Pimpage: 5. Snippet.<br />
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Briana Oakley<br />
Total Points: 47<br />
Singing: 9. Great voice, control and dynamic combination especially for her age.<br />
Presence: 7. Very big vocal presence, but I question about her actual stage presence, but we'll see.<br />
Song Choice: 5. Current, but this Sara Bareilles joint never was that hot on the radio. Is she just this sort of pop singer? I'm not necessarily seeing it?<br />
Marketability: 6. I guess, due to the age, but I'm not detecting the swag for CHR; maybe AC, but even then, that's questionable. It's really hard to tell at this stage for her.<br />
Relatability to Frau: 10. There's a very self-assured air about her, not in the super friendly/personable vein of a Rachel Crow or a Jordin Sparks, or in the awwshucks aspect of a Jacquie Lee or Carly Rose. But still, she represents that ilk, and it typically gets the votes. Just a peg down on a hunch.<br />
Pimpage: 10. Full audition<br />
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Spencer Lloyd<br />
Total Points: 46<br />
Singing: 3. Decent sound but quite thin, barely taking any risks, even fewer than Colton did. It's hard to gauge anything here.<br />
Presence: 2. Didn't detect much presence, let the guitar speak more than he did, between voice and actual stage presence<br />
Song Choice: 5. Points for current, but it did nothing for him, and Colton's very niche even if very successful for his genre.<br />
Marketability: 6. In the same way as Ethan Harris, looks the part, but can't get past the very niche aspect of his sound and his very generic vocals.<br />
Relatability to Frau: 20. Thai aspect and the lack of rock/country is what takes this down five points, but should be major teenbait at the least, like some dude in the CW. But also sang a Colton Dixon song, revealing religious roots, and played a guitar, like he researched up on the best way to get Idol votes. As if Ace Young did research.<br />
Pimpage: 10. Full audition<br />
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Malcolm Allen<br />
Total Points: 45<br />
Singing: 10. Really effortless style of singing that shows that you don't have to belt out songs interchangeably to make an impact. Shows great modulations<br />
Presence: 9. Geek look takes off a point, but great confidence, including scatting, beatboxing, combining that with a very natural R&B voice. Kind of reminds of a R&B Blake Lewis here, as they also questioned how serious he was.<br />
Song Choice: 5. Fits him, it's a good song, albeit done a ton of times<br />
Marketability: 8. For Idol this really works, because after years of gospel belting, improved Burnell Taylors are the way to go, and he reminds of that. Straight up R&B isn't in the in though<br />
Relatability to Frau: 0. He didn't really get any sort of frau-sympathetic portrayal, and in fact showed an above the fray, hipster attitude, which is refreshing to see in Idol but awful for actually generating votes.<br />
Pimpage: 13. Full audition, plus preview.<br />
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Jena Asciutto<br />
Total Points: 42<br />
Singing: 8. Very big voice in the rocker vein, but Connick does have a point with a bit of the speech aspect, but still, it gives her a unique edge with the rocker aspect.<br />
Presence: 8. Good presence with her voice<br />
Song Choice: 5. Overdone song choice, even for the rock edge.<br />
Marketability: 9. Youth+the Paramore comparisons will generate something, for sure.Good look and vibe especially for her age.<br />
Relatability to Frau: 2. Her story is a whatever with the frau, and girls from bands have a sort of independence that doesn't resonate with them. Quiet unassuming personality at first, but still.<br />
Pimpage: 10. Audition.<br />
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Malaya Watson<br />
Total Points: 39<br />
Singing: 9. Very good emoting voice especially for her age, and there's something that cuts above interchangeable-good here<br />
Presence: 3. I don't detect a ton here<br />
Song Choice: 4. Old fashioned song, even though it fits her well.<br />
Marketability: 3. It's hard to envision it right now, between the song choice and lack of makeover<br />
Relatability to Frau: 10. There's a sort of confidence about her in her pre-snippet that doesn't exactly jibe with audience votes, but she at least has a personality and she appears likeable there, combined with the makeover potential. A bit street to prevent the 15. Not Rachel Crow-precocious so we're lacking a few points, but she's a step up Danie Geimer. She might get a few chances for that reason.<br />
Pimpage: 10. Full audition<br />
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Emmanuel Zidor<br />
Total Points: 36<br />
Singing: 7. Good tone based on what we saw<br />
Presence: 8. Personality exudes he is singing<br />
Song Choice: 4. Just very old school, like Malaya and MK in song choice<br />
Marketability: 2. It's really, really hard to see it?<br />
Relatability to Frau: 5. Did have that backstory that his music teacher said he would never become an Idol, so he might get sympathy votes for that, actually. But hard to go beyond this. Happy go lucky personality could be a turn off for them<br />
Pimpage: 10. Full audition.<br />
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Jillian Jensen<br />
Total Points: 35<br />
Singing: 6. Her voice isn't all that great, as was the case in XF, it's more about the vibe<br />
Presence: 5. Just kind of OK based on what we can see<br />
Song Choice: 7. Current, and probably hits her singer/songwriter pop twisting of AC type songs<br />
Marketability: 5. Eh. Female singer/songwriter isn't in right now, and she might be finding her footing on the musical side<br />
Relatability to Frau: 7. She has a legion of possible XF fans given her major sob story there, but it wasn't really displayed in Idol. This is taking the difference given Jillian already has a major fanbase and has planty aspects already, but for what she represents she's more for the teens.<br />
Pimpage: 5. Snippet<br />
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Kristen O'Connor<br />
Total Points: 35<br />
Singing: 8. Very polished and has good dynamics, but it comes off a bit practiced and a bit interchangeable with some of the big-voiced girls Idol alays lends itself to.<br />
Presence: 3. A-ok.<br />
Song Choice: 7. Original? Points for that, but it was whatever in terms of showcasing her.<br />
Marketability: 7. Really looks the part, but unfortunately, Idol's clean-cut pop types are the inverse of what really sells for pop girls in the real world. For those reasons, it's tough to envision it for her<br />
Relatability to Frau: 5. Comes off as personable, low key and hard working, all key qualities. But she's a pretty girl who sings pop, and she didn't play any other cards here to gain a few more points.<br />
Pimpage: 5. Snippet<br />
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MK Nobilette<br />
Total Points: 32<br />
Singing: 8. Actually very personable voice with some risks in a few high notes<br />
Presence: 8. Vocal has a lot of presence<br />
Song Choice: 4. In the Malaya Watson vein, the Gladys Knight song is old fashioned but did fit her well<br />
Marketability: 5. Tegan & Sara? It's hard to see here, but it could be interesting given the unique approach here<br />
Relatability to Frau: 2. Eh. She didn't reveal anything besides saying she's not like other singers, but frau don't typically vote for singers of her vein, although her emotion gives her a few points here, but she doesn't have the life experience of a Beverly McClellan to notch this up a little further.<br />
Pimpage: 5. Snippet<br />
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Emily Piriz<br />
Total Points: 31<br />
Singing: 7. Good-ish, but some parts were spoken at times, which took away from it at times<br />
Presence: 6. Good-ish, but the moves felt a bit amateurish and try-hard.<br />
Song Choice: 7. Probably good for her, and it's current, but Jessie J has really fallen hard in today's current market.<br />
Marketability: 4. She hasn't crossed past generic pop type for me yet, in get-up, singing choices and other variables.<br />
Relatability to Frau: 2. She's wide-eyed, but perhaps too confident for the frau, especially with the pop-tinged aspects.<br />
Pimpage: 5. Snippet.<br />
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Neco Starr<br />
Total Points: 27<br />
Singing: 6. Overbaked, but there's a voice in there. Even Connick realized it<br />
Presence: 6. Very confident get-up, but has a major tendency to get overdramatic, something that hasn't changed after two years unfortunately. A bit theatrical<br />
Marketability: 8. Yeah, looks the part again, of those Usher clones. Points because Idol never ever goes in this direction, preferring church instead, but it's about a decade out of date if he thinks R&B has a role in the charts today<br />
Song Choice: 2. Current, but Adele, and for someone who's going down R&B, this does nothing for him. Really doesn't appear to know hat songs he should be singing<br />
Relatability to Frau: 0. Usher meets Iman Shumpert look doesn't help matters, as is confident disposition in pre-package<br />
Pimpage: 5. Snippet<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">If only we knew the definitive ages of the contestants, but here's my guesses, and predictions for how it's going to go down. It's a top 31, so I'm guessing 10, 10 and 11 were carefully chosen based on age brackets to begin with. It's going to be cut to a top 16, which means that since I'm counting 10 juniors, 10 intermediates, and 11 seniors, that means we'll have 5 juniors, 5 intermediates, and 6? seniors in there, I bet. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><b><u><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Juniors (17 and under): [10]</span></u></b><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Jena Irene Asciutto (17)</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">Marialle Sellars (17)</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">If there are only 5 choices to take, they might take only one-two boys, and two-three girls. To be honest, with the boys' side here, it already feels like Jordan Brisbane is already screwed. Briston and Sam feel like they both can be taken through, as they are different enough in the younger Casey Abrams/Phil Phillips type dynamic, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was just Sam Woolf, who has gotten some pimpage early on already. While we are absolutely littered with WGWG types this year in all the junior, intermediate and senior categories this year, I have a feeling they want to put Briston through the voting rounds for the unique disconnect he represents, and the possible tween-grabbing angle. </span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: 9pt;">We can break up the remaining girls into different subsets: Marialle Sellars probably has one earmarked for her already as a R&B/guitar strumming hybrid, and major pimpage. Kenzie Hall, Jena Irene Asciutto and Austin Wolfe are fighting for the emo young singer/songwriter spot, with maybe two getting in because the last two (Austin and Jena) are good for Idol standards. However, Jena's type is slightly similar to Austin, and her style might be represented in the seniors category. For those reasons, I'm only thinking Austin as the surefire bet here, who is more accessible for the mommy votes this show loves.</span><span style="font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 13.5pt;"><o:p></o:p></span></span></div>
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1) Malcolm Allen--I like this guy in that sort of trip-hop/neo soul vibe of Frank Ocean and The Weeknd. And his youtubes show John Legend, Chris Brown's "Don't Judge Me", Frank Ocean, and others. And also, he whistles, scats, beatboxes--that's a very cool touch. Nice falsetto. R&B butter swag. Has the Matt Schuler/Iman Shumpert haircut down pat. Very soulful and creative, good vocals within his box, right in the Burnell Taylor vein. I get the sense that TPTB are trying to pimp him, where Burnell failed a creative guy who owns the image more like Allen can pick it up, but hopefully they don't try to Rough Copy pander for votes by whitewashing his sensibilities to cater to the frau. We'll see how this goes.<br />
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2) Dexter Roberts--Sounds like Luke Bryan or Florida Georgia-Line. Chris Daughtry goat vibrato as well, another Southern rawk candidate. For those reasons, and the good musical sensibilities in his "Country In My Soul", I really like this guy--country swag here that's fit for modern country radio. That's a voice ready for radio. Not so sure about the image, but I'd put this guy into the lives just to see if his Daughtry-lent country vocals can get votes. That's a good experiment to test.<br />
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3) Neco Starr--A retread who made it very far before the liveshows in AI10. Pretty good smooth R&B vocals, very recordable sound, Usher swag-image type clone which might be polarizing for the audience, but that's the tradeoff for being more current than the Motown churchy types this show likes to churn out. Kind of like an older Josh Levi, this guy really straddles the line between boyband and solo artist. Probably a solo artist, but had he done X Factor, he certainly wouldn't look out of place in a manufactured R&B boyband (like Trace Kennedey of the Stereo Hogzz in XFUS1). The falsetto high vocals is a bit boyband-y at the moment, but Ginuwine, Ray J, and other R&B types did the same thing in the early to mid 2000s. In the current music climate he's probably six to ten years out of date, because R&B isn't in the in.<br />
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4) Briston Maroney--Like a baby-faced, teen idol version of Casey Abrams. Gritty sandpaper voice that actually has a good tonal quality, but more of the vibe above anything else--check his original song "Railroad" as part of his teen band. His group is like Midas Whale--kind of like that 1840s old school Gold Rush prospector sound--with guitar, banjo, harmonica. Interesting juxtaposition of looks and music and I think TPTB will pimp him for that reason. He might struggle navigating through themes, as he might too green to handle through cover songs as part of a band, but we'll see.I'm taking that difference with this ranking, and while he *might* fit with the folk trend here and inject a folk tween in the table, we'll see. Good potential but quite a few stumbling blocks here.<br />
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5) Alex Preston--Looks a bit like Keaton Stromberg from Emblem3, which will be a great card to play to get a ton of tween girl votes. Might have fit in a boyband on XF. And also has the same emo alternative rock Yellowcard/Simple Plan/Boys Like Girls derived sensibilities, which means that he's more in the vein of Colton Dixon than David Cook as far as the "rawk" divide, so the votes might not immediately come for him. Alternates between emo beach alternative rock and a soothing uni-tone voice. Has put spins on songs from Taylor Swift (which he has done a ton of). Maybe four to five years out of date, as E3 had a few of the same problems post-show, so we'll see, but this style of music can use more representation in these shows as it is quasi-current, so that's the reason for the rank. </div>
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6) Caleb Johnson--Very confident southern rocker voice. Clean-cut Bo Bice with sunglasses swag, much more confident Casey James type. I think he'd be great to cast--he fills a void, he brings vocal energy and good presence, and the subset of genre is something that hasn't been seen in a while. Also, while he has a cool overall sound, I'm not sure he recognizes his limitations--his screaming loud style of rock is polarizing and it can border on screaming. I think he'll encounter those problems later on, and that's why he's a third time trier--the judges also saw that. Also, I'm not sure the get-up and the vocal style is something that really gets votes for the long haul here. He doesn't seem to have the complete awwwshucks vibe that characterized Allen, DeWyze and Phillips.<br />
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7) Sam Woolf--Clear confident voice, and recordable vocals...and mad props for covering that John Mayer song. His stylistic choices are a bit generic, and might lack confidence, and probably needs seasoning. Feels a bit like youtube-cover at the moment, but there's some potential. Has a very good sound, even if a bit HAC-ish inspiration-y type, so I'd really question whether he can jam up with up-tempo stuff, since the whole vibe feels a bit singular minded at the moment. Even Allen, DeWyze and Phillips did loud up-tempo stuff in the show, so we'll see. There's the basic ingredients for a frau stampede here.<br />
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8) Ben Briley--Looks like Seabass from "Dumb and Dumber". Bit of a generic country twang, but decent sound. Plays piano and wields guitar. Takes a lot of vocal chances, going for high notes with his twang and showing veritable emotion, falsetto and screaming within his range. Song choices are a bit old school, with Elton John and the Eagles, classic rock type stuff. Seems very much like Gavin DeGraw, who is completely irrelevant in today's scene, so fairly limited upside. As a bit of a piano player, and seems like he does overextend his vocal boundaries, so there's a bit of Matt Giraud here.<br />
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9) George Lovett--AI11 Hollywood, and this is his fifth time auditioning for Idol--he's been around. Attempts to be very inspirational to the point it sounds almost Disney-esque--sounds like he has a lisp, and also sounds nasally. R&B inspirational type vocals with a good base of songs including The Fray, Sevyn Streeter and Drake, so there are attempts to be current. His voice sounds a bit churchy and a bit too cheerful in overall tone, so it sounds hard to believe. Processes his vocals, but not really to a modern effect, more like for the sake of doing it. Eh.<br />
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10) CJ Harris--Churchy rather than pure R&B type, and some of his work is sleep inducing. Really, really churchy. Youtube choices are very singular church minded and really don't show much of anything, except for one Taio Cruz song. Just decent vocals at best, try-hard in his attempt to be inspirational, but lacks vocal flourishes, dynamics and has a bit of a lazy approach. Lacks marketability.<br />
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11) Jordan Brisbane--Churchy young Ruben Studdard clone who reminds of perpetual AI9 cut Thaddeus Johnson. More eager-eyed soul type than any real soul at this stage, and needs seasoning. Melisma addict. From a structural standpoint, both in get-up and song style, lacks marketability.<br />
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12) Emmanuel Zidor--Likely TPTB is going to treat him as the joke contestant like JDA was treated in previous year. Sings a ton of Beyonce songs in his youtube, but it comes off as an imitation of those singers as opposed to injecting anything new into them. Still, better than Ethan Harris.<br />
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13) Ethan Harris--A quick run through of his youtube songs and I'm already bored. He reminds me of a Will Makar eager beaver who is trying to make music really happen but it does not really come together organically. He's very much adult contemporary with all the schmaltzy inspirational songs, with a few country twangs here and there, some belting, despite the fact that he's an East Coaster. The beats, the by the book choices, the whole get-up--it's very predictable, not marketable and try hard.<br />
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<b>Can't rank for now:</b><br />
Maurice Townsend--Jordan Dorsey/Chris Watson hybrid?<br />
Spencer Lloyd--Cool hipster. That's points, but we need to see more.<br />
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<u><b>GIRLS</b></u>:<br />
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1) Jena Irene Asciutto--Now this is what a current rawker chick sounds like. Sounds exactly like Hayley Williams rather than the approximators we have had in previous years. Her band roots shows, and likely better in a band. The whole vibe is Paramore meets Evanescence--apocalypto rock. There's an opening for this, for sure.<br />
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2) Jess Meuse--Really sounds like Patti Smith from the Patti Smith Group in the '80s. World-weary gritty rocker chick voice that's very expressive--it might be a bit dated, but with your AWOLNATIONs and Of Monsters and Men littering the scene, her folksy type of rock might fit in. Vocals tell a story. Looks like Hayley Williams from Paramore. She's probably far better fronting a rock group, but we'll see. In the vein of faux XF'er Elizabeth Grace.<br />
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3) Marialle Sellars--Looks like a pop star, but switches it up with folky renditions with a guitar. OMG17 in the words of Randy Jackson. Reminds me of faux XF contestant Mariah YJ. TPTB probably think the combination of that=potential. Combines Tamera Foster with Phillip Phillips. We'll see.<br />
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4) Austin Wolfe--Piano player. Pretty cool voice with good original songs in the vein of Sara Bareilles. Really excels in dreary ballads, but instead of just singing it the way it was, very expressive in a way that was similar to Evanescence's Amy Lee. Recordable quality and believable emotion, especially for her age. My bet is TPTB is after this one.<br />
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5) Malaya Watson--Piano player. Very expressive upper register, especially for OMG!16 even if her song choices are antiquated and gospel shouty types like Aretha and Chaka Khan and Whitney. Has covered Ciara though, so props there. She simply needs better songs. Between get-up and song choices, and even stylistic choices, seems trapped in a time machine that took her back somewhere between 1970 and 1980. Very good expressive voice, especially for her age, is what really puts her up top here. She really, really needs better songs, even if she reeks of in the bubble contestant.<br />
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6) Emkay Brazil--Fairly unique folksy style, wields guitar. Somewhat sleep inducing at times, so I'm not sure if it really cuts through, but still, enough to be above a few underwhelming girls below.<br />
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7) Kristen O'Connor--Looks like a pop star, but like Marialle wields guitar--does guitar twists to pop songs. Very confident approach to singing, makes very good stylistic choices within songs. Has the root ingredients to be a pop type, but doesn't really have any real distinguishing qualities that cut through being generic.<br />
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8) Bria Anai Johnson--Churchy energizer bunny OMG16--Generally likes songs that swells up into big notes, in the diva way. Big voice in the OMG16 way, but we have heard it all before. Does have stage presence nad "swag", but stretches its limits from church-imposed boundaries. Whole style feels somewhat dated, and the whole schtick is overplayed in these competitions, even with the presence.<br />
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9) Kenzie Hall--I only ranked her this high because she actually covered "Can't Hold Us" by Macklemore, but her voice really sounds like something that would be shoved in a girlband on X Factor. Seems to like to put Sara Bareilles-pop like twists to CHR pop songs in the Tori Kelly vein, but hasn't cut through the clutter of youtube artists that are trying to ape the same thing.<br />
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10) Jillian Jensen--Piano player. Her XF audition sounded like very forced rasp instead of something that was organic, and it was the same case for her judge's houses song. She gives every song 110% but she needs to modulate it where at least a lot of it feels more naturally organic, instead of being a bit pandering. She covers a ton of current songs in youtube, and after XF she did a couple of local shows with faux up and comers in the East Coast, so she's definitely one of the more planty contestants AI has had in a while. The whole get up seems to be like singing for youtube, or singing for fun, or singing to inspire, rather than this being organic, and her cover songs make her appear like a cover singer as well.<br />
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11) Emily Piriz--Piano type. Has a higher confident voice with musical voices that range in indie folky pop types like Sara Bareilles, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals and Bon Iver. But it's a bit by the book and especially with the Voice we have absolutely seen a ton of these types. Seems to ape some of the singers that sing those songs. Nothing all that special at this point.<br />
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12) Majesty York--Good churchy vocals, again, but it seems like something that just clusters like a bee to a beehive in American Idol. It just runs together to the point of interchange-ability. Majesty's work appears to be all churchy religious inspirational type music, so she's trying to represent an incredibly small niche in radio and a fairly small buying audience. That's enough to discount her at this point.<br />
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13) Brandy Neelly-Neelly is what we'd call an Idol lifer--waiting until she was 16 to audition, then auditioning every year until she actually got into the liveshows. This is her third attempt at auditioning. Very confident old school country singer, but her song choices are utterly and completely generic--from Travis Tritt, to Sarah McLachlan to Whitney Houston. A bit self-indulgent. It's like tunnel vision for the competition and not doing much outside of it. She's a bit of a pageant belter and a country twang hybrid, combining the two overdosed genres in this competition.<br />
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14) Briana Oakley--Has a controlled confident voice that can modulate but nothing that we haven't seen before from all the precocious Rachel Crows and Carly Roses that populate XF. Heck, appears like a less personable Rachel Crow, and sings a bit like her. Her youtube just reveals that she likes old fashioned belting songs. Good for frau voting for precocious girls within the show, as seen by Jacquie Lee, but off the show? Disaster. We've seen this type before.<br />
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15) Andrina Brogden--Good voice, but her song choices are at the bottom of the overdone scrap heap diva belting type songs like Whitney and Alicia Keys. By the book stylistic choices within songs. Nothing to work with here.<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482901438415079226.post-32083844597146782012013-09-07T10:36:00.002-07:002013-09-07T10:40:05.040-07:00BLAST FROM THE PAST: XFUS1 SPOILERS <span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Below the jump:</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">*Names in </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Purple </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">were definitely a part of the Top 70.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">The Astronomical Kid</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--A rapping kid. 14 years old. Also known as "Astro"; real name is Brian Bradley. From Brooklyn, NY, auditioned in New Jersey. Supposedly came into the stage wearing glasses/fedora, then gave attitude to the judges and launched into his hip-hop persona during that audition. LA Reid was visibly enthusiastic and said that he wanted to work with him no matter how far he went. In fact, most of his myspazz features him rapping, and there's some autotuned-singing, but mostly rapping. Has that Lil Bow Wow vibe, LA Reid might like him. Can be a hilarious trainwreck for a show like this, but at least it's way different than what Idol presents. Twitter protected, looks like he's in the top 32. Bills himself as hip hop/rap/rock. </span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/theastronomicalkid" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Myspazz Songs: "Stop Looking At My Mom", "Turn It Down", "Incredible", "Cellphone Lights", "Grammy"</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Chris Rene--28 years old. From Santa Cruz, CA. Bills self as R&B/soul/hip-hop. Started Love Life Musik. Influences include Jamiroquai, Tupac, P-Diddy, G-Unit, Black Sabbath, and forms of punk rock. Does inspirational lyrical rap, sort of similar to Nelly and TI. Could look good and unique in a show like this. Sounds very contemporary. Eminem wannabe? Had an album out before, called Sold Out. Recovering drug addict whose sob story was that he had only been sober for the past 70 days. Had great swagger while rapping an original hip-hop number, and LA Reid really liked him. LA wanted him to promise to stay sober and Simon said the show might need him. Pimped in more than a fair share of X Factor commercials, could have made it further. A recent comment about loving life could mean he made it further. His sister is Gina Rene, who also auditioned and was cut at the top 70; supposedly auditioned in Los Angeles but the background makes it look more like Seattle. Came back after a long hiatus to facebook on September 13th, [quote]I LOVE MY CITY SANTA CRUZ COUNTY BABY BABY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/quote] and said something about putting it down for his town. Looks like he's into the liveshows.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/chrisreneyoungmonk/music" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Purpose, Young Homie</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i4m6OvzZjcM" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">It's Time feat Rich Bella</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Marcus Canty</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--Bills self as soul/R&B/pop. 20 years old. From the DC area. Has typical soul influences--Luther Vandross, Donny Hathaway, Stevie Wonder, but has Lil Wayne/Drake as current influences. Seems ambitious--says he is part of this Marxus Musix entertainment group. Not afraid of autotuning his voice, and his lyrics seem to be of the Jason DeRulo vein so has some current feel. Has a slight club music feel, but much more smooth neo-soul/gospel stuff going on. Has a velvety voice and will pull off vocal runs. Sang Stevie Wonder's "I Wish" at his audition with a groovy feel, and was compared to Bobby Brown and Usher, respectively, by LA Reid and Simon. Sang "Flying Without Wings", Ruben Studdard, by Westlife at the top 70. I have a feeling he might be in--his youtubes and his Marxus Myspace page are all down.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/marcuscanty" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Myspazz: Love, Atdaparty, Browneyez, Inhale/Exhale, etc</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lfl_KJd2JBw" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cover of Flying Without Wings (he sang this song at bootcamp)</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Phillip Lomax</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--Was part of a Shakespearean theatrical production, so has theatrical singing experience. But seems to have a ton of musical influences, from John Mayer to Michael Jackson to Beethoven to TI to Muse to Rihanna to Tchaikovsky. From Seattle, WA. 22 years old, auditioned in Seattle. Seems to have been in the top 70, where he performed "Summertime". Really likes to wear fedoras. Could possibly be pimped, as seen in the 0:11 of the video below. A comment by Brennin on Aug 17th insinuates that he'll see him next time, possibly as a contestant: [quote]How about you bring me a fancy fedora next time I see you?[/quote]. Some possible commercials of him might move him in the top 32.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fXC3dNISp8M" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Production: Urinetown</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Melanie Amaro</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--18 years old. Gospel diva. From Sunrise, FL. Auditioned in Miami. Early reviews state that she had a "big, Beyonce-like voice". Sang Beyonce's "Listen" at her audition, and earned rave reviews from LA Reid and Simon. Simon gave her a standing O and said that he brought the show over to America to find someone like her, Nicole said "she had never cried before" but cried during her comments, and LA Reid said everything that I gave up, you made it worth it. The audition is posted in youtube below, where she shows great power vocals with emotion and the ability to sustain them for long periods of time. Seems very talented. Sang Celine Dion's "Power of Love" to the producers. Said to have gotten a standing ovation from all four judges. Could be an easily finalist. Sung "I Swear" at bootcamp. She might be in the lives, between some pimping in the X Factor premiere, and being pimped in the most recent commercial for the Emmy's.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s8qkELjrjCM" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Gospel</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.wsvn.com/decodrive/articles/deco_features/MI91576/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Article</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NalTmRUW_LE&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">X Factor Audition: Singing Beyonce's Listen</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Rachel Crow</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--Some have mentioned this one as a possible finalist. 13 years old. From Los Angeles, auditioned in Los Angeles where she sang Duffy's "Mercy". LA Reid said that, "You have everything that every artist I've signed has; feisty/sassy/soulful" and Simon said "I think we're going to be hearing a lot about you". "She's taken down all her youtubes so the feeling is this one can really be in the top 32. Good voice for her age. Sings typical songs though. R&B diva? Sang "If I Were A Boy" at bootcamp where some have said she sang better than her audition. Definitely a pimped TCO, as she's seen in one of the advertising clips. The full audition-as-commercial almost fully validates her as one going into the live shows.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://video.search.yahoo.com/search/video;_ylt=Al7Xyp7tOYvhrtmtxYHlmiibvZx4?p=rachel+crow&toggle=1&cop=mss&ei=UTF-8&fr=yfp-t-701" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Forget You, A Moment Like This, American Boy (all taken down)</span></a><br />
<a href="https://twitter.com/#!/iamrachelcrow" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Twitter</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTdEIhOhtRQ" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">As seen in X Factor commercials: pimped TCO</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0viWETWJAuM" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Uberpimped: Commercial shows full audition of Duffy's Mercy</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Simone Battle</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--Auditioned in LA. 22 years old. She seems to have made it far, she tweeted stuff about the X Factor schedule on August 8th--so top 32. Definitely there, as she's at London waiting to fly for France for judge's houses this week. Interestingly can also play guitar. Has a goodish voice but seems prone to oversinging. Has covered a lot of current pop songs, including Rihanna and Katy Perry. Also does have some house music/electropop feel, which actually sounds quite current. Even has swag-dance moves and a lot of stage presence. She can be the sort of contemporary female diva that Idol has really lacked in past seasons--even bills herself as such, with techno/pop/electro as her genres. Sang three songs for her audition, including an acapella song, the Pussycat Dolls' "When I Grow Up" and an original song "He Likes Boys", and Simon liked her daring and fearlessness in that audition. LA Reid initially said no but that no became a yes. Sung "Your Song" at bootcamp, where she reportedly didn't do that well. Tweeted [quote]Hard work. Paying off.[/quote]</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">on September 1st, so might be into the liveshows.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IQGOlYt5KnM&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Lady Gaga's Speechless</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wazhtbfohoc&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Rolling in the Deep</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yPIdER9SDog" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Pace--Electromantic ft Simone Battle</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/simicocopop" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Song--"Just A Boy" at Citywalk</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-0koZVJZ1M" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">X Factor Audition in LA: When I Grow Up and acapella</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Tora Woloshin</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--21 years old. Auditioned for Idol in 2005, but had to drop out. From Tucson, AZ. Auditioned in Seattle, and Simon was said to have loved her. Was part of the rock band "Heartfelt Confessions", and has fronted three indie rock bands. Inspired by XTina, Imogen Heap and OneRepublic. Was in a karaoke competition called "Lucky Break." There, she sang songs like "Cruz" by XTina and "Take My Breath Away". Has a sort of Paramore female rock-ish vibe, with somewhat introspective lyrics. Her youtubes are now private, and there's hints that she's made it further. Sang "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" at bootcamp. Good voice and will pull out vocal runs and melisma, with a bit of a raspy tone. Good performer. Very eclectic, between the post-punk stuff, the light rockish vibe and the covers of diva songs. I think this one might be in--she made a "protected" twitter on September 10th (others have made unprotected ones).</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Tora/106446219407?sk=info" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Some of her acoustic work</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fjaijSIfMv0" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cover of Christina Aguilera's Impossible</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">*Apparently decisions made week of 9/11 to 9/17</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Dexter Haygood</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--49 years old. Auditioned in Dallas, where he might have done James Brown's "Sex Machine". Performed "It's A Man's World" by James Brown at bootcamp, where he started off acapella. Was homeless in 1999. Was the lead vocalist in the band Xavion, an all-black hard rock band from Memphis, TN. Released an album in 1984 called Burnin' Hot, which didn't find much mainstream rock acceptance. On youtube, said that [quote]Xavion should have been major stars and blowing up the charts instead they became a footnote to the musical industry's racist attitudes towards Black Musicans who don't play the stylistic game.[/quote]That music had heavy guitar, lots of keyboard and in their words, "cheesetastic synth drums". Has influences from Prince, Duran Duran, and hair metal bands. Funk/hard rock sort of music. Has a lot of charisma for a lead singer and clearly style-oriented. Interesting to say the least, with the eclectic styles. Seen in a recent "overs" video extensively and could be in the top 32. He's most recently pimped September 18th as part as an "overs" promo that focused exclusively on him, so he could be in the lives.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAWcg1r5uIc&feature=share" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">As part of Xavion--Eat Your Heart Out--1984</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUILtaGWcN8" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cover of Wildflower</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDul7Z3tLRw" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Seen in the X Factor Dallas auditions</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Josh Krajcik</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--From Columbus, OH. 30 years old. Auditioned in Chicago. Part of the Josh Krajcik Band, which bills itself as rock/alternative/soul. Has a powerful soul voice with nuance, but is a rocker. Plays both guitar and piano. Has taken down the band's myspace page and facebook, so he might possibly be in the top 32, but the twitter is still intact. Now twitter is closed, another sign he's made it further. Auditioned with "At Last" by Etta James. Sang "Up to the Mountain" at bootcamp. A hint from a friend re: X Factor premiere may signify he's into the lives.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e3FsIwrd5K8" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Atavastic, live performance</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1pfVorBs3g" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Interview</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVEaPdiRjw4&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Music: Shut Your Mouth</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Stacy Francis</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--42 years old, from Brooklyn, NY. Auditioned in New Jersey. Has a single mom sob story and also a domestic abuse one. Sang Aretha's Natural Woman for her audition. Simon mouthed "Wow" during her audition and said that it was one of the best auditions he'd ever heard in his life. Sang "Summertime" at bootcamp and was said to have brought the house down. Has already been pimped as a potential TCO candidate. Very planty--performed with Madonna and Prince live before. Was part of the all-female quartet "Ex Girlfriend" from 1989 until disbanding in 1994, and it did a lot of R&B/hip hop music. She bills herself as being known for her "5 octave range and piercing whistle register notes". Being part of a girl group she has experience with choreography as well. Might be too old school for this generation, but might fit in a competition like this. A lot of her youtube videos have been shut down, I think she's in the top 32.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://minglecity.com/video/stacy-francis-ex-girlfriend" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">1991 Top 5 Hit "Why Can't You Come Home as part of "Ex Girlfriend"</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTuxyaPl90Y" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Live Performance of a R Kelly song in 1994</span></a><br />
<a href="http://people.famouswhy.com/stacy_francis/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Picture</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZbFSGRuRbs&feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Pimped in X Factor Commercial</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0viWETWJAuM" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Pimped uber-TCO commercial: audition of Natural Woman shown</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">*APPARENTLY TOP 16 DECISIONS MADE 8/30</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">2Squar'd--Image-based group based in Miami, Florida, comprised of Lizi F (originally from Edison, NJ), Deveraux Lavinia (or Deveraux Clark, 27), Blu Zarah (Aimee S Blu), and Abie Mary. All female group. A bit planty?--have been on the covers of Elle and Rolling Stone before. Have an exotic sort of image about them--many have Haitian origins. Influenced by TLC and Destiny's Child--sings and dances. I have a feeling this group might be in the top 32, as 2Squar'd has its twitter taken down, and their facebook page is also down. Lizi F's twitter is also gone. Youtubes are down. Definitely in the top 150, HotFlash and Luci (see below) told them to keep in touch. Also auditioned for a show called </span><a href="http://www.cspmusicgroup.com/atlanta-recording-studios/blogs/next-pop-icon-pictures" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank">"The Next Pop Icon</a><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">" in May 2011. Also, they were shown in an X factor commercial, the 0:15 of </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5uhnjLKi6w&feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank">this</a><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">video. I have a suspicion this group made it, as one of their members temporarily quit facebook and mentioned that life is good September 12th.</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">4Shore</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--Bill themselves as an electro/R&B group, from Virginia Beach, VA. Feel like they can be the "next boyband". Made up of Daijreous Poole (22), Allynn Walker-Bey (24), Brandon Showell (21) and Jessie Nunn (22). Supposedly auditioned in Miami, but seems more like New Jersey. Deleted their myspace already. Auditioned with "End of the Road" with Boyz II Men under LA Reid's watchful eye. Sang Coldplay's "Fix You" at bootcamp. Pimped and possible TCO, as seen in the commercial below. Does a lot of popular covers. Have charisma, and does well with harmonies. Have a very fun vibe whenever they perform. Will go for high notes/false. There are weak singers in the group, so they might need to hide them more. A bit old school ('90s R&B), and in fact their recorded stuff reflects that, so not super current. Has experimented with putting their smooth soul vocals/harmonies with rappers. Has done a lot of performing in the Virginia Beach Front. Seems like they made it, as one of their members has tweeted Claude Kelly [quote]but anyways just saying hi[/quote] on Sept 7th and seem relatively excited.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://findarticles.com/p/news-articles/virginian-pilot-ledger-star-norfolk/mi_8014/is_20090702/local-singers-redefine-boy-band/ai_n41457486/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Article: "We Want to Redefine the Boy Band"</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfd19rNkyl8" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mista Flo feat 4Shore: "My Star"</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.ourstage.com/epk/4shore" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Original Recording: Lovin U</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iataLUA7wXQ&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Original Song: Since You've Been Gone</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jUHuNOEfnTM" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cover of Outkast's "Hey Ya"</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQxSm0Rhh8w&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cover of NeYo's Closer</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDAhGhdCHI4&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cover of Shai's "If I Ever Fall in Love"</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43SGrHC5BYc" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">TCO Commercial</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">A group with </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Emily Michalak</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> and Ma'at Bingham Shango(~</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">MANUFACTURED GROUP</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">)--12 years old. Lives in Montville, NJ, but originally from Garfield, NJ. Sang "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" and "Unfaithful" at auditions in New Jersey, where the crowd loved her. Sang "To Make You Feel My Love" at bootcamp. Seems a bit rebellious, as seen from the formspring. I think she made the live shows, as her sister said Sept 4th: [quote]I love my sisterrr im sooo proud of her! this honestly doesnt even feel real, this is the best news ive ever heardd! aaaaahhhhhhngbhtureidujfrhgty4uedc<333333333333333[/quote]. A pic reveals another tween girl Ma'at from Houston, TX in in this group. </span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/MaatLuvzYa?ref=nf_fr" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Ma'at: Facebook</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/michalak.emily?sk=info" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Michalak: Facebook</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Stereo Hogzz</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--Made up of Trace Kennedey, John Glenn, Just'n, Trae Badd, and KG. From Houston. Auditioned in Dallas. Swag personified. Simon probably thinks that they can be the JLS of America (JLS is that R&B boy-band popular in UK). Good harmonies in recorded music. Can sing and have choreography moves. Neo-soul vibe, can rap as well. Also does club music, pretty versatile. Has that current sound that Idol really lacks. Influences include Ne-Yo, Eminem, Kanye, Chris Brown, Lil Wayne among others. LA Reid and Simon will probably like them. Will the audience vote for them though? Sang "Cry Me A River" at bootcamp. And apparently, they made it to the top 32, because on July 26, another contestant, Toni Dolce (see below), told them,</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[quote]@kg_stereohogzz Congratulations to you and the guys! I have some pics I'll post on facebook! Friend me-tonidolce![/quote] One of the members tweeted, [quote]Havin early mornin mimosa's tomorro mornin with OPRAH off the coast of Santa Barbara... lol[/quote] so they might be in the top 32.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/stereohogzz" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Follow Me/Stereo Boy/Right Back</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/StereoScenario" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Youtube Channel</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg00pGe7zV4" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Celebrities Against Bullies</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vHoWKUYh_Wg" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Dub Mix</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hA-4S2Qz_Pw" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank">Runnin</a><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">'</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.facebooktanvideo.com/video-stereo-hogzz-perform-sex-and-a-cigarette-live-hd.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Sex and a Cigarette: shows performing skills</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZXNGMkZYTM&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Lifeline</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><u><b style="background-color: black;">TOP 32? </b></u></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">*Need 8 per group.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<u style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">BOYS:</span></b></u><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Aaron Surgeon</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--28 years old, from Washington. Auditioned in New Jersey, most likely with "I Don't Want to Miss A Thing", where afterwards he offered to take Nicole out to dinner. Simon thought he had an average vocal there. Says he's inspired by Lenny Kravitz's edgy style; Todrick Hall redux? There's some hints he might have made the top 32, as Brennin said he was eating with him at NYC on September 5th.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1597066800" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Facebook</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n-ugRAWCiWM&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">X Factor Audition: "I Don't Want To Miss A Thing"</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Nick Voss</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--22 years old, auditioned in Miami. From Tortuga, AL. Also seems to be called Nick Melendez. Has an affected style of singing which seems a bit theatrical, and even seems a bit like Adam Lambert. Influenced by hard rock/heavy metal acts like Slash, Velvet Revolver, and Guns n Roses. Said to have done some Elvis at his audition. Sang "Pray for Time" at bootcamp but appeared to forget the words and was crying throughout. Seen in the X-Factor commercial and deleted the video below, so might be in the top 32.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/video/nick-voss/nicholas-melendez-fever/26175752" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Covering "Fever"</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<u style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">GIRLS: MENTORED BY SIMON WITH MARIAH CAREY (FRANCE)</span></b></u><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">N/A</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<u style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">OVER 25s: IN NYC WITH USHER?</span></b></u><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">N/A</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<u style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">GROUPS: IN LOS ANGELES?</span></b></u><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">N/A</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><u style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><b>CUT AT TOP 32 (JUDGES' HOUSES)</b></u><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[/color]</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<u style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">BOYS: MENTORED BY PAULA ABDUL IN NYC</span></b></u><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Brennin Hunt</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">. 26 years old. Frau bait. Sings WGWG type music. From Nashville, auditioned in Dallas. Was associated with the Ellen show. Doesn't have a distinct voice. Has more edge than the last two WGWG winners of Idol, and an evident country tinge. Interestingly, it seems like he has some swag, as he's been associated with Christian rap. Given America's demos, could easily be a threat to win. Sang a changed-up Alicia Keys' "If I Ain't Got You" at bootcamp. Twittered Smiley Face and Cloud 9 at July 21st and 23rd, so he might really be into the top 32. Said he was confused late September 10th and also that [quote]I can't wait to make a few certain people feel regret. #FuelOnMyFire eh??[/quote] probably referring to his mentor and X Factor in general, a fact corroborated by Kendra Chantelle and another. It's most likely the cut was due to him being too threatening to land another WGWG victory.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h2IDS5K8n9g" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Grits Quarantine feat Brennin Hunt (Christian rap)</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OO6m1npXhio&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Song "Right Here"--country style</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Cesar De La Rosa--From Tampa, FL. 20 years old. Bills self as pop/pop rock/contemporary. His recorded music feels like smooth R&B, sort of like what Mario Vazquez did on Idol. But live, he has awkward stage presence, oversings, goes waay too much for the melisma/falsetto. Covers a lot of girl songs. Made it to Hollywood Week in American Idol Season 8. There's a lot of indication that this one made the top 32, as he tweeted: On July 15th, he said: [quote]VOCAL REST TILL MONDAY </span><img alt="grin.gif" border="0" emoid=":D" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/grin.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[/quote], and on July 22nd, after bootcamp, he said [quote]THREE WORDS AMERICA: No.more.Subway </span><img alt="grin.gif" border="0" emoid=":D" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/grin.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[/quote], and on the 23rd he said, [quote]I love you. And that won't change when I'm gone...[/quote] Pimped in commercials, but September 13th recording and re-releasing of his music might have meant a cut here.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/cesardelarosamusic" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">You're Okay, Mechanical, Bass, Ricochet</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/cesardelarosamusic#p/u/2/UKM8qlnhUC0" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Covers of Jar of Hearts, I Can't Make You Love Me, Rebecca Black's Friday</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.americanidol.com/videos/season_8/hollywood_hopefuls/introducing_cesar_de_la_rosa/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">American Idol Season 8 Hollywood Interview</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<u style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">GIRLS: MENTORED BY SIMON WITH MARIAH CAREY (FRANCE)</span></b></u><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Caitlin Koch--In the top 32, was at the Radisson Edwardian Bloomsbury Street Hotel at London on August 25th. ~21 years old. From Orchard Park, NY. Bills herself as acoustic/R&B/soul. Has a bit of soulful/bluesy stuff going on as well. Auditioned for American Idol Season 10 in New Jersey, cut in groups. Might have made the top 32, said this on July 26th:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[quote]home </span><img alt="original.gif" border="0" emoid=":)" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/original.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="original.gif" border="0" emoid=":)" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/original.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="original.gif" border="0" emoid=":)" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/original.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="smile.gif" border="0" emoid=":))" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/smile.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="original.gif" border="0" emoid=":)" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/original.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="original.gif" border="0" emoid=":)" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/original.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="original.gif" border="0" emoid=":)" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/original.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="original.gif" border="0" emoid=":)" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/original.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="original.gif" border="0" emoid=":)" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/original.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><img alt="smile.gif" border="0" emoid=":))" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/smile.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!![/quote] However, a Sept 7th comment about [quote]I'm tired of waiting for the paint to dry.. Literally.[/quote] might have indicated some disappointment with the results and a possible cut, but uncertain. Seen exchanging "miss you" messages with Rachel Crow Sept 12th, an indication she's cut.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/caitlinsongs" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Myspazz</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=asjY5qDHHgo" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Live with the Jamie Moses Band</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DgxWT8Qe-lg" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Seen flubbing "Only Girl In the World" in AI10 groups</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<u style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">OVER 30s: MENTORED BY LA REID WITH RIHANNA</span></b></u><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">James Kenney</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--From Hollywood, CA, originally from Portland, OR, auditioned in Miami. 34 years old. Bills himself as R&B. Has a blue-eyed soul, Robin Thicke sort of vibe, in an interesting way. Twitter protected, looks like he's in the top 32. Interestingly, also had a song called "Goodbye Mr Bush...Time for You To Go" but it's long removed. Compliments to a SYCO director and wishing the show success indicates a cut.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/jameskenney" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Myspazz: "I Can't Be Held Responsible"</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<u style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">GROUPS: IN LOS ANGELES? 9 groups in the top 32?</span></b></u><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">TheAnser</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--Made up of McKenzie Gray Aydelott (22), Jarrett Burns (27) and Patrick James. They are all from the Salt Lake City, UT, area. Auditioned in Seattle. Says they create "power pop" spreading peace and good vibrations: they cover a lot of poppy songs, like "Firework", "Price Tag" and "Grenade". Only formed January 2011. Tried to do some stuff for the Ellen DeGeneres show. Aydelott plays guitar (and interestingly has covered a Jonas Brother song called "Turn Right"). Burns plays piano. All of McKenzie's videos have gone private so they could be at the top 32, and Burns has removed his reverbnation. Jarrett seems to be the strongest singer of the group, with alternative/soul sort of vocals, and Aydelott and James carry the harmonies. Aydelott harmonizes well and tends to go the highest on his notes, which he does quite well. James has a tendency of oversinging and might be the weakest. One of them supposedly said "we are in this to win this" at bootcamp, where they sang Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know". Also, they were shown in an X factor commercial, the 0:05 of </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S5uhnjLKi6w&feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank">this </a><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">video. They were definitely cut at the top 32, as they've requested for writing sessions with Claude Kelly and tweeted this on September 6th: [quote]Journey over for now:) #thanksforsupport[/quote]. In fact, their twitter was created after judges' houses.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.gatopardos.com/video/3FELk5JDs58/JarrettBurns-ThisLife-flv.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Jarrett Covers "This Life"</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.web-tv-live.com/video/IpvV8pyheCM/The-Anser-Rolling-In-The-Deep-surprise-song-Adele-Cover.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Band's Cover of Rolling in the Deep (Removed)</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=loGP2Y521xw&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cover of the Script's "For the First Time"</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.theanser.com/Site/Home.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Official website (nothing yet)</span></a><br />
<a href="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_theanser2.jpg" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Picture of them on the X-Factor stage</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">AusEm </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">(Austin and Emily)--(HAS </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">FRANCESCA DUNCAN </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, LAUREN ASHLEY AND </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">ELLONA RANO SANTIAGO </span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">ADDED TO THE GROUP) Both their twitter accounts (itsjustem) and (itsjustaus) are twitter protected so it looks like they are in the top 32. Austin Percario is 15. Auditioned in New Jersey. In the initial auditions sang "Jar of Hearts" and "Viva La Vida" where Austin sang better than Emily (Emily Elise Petrella) and they thought about breaking apart the group. Sang Nelly's "Just A Dream" for bootcamp. Not too many videos of them online. Their group has been expanded to include Francesca Duncan, a 17 year old from the New York area who sang "Summertime" at bootcamp. On July 25th, she tweeted AusEm this , so their group has been expanded to fit Francesca Duncan and more people:</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[quote]@itsjustem & @itsjustaus I finally found you guys! Ha what are your cell numbers? I'm trying to get in contact with the rest of the group :][/quote]</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Another tweet on July 28th shows Francesca asking One Direction, of UK X Factor manufactured group fame, the question: [quote]@onedirection how did you feel when Simon formed your group? Did you guys work out well in the beginning? :][/quote] Lauren Ashley, a 17 year old from Sugar Land, TX, is also a part of the group. She bills herself as pop/R&B, does a lot of swaggish music, up-tempo pop/R&B stuff that would fit in today's radio. Has a confident but maybe thin voice. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Ellona Rano Santiago is from San Lorenzo, CA. 15 years old, auditioned in Los Angeles. She might be in the top 32--all her youtubes are private now and her twitter is protected. She seems like a Filipino pop belter based on those videos. Extremely powerful singer for her age and will pull out tons of vocal runs. Can easily sell records at least in the Phillippines, where they love their girl pop acts. Was definitely in the top 70, where she sang "Cry Me A River" at bootcamp.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">However, this group was cut at the top 32, as Francesca tweeted: [quote]Headed to college.[/quote] and that the group misses each other.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/believenlaurenashley" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Ashley: Myspazz: "Ambulance", "Pump Them Brakes", "Crush On You", "Recipe", "Daddy's Little Girl"</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/LAURENASHLEYREDMOND#p/u/3/_z_pSVJ5y2s" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Ashley: Youtube Channel: Beyonce's Sweet Dreams, Maxwell's Pretty Wings</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.casttv.com/video/9aq0s8e/grenade-by-bruno-mars-cover-video" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Santiago: Love the Way You Lie, Grenade, If I Were A Boy (all private)</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRdGoKlsfWY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Santiago: Song</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4-FngituJ-4&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Santiago: Donna Summer "Power Of One" cover</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">A group with Hayley Stayner, Hayley Orrantia?, Cari Elise Fletcher?, Dani Knights? , and Paige Elizabeth? (~PUT INTO MANUFACTURED GROUP)</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--Hayley Stayner is a country singer/songwriter influenced by Martina McBride, Carrie Underwood, among others. 19 years old. From California. Plays guitar. A bit planty--she performed at the Wagon Wheel Country Music Festival and shared the stage with some country greats. Bills self as country/pop/southern rock. Has a definite pop country feel with some rock edge, actually a bit professional as she can display edge, false as well as range. Seems talented, can be a frontrunner in a competition like this. Facebook is private, so there's signs of further advancement, and her mother said on July 22nd, [quote]Is it even possible to be too tired to smile? ;l[/quote]. She's definitely in the top 32. I have a feeling she might have been part of a new group though, re: mother. This is a bit of a guess, but this one might be in this group. Hayley Orrantia is from Lewisville, Texas. 17 years old. Auditioned in Dallas. Bills self as alternative/pop/R&B, as well as indie pop. There's signs she got cut at either top 70 or 150, but not fully certain. Her voice was featured in the "Tinkerbell and the Lost Treasure" movie soundtrack, so she's had experience. Orrantia was at Burbank in September 1st, so she's definitely at least in a group (also follows Nicole). On Sept 5th said [quote]"It's been good<3 but it's only the beginning.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">"[/quote] so might be cut. Part of the local Texas band "The Underglow" which draws influences from Jessie J and All Time Low. Cari Elise Fletcher is 17 years old, auditioned in New Jersey. Sang "Alone" and "Summertime" where Simon thought that her voice was unmemorable, and that her voice was just "good". Most likely performed Corinne Bailey Rae's "Like A Star" at bootcamp. Can sing well especially for her age and will go for the high notes and sustain them, but a bit screamy and pageanty. Just too well-rehearsed and practiced. LA Reid she had a star's voice, but feels that she was too classically trained and needed more "swag"; Paula thought she would be "eaten alive" after auditions. Did some high school teen idol stuff. Interestingly only started tweeting recently, but on August 26th said [quote]Looking forward to flying through a hurricane tomorrow #sarcasm[/quote] so it might appear she's a part of the girl's team going to France. Probably cut, as on September 6th said </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[quote]Probably a good time to start some summer work #alittlelate[/quote]. Dani Knights is from California, bills herself as alternative/blues/country. Says she's an aspiring country singer. She's part of the new "The Archies" group, which recorded their first album in 2008 (the original group did their work in 1969 and had the #1 song "Sugar Sugar"). A South African emigree, her full name is Danielle van Zyl. Myspace is taken down. Has done theater work and talent contests. Interestingly old folksy music she does with the Archies. She may have been pimped in X factor commercials, as seen in the 0:05 of this </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8K2J-rKf2dg&feature=youtu.be" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank">video</a><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">. Could possibly be in the top 32. Started a twitter around September 9th, so might be cut, and was following various groups, and following three of these members so might be in this group. If this group contains these members, they have been cut already. Paige Elizabeth is 18 years old, from around the Baltimore, MD area, may have auditioned in Los Angeles. Might be part of the group.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/hayleystayner" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Stayner: Anything, Maybe I'll Fall, Crash</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/hayleystayner#p/u" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Stayner: Youtube Channel</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.hayleystayner.com/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Stayner: Official website</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz7TKCrPiSQ" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Orrantia: Magic of a Friend (movie soundtrack)</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fv8ECFgVlK4" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Fletcher: X Factor Audition: Alone</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.viddler.com/explore/NHSCA/videos/86/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Fletcher: Cover of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow"</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.viddler.com/explore/NHSCA/videos/51/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Fletcher: Interview</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/archiesusa" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Knights: Archies music</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.rondante.com/Danielle/#video" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Knights: Official website</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">A group with Nick Dean, Chase Baldwin?, John Lindahl and Arin Ray (PUT INTO MANUFACTURED GROUP)</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--Nick is 15 years old, from Rochester, NY. Auditioned in Dallas. His twitter's still running but his youtube accounts have closed. Was definitely in the top 70, reciting Astronomical Kid's song and talking with AusEm on twitter, Has sung an eclectic choice of songs, such as Katy Perry's ET and Ring of Fire. Has an alt rock sort of recording voice that would fit much better in a band, but it's not that different from the Jonas Brothers, so he can easily be a tween/frau vote grabber with that especially with the age. In fact, seems like he has a lot of fangirls already. TCO? Said something about good news on July 23rd on twitter, probably in the top 32. Sang "Somewhere Only We Know" by Keane at bootcamp. He might be in a group, as on September 5th he tweeted that: [quote]home sweet home love my #ROCHESTERPEOPLE[/quote]. He appears to be in a group with Chase Baldwin, who is 16 years old, from Flint, MI. Bills self as alternative/acoustic. Plays guitar. Has a kind of quirkiness to his musical sensibilities, but it's more like talk-rapping (reggae style) and can be a trainwreck for this show. Voice isn't special. Also beatboxes. Baldwin has been put into a group, re: X Factor poll, Baldwin's twitter on Sept 8th says [quote]@TheXFactorUSA Hey guys! You just might see me on the show;) [/quote] a statement that occurred after judges' houses for groups, so that could indicate that this group may have made the top 32. Dean talks about school and on September 13th: [quote]theres nothing left for me here.. need to take another step forward.[/quote] so this group might be cut. Baldwin's also looking for some music camp, so indications could be he's cut as well. John Lindahl is 15 years old, auditioned in Los Angeles. Lives in Trabuco Canyon, CA, but originally from Moline, IL. Mother stated on Sept 3rd: [quote]Life is exciting! I'm enjoying every single minute!! </span><img alt="original.gif" border="0" emoid=":)" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/original.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> [/quote]which coincides with the groups, and there's a picture indication. Also a picture indicates that Arin Ray was also in Los Angeles. Ray is 16 years old, auditioned in Chicago. Lives in Cincinnati, OH. Performed Janet Jackson's "That's the Way Love Goes" at bootcamp and says he wants to put real music back on the radio. Mixed reviews there at bootcamp. Can rap. Influenced by Michael Jackson. Myspace taken down. Won the best male soloist award at some Festival Disney event. Has done work with acapella groups. Has a soulful jazzy sound, but a bit old fashioned--good for his age though.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.emusicality.com/2011/07/nick-dean-x-factor-contestant-audition.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Nick Dean: EMusicality Profile</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/nickdean3/music/songs/walk-away-78090944" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Nick Dean: Song: "Walk Away"</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/heatherrenae19#p/u/10/OLqO_eTMIIA" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Chase Baldwin: You're So Beautiful/Flight of the Concords Cover</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBik9PslnLEhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hBik9PslnLE" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Ray: Sings "In the Still of the Night" at Festival Disney</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Illusion Confusion</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--Bill themselves as pop/R&B/dance. From Miami, FL, but have origins in Hialeah, FL. Auditioned in Miami and was one of the standouts there. Performed a stripped-down version of Christina Perri's "Jar of Hearts" at bootcamp. They have been heavily pimped in various X Factor commercials, and as seen below were interviewed extensively in one of the promos. Made up of members Lazaro Chavez (calls self Laz), Richard Mason (26), and Ahmed Jaime (calls himself AJ) (26). Richard does R&B/hip hop work and has good musical sensibility, and his music sounds current, and he records well. Great beats to a dance-oriented style. Ahmed seems to have become Symphony Howlett's boyfriend through the X Factor bootcamp? Seems to have the Backstreet Boys as one of their influences. The band's facebook and one of the member's twitter only started appearing on September 13th, so they might have made it, as a tweet to Paula states: [quote]i said it before in person but now i get to officially tell you via Twitter =) I LOVE YOU !!![/quote] as well as another excited tweet to Claude Kelly. But there's slight skepticism that might indicate a cut, as a September 12th conversation with 2Squar'd shows that the members might have gone solo, and 2Squard's wishes them the best of luck. A release date on the facebook might also indicate a cut.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.hitlab.com/player?u=41366&t=65X09R" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Richard's work: If You Only Knew, Stutter, She's Everything</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/Illusion-Confusion/241318089247492?sk=info" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Official Facebook page</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur2qnmPxXMo" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Talking in promo: Solo artists vs Groups</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><br /><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cABixzRGxg" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">X Factor Audition: Mashup of Drake's "Find Your Love" and Alicia Keys' "Unthinkable"</a><br />--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------<br /><u><b>BOYS:</b></u><br /><br />[color=#6600CC]Clayton Senne</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--From Orlando, FL, originally from Topeka, KS. 27 years old, auditioned in Miami. Bills self as blues/soul/pop. Does a lot of piano rock sort of stuff. His style isn't that spectacular, in fact it seems like it would be great music to listen to at Border's, but not that much beyond it. The demos may like him. Performed "Jar of Hearts" at bootcamp.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/claytonsenne" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Music</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Reshard Elsemaj</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--28 years old. Also known as Reyshard. Seattle native, but has traveled around the world. Rock, pop, funk, blues influence. Bills self as lyrical/pop/R&B. Appears to be image driven. Raps frequently, but not that well. Also does neo-soul sort of music. Might have been in the top 70 where he sang "To Make You Feel My Love", the Adele version.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bhCwfdDwI8" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Song reel</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/reyshard" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Envy, When You Come Home, Undo</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Audrey Madison Turner</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--Ike Turner's widow. 53 years old. Auditioned in Los Angeles with "Honky Tonk Woman". Old school soul vibe, Alicia Keys vibe. Diva. Seems less current than Gina Rene though.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_TR3SJnVAs" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Moanin' The Blues</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMfX6YEYkZc&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Live</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Elaine Gibbs</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--53 years old. From Los Angeles, CA. Has a lot of experience--plant. Diva--will do all the vocal runs, melisma and flourishes. Bills music as gospel/jazz/R&B. Once lead singer of the group Rolls Royce and Elaine Gibbs & The Crew. Myspace and official website taken down, could mean she's in the top 32, but facebook still there. Sang Roberta Flack's "The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face" in bootcamp.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK3am9Kp4Do" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Toni Braxton's It's Another Sad Love Song</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Jeremy Easley</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--Country singer, but his band bills itself as country/rock/R&B/Americana. Has that Rascal Flatts country voice, not afraid to go for the false. Has that old school country vibe, like John Denver. Frau bait. Alabama/Tennessee based. Lead vocalist of the band "The Shoals". Sang "Somewhere Only We Know" by Keane at bootcamp.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/theshoals" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Myspazz</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Justin and Nathan</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--Part of the group called "The Brewer Boys", 13 and 17 years old from Temecula, CA. Bills themselves as country/pop/classic rock/bluegrass. Really seems to be a country music duo though. Influenced by the Beatles and Johnny Cash. More cutesy than anything, as their voices are meh. Their twitter's gone and many of their youtubes are private now, so they could be in the top 32. Sang "To Make You Feel My Love" by Bob Dylan at bootcamp. Very little noise out of this one.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youth-arts-forum.com/the-brewer-boys.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Jason Mraz I'm Your's "cover"</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Little Ladiez</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--Made up of sisters Kelsey and Hayley Smith, and Molly and Lindsay Ryan. 13-15 years old. Hollywood-based. Have a musical theater background. Were part of a 16 Summers Tour which was a national education awareness tour. Planty. Seem too well-rehearsed, but good harmonies. Trainwreck potential? Really likes to do mashups. Seems to have auditioned in Dallas with Ray LaMontagne's "Trouble". Performed "Ain't No Sunshine" at bootcamp. Facebook still there. Some of their twitters don't exist now, but Kelsey was spotted performing at the Norco Fair September 4th, when they should've been around the Santa Barbara area for judges' houses, so might not even be at the top 32. A 9/11 performance of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" at NorthPark Community Church might mean a further cut.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=EIThbbDeUcE" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Born This Way/Hold It Against Me mash-up</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QbkaqDt-NnU&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cover of Willow Smith's Whip My Hair</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.littleladiez.com/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Official website</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=twIUsATr5yE&feature=relmfu" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">X Factor Audition: "Trouble"</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Statik Express</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--Young kid group. Made up of Dominique Bodney, India Day, Jasmine Thomas, Mahlirowdy Dededami, and Chayal Towner. From LA. Again, they've removed all their videos, so they might be top 32. Does some Christian style music, which could play well to the demos. Their myspace music really sounds like kidzbop music, but they see their music is about empowerment, and they say it is "tween power pop with a sprinkle of hip hop". Actually has some rapping going on in some of their music. Influences range from Miley to Jonas Brothers to Chris Brown. They had an album out in 2009 called "Honor Roll", and has had the support of mayor Villaraigosa and will.i.am, so quite planty, but probably applies to everyone on this show. Too juvenile? Sang Nelly's "Just A Dream" at bootcamp, where they supposedly bombed. Some indications they've been cut.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/statik5live" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Songs: called bff best friend forever, 2 busy 4 a boyfriend, lenny the lion, dreams, Mr. Drummer</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.lasentinel.net/Statik-Express-is-Making-Noise.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Article</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><u><b style="background-color: black;">AT LEAST TOP 150:</b></u></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<u style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">BOYS:</span></b></u><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Burkett Powell--~19 years old. From Lees Summit, MO, but originally from Lincoln, NE. Father was an All-American gymnast who died of a seizure last year. Influences include Audioslave and Aerosmith. He's twitter protected so there's signs he might have been in at least the top 70, but I'm not certain.</span><br />
<a href="http://lstribune.net/lees-summit-news/burkett-powell-a-lee-s-summit-high-school-senior-wins-lee-s-summit-r-7-program-of-study-cover-contest.htm" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Winning a contest in high school</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">David James--25 years old, from Bothell, WA, auditioned in Dallas. Does alternative rock/worship music. Influences include Flyleaf, Lifehouse, and The Fray. Music is a bit sleep inducing, but pleasant worship-type music. Plays guitar. Re: Pink Stilettos picture seems to have been in the top 70.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/davidjkus" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">She Stands, Know Me Anymore, Take Me Away</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/davidjkus#p/u/3/56bCryF16SU" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Fray's Look After You</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">E.J. Cardona--From Orlando, FL. Was a top 4 finalist in Orlando Idol 2009. Currently an actor/singer at Walt Disney World, as seen in the links below. Confident voice, will go for high notes. Seems a bit musical theater, like what he's doing right now though.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgqCkd8dkyo" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cover of the Nat'l Anthem </span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SiH78Gbz5VQ&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Walt Disney World's Celebrate the Future</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Kyle Corr--From Leadville, CO, but now lives in Hebron, NE. Around ~18-20 years old. Into the alt rock scene, as influences include Train, Theory of a Deadman, and Three Doors Down.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Rupert Pumkin--From Nashville, TN, but originally from Hilton Head Island, SC. Country influences--Jason Aldean, Lady Antebellum, etc.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Trent Allen Saunders--~20 years old. Has a musical theater background and worked at the Village Theater. Originally from Kirkland, WA. Voice isn't overly special, particularly the lower register. Will go for the false. Simon will cause this one musical theater.</span><br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/24506778" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Songs of May (has a part here)</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqIp8SOKve0" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Performing A Change is Gonna Come</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Zane Bezesky--20 years old, from Leamington, Ontario, auditioned in Miami. Influenced by punk rock/heavy metal music. Part of the band "Dear Dakota" of the Gainesville area. Good voice and musical sensibility, but is he better in a band like what he is in right now? Can play piano. Does emo music, will pull out some screamy and false notes, seems pretty good at that too.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6V-Z9LZKnA]Cover of Hallelujah</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FoCzoqCYKPo&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">As part of Dear Dakota</span></a><br />
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<u style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">GIRLS:</span></b></u><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Caylie Gregorio--14 years old, from the Riverside county part of California, auditioned in Los Angeles. Bills self as country/pop. Her voice is nothing special, especially compared to those precocious 14-year olds we tend to see in these competitions nowadays. Jazz hands. Has attempted America's Got Talent in the past. </span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/celyxoxo830#p/u" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Climb, Bring on the Rain, I'll Stand By You</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Jennifay Joy--21 year old from Oklahoma, auditioned in Dallas. Says she does country/rock/pop/R&B. Might be in the top 32, as all her youtubes are private, but her twitter is intact.</span><br />
<a href="http://jennifayjoy.com/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Official website</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Liliana Rose--26 years old, from NYC. Auditioned in New Jersey with "You Are My Sunshine" and "Apologize". She says that she is known for her country, dark reimagining of "You Are My Sunshine" and bills herself as country/folk pop. Has sort of that quirky sound that dominated the girls of AI9, but also seems a bit old fashioned harkening back to '60s folk, so Simon and LA might not particularly like her. Very pretty voice, some would say pure, but a bit sleep inducing. Influenced by Joan Baez, Joni Mitchell, Creedence Clearwater Revival and Lily Allen. Not sure about her stage presence either. I think she might have been cut based on some obscure twitter messages, but not certain.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/acousticLil/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Walk Across the Ocean, Carry On, Get To Me</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[url=http://www.youtube.com/user/lma2130#p/u/1/22-cMpJuNgo]Covers: Carpenters' Close to You, The Scripts' Breakeven, You Are My Sunshine</span><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=98eKrZv9mX4" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cover of Donna Summer's Last Dance</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Joshua Blaylock--Tried out for Idol S9, now he's back for X Factor. In S9 he was 28 years old but Simon said he sounded 14. Now 30 years old. Aspires to sing country music.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qYHdJiNTh94" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Idol audition</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Kelli Smith--44 years old, auditioned in New Jersey. Sang "Natural Woman" for her audition, had a standing ovation, and wore Chaka Khan hair. Also known as Kelli Sae. Released an album in 2005. Influences include Prince, Luther Vandross, Patti LaBelle and Gladys Knight. Has provided sultry R&B vocal overlays to smooth jazz sounds, so probably has both influences. Has the old school soul vocals for her recorded sound. Not contemporary, but for this competition there's a niche. She only joined facebook very recently so she might have been cut.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.justsoul.net/interviews/interview16.htm" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Interview</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3LSeotzoHg&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Can't Wait</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Kompl3te--4-piece composed of Calin, Jacoby, Jalonny and Marquis. Jalonny and Jacoby are brothers while the others are their first cousins. Boyz II Men, The Temptations, and Jodeci are listed as some of their influences. Bill themselves as R&B/soul/hip-hop/pop. Auditioned in Chicago. Recorded sound has smooth old-school soul vocals laid onto up-beat dance tracks. Might be cut, as one of their philosophical members said this: [quote]It may seem like the HARDEST thing to do, but you have to forget about the person who forgot about you...[/quote] on July 26th.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/kompl3te" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">MOVE, I Wanna Hear It, Take A Chance</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.myfoxchicago.com/dpp/entertainment/x_factor/brittany-schmidt-kompl3te-roshawn-lyles-x-factor-auditions-contest-20110406" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Shown singing at Chicago fastpasses (removed)</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">The Rossums--Made up of Corinne, Ciara, Casey and Carissa Rossum, all 18-25 years old. From Harrisburg, PN, auditioned in New Jersey. One of the 18 years olds is 4 months pregnant. Bills themselves as hip hop, contemporary R&B, and gospel music, but sounds more towards gospel.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GY63JIFI49c" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Boyz II Men "I Do"</span></a><br />
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<span style="color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><u><b style="background-color: black;">CUT AT TOP 70:</b></u></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Andrew Muccitelli</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--This could be their Bieber. 12 years old, from Woodland Hills, CA. Auditioned in LA. Sang "Jar of Hearts" at bootcamp. Even has those Bieber high note affectations, and some performing skills. Seems a bit Broadway-ish though. Voice isn't all that. Could be massive tween/frau bait, and possible winner for a show like this. Simon will probably like this one. In a rawk band called Slatr. Interestingly, that band has covered Led Zeppelin, so at least there's some musical sense. But has also covered Gaga and Ke$ha. Seems to be in the top 32, re: X factor poll. Posted a class schedule around late August and many are saying that they have to get together sometime with him, so most likely cut in late July (top 70).</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PjJHV6e7l5o" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Song 1</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GKZeEkjCMg&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cover of Mike Posner's Cooler Than Me</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV5oJstbIr4" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Band's cover of Led Zeppelin's Black Dog</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/moosemusicdude#p/u/9/KFGv0YnEM34" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Youtube Channel: Gaga's Speechless/Bad Romance, Ke$ha's Tik Tok</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Chelsea Musick</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--18 years old. From Turnersville, NJ. Seems to have auditioned in Seattle. Genres are Country/Country Christian. Martina McBride/Carrie Underwood listed as influences. Seems to do upbeat country christian pop which could cater to the tweens. Voice isn't all that, but has stage presence. Performed Lonestar's "I'm Already There" at bootcamp. Has been cut, in a conversation with Mathew Slovacek, revealed:</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[quote]niiiceeee! good luck with the move! thats so exciting! I'm doing good somewhere else. lol </span><img alt="original.gif" border="0" emoid=":)" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/original.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> its totally okay though. God totally knows what He's doing. I'm excited to see whats next. it was an amazing experience though...God had me there to learn a lot![/quote]</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/chelseamusick01#p/u/6/WHwPsaw81V4" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Youtube Channel</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Chesi Leandra Spriggs</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--19 years old. From Hagerhill, Kentucky. Was Big Sandy Idol 2010. Bills herself as Christian/country. Was married and then divorced. Doesn't look like a pop star, which could actually help her for a contest like this. Seems self-assured and not afraid to go for the big diva glory notes, but can go shrill at times. Sang "Ain't No Mountain High Enough" at bootcamp. Appears to imitate AI10's Haley Reinhart in some of the musical stylings (see cover of "House of the Rising Sun"). That video plus no judges' houses updates shows an indication of cut.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dS-lAvYRHqQ" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Beyonce's Listen</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/chesileandra#p/u" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Rolling in the Deep, The Climb</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCxu92G_6iY&feature=channel_video_title" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">House of the Rising Sun</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Chrissy Feliciano</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--25 years old, auditioned in Chicago with "Wild Horses" which was said to have brought the house down. Made it all the way to Vegas Week (top 60) for AI10, and has auditioned for Idol six times. Influences include Janis Joplin and Alicia Keys. Has been associated with Paul Wall in the rap scene. There's signs she's been cut.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.americanidol.com/videos/season_10/road_to_hollywood/chrissy_feliciano/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">AI10 Road to Hollywood </span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ML2s2bEELlM" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Let's Get Rich--Marz ft Chrissy Feliciano</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=22014988&sk=wall" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Facebook page, as Chris Flici</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Fernando Castro--From Miami, FL. AKA "Inferno." 27 years old. He definitely made it to the top 70, flew back to Miami June 25th. Was the lead singer of the hard rock/metal/rock/hip hop band, "Maniac Christ". Would definitely be a polarizing contestant type on this sort of show. Jim Morrison, Freddie Mercury, Michael Jackson are his influences. Sang AC/DC's TNT at his initial audition. I think he made it further based on Simone Battle's comment to him,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[quote]Simone Battle lololol!!!! glad that came 2 ur mind. hope 2 c u soon! xoxo[/quote]. Sources indicate he's been cut actually.</span><br />
<a href="http://blogs.miaminewtimes.com/crossfade/2011/04/%20x_factor_tryouts_in_miami_five_interviews_with_future_pop_stars.php" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Interview</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/maniacchrist" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Band songs: Miss Single, Grab It By the Horns</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mG1OJoWkoJQ&feature=player_embedded#" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank">Stars as a Reporter and a Hippie</a><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">!</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Gina Rene</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--30 years old. Has a very musical family--grandfather wrote that Megan Joy classic "Rockin' Robin". Influenced by '80s hip hop, does hip hop soul sort of music. Gives off a Alicia Keys vibe. Professional vibe. Current enough? From Santa Cruz, CA. Originally had 2 nos, 2 yeses as she *rapped* an original song called "Cluck Cluck", but sang acapella and switched Simon's and LA's votes. Sang George Michael's "Praying for Time" at bootcamp. Auditioned in LA. Nicole seems to love her, on her twitter (June 13th) she said: [quote]thank You @NicoleScherzy For The Love![/quote]. Currently doing something in LA when (if she was in the top 32) she should be traveling outside the US to judges' houses.</span></span><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/GinaRene123" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Set Me Free</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Hannah Jackson--From Lubbock, Texas. Bills herself as a folky pop rootsy "authentic" singer/songwriter. Influenced by Norah Jones, Brandi Carlisle, Sara Cassidy. Has that indie/quirky sound for sure, a bit sleep inducing. Performing skills? Plays guitar. Father said on Aug 2, [quote]She's about to blow up, so here's your chance to say you knew about somebody before everybody else. Get to thumbs-uppin'.[/quote] Probably in the top 32.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/hannahjackson" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Little Girl, Give Love, Not Today</span></a><br />
<a href="http://vimeo.com/4783562" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Coffee house performance</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><br />Heather Gayle</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--17 years old, from West Virginia. Auditioned in New Jersey with an Anita Baker song and then Lady Gaga's "Born This Way" with a dance solo which was said to have electrified the crowd. There's signs that she made the top 70 and possibly sang Alicia Keys' "If I Ain't Got You" with her pink hair. However, might have gotten cut, as a youtube upload shows her venting about getting so many "nos" in her life (including X Factor?) so she's rapping about it, and she emphasizes perseverance and shows some negative vibe in twitter as well (not certain, so leaving her here for now). Started out singing gospel in youth choirs. Actually looks real interesting for this show. She has real showmanship, and even has her own Nicki Minaj copycat vibe, complete with pink hair and aggressive rapping. Changes her hair colors as well. She really can sing as well, even with the slower ballads, and can play piano as well. Also does a staple of older diva songs which may appeal to the older audience. Seems to have a lot going for her, from old school belting to the new school swag, as well as dancing swag. LA Reid will probably like her.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StwvQFwkGHU&feature=channel_video_title" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Round of Applause (rapping)</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Heatheraka1Luv#p/u/9/twvD-nZIedk" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Rihanna's Unfaithful</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cz49C8fwAe0&feature=channel_video_title" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Anita Baker's Sweet Love</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gi0TB5mqNDM&feature=channel_video_title" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Beyonce's Halo/Rihanna's Pon De Replay</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Henri Bredouw--From Seattle, WAS. Was a basketball and football player. Signs he's in the top 70, re: Stereo Hogzz and a Pink Stilettos pic. But seems to be cut, as seen in a July 27th convo with Kelly Warner, [quote]Dude it was wicked,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">I can just enjoy music again and it doesn't evoke anxiety and stress haha so exited to start gigging again[/quote]. 18 years old. </span><br />
<a href="http://twitpic.com/5sp2xm" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Doing interviews with StereoHogzz picture</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Jaime Lynch</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--34 years old, from Las Vegas. Was part of the Las Vegas Pussycat Dolls, but she left it so she could audition for the X Factor (so she and Nicole could have a connection). Not surprisingly, also a dancer. Auditioned in Los Angeles. Cut. Was roommates with Simone Battle during bootcamp week. Sang "This Year's Love" by David Gray at bootcamp. She keeps tweeting things like this on July 26th: </span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[quote]Excited for new beginnings </span><img alt="original.gif" border="0" emoid=":)" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/original.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[/quote]</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">And on August 12th: [quote]@</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">@NicoleScherzy thank you for your kind words & support. Love u! </span><img alt="original.gif" border="0" emoid=":)" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/original.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[/quote]</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">And on July 23rd: [quote]Nightmare.[/quote]</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[quote]WOW! I can not believe that just happened![/quote]</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Matthew Johnson</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--26 years old, from Atlanta, GA, auditioned in Miami. Bills self as R&B, soul and pop. Really likes to pull off the falsetto and high notes. Has a really good recording voice, sounds a bit angelic. Sang "Jar of Hearts" at bootcamp. Has been cut, as Brennin in July 28th told him [quote]Thanks bro! Things should have happened differently, you know that. You're amazing and i can't wait to collaborate![/quote]</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WiJHHeMwWfM" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cover of Maxwell's This Woman's Work</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aLJX8aZdRes&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cover of Beyonce's Halo (fake duet with Beyonce)</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Pink Stilettos--Auditioned in Seattle June 24th for X Factor callbacks, per their facebook, but seemed to have auditioned in Dallas. 19-23 years old. Made up of Angela, Allison, and Marianne Liljenquist, who are sisters from Alpine, Utah. Have been classically trained but they now say they are singing pop/country/rock. Their music really has a poppy sound, and they're also image driven so that Simon might really like them. But also cookie cutter. Participated in Utah's Music Nation competition. I think they might be in the top 32, one of the girls tweeted in July 21st:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[quote]Pure #happiness @ the moment. #grateful yfrog.com/kejtzjj[/quote] and on the 25th: I [quote]feel good about the weekend. #success #asusual [/quote] But also mentioned sobering to reality, as looks like they got drunk to ease away the pain in Vegas.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pinkstilettosmusic?sk=info" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Crazy About You, Run Away, Always In Love</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTJFWPLum_Y" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Crazy About You music video</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Ryan Sims</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--29 years old, from Cave Creek, AZ; now lives in Scottsdale but originally from Indianapolis, IND. Typical WGWG music (vocals+guitar+jam band), says his music is "Dave Matthews meets James Taylor". Nothing special about his voice. Says strength is in songwriting. Part of the band EastonAshe, which bills itself as pop/rock. Sang Britney's "Hit Me Baby One More Time" at bootcamp. Still playing gigs on September 5th when he should be at judge's houses, so most likely cut.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/ryansimssolo" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Myspazz</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Symphony Howlett</span><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">--Definitely in the top 70, but supposedly bombed and was cut. Was a AI10 retread who made it to this year's top 60, from Florida. 22 years old, auditioned in Miami.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.americanidol.com/videos/season_10/road_to_hollywood/symphony_music_howlett/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">AI10 Road To Hollywood</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><br /><u><b>CUT AT LEAST IN THE TOP 150:</b></u></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Aaron Rehn--From Boise, Idaho, but based in Portland, Oregon. 22 years old. Auditioned in Los Angeles. Influences include AC/DC, The Killers and The Eagles. Guitar/piano player. Slight country tinge. His recording voice is just average at best, and he doesn't appear to be much vocal range. Some of his stuff is sleep-inducing. He appears to have more nuance/personality playing live, though. Can easily be frau/tween bait in the Tim Urban mold. And here's proof of his audition from the cakery he works in at June 27th: One of our staff, [quote]Aaron Rehn has made it on Simon Cowells new show the X-Factor and will be auditioning in front of Simon and Paula on Wednesday! Good luck Aaron! Were all proud of you![/quote]. Not much noise on this one at all, might be a cut.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/aaronrehnmusic" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Myspazz</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Escr_V7TDDc" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Take It Easy by the Eagles</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bpOWuEWAoJ8&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Guitar solo</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Adrian and Julian--Made up of 2 kids, 15-year old Julian Woodrow and his brother, Adrian Chirtee. Also known as "Blackberry Jam". From the Vermont area. Auditioned in New Jersey. Found in the 0:21 mark of </span><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGDohU6xmek" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank">this video</a><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, with Bieber haircuts. Voices nothing special, try to play part of showman. No recent comments about judges' houses could mean they've been cut.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ejx0UbPjRQ" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cover of Price Tag</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Ariel Petrie--18 years old. Bills self as alternative/Christian/Indie. From Heyworth, IL. Auditioned in Chicago. Recorded music is sleep inducing. Plays piano. Her live stuff is better, good voice for her age with some range. Really likes the slow music style. Has been cut, somewhere. </span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/arielpetrie" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Falling/When It Rains</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/arielpetrie#p/u/2/YiUGuDaU2Ws" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Augustana's Fire Cover</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Austin Simmons--Definitely tried out for X Factor. From Winston-Salem, NC. Another AI retread (AI9, but wasn't shown). Part of the Austin Simmons Band. Bills self as pop/rock/folk. Has a country rock sound though. Probably cut at the top 70, but definitely cut, as he said he'll be at a gig September 30th.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.americanidol.com/videos/season_9/golden_ticket_interviews/austin_simmons/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">American Idol Golden Ticket Interview</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/austinsimmons" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Tennessee Memories, You Say You Love Me, Best Of You</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Ben Rue--24 years old, from Silverton, OR, auditioned in Seattle. WGWG, plays guitar and needs it all the time. Some of the key switches are really bad, and voice isn't standout but isn't terrible. Has WGWG tastes, with Matchbox 20, Jack Johnson, and Goo Goo Dolls being some songs he's sampled. Alt rock with a country tinge. Said on Sept 6: [quote]Sooo excited to open for American Idol Great Casey James on Wednesday! Win your tickets on KUPL[/quote] so obviously been cut.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lEhGXEiRAp0" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cover of the Calling's "Wherever You Will Go"</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Brian and Brandon--Made up of Brian Alan (24 years old) and Brandon Christopher. From Overland Park, KS, now lives in Los Angeles. Influences include Brandy and Whitney Houston. Definitely was in the top 70 at the very least. Has a twin brother who he sings with. Both have soulful voices, but individually they're nothing special and could get swallowed in this show. Should've been at judges' houses but wasn't, so cut.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/liv2run#p/u/0/x3s1kTYvki4" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">LeAnn Rimes' How Do I Live, Adele's Someone Like You duets</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Bryan Chan--37 years old, from Las Vegas, NV. Chinese/Irish/Filipino ancestry. Auditioned in Los Angeles. Was LMNT's lead singer after participating in Season 1 of ABC's Making The Band, so he's had boyband experience. Plant, that band toured with Britney Spears in 2002. Failed boybander? Says he has a soulful rock style with pop/gospel/classic rock influences. Has really changed up his sound from the boyband stuff since, now seems more adult contemporary. Good smooth R&B sound, but doesn't show much range and isn't very contemporary.Seems to be out, as on Sept 2nd, said that [quote]And you can neither admit nor deny that you were in fact, any way a part of it. [/quote], so the distant tone probably means he was cut from X Factor.</span><br />
<a href="http://aarising.com/aprofiler/bryanchan.htm" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Interview</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mN9UWPCV-4I" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Music Video for kid's show Kim Possible</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Cactus Cuties--Extremely planty kid group, a bit of a youtube sensation. Have a following. Have even performed for former President Bush. Currently comprised of Baylie Barrett (16), Blaire Elbert (13), Mackenzie Patton (12) and Madeleine Powell (11). Their sound generally caters to the Disney audience. A Tuesday comment showing two members seeing they haven't seen each other: [quote]Well I haven't seen you in like FOREVER![/quote] on the 6th indicates they've been cut (groups supposed to meet recently).</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rbufA_WgIvE" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Amazing Grace</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WCFyqU8SDQ&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cheetah Girl Song</span></a><br />
<a href="http://thecactuscuties.com/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Official website</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Carter Twins--Made up 20 year old twins Zack and Josh Carter; one plays guitar, one plays keys. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Bill themselves as country music. From Akron, OH. Now based in Nashville, TN. Planty--have a record label, Meteor 17. Might have been cut, as on July 22nd sent a message out to their fans showing appreciation. Now formed a new band name "Kingston".</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Christa Collins--32 years old. Very planty. Performed as a 12-year old in Michael Jackson's Heal the World in 1991 and was considered Disney's first recording artist and the prototype for child music stardom. She then became the frontwoman of the garage rock band "The Woolly Bandits", which also does rock 'n' roll and psychedelic soul sort of music. Will look incredibly unique on the Idol stage with the old-school image and style. Her twitter/facebook was created long after bootcamp, so there's signs she has been cut.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VrjM6Wy2BPo" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Woolly Bandits Sample</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uv6Gek_Oqj8&feature=player_embedded#" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank">Music as part of "The Girls in Minnie Street"--Disney's 1st recording artist, as Christa Larson</a><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">!</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">DaddyDaughter--From Memphis, TN, auditioned in Miami. Bill themselves as pop-country/pop-soul, made up of the father, Clay, and his daughter, Savannah Crosse (14 years old). A bit of a novelty act, but that's not to discredit their voices. Might have sang Keane's "Somewhere Only We Know" at bootcamp. Has already been cut, as their facebook started after bootcamp, and they said to the group HotFlash, [quote]Hey Cathy. California was fun, but ah... now it's done. Gotta move on.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[/quote] on August 1st.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/pages/DaddyDaughter/202113663167945?sk=info" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Facebook page--has cuts of them singing Somewhere Only We Know and Bridge Over Troubled Water</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">DeQuan Allen--Originally from Atlanta, GA, but now in Miami, FL. 25 years old. Auditioned in Miami. Calls himself artist/songwriter/actor/model/CEO. Does a lot of hip-hop/pop/R&B stuff as he started FlowMasta Entertainment along with Jamar Williams. Cut, because on July 21st, said this, [quote]Damn Boy I Tell Ya I Really Thought U Was My #Friend4Life After All The Thingz We Been Thru. God Works In Mysterious Ways. So Glad I Kno Who U Truly Are...#ASnake. [/quote]. Also revealed that July 19th was Day 1 of bootcamp, and July 21st, the cuts were made (day 3). Has an old school R&B recording sound. Tries too hard, over sings the false, a bit full of himself, and will dance--but through all that, he's more current than most of these contestants. Will autotune and even imitate T-Pain in his sort of music. Probably made it through as a variety contestant.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/dequanmusic" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I Love Your Spontaneity, Love Will Grow, Stay Away</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/omariallen" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Youtube</span></a><br />
<a href="http://soundcloud.com/dequanmusic" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">More</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Dorit Saidon Yehudai--48 years old, works as an office manager at a synagogue. Sang "You Don't Have to Say You Love Me" at her audition in New Jersey. There's some signs she might have been cut, as she's uploaded her X Factor audition into youtube.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWmQSO50byI&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">X Factor Audition</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Emma Henry--Already cut. AI10 retread who got cut in James Durbin's group which sang "Oh Darling". Audition was shown and she cried through "True Colors" and begged for the judges to let her through. Seen on twitter July 23rd venting to Brian Friedman,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[quote]@Brianfriedman it's Emma Henry </span><img alt="original.gif" border="0" emoid=":)" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/original.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> I'm lost after being cut. If you could simply respond it would mean the world to me[/quote] probably at top 70.</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LoHpl-mRowc" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">AI10 audition</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Erik Parian--23 years old, went to Rutgers so probably from New Jersey area. Placed 1st in the Rutgers version of Idol. Auditioned in New Jersey, sang an original song there. Simon said that he had a tendency to overperform. He deleted his twitter but his youtube account is still intact. Plays guitar. Has a sort of soulful voice with some swag and nuance, and will display some range. Might fit better in a boyband type, but might hold his own as a solo type as well. Part of his band "Cousins Live". Actually, looks like he's cut, as one the Cousins Live bulletins states that</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[quote]Erik recently just placed in the final 150 on Simon Cowell's "The X Factor" out in Los Angeles. [/quote]on August 18th.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LBIYNOPrhV4" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">More Than Words</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/pariani17#p/u/8/2gb17eXONe0" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Find Your Love, Billionaire, and Crazy mash-up</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZUKRLiiSODk&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">X Factor Audition</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">GalFriday Band--Made up of Lauren Wilson, Ashley Min and Melissa York on vocals; bills as country, southern rock, blues and newgrass. Has that old-school country/bluegrass feel live. Influenced by Alison Krauss and the Allman Brothers. From Matthews, NC. Said something about words of encouragement on Aug 1 to Hannah Jackson, so cut. </span><br />
<a href="http://www.galfridayband.com/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Off website</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/GalFridayBand" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Undone at the Bluebird, Sawdust at the Bluebird</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">George Trice--Tried out for American Idol season 2, was eliminated in semifinal group round #3 with "Unchained Melody". Soul voice with melisma. 31 years old, from Los Angeles, CA. Auditioned in Los Angeles. Seems to have been cut, was seen hanging with Ryan Wirtz, Jessica Sanchez and Thomas McAbee at the 6 pm shoot.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LnMT32O_GfM" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Idol audition</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Hannah Bethel--Does country/soul. 22 years old. From Nashville, TN, but originally from Chassell, MI. Definite country sound, a little poppish tinge. Was at least in the top 150, but has been cut--her fans are pleading for likes and that support page was made after bootcamp, and her mother said: [quote]Together we can do what we can never do alone.[/quote]</span><br />
<a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/hannahbethel" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Reverbnation</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">HotFlash--Formed in 2005, made up of three 50+ women, Patricia Mazo, Maureen Morissey, and Cathy Mathias Johnson. Were singing waitresses. Call themselves "sassy, brassy, soulful and irreverently funny". Johnson is 57 years old, Morrissey 59. They are from Orange County, New York. Auditioned in New Jersey. Might be out, as they only joined facebook after bootcamp.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d5fu_l51d4M" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mathias Johnson: A Star Fallen</span></a><br />
<a href="http://hotflashandthehormones.com/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Official Website</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Jackson Samuels--~28 years old. Works at the magazine </span><i style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Life</i><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">. Cut, as said: [quote]oh GAWD. i been trying to rid myself of the nightmares, but to night i guarantee i will be back in this room again. sigh. well experience is the mother of all growth,[/quote][quote]</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100002510215703&sk=wall" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Facebook</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Jami James--Girl originally from New York, NY, but now in Los Angeles. Has a ton of musical influences from the Black Keys to the Foo Fighters to Lenny Kravitz and Dashboard Confessional. Not certain she's a cut, but there's nothing leading to the fact that she made it further either.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=23004629&sk=info" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Facebook</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Jess Park--Now in LA, but originally from Grand Rapids, MI.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Jessica Sanchez--Tried out for the X Factor, but has gotten cut. 16 year old R&B singer who has been a youtube sensation.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/jsanchezfan" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Youtube Channel</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Joshua Maddox--From Nashville, TN, but originally from Wicksburg, AL. Cut, as on his wall, July 25th, [quote]But have no worries something spectacular will come from the exspeirence....[/quote]</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Kelly Warner--From Buffalo, NY. 22 years old, auditioned in New Jersey with "Hallelujah" and "City Lights". Has quiet storm/soul vocals in the Alicia Keys vein. Her twitter's gone. But there's signs she might have been cut, as on August 31st said added USA Jet Airlines to her work (Flight Attendant), so she's had other opportunities.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/kgwarner" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Choking Kind</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Kenny Matel--Also known as Kenny Matelski. From Kenosha, WI. Has classic rock/metal/rock influences like AC/DC, Motley Crue and Black Sabbath. 40 years old. Auditioned in Chicago. Has a classic rock style including the heavy metal scream with deep range. Seems to have been cut, as on July 27th, said that [quote]Keep going after your dreams, I will never quit! [/quote]</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Kristen and Shaina Lovett--They auditioned for the 1st season of the Voice as a group but didn't get through, and now they're trying the 1st season of X Factor. Both were definitely in the top 70. From New Jersey/NYC. Also calls themselves KnSMusicGroup. Good harmonies and good voices, but can get a bit shrill live. Their recorded music actually sounds really good, like edgy R&B that could fit in today's mainstream music, actually. They bill themselves as club/pop/R&B, so LA and Simon might like them. Seem to have been cut, as they said that they might move to LA in August 1st to pursue other opportunities.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/knsmusicgroup#p/u/1/0CFplgn82Qk" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">If I Ain't Got You, Jessie J's Price Tag covers</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bMNVHeIyiKs" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">The Voice Audition</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.lovett-music.com/Lovett/SONGS.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Songs: Can You Hear Me Now, Unusually Beautiful, Take My Picture</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrzL8yHiO-8&feature=autoshare" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">X Factor Audition: Amy Winehouse's Valerie</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Luci--From Nashville, TN, but born in Lima, Peru. Bills self as pop/Latin/R&B type music, but wants to succeed in both Latin and English markets. Has that Shakira feel singing about empowerment, dancing and going for big notes. I think she at least made the top 70, as she met the Little Ladiez during the bootcamp week, and on July 24th said[quote] OK, time to get back to more creating! What a week it's been, seriously. Motivated to push forward like never before.[/quote] But her website states that she'll be performing in the LA Music Awards </span><a href="http://www.newlucimusic.com/luci/Home.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank">around the same days X Factor starts</a><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">, so she might be cut. </span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.newlucimusic.com/luci/Home.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Live It Up, New Normal, Little Girl</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/mialuz7" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Youtube Channel: Save the World</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Mathew Slovacek--Cut here at the top 70, because he created a twitter account after late July. 23 years old. From Ennis, TX; bills self as country/acoustic/pop. Has a definite country sound and really leans toward singing country in general. Evidence of cut, from a Jaime Lynch comment on his youtube:</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[quote]Yey Mat!!! You're amazing! Next year, you & me are going to make it! </span><img alt="wink.gif" border="0" emoid=";)" src="http://images.idolforums.com/style_emoticons/idf/wink.gif" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> [/quote]</span></span><br />
<a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/mathewslovacek" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">No One's Second Best, Pretty Lady, Lie To Me</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/Slovy1#p/u" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Youtube Channel: Sings tons of Rascal Flatts/Carrie Underwood/Chris Young songs</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">McKenna Camille--Currently in Ann Arbor, MI, but originally from Los Angeles. In the college age range (18-21). Prepping for welcome week in the U of Michigan means a likely cut.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Rebo Cruz--From Hollywood, CA, but originally from Chicago, IL. Calls himself a singer/actor/model. Seemed to enjoy working with Brian Friedman. Definitely got cut at top 70, said this on July 23rd:[quote] Ugh... It was grueling.it was challenging...it was beautiful blessed to have been apart of it all blessed to have been around such magnificent ppl thank you all [/quote]</span><br />
<a href="http://www.twitvid.com/MGJDY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Interviewing JLo</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Reina Williams--Cut. From Baltimore, MD, auditioned in New Jersey. She's the one who did that rapping that made Simon say, "You just made my year" in the NJ auditions with her audition of original song "Ooh Damn". Bills herself as R&B/acoustic/soul/trip hop. Tons of swagger--maybe too much. Good performer, full of confidence. On August 3rd said to Nicole Scherzinger,</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[quote]hey @nicoleScherzy i still have a song for you.. but now you have to wait. miss me yet??[/quote], and on July 30th, @</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[quote]@NicoleScherzy what's up? Miss me yet? #music #realtalk #talented #beoriginal #songwriter #winning #movingon #grinding[/quote]</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">and she got cut July 23rd: [quote]Oh well..back to doin what I do best. Making #music. What's next?[/quote]</span><br />
<a href="http://www.facebook.com/reinawilliamsmusic?ref=pb" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Kanye West's Runaway cover, original song Ooh Damn, among others</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NOPrQUNzRZ0&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">X Factor Audition: Ooh Damn</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Renee Myers--22 years old. Influences include Carrie Underwood, Melissa Etheridge and Bonnie Raitt--has won Kansas City and Blue Springs Idol. From Blue Springs, MO, but auditioned in Dallas. Part of the local pop/rock band Vantage Point, but left that band to make it big on X Factor? Will go for runs and high notes, and actually sounds decent in the lower register as well. Has a very good recorded sound for a rock female vocalist as well, and her experience with covers can serve her well on this show. Seems pretty versatile. Cut, as a conversation reveals: [quote]u gonna come down and visit us in nashville? kyle and I are moving down early oct[/quote]</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oGzjfw2zjpY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Singing Beyonce's "If I Were A Boy"</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/vantagepointkcmo" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Cover of Journey's Separate Ways, Fleetwood Mac's the Chain, and more as part of Vantage Point</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Robbie Crebar--14 years old, auditioned in Los Angeles. From Laguna Niguel, CA. Part of the Orange County band "Sweet Mojo". Plays guitar. Does a lot of garage band sort of music with guitar solos, sort of in the Simple Plan vein. Voice is a a bit thin, but pleasant for his age. Will go for the false. Seems to have been cut, as his facebook only came after bootcamp.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKYPDP8q7vI&feature=player_embedded" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">SM A Punk</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGlY1qwXauM&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I'm Not Okay</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.reverbnation.com/robbiecrebarmusic" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Solo: Talking to the Moon, Angel</span></a><br />
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<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/ryanwirtzmusic" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Youtube</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Sara Robinson--18 year old who auditioned in Los Angeles. Arizona native. Considers herself southern/rock/blues/new mainstream. Likes include The Band Perry, Darius Rucker and Miranda Cosgrove. Plays guitar. Cut, as she's recording a new album to be released later this fall. Has great stage performance. Has the spunky country sound.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nayuQM9zbJk" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Opening for Eric Church</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uddA1KNJBjE&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Original song</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Siameze--Also known as Siameze Marco Floyd, calls himself the "Godson of Rock and Soul". Auditioned in Los Angeles, where he dressed in all blue and did a remake/dance-funk version of Rick James' "Give It 2 Me Baby", preceded by a minute-long acapella gospel. Cheryl said that the "competition needed him" and Paula said it was like seeing a young Prince all over again. Showboater who Simon called "talented but deluded" but still voted him in. Says he was born to dance, and that's the title of his album. Bills music as urban funk/rock/soul. Very planty--has shared the stage with Prince, Sisqo, among many others. Also an avid sportsman. More spectacle than vocals for sure, and in fact, his musical stylings aren't that contemporary whatsoever. Harkens back to the '80s and '70s. Will go for high shrieks and perform with an unbuttoned shirt while singing--like a sex rawker. Performs frequently in Vegas, and in fact was the youngest headliner at the Hilton. One has even dubbed him a "Prince and Michael Jackson" combination. Grandmother is American Idol's "vocal coach from hell" Peggi Blu. Will dance live and has the charisma some of the major stars of the past have, but the singing? Will scare the frau of the show. His dad was in the pre-X Factor screenings and thanked the contestants, so he might have been cut.</span><br />
<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4433991252001358326" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Live music</span></a><br />
<a href="http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4433991252001358326#docid=8467215258991132235" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Satisfaction: live again</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LV7Wz0sKQq4" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">5 Min Promo</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xv7zpisJOY" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">More</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Song Preservation Society--Also known as SPS, made up of Ethan Glazer (27 years old), Daniel Wright (28) and Trevor Bahnson. All went to the Berklee College of Music, met in 2009. Play guitar. Glazer has a sort of quirky, old school sound that's a bit sleep inducing, but gets a lot of indie cred. Inspired by Simon & Garfunkel and the Beach Boys. Preserves their sound in jars, harmonizes and writes songs. Looks like he has been cut, as Toni Dolce on August 16 said [quote]Honestly, guys, your sound soothes my heart. It would have been amazing to see this type of music represented on the show. Xo Toni Dolce[/quote]</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/maxshamr#p/u" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Glazer: Killing Machine, She Knows, Daniel</span></a><br />
<a href="http://songpreservationsociety.com/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Official website</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Stefi & Pepper--Made up of Shannon Hunt (26) originally from Fayetteville, WV, and Justin Mortelliti (31), originally from West Township, NJ. Based in LA, group auditioned in Los Angeles. Mortelliti has a very contemporary pop-rock recording voice that could hit in mainstream radio today, and is pop/rock/soul. Also an actor, having been a part of the London Academy of Theater. Will stretch out his range live as well. Hunt has a really country sound with some soul, and apparently has branched out into pop in this group. Her voice gets really shrill on the high notes live. Mortelliti seems like he's looking for new projects with Linda Perry, so could be out. </span><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/justinmortelliti" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mortelliti: Today, You Amaze Me, Know That I</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/jmostreet#p/u/4/RtRCSQ_Xrng" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Mortelliti: Covers of Daughtry's "Home" and Maroon 5 "Makes Me Wonder"</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.shannonhuntmusic.com/fr_home.cfm" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Hunt: Official website</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.myspace.com/shannonhunt123" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Hunt: Myspazz</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/stefiandpepper" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Stefi & Pepper: Lean On Me, Rolling On the deep covers</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Stevie Mackey--From Los Angeles, supposedly has a 6-octave vocal range. Sings gospel music. Can play piano. Vocal coach. He says a lot of quotes, but one on July 22nd has [quote]Never give up on yourself even when others have given up on you.[/quote] Think he's cut.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJisjENqi8M&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Above All</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c3gIrLqRYFs" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">More</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Terrell Carter--From Los Angeles, CA. Looks the part of a R&B star. Sings smooth R&B, goes into the false and melisma way too often though. Really '90s Brian McKnight-ish. Cut, as he said on July 22nd, [quote]There is a blessing behind close doors![/quote] and this [quote]So stop worrying and stressin he'll turn it into a blessin, Cuz there's a blessin behind closed doors![/quote]</span><br />
<a href="http://terrellmusic.com/site.html" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Official music sample stream</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xjh-rk4_APM&feature=related" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Live singing: Ribbon in the Sky</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Thomas McAbee--28 years old. From Durham, NC, currently lives in Los Angeles. Auditioned in Los Angeles. Has a sob story--his brother disappeared a year ago and dedicated a song to him. Bills himself as country, and does have a country voice. Seems to have been cut, was seen hanging with George Trice, Ryan Wirtz and Jessica Sanchez at 6 PM shoot (all cut).</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/thomasmcabee01#p/u/1/Q6iE-DgutKc" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Tell Me I Was Dreaming--dedicated to his brother</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Tiger Budbill--42 years old. From his facebook seems like a novelty act. Works at </span><a href="http://djcatdaddy.com/" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank">Cat Daddy Entertainment</a><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> where he is a MC. Does karaokes and weddings. From Seattle, WA, auditioned in Seattle. Noisy facebook could indicate cut.</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Tim Cifers--Says he lives and breathes country music. Myspace has been closed. Released an album called "Copperhead Road Live" in 2008. Facebook only came after bootcamp so most likely cut.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Tinuke Oyefule--24 years old, now lives in LA, but originally from Philadelphia, PN. Auditioned in LA. Has performed in the Philly music scene. Plays piano. Voice isn't sensational. Probably got cut, said on July 24th, [quote]When you try your best but you don't succeed...when you get what you want but not what you need...[/quote]</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxhR2ruW2o4" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">If I Ain't Got You</span></a><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/TinukeOye7" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Youtube Channel</span></a><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Toni Dolce--She's been compared to as the female Josh Groban. Wants to do classical crossover music, record with Josh Groban and "be noticed by David Foster". Not sure if she made it as she's attempting to use kickstarter to record a new album. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><a href="http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/2060902280/toni-dolce-classical-crossover-debut-album" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank">Kickstarter</a><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"> Definitely cut at top 70</span></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Note: Apparently, she didn't make it. Cut at top 70 presumably. A comment to Stereo Hogzz shows she’s inspired by them to pursue her dreams.</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Tory Taylor Tompkins--23 years old, auditioned in Dallas. Seen in the Dallas auditions videos with Dexter Haygood. Bills self as pop/rock/soul. From Austin, TX. Plays guitar and piano. Has a harder country sound, seems like.</span><br />
<a href="http://www.youtube.com/user/torytompkins" rel="nofollow" style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" target="_blank"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Youtube</span></a><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_cesardela.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Nick Voss (at least top 32?)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_unk1.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Zane Bezesky (at least top 150~boys)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<u style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">GIRLS:</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_unk1-11.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Emily Michalak (into the live shows~top 16)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_rachelcrow.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Rachel Crow (into the live shows~top 16; TCO commercial)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_simonebattle.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Simone Battle (into the live shows~at least top 16?)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_a1-11.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Tora Woloshin (into the live shows~at least top 16?)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<u style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><b><span style="background-color: black; color: white;">OVERS:</span></b></u><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_unk5-2.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Chris Rene (at least top 150)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_davidjames.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">David James (at least top 150)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_dixonhaggan-1.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Dexter Haygood (at least top 32?)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_krajcik.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Josh Krajcik (at least top 32)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_joshblaylock.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Joshua Blaylock (at least top 150~overs)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_someone.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Reyshard Elsemaj (If so, at least top 70)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_stacyfrancis.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Stacy Francis (top 16~live shows; TCO)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<u style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br /><b>GROUPS:</b></span></u><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_2squard.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">2Squar'd (at least top 32?)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_bestkeptsecret.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Best Kept Secret (at least top 150; sang Bob Marley's "No Woman No Cry" in their audition in Los Angeles)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_forsure.jpg?t=1314834730" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">4Shore (top 16--into the live shows? TCO?)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_bandxfact.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Illusion Confusion? (if so, at least top 70)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_nickdean.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Nick Dean (put into manuf group~at least top 32)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_stereohogzz.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Stereo Hogzz (into the live shows~top 16)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><br /></span>
<u style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><b>ALREADY CUT:</b></u></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_blackberryjam.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Adrian and Julian (also known as Blackberry Jam; cut at least top 150~Groups)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_theanser.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">The Anser (cut at top 32~Groups)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_brennin.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Brennin Hunt (cut at top 32~Overs)</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_caitlin.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Caitlin Koch (cut? at top 32~Girls)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_unknown1-1.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Cari Elise Fletcher (cut? at top 32, put into manufac. group~Groups)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_chrissyf.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Chrissy Feliciano (cut at top 70~Girls)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_unk1-6.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Dani Knights? (cut at top 32?~put into manuf. group?~Groups)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_dorit.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Dorit Yehudai (cut at least top 150~Overs)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_ellona.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Ellona Rano Santiago (cut at top 32, put into manufac. group~Groups)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_hannahjackson.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Hannah Jackson (cut at top 70~Girls)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_hayleystayner.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Hayley Stayner (cut at top 32, put into manuf group~Groups)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_henribredouw.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Henri Bredouw (cut at top 70~Boys)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_joshuamaddox.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Joshua Maddox (cut at least top 150~Overs)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_mathewslovacek.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Mathew Slovacek (cut at least top 150~Boys)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_pinkstilettos.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Pink Stilettos (cut at top 32~Groups)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_symphony.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Symphony Howlett (cut at top 70~Girls)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_unk4.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Terrell Carter (cut in at least top 150~Overs)</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><span style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><br /></span>
<u style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;"><b>OTHERS:</b></u></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">[/img]</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Unknown Girl 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_unk5.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Unknown Girl? 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_unk1-1.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Unknown Over? 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_unk2.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Unknown Over? 4</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_unk1-4.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Unknown Over? 5</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_unk1-5.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Unknown Over? 6</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_unk1-2.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Unknown Group 1</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_unk5-1.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Unknown Group 2</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_unk3.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Unknown Group 3</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_unknown1.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Unknown Group 4</span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><br style="font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;" /></span>
<span style="background-color: black; color: white;"><img alt="IPB Image" border="0" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_unk1-3.jpg" style="border: 0px; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px; vertical-align: middle;" /></span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Unknown Group 5</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: 'Lucida Grande', Verdana, Tahoma, Arial, 'Trebuchet MS', sans-serif, Georgia, Courier, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 12px; line-height: 19.200000762939453px;">Unknown Group 4</span>Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482901438415079226.post-24610933586791285042013-08-20T00:59:00.005-07:002013-09-02T23:42:30.667-07:00AMERICAN NINJA WARRIOR, SEASON 5: MOVING ON TO VEGAS<a href="http://hollywoodhatesme.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/american-ninja-warrior.jpg?w=300&h=207" imageanchor="1" style="clear: right; float: right; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-left: 1em;"><img border="0" src="http://hollywoodhatesme.files.wordpress.com/2012/05/american-ninja-warrior.jpg?w=300&h=207" /></a>Congrats to the following athletes who have made it to the next round:<br />
(COMP=completed 2nd round course; in parentheses and # is rank in the beginning round)<br />
With ~, are Vegas veterans from last year; ranking from last year is out of the 90 that went to Vegas<br />
~ without a number means went to Japan (Vegas equivalent in past years)<br />
% Means has participated in competition in past years but didn't go to Vegas/Japan before<br />
With * are Stage 2 ranks in Vegas last year, adding in Vegas runs, out of 24 participants<br />
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Consult <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/06/american-ninja-warrior-preliminary.html">this page</a> for last year's ANW ranks.<br />
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<b><u>DENVER:</u></b><br />
1) Paul Kasemir (COMP) (#5) (~4,*3)<br />
2) Josh Cook (COMP) (#9)<br />
3) Brian Arnold (COMP) (#12) (~15,*9)<br />
4) Isaac Caldiero (COMP) (#20)<br />
5) Colby Frontiero (COMP) (#19)<br />
6) Casey Finley (#7)<br />
7) Tremayne Dortch (#18) (~69)<br />
8) Kyle Sinacori (#15)<br />
9) Andres De La Rosa (#26) (%)<br />
10) Christopher Romrell (#4)<br />
11) Lorin Ball (#6) (~25,*10)<br />
12) Jake Smith (#3) (~32)<br />
13) Caleb Garnham (#8)<br />
14) Camilo Brokaw (#11)<br />
15) Josh Grant (#17) (~79)<br />
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<b><u>MIAMI:</u></b><br />
1) Drew Drechsel (COMP) (#1) (~2,*2)<br />
2) Flip Rodriguez (COMP) (#2) (~1,*1)<br />
3) William Brown (COMP) (#5) (~17)<br />
4) Travis Rosen (COMP) (#3) (~5,*5)<br />
5) Tukrong Klengdong (COMP) (#22)<br />
6) Yev Kouchnir (COMP) (#9)<br />
7) Jason Soares (COMP) (#27)<br />
8) Ryan Stratis (COMP) (#16) (~)<br />
9) Grant David (#8)<br />
10) Idoko Abuh (#23)<br />
11) Brandon Smith (#24)<br />
12) Jonathan Brown (#20)<br />
13) Joseph Rosello (#11)<br />
14) John Walker (#13)<br />
15) Josh Romeo (#4)<br />
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<b><u>BALTIMORE:</u></b><br />
1) Dan Galiczynski (COMP) (#5) (~61)<br />
2) Joe Moravsky (COMP) (#6)<br />
3) Brian Wilczewski (COMP) (#12)<br />
4) Michael Silenzi (COMP) (#10) (~70)<br />
5) Jeffrey Tan (COMP) (#19)<br />
6) Andrew Lowes (COMP) (#11) (~81)<br />
7) Dan Moschella (COMP) (#14)<br />
8) Jamie Rahn (COMP) (#3) (%)<br />
9) David Slovenski (COMP) (#18)<br />
10) Tim Shieff (#4) (~11)<br />
11) Michael Needham (#2) (%)<br />
12) Travis Weinand (#22) (%)<br />
13) Adam Grossman (#23) (~40)<br />
14) Michael Pericoloso (#24) (~89)<br />
15) Seth Caskey (#20)<br />
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<b><u>VENICE:</u></b><br />
1) James McGrath (COMP) (#5) (~3,*4)<br />
2) Dustin Rocho (COMP) (#8) (%)<br />
3) JB Douglas (COMP) (#21) (~51,*19)<br />
4) David Campbell (COMP) (#3) (~10)<br />
5) James Eggiman (#14)<br />
6) James Sclar (#13) (%)<br />
7) Jesse La Flair (#1) (~13)<br />
8) Dan Mast (#26) (~33)<br />
9) Brian Kretsch (#7) (~58)<br />
10) Luke Carson (#27)<br />
11) Lance Pekus (#4) (%)<br />
12) Justin Walcker (#12) (~48)<br />
13) Levi Keller (#25)<br />
14) Mario Mendoza (#22)<br />
15) Will Roberts (#29) (%)<br />
Brent Steffensen (11th, 17th for wildcard)<br />
Noah Kaufman (10th, 18th for wildcard)<br />
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<b><u>OVERALL RANKING HEADING INTO VEGAS (out of 60)</u></b><br />
*This adds up this season's 1st and 2nd obstacle course scores; in the event of a tie, we use the rank of ANW4 or veteran status to break ties. If there is no rank/veteran status of ANW4 to go by, then the athletes remain tied. It's important to consider these rankings because the clock goes down instead of up in Vegas, so speed really matters. In *YELLOW* means athlete has advanced to stage two.<br />
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1) <span style="color: yellow;">Drew Drechsel</span> 2 (~2,*2)</div>
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2) Flip Rodriguez 4 (~1,*1)</div>
3T) <span style="color: yellow;">Paul Kasemir 6 (~4,*3)</span><br />
3T) <span style="color: yellow;">James McGrath 6 (~3,*4)</span><br />
5) Dan Galiczynski 6 (~61)<br />
6) <span style="color: yellow;">Travis Rosen</span> 7 (~5,*5)<br />
7) David Campbell 7 (~10)<br />
8)<span style="color: yellow;"> Jesse La Flair 8 (~13)</span><br />
9) <span style="color: yellow;">William Brown 8 (~17)</span><br />
10) <span style="color: yellow;">Joe Moravsky 8</span><br />
11) Dustin Rocho 10 (%)<br />
12) <span style="color: yellow;">Jamie Rahn 11 (%)</span><br />
13) <span style="color: yellow;">Josh Cook 11</span><br />
14) Michael Needham 13 (%)<br />
15) <span style="color: yellow;">Casey Finley 13</span><br />
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16) Tim Shieff 14 (~11)</div>
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17) Michael Silenzi 14 (~70)</div>
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18) <span style="color: yellow;">Christopher Romrell 14</span></div>
19) <span style="color: yellow;">Brian Arnold 15 (~15,*9)</span><br />
20) Jake Smith 15 (~32)<br />
21) Lance Pekus 15 (%)<br />
22T) Brian Wilczewski 15<br />
22T) <span style="color: yellow;">Yev Kouchnir 15</span><br />
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24) Brian Kretsch 16 (~58)</div>
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25) <span style="color: yellow;">Lorin Ball 17 (~25,*10)</span><br />
26) Andrew Lowes 17 (~81)</div>
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27) Grant David 17<br />
WILDCARD [28] <span style="color: yellow;">Elet Hall 18 (~29,*16)</span></div>
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28) James Sclar 19 (%)</div>
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29T) Josh Romeo 19</div>
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29T) James Eggiman 19</div>
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31T) Dan Moschella 21<br />
31T) Caleb Garnham 21</div>
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33) <span style="color: yellow;">Kyle Sinacori 23</span></div>
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34) JB Douglas 24 (~51,*19)</div>
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35) Justin Walcker 24 (~48)</div>
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36) Ryan Stratis 24 (~)</div>
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37T) Isaac Caldiero 24<br />
37T) Colby Frontiero 24</div>
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37T) Jeffrey Tan 24</div>
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37T) Joseph Rosello 24</div>
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41T) Tremayne Dortch 25 (~69)<br />
41T) Camilo Brokaw 25<br />
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43T) Tukrong Klengdong 27</div>
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43T) John Walker 27</div>
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43T) David Slovenski 27<br />
WILDCARD [46] <span style="color: yellow;">Brent Steffensen 28 (~18,*7,1)</span><br />
WILDCARD [47] <span style="color: yellow;">Noah Kaufman 28</span></div>
46) Josh Grant 32 (~79)<br />
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47) Jonathan Brown 32</div>
48) <span style="color: yellow;">Idoko Abuh 33</span><br />
49) Dan Mast 34 (~33)<br />
50) <span style="color: yellow;">Travis Weinand 34 (%)</span><br />
51) Jason Soares 34<br />
52) <span style="color: yellow;">Andres De La Rosa 35 (%)</span><br />
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53T) Brandon Smith 35</div>
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53T) Seth Caskey 35</div>
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55) Adam Grossman 36 (~40)</div>
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56) Mario Mendoza 36</div>
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57) Luke Carson 37</div>
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58) Michael Pericoloso 38 (~89)</div>
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59) Levi Keller 38</div>
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60) Will Roberts 44</div>
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<b><u>A couple of notes: </u></b><br />
*Typically, only the top 30 are of interest (before ANW4, they would aggregate all cities into one setting and take only the top 30, so this tries to get the top aggregate contenders), and if we're serious, only the top ten (single digits) are super legit.<br />
*Notice everyone in the top ten, with the exception of super rookie Joe Moravsky, made it to Vegas last year. Being a veteran is a real help, of course. But even more so, with the exception of Dan Galiczynski, every one of those guys ranked in the top 20 (out of the expanded pool of 90) heading into Vegas last year. What this proves? All these guys are just rock solid consistent, year to year. And that's what you need to get into the top ten.<br />
*Let's look deeper into this pool. These guys are the legends of ANW, being in the top 5 consistently last year and this year: Drew Drechsel, Flip Rodriguez, Paul Kasemir and James McGrath. And none of them are what you'd call true parkour types, but they're beasts, mentally tough and with a killer instinct. And let's not underestimate Travis Rosen, who just barely missed out on the top five this year but was in the top five the past year.<br />
*Other rock solid vets who are in the top twenty this year and were in the top twenty last year? Led by the legendary David Campbell in this category, we also have Jesse La Flair, William Brown, Tim "Livewire" Shieff and Brian Arnold.<br />
*<b>Biggest Vegas risers from the past year? </b>Within that top ten, Dan Galiczynski is a Vegas vet and really made a huge jump from the past year (+56). Andrew Lowes (+55) jumps into the top 30, Michael Silenzi made a huge jump (+53) into the top 20, Brian Kretsch (+34) also gets into the top 30. Other notables with over +10 risings include Josh Grant (+33), Michael Pericoloso (+31), Tremayne Dortch (+28), JB Douglas (+17), Justin Walcker (+13) and inconsistent parkour master/Ninja vet Jake Smith (+12). Galiczynski is the one to watch, but all of these have potential in future seasons and may need this year to find their bearings.<br />
*<b>Returning...with a vengeance</b>: These are veterans who missed the cut to go to Vegas last year, but were mighty impressive in their showings this year and will go to Vegas. Specifically, we'll focus on the top 20, where we have Dustin Rocho, Jamie Rahn and Michael Needham showing that ninja fortitude and all have some darkhorse potential. A shout-out also goes to Lance Pekus and James Sclar, returners who round out the 30.<br />
*<b>Impressive rookies</b>: Everyone loves salvation stories, but just like in sports, no event functions without the newbies to grow and cultivate for future seasons. Really, really look out for Joe Moravsky, an impressive rookie who lands in the top ten. In the top twenty, we also see Josh Cook, Casey Finley and Christopher Romrell. Special shout outs go to Brian Wilczewski, Yev Kouchnir, Grant David, Josh Romeo and James Eggiman for rounding out the top 30.<br />
*<b>Athletes who "appear" to have regressed</b>: At least -10 from their ranking the past year: Adam Grossman (-15) and Dan Mast (-17). And if you've regressed this year, you've really regressed: last year it was out of 90, this year it's only out of 60. Of course there's disappointments who aren't even going to Vegas, like Elet Hall (#29 last year) and the legendary Brent Steffensen (#18 R1, #7 R2) and to some extent Derek Nakamoto (#34 R1, #13 R2) and Paul Darnell (39/17), and even further down the line Midoriyama vets like Brian Orosco and Shane Daniels, but at least for the former two, they will likely be one of the ten people inserted to run to Vegas by virtue of their legend. There are others who we know ran the course this year but definitely regressed from last year's rank, including Matthew Derouen (#8 last year), Sean Morris (#9), Bull Bullard (#12), Andrew Karsen (#21), Chris Wilczewski (#22), Thomas Hall (#23), Brendan Kelly (#26) and Luis Moco (#30).<br />
<b>*What happened to these dudes?</b> We know Brandon Douglass (#6 last year) got injured, the producers must have pissed off Travis Furlanic to the point he wouldn't re-audition (#7 last year and David Campbell's nephew), and Evan Dollard (#28) is now working for ANW behind the scenes. But what about others? Consulting the link I posted above, these guys ranked in the top 30 heading to Vegas last year, but are nowhere to be found: Sat Khalsa (#14 last year), Remi Bakkar (#16/8), Michael Eckert (#19), Josh Lobeck (#20), Ahmed Toure (#24/11) and Kole Stevens (#27/12). Of the lower level sleepers who somehow advanced to Round 2, we haven't seen Nathaniel Spencer, Sean Noble, Danny Johnson, Ben Snead or Will Dodd either. Hopefully they will return in future seasons.<br />
*As usual, we note that this isn't an "exact" science, and that athletes who fall outside the top thirty of these rankings, by sheer probability and will-power, can still go through to Stage 2 or further in Vegas. Last year, out of the remaining 60 outside the top 30, 8 went on to Stage 2, for a probability of about 13.3%. This suggests about 4 of these athletes will hit Stage 2 this year. Last year, we saw that over half of the top 30 (16 of them) advanced to stage, so it's a coin toss for these athletes. In fact, everyone in the top 6 went to stage 2 last year. We'll see this year.<br />
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VEGAS fastest times:<br />
1) Elet Hall 39.25<br />
2) Lorin Ball 38.62<br />
3) James McGrath 38.47<br />
4) Joe Moravsky 36.23<br />
5) Brent Steffensen 30.63<br />
6) Jesse La Flair 26.97<br />
7) Josh Cook 26.03<br />
8) Chris Romrell 24.86<br />
9) William Brown 22.73<br />
10) Paul Kasemir 22.34<br />
11) Drew Drechsel 21.63<br />
12) Jamie Rahn 19.26<br />
13) Casey Finley 18.90<br />
14) Noah Kaufman 14.10<br />
15) Travis Rosen 13.50<br />
16) Yev Kouchnir 9.67<br />
17) Kyle Sinacori 7.60<br />
18) Andres De La Rosa 4.24<br />
19) Brian Arnold 3.64<br />
20) Travis Weinand 2.30<br />
21) Idoko Abuh 1.98<br />
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<b><u>MY VEGAS POWER RANKINGS, FROM THE START OF THIS SEASON:</u></b><br />
1) James McGrath 9 (~3,*4)<br />
2) Joe Moravsky 12<br />
3) Drew Drechsel 13 (~2,*2)<br />
4) Jesse La Flair 14 (~13)<br />
5) Paul Kasemir 16 (~4,*3)<br />
6) William Brown 17 (~17)<br />
7) Josh Cook 18<br />
8) Lorin Ball 19 (~25,*10)<br />
9) Elet Hall 19 (~29,*16)<br />
10) Travis Rosen 22 (~5,*5)<br />
11) Christopher Romrell 22<br />
12) Jamie Rahn 23 (%)<br />
13) Casey Finley 26<br />
14) Yev Kouchnir 31<br />
15) Brent Steffensen 33 (~18,*7,1)<br />
16) Brian Arnold 34 (~15,*9)<br />
17) Kyle Sinacori 40<br />
18) Noah Kaufman 42<br />
19) Andres De La Rosa 53 (%)<br />
20) Travis Weinand 54 (%)<br />
21) Idoko Abuh 54<br />
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<br />Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482901438415079226.post-58558688161689060642013-05-24T17:21:00.003-07:002013-08-07T14:56:40.752-07:00FINDING YOUR AUDIENCE: SINGING COMPETITIONS VS AMERICAN RADIO<br />
So we at jork vs TPTB know that the singing competitions mostly want to create a good show with filler, but with regards to having "marketability for the radio?" Take a peek after the jump for analysis.<br />
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And it's easy to predict with the sort of contestants that are cast every year. Obviously, pop has the biggest upside, and then country. But country is so male-dominated and frankly oversaturated by the Voice and Idol continually churning out these contestants every year. Let's compare XFUS2, AI12, and The Voice 4 contestants for reference of where I think each contestant is pigeonholed:<br />
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[1]Tate Stevens--country. Again, over-saturation and the fact that he was in a pop-oriented show led to his flop.<br />
[2]Carly Rose--based on her run, adult contemporary. Not even HAC. Which is why she wasn't promoted.<br />
[3]Fifth Harmony--pop, possibly rhythmic. Huge potential audience there.<br />
[4]Emblem3--pop, possibly alternative. Good sized audience there<br />
[5]Diamond White--adult contemporary run, but looks like she can re-invent herself into urban and rhythmic in the future<br />
[6]CeCe Frey--pop. Has a pretty rabid twitter fanbase but they opted not to promote her<br />
[7]Vino Alan--adult contemporary or alternative. Limited upside.<br />
[8]Paige Thomas--pop, possibly rhythmic and urban with the potential Cash Money stuff. There's a huge potential audience but probably too generic and too far down the ladder for investment.<br />
[9]Beatrice Miller--there was some Avril Lavigne type stuff there, so I'd say she might have HAC potential if she plays her cards right in the future.<br />
[10]Arin Ray--Definitely was going the pop/rhythmic/urban route with his run. Potential for sure, but too far down the ladder to promote.<br />
[11]Jennel Garcia--Identity crisis as an old fashioned Joan Jett really destroyed whatever potential. Seemed pop though and maybe a tinge of the Latin market? Who knows<br />
[12]Lyric145--Yeah, this one should have been marketed specifically to urban, and with sick beats, they might have taken it a step up to rhythmic. As usual with rap types with good collaborations with well known pop types they could have pop potential, so there's a variety of avenues to work with. More than adult contemporary types, at least.<br />
[13]Jason Brock--AC was the only upside. Tried some dance stuff but I doubt rhythmic likes what he did on the show. Limited upside.<br />
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<b><u>AI12:</u></b><br />
[1]Candice Glover--The way she represented herself on the show screams urban adult contemporary (UAC) all the way. They love old school sounds with great singing, more or less. However, the rest of radio doesn't, so there's limited crossover appeal. And this is the problem: UAC has the third-lowest audience reach of all the major radio genres. As mentioned, the type of artists that go there are incredibly niche--Jaheim, Avant, they just stick there with no movement to other charts. Fantasia however has crafted a career just doing stuff mostly on UAC so it could work, but most people never hear her--she just has a lot of urban adult contemporary lovers and no one else. That's why Candice has very limited upside here, base on how she presented herself. And if she tries to deviate from that--a la Jessica Sanchez--well, good luck with the identity crisis and all that.<br />
[2]Kree Harrison--Female and country. Not a good combination. Sure, Miranda Lambert and Carrie have bucked the trend, but that's the high end of aspirations there. She has her friend Kacey but she's only 32nd on that chart, so it's pretty middling overall there. We haven't heard much from Idol's past several country girls--Skylar and Lauren--but granted, they were on the younger side. I'd say very middling upside at best here.<br />
[3]Angie Miller--She had the most current run on the show (not saying too much given how old the season was, but still) and really really seems to want to do pop between the Jessie J/Lambert stuff at the end, but face it, she wasn't churned out by Disney nor does she pull the weight of a Rihanna, P!nk, Timberlake or a Macklemore, so that's a no go. Her style really seems like HAC at best with the Christina Perri type sound, and possibly Christian. Based on the sound, she's really having a middling upside of HAC and Christian, likely. There could be unrealistic expectations at work here.<br />
[4]Amber Holcomb--This one had the greatest ability to reach a pop audience just by the looks alone, but her run was so incredibly old fashioned it screamed UAC. But then again, UAC loves their mature, older types, so I don't think she'd fit there. I'd say Idol might have ruined her chances by giving her an identity crisis--looks pop, sounds UAC, at the end, neither plays her. Not that she'll get promotion, but she possibly had the most potential in the bunch. Likely just tried out for the wrong show.<br />
[5]Janelle Arthur--Female and country. Middling upside by default, but less than Kree given she's down the ladder. Also, it hurts that likely they won't promote two of the same type in one season, so she might get the shaft.<br />
[6]Lazaro Arbos--That was a completely adult contemporary run. Maybe some Latino stuff, but clearly very limited, if any, upside.<br />
[7]Burnell Taylor--Yeah, remember we thought he was more current than Ledet/Lusk? Slightly true, but John Legend spent a huge chunk of his career at UAC, and that's the upside he's looking at. Little swag to move up the urban/rhythmic ladder, so he's got limited upside<br />
[8]Devin Velez--Completely adult contemporary run. Latino stuff like Arbos, but again very limited upside with that combination.<br />
[9]Paul Jolley--Says he wants to be country pop, but face it, he's not either one and he's really an adult contemporary type in disguise. Limited upside, but the identity crisis gives him even less upside.<br />
[10]Curtis Finch--UAC. Again, attempted good singing, old school beats...limited upside. Churchy, so might go Christian too. Still, limited upside.<br />
[11]Aubrey Cleland--Pop type, did have two current songs. Zero stage presence. Generically good sounding voice. Doesn't look like there's much rhythmic or urban here, so I'd say limited upside despite being pop.<br />
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<b><u>The Voice 4:</u></b><br />
[a]Amber Carrington--Looks country, but Adam gave her Kelly Clarkson and Avril Lavigne songs, so angst-laden pop isn't out of the question? Probably the combination of country pop. Again, only Taylor Swift has pulled this off with both charts, but she sold out. Amber will probably be country, but again with country and girls--I'd say the upside looks good at first, but then you realize it's more middling. At least seems more interesting than Idol's country types this year.<br />
[b]Judith Hill--Old fashioned, older side, her upside is UAC at best. Which isn't much of an upside, but very similar to an older Candice Glover.<br />
[c]Sasha Allen--Operatic voice which goes for belting type stuff. I'm not sure if she's completely embodying the R&B type stuff. She seems like she experiments with different stuff, between Heart and the Dixie Chicks song at her initial audition. That sort of identity crisis might hurt her at the end, so limited upside. It's good to be creative, but for radio? Eh.<br />
[d] The Swon Brothers--Yeah, they're country guys. I guess they have potential--Blake seems to like them a lot, and Florida-Georgia line's a duo. They're not at XF and with Blake they can get reasonable promotion. Stealthily reasonable upside here is what I'd guess.<br />
[e]Sarah Simmons--Really sounds adult contemporary all the way. Maybe at tinge of Christian, but this isn't much of an upside at all.<br />
[f]Danielle Bradbery--This is probably the most marketable contestant. Wide eyed, Taylor Swift-ian country pop stuff, calm. Yeah, country and girls don't mix, but still, she's likely TCO, she's with Blake, and she'll get promoted. Reasonable potential.<br />
[g]Holly Tucker--Country Christian. She's a bit generic and is really pulling out the audience voting cards to stay afloat, and her genres considering she's a female country singer? Limited upside.<br />
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Now let's look at the radio numbers. Here's why when people refer to marketability, they mostly mean it in the pop radio sense:<br />
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As of May 24, 2013:<br />
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Pop radio:<br />
Average number of spins: 4403.2<br />
Average peak audience rating: 32.53<br />
Top ten artists: Justin Timberlake, Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, P!nk, Icona Pop, Demi Lovato, Rihanna, Selena Gomez, Bruno Mars, Fall Out Boy, will.i.am feat Justin Bieber<br />
Notable Idol types: Kelly Clarkson<br />
Notable X Factor types: Little Mix, Emblem3<br />
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Country radio:<br />
Average number of spins: 2520<br />
Average peak audience rating: 19.30<br />
Top ten artists: Darius Rucker, Tim McGraw and Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton, Florida-Georgia Line, George Strait, Eric Church, Jake Owen, Brad Paisley, The Band Perry, Luke Bryan<br />
Notable Idol types: Carrie Underwood, Scotty McCreery<br />
No notables from XF.<br />
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Rhythmic radio:<br />
Average number of spins: 1747.2<br />
Average peak audience rating: 13.28<br />
Top ten artists: Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, J Cole, Justin Timberlake, Rihanna, Drake, Chris Brown, Wale, Lil Wayne, Ariana Grande, Justin Timberlake<br />
No notables from Idol or X Factor.<br />
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Hot AC radio:<br />
Average number of spins: 1499.8<br />
Average peak audience rating: 11.24<br />
Top ten artists: P!nk, Rihanna, Bruno Mars, Emeli Sande, Fun., Phillip Phillips, Maroon 5, Justin Timberlake, Mumford and Sons, Lumineers<br />
Notable Idol types: Phillip Phillips, Kelly Clarkson<br />
Notable X Factor types: Olly Murs<br />
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Urban radio:<br />
Average number of spins: 1352.6<br />
Average peak audience rating: 10.83<br />
Top ten artists: Wale, Kendrick Lamar, B.o.B., Drake, Chris Brown, Rihanna, Rihanna, J Cole, Ciara, Tamar Braxton<br />
No notable Idol or XF types.<br />
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AC radio:<br />
Average number of spins: 546.2<br />
Average peak audience rating: 4.73<br />
Top ten artists: Lumineers, Maroon 5, Kelly Clarkson, Bruno Mars, P!nk, Phillip Phillips, P!nk, Taylor Swift, Michael Buble, fun.<br />
Notable Idol types: Kelly Clarkson, Phillip Phillips<br />
No notable X Factor types.<br />
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Urban AC radio:<br />
Average number of spins: 442.3<br />
Average peak audience rating: 4.19<br />
Top ten artists: Tamar Braxton, Miguel, Alicia Keys, Anthony Hamilton, Fantasia, Avant, Charlie Wilson, Joe, Eric Benet, Jaheim<br />
Notable Idol types: Fantasia<br />
Notable The Voice types: Jermaine Paul<br />
No notable X Factor types.<br />
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Alternative radio:<br />
Average number of spins: 631.1<br />
Average peak audience rating: 3.33<br />
Top ten artists: Neighbourhood, Imagine Dragons, Capital Cities, Muse, Thirty Seconds to Mars, Of Monsters and Men, Fall Out Boy, New Politics, Lumineers, Twenty One Pilots<br />
No notable Idol or X Factor types.<br />
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Christian radio:<br />
Average number of spins: 429.9<br />
Average peak audience rating: 2.34<br />
Top ten artists: Matthew West, Chris Tomlin, Hawk Nelson, Afters, Mercyme, Passion, Toby Mac, Sidewalk Prophets, Tenth Avenue North, Big Daddy Weave<br />
Notable Idol types: Jason Castro<br />
No XF types.<br />
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Active Rock, Rock, AAA get a very small radio audience so statistics won't be tabulated on them.<br />
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The next chart, country, is incredibly niche and rarely sees any crossover charting to the other charts listed, but it reaches the second widest audience, even if it's almost half of what the pop charts see. Also, it's super male dominated up top--only one half of the Band Perry and Taylor Swift (leeching on Tim McGraw) are up there. Sure, there's Idol types swimming about, but Scotty's 50th (the very end) at this chart and Carrie's somewhere in the middle. Good luck to all the female country types Idol's attempted to churn, because this genre, while notorious for accepting Idol contestants, doesn't see many of them at the very top.</div>
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Rhythmic is next, and this is pretty much pop, more or less. There's so much crossover in the top ten between who is in pop and who is in rhythmic. The only differences are more of the hip hop types--Wale, J Cole, Lil Wayne, and Drake--none of which are the prototypes Idol will ever produce. So good luck finding any of the Idol contestants in rhythmic. X Factor has none for now, but if they do produce hip hop types, so it's not out of the realm of possibility in the future. But rhythmic has a reasonable audience, and bigger than the adult contemporary types Idol tends to churn out by the bushel.</div>
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Urban is where we just never really see these contestants land. For one thing, you better have swag, hip hop and rap intermixed somewhere, otherwise you just won't land here. Again, X Factor is the only one that brings this sort of potential. Idol types will never land here, and possibly not land in rhythmic, simply because their old-song inducing runs just completely disintegrate whatever aspirations they had in having "swag", not to mention Idol purposely avoids contestants that fit this box. Too bad, there's a bigger audience for urban then there is for urban AC, which we'll get to soon...</div>
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So I recently wanted to analyze the trends between how far Idol contestants made it relative to their singing ability and song freshness/creativity factor. I'll explain more in detail later, but for now, toy around with the complete set of data I made, exclude several seasons or placements, and see how the trends hold up. I'll elucidate in more detail later. The higher the placement value, song creativity factor, and the singing ability, the better.<br />
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What are some of the key realizations?<br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Part I: Contestants, In Specific; The Quadrants: Creativity Vs Singing</span></u></b><br />
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If you look at my last chart, I've organized the data into four quadrants--the top right illustrates contestants with higher creativity/greater singing ability, the top left illustrates contestants with higher creativity/less singing ability, the bottom right illustrates contestants with less creativity/greater singing ability, and the bottom left illustrates contestants with less creativity/less singing ability.Top right=best, bottom left=worst, essentially. We can isolate this graph by excluding the data based on seasons.<br />
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<li>The bottom left are typically fodder contestants or contestants who know they are jokes, but nonetheless every year one of these contestants gets farther in the competition than their talent level would suggest. No winners out of this crew. (ie Scott Savol, Lil Rounds, Jasmine Trias, Kevin Covais, Aaron Kelly)</li>
<li>The bottom right is home of the shock elimination: contestants who can sing the playbook, usually, but choose the same old tired songs done on the Idol stage tons of times, or sing super old songs no one can relate to. One winner out of this crew--AI5's Taylor Hicks. (ie Hollie Cavanagh, Pia Toscano, Joshua Ledet, Kree Harrison, LaKisha Jones) </li>
<li>The top left is interesting: contestants who can't sing, but are higher level fodder contestants in that they help the mid-card go more seamlessly through introducing creative songs. 2 winners in recent years have been from here though--Scotty McCreery and Phil Phillips. (ie Jason Castro, Chris Richardson, Andrew Garcia, Kristy Lee Cook, Amanda Overmyer) </li>
<li>The top right is where the TCOs are usually found in: they're creative and can sing well enough by WNTS standards. 8 of the 11 winners are from this crew. (ie Fantasia, Carrie Underwood, David Archuleta, Anoop Desai, Colton Dixon) </li>
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<b><u>Season By Season Analysis:</u></b><br />
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As mentioned, bottom left contestants typically play spoiler, and bottom right are home of the shocks.<br />
AI3: TCO types (George Huff, Amy Adams, Diana DeGarmo, Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia, LaToya London); Top left (Matt Rogers, Jon Peter Lewis); Bottom right (none); Bottom left (Camile Velasco, John Stevens, Jasmine Trias, Leah LaBelle). As mentioned, John Stevens and Jasmine Trias really played spoiler and since there were so many TCOs, Amy Adams, LaToya London, Jennifer Hudson, George Huff and Amy Adams all became shocks. At the end, only the TCO types were at the top 2.<br />
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AI4: TCO types (Nikko Smith, Carrie Underwood, Nadia Turner, Bo Bice); Top left (Anthony Fedorov, Constantine Maroulis); Bottom right (Jessica Sierra, Anwar Robinson, Vonzell Solomon); Bottom left (Lindsay Cardinale, Scott Savol, Mikalah Gordon). Sierra and Robinson were shock eliminations at the expense of Scott Savol who advanced to the top five. Also, Nikko Smith and Nadia Turner were shocks from the TCO category. At the end, only the TCO types were at the top 2.<br />
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AI5: TCO types (Chris Daughtry, Mandisa, Paris Bennett); Top left (Lisa Tucker, Bucky Covington, Ace Young); Bottom right (Katharine McPhee, Taylor Hicks, Elliott Yamin); Bottom left (Kellie Pickler, Melissa McGhee). This was the year where great singing with zero creativity reigned supreme. The winner came from the bottom right, as did the runner up and third place winner--Hicks, McPhee and Yamin in that order. TCO types Daughtry and Paris Bennett were fourth and fifth as semi shocks, and Mandisa was a shock elimination while Kellie Pickler at the bottom left played spoiler.<br />
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AI6: TCO types (Blake Lewis, Chris Sligh, Stephanie Edwards, Jordin Sparks); Top left (Phil Stacey, Chris Richardson, Haley Scarnato); Bottom right (Gina Glocksen, Melinda Doolittle, LaKisha Jones); Bottom left (Sanjaya Malakar, Brandon Rogers). The season reverted back to AI3-AI4ish in the sense that two TCOs made the top two, and Sanjaya Malakar played spoiler by shock eliminating Stephanie Edwards and semi-shock eliminating Gina Glocksen. Chris Sligh committed Idol suicide by tanking even though he had the markers of TCO.<br />
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AI7: TCO types (David Cook, Michael Johns); Top left (Kristy Lee Cook, Amanda Overmyer, Jason Castro, Chikezie, Brooke White); Bottom right (Carly Smithson, David Hernandez, David Archuleta, Syesha Mercado); Bottom left (Ramiele Malubay). This was an interesting season with no one who really played spoiler--this was a very creative season, so many of the poor singers still proved themselves useful by introducing a ton of new songs. Michael Johns was a shock elimination, but everyone else was more or less useful. The winner, Cook, was a TCO type, and Archuleta came from the bottom right of good singing with poor creativity, as did 3rd place winner Syesha Mercado.<br />
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AI8: TCO types (Kris Allen, Adam Lambert, Anoop Desai); Top left (Scott MacIntyre, Jasmine Murray, Matt Giraud); Bottom right (Alexis Grace, Allison Iraheta); Bottom left (Megan Joy, Danny Gokey, Lil Rounds, Michael Sarver, Jorge Nunez ). AI8 was kind of a weird season in that people's perceptions were different than what the stats suggested. This was arguably the first season where sob story played a major role, particularly with Danny Gokey, who was a poor singer this season on top of being a completely un-creative song chooser. Unlike Scott Savol and Jasmine Trias, other bottom left types, he wasn't perceived as a poor singer who was advancing too far, even though he played spoiler to Alexis Grace and Anoop Desai, and semi-shocking Allison Iraheta as well. On the flip side, Kris Allen was perceived as fodder even though he compiled TCO type stats--like Desai, he was both creative and could sing well by WNTS standards, and at the end he was the winner. Again, the top two were both TCO types, even though this was largely an uncreative season as a w hole.<br />
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AI9: TCO types (Lee DeWyze, Casey James); Top left (Andrew Garcia, Lacey Brown); Bottom right (Didi Benami, Michael Lynche, Siobhan Magnus, Crystal Bowersox); Bottom left (Katie Stevens, Aaron Kelly, Tim Urban, Paige Miles). This was a poor singing season with average creativity, but DeWyze was the winner and a TCO type, while runner up was a good singer with somewhat poor creativity in Bowersox. Tim Urban and Aaron Kelly played spoilers in kicking out Didi Benami and to a slighter extent Siobhan Magnus.<br />
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AI10: TCO types (Casey Abrams, James Durbin, Lauren Alaina, Haley Reinhart); Top left (Scotty McCreery, Paul McDonald); Bottom right (Pia Toscano); Bottom left (Stefano Langone, Thia Megia, Jacob Lusk, Naima Adedapo, Ashthon Jones, Karen Rodriguez). This season sorely lacked creativity. Generally, however, no one in the bottom left really played spoiler to any of the TCO types, and after the save was used on TCO type Casey Abrams, he outstayed everyone at the bottom left. Pia Toscano, however, was proof that the bottom right is reserved for shock eliminations. The real surprise was that a top left type won, although to be fair, Scotty was like Phil Stacey--kind of borderline in singing ability between the top left and right, but slightly more to the top left. So at the end, he becomes our first top left winner, and the first non-TCO type winner since Taylor Hicks (bottom right). Lauren Alaina, a TCO type, was runner up.<br />
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AI11: TCO types (Colton Dixon, Skylar Laine, Elise Testone); Top left (Jeremy Rosado, Phillip Phillips, DeAndre Brackensick); Bottom right (Hollie Cavanagh, Jessica Sanchez, Joshua Ledet, Erika Van Pelt); Bottom left (Shannon Magrane, Heejun Han, Jermaine Jones). OK, so we're starting to notice a trend here. Like Scotty, Phillip is a top left type who won the show--not the greatest singer within his season, but emphasizing that as with AI10, it's creativity that the audience is looking for. Notice that the last un-creative good singing guy to win was in AI5. The runner up was a bottom right, as was third and fourth place, as they outlasted all three TCOs, so the top five was stocked with old fashioned good singers this season. The only real shock was with bottom left Heejun outlasting Erika Van Pelt, but not much else.<br />
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AI12: TCO types (Angie Miller, Devin Velez); Top left (Burnell Taylor, Janelle Arthur); Bottom right (Kree Harrison, Amber Holcomb, Candice Glover); Bottom left (Paul Jolley, Curtis Finch Jr, Lazaro Arbos). The most un-creative season ever, even though the season has been above the norm, believe it or not. Angie and Devin, in the AI aggregate, are typically bottom right contestants, although Angie might be a bit borderline, but this season is so old-fashioned/overdone that it makes them look super current by comparison. This season is somewhat of a continuation of AI11 in that the top four consists of the girls from the bottom right. But considering a bottom right hasn't won since AI5, it really looks like it's Angie's to lose. In terms of shocks, bottom left Lazaro Arbos outstayed his welcome by kicking out TCO markers type Devin Velez.<br />
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<b><u>What Quadrants Are The Contestants Who Sell Found In?</u></b><br />
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Consulting my other <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/idol-songs-youtube-views-most-to-least.html">article </a>for this, we find the major youtube views to be:<br />
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<b style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Kelly Clarkson (217mil)</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Carrie Underwood (151.3mil)</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Jordin Sparks (129.1mil)</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Daughtry (92.8mil)</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Adam Lambert (82.3mil)</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">David Archuleta (53.4mil)</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Jennifer Hudson (41.6mil)</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Kellie Pickler (32.2mil)</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Fantasia (22mil)</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">David Cook (19.4mil)</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Elliott Yamin (16.9mil)</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Scotty McCreery (15.8mil)</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Katharine McPhee (13.2mil)</b><br />
<b style="background-color: #333333; color: #cccccc; font-family: Arial, Tahoma, Helvetica, FreeSans, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;">Chris Richardson* (10.7mil)</b><br />
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Since we can't rate Kelly, but we can rate the rest, let's do that: Carrie, Jordin, Daughtry, Adam Lambert, Jennifer Hudson, Fantasia, and David Cook were all TCO types during their season. David Archuleta, Elliott Yamin and Katharine McPhee are the bottom right representatives, and Kellie Pickler, Scotty McCreery, and Chris Richardson are the top left representatives. To be fair, in the whole AI aggregate, Archuleta, Yamin and McCreery actually rank as TCO types, so it might be somewhat unfair to lump them in their original categories. By and large, top left can only be successful off the show if you're in the country genre, and bottom right can only be somewhat successful if as a whole, you rank as a TCO candidate.<br />
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Among AI12's crop, the most TCO-like by far is Angie Miller, but even she doesn't rank as a TCO candidate in the aggregate, because the season is too old fashioned (but she's close). Still, out of this crop, she might have the greatest chance to have slight commercial success. Candice, Amber, and Kree are too old fashioned, and considering none are even close to TCO like in the aggregate, there's no precedent for any selling ability here.<br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">Part II: Contestants, In General; Based on Race, Gender, and Region, with A Dash of the Audience and TPTB</span></u></b><br />
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So let's zoom out our scope a little bit and focus not on the specific contestants and whether their brand of creativity or singing ability is conducive to winning or selling, which is what we did in part I; instead, let's focus on the audience, and the types of contestants they prefer, based on race, gender, and region. In doing so, we'll also find out the sort of contestants TPTB like to promote, and whether there's a correlation between the number of contestants of a certain subset and how far they advance in the competition.<br />
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So let's find out the audience first: alexa.com is an incredibly useful resource for finding out the sort of audience Idol attracts. Going to <a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/americanidol.com">key </a><a href="http://www.alexa.com/siteinfo/mjsbigblog.com">sites </a>reveals that Idol's audience is heavily female dominated, and in particular attracting many 45 year old types and older. This jibes with the idea that the average age of the Idol viewing audience is in their mid-40s. There are some 18-24 year old teens voting, but using the aggregate of the two sites suggests a heavy dose of the 45-54s females at work here.<br />
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<b><u>Singing, and Creativity</u></b><br />
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Before we talk about who the 45-54 females are voting for, let's talk about the trends of the contestants. Keep in mind because there are 121 contestants, there are about 121 values, so the average singing ability is about 60.5. In terms of pure WNTS singing ability, Idol's best singers tend to be black girls. Generally, black girls of any age, because out of 121 contestants, with 121st being the best, they rate about 75-79. White girls up to age 23 are also above average, rating about 67, and white guys ages 20 and beyond also tend to be slightly above average with a dash over 60. Black guys ages 20-23 are also a dash above average. So largely, any black girls and white girls up to age 23 are the lifeblood of great singing. Notice it's mostly girls up top. Also, non blacks/non whites of any age tend to be subpar singers, as well over 24+ black guys and 0-19 aged white guys.<br />
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Now let's focus on creativity. As usual, the average is 60.5. It's a very small sample of only David Hernandez and Andrew Garcia, but aged 24+ male "others" (non blacks/non whites) are the most creative contestants. White guys and white girls aged 24 and older are very creative at about 82 as well, so we can already see that a lot of the older contestants are the more creative. Black guys ages 20-23 are also very effective, and black girls up to age 23 are also up there (although the younger ones are more creative). Aged 20-23 white guys and girls are a dash above average in creativity as well. The less creative ones include white girls up to aged 19, black girls between ages 20-23, black guys between 0-19 and 24+ in age, all non black/non white girls, and non black/non white guys between ages 20-23. The white and "other" girls are affectionately called pageantbots in the Idolsphere, and the black guys mentioned are considered old soul singers, more or less.<br />
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We can also separate this by region, also shown in another graph below. Again, average singing is 60.5. Interestingly, the best female singers tend to be from the northeast, midwest, and then the south. And then it's the guys, where only southern guys are a dash above average in singing--all other guys are below the average. Western girls are also are inferior to their girl counterparts in singing.<br />
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Let's look at the other side of the coin: creativity, average 60.5. Southern guys are the most creative, but midwestern guys and western guys are also up there. For the girls, only the midwestern girls are very creative. Also other girls are subpar, but in particular northeastern girls. Only the northeastern guys are subpar in creativity.<br />
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So what does this tell us? Midwestern girls have the best combination of singing and creativity, ranking 2nd and 2nd (both out of 8) in singing and creativity within their region/gender subset. Southern guys are next ranking 4th and 1st (out of 8) respectively, then it's a three-way tie between northeastern girls, southern girls and midwestern guys (of which the midwestern guys are the most creative, northeastern the least). Western guys and girls, and Northeastern guys are at the bottom of the combination pack.<br />
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Also, black girls ages 0-19 (on the basis of their singing) and white guys aged 24+ (on the basis of their creativity) have the best combination of singing and creativity. Black and white girls aged 24 and older also rank highly, as do black and white guys and girls aged 20-23. As mentioned, many of the non blacks/non whites rank poorly, as do black guys that are not between 20-23 and white guys up to age 19.<br />
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<b><u>What does this mean for TPTB, and how do they cast their contestants?</u></b><br />
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So what does this mean for TPTB, for the optimal combination scale? Perhaps this mean they should cast more black girls up to age 19 from the Midwest, or age 24 and over white guys from the South. These hit all the major markers. TPTB probably see Western and Northeastern non blacks/whites, teenage whites and very young/very old black guys are fodder, because they just struggle to produce in terms of singing and creativity. All others are pretty competitive.<br />
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But instead, if you look at how TPTB has cast, from AI3 to AI12, they have cast 20 24+ years and older white guys, which as mentioned above is good--they are very competent, and probably the second best subset Idol has to offer, particularly with their creativity. Great move.<br />
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They have also stacked the deck with white girls, between ages 20-23 but also those between ages 0-19. Now, these are pretty average to decent in their singing/creativity combinations overall, but they tend to be better singers than creative types. White guys between ages 20-23 are also a common appearance, and again they're competent at both ends, as are over 24+ black and white girls, which tend to be very competent. Decent moves.<br />
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But given their #1 ranking in singing/creativity, 0-19 aged black girls are actually underrepresented. They are only the seventh most common archetype in the Idolsphere, with only 7 out of the 121 contestants filling that role. Black guys aged 20-23 have been decent, ranking 4th in their combinations but 13th in commonality (only 4 of their 121 contestants) so they are also underrepresented. In general, it looks like TPTB are trying to make younger up to aged 23 white girls happen, because they're very common despite middling numbers, at the expense of more competent black singers. Poor moves.<br />
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Also, TPTB likes to throw in 0-19 aged non black/non white girls and 20-23 non black/non white guys for diversity purposes, even though in general they have the worst combinations of singing and creativity.<br />
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Let's look at the region for a clearer picture here. TPTB sure love their southerners--southern girls and southern guys make up nearly half of the finalists (30 and 27 each respectively). Western girls and guys are next, then the midwesterns, and finally the Northeasterns are the least represented.<br />
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Good moves--casting Southern guys, as they rate second highest in the combinations. Decent moves--casting southern girls, they're decent, but since they're cast the most they're at the expense of... Poor moves--the Midwestern girls. They have the highest combination of singing and creativity, yet they are severely underrepresented. Even more underrepresented than the Western girl and guy, who are cast more yet have way worse combination parameters.<br />
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So if we put two and two together, TPTB have been overcasting Southern white girls up to age 23, at the expense of Midwestern girls and 0-19 aged black girls. By and large 24+ year old southern white guys are cast a ton but they pull their weight. Also, TPTB love to cast the Western non black/white contestant despite poor combinations, likely for diversity purposes. Northeastern types have poor combinations and TPTB know that as they are rarely represented.<br />
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Based on casting commonalities for these subsets, if we're to extrapolate this to a 12-finalist season, roughly 2 of them would be 24+ year old white guys, possibly 2 20-23 year old white girl(s), 1 20-23 white guy, 1 0-19 year old white girl, a 24+ black girl, a 24+ white girl, a 0-19 aged black girl, a 0-19 other girl, a 20-23 other guy, and and a 20-23 year old black girl. In other words, we'd have 4 24+ year olds, 5 20-23 year olds, and 3 0-19 year olds, with 4 white girls, 3 white guys, 3 black girls, 1 other girl, and 1 other guy. Of those, 3 Southern guys, 3 Southern girls, 2 Western girls, 2 Western guys, 1 Midwestern girl and 1 Northeastern guy are the common attributes. We don't even see a black guy in a season extrapolating backwards (although the non 20-23 year olds are generally incompetent), and only 1 Midwestern girl, and this adds to the idea that TPTB are trying to make Southern white girls and Western non black/white guys/girls happen with their casting.<br />
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<b><u>So...how does the audience vote, given this TPTB framework?</u></b><br />
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Excellent question. One of the things that us about jork vs tptb have been suspecting ever since the WGWG era is that the audience loves creativity more than actual singing. It's the reason we've introduced that creativity marker in all of our graphs and tables below, where that creativity is based on song age/song freshness within the Idolsphere. Pia Toscano ranked incredibly low in creativity, and we know what happened to her. And if you look at the regional graph in particular, this is virtually a direct correlation between creativity and placement: Southern guys are the most creative, then the Midwesterns, then the Westerns, then Southern girls, then the Northeasterns--and the placement order tends to play out the same. This pretty much proves that the audience is looking for creativity rather than singing, in a vacuum.<br />
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The problem is the casting. As mentioned, Southern guys are the second most commonly cast by TPTB, meaning that there is more of them so they have a greater likelihood of winning. In fact, if you've noticed, many of the guy winners (Taylor Hicks, Kris Allen, Scotty McCreery, Phillip Phillips) are from the South. As mentioned, the midwestern girl is one of the least commonly cast archetypes (6th out of 8 types) so even though the audience is very likely to vote for them, because there are so few of them that decreases the chance of them winning. Midwestern guys are so rarely cast as well, but they get votes, as explained below. Southern girls are cast heavily but they are not a favorite of the audience, which will also be explained below--which is why they never really win at the end. Northeastern types are essentially kicked out early in the show and as mentioned are not creative in general. <br />
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This is where I created the "audience rating" algorithm which is the very first column of both tables: this is a number that accounts for the archetype's singing ability, creativity, and placement, and spits out a number that shows how favorable that sort of contestant is to the audience. The higher the number, the more favorable they are to the audience. For example, Midwestern guys don't really have a good combination, in particular lacking in WNTS singing ability, but they have the highest audience rating because the audience seems to ignore that and still elevate them to a high ranking. Southern guys, Midwestern girls and Western girls seem to get the same love from the audience.<br />
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If we look at the gender/age chart, it's harder to see those direct creativity/placement correlations, but we can see there really isn't a direct correlation. In fact, white girls over age 24 and black guys between the ages of 20-23 tend to be very creative within the Idolsphere, with marks in the 80s, yet they have audience ratings in the 9s and 10s and get voted out very fast. In fact, we know that the Idol audience, as evidenced by the WGWG era of AI7 and beyond, really, really favor white guys--up to age 23, they have super high audience ratings, and the audience also favors teenage black and non black/white girls as well. So with the gender/age chart, there might be a race component as well, given that high creativities within older white females and middle-aged blacks aren't rewarded, while white guys are--in fact, the younger white guys tend to be incredibly incompetent in WNTS singing ability but their audience rating is so high that they tend to have very high placings--they tend to be "the overachievers" that the audience wonders "why are they still here?". Or we can call it the Bieber effect, obviously. Yes, it really exists on Idol.<br />
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From the chart, any non white male over 24 year old really, really struggles to get votes, as do any black guy over the age of 20, or any non-teenage female "other" contestant. The contestants that get kicked out super easily fit these profiles and are Northeastern.<br />
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The problem again resides in casting. Just like how Southern guys are cast heavily and get votes leading to wins, white guys aged 20 and beyond are cast super heavily, and these types have high audience rating factors and have the 1st and 3rd highest combinations of singing/creativity--but all these factors together, you have an easy win for many of them. If they're Southern guys and are white and aged 20 and above, that's an incredibly lethal recipe for winning. As we keep mentioning TPTB keep trying to make younger and middle aged white girls happen, but they don't really have a high audience factor and as a result don't really win. Young black girls are very competent but incredibly under-cast, as they do get votes and many have the potential to win. With TPTB's under-casting though, they rarely get the opportunity. Teenage "other" girls have high audience ratings but woeful combinations so they don't get the chance to win, not to mention TPTB doesn't cast them much. TPTB cast a decent amount of over 24+ black and white girls, but they don't get votes and are always perceived as fodder. Overall, the end result is a white guy winning from all of this.<br />
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<b><u><span style="font-size: large;">So...Let's Talk About How TPTB Have Reacted This Season</span></u></b><br />
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It's essentially like TPTB have looked at all the jork vs TPTB graphs and saw no way around it...particularly looking at the audience ratings numbers in my graphs. For many years they have been casting the same way, allowing a bunch of Southern girls and Southern white males into the competition and for many years see them advance far while others fall by the wayside. Now, for the top 10, they've engineered a process where the only sole white male (Paul Jolley) had such horrible creativity and singing numbers that even though he fit within the major inset of getting votes (Southern white male aged 20-23) that wasn't enough to help him, and he ended his Idol run early. Burnell was a black 0-19 guy, but historically they struggle to place well on the show. Devin Velez was a 0-19 "other" non black/non white and those also don't do well, as with Lazaro Arbos's incredibly poor numbers in the 20-23 "other" category, and CJ Finch fell within the black 24+ subset which almost never gets any votes and finishes nearly last all the time. In a nutshell, the guys had no precedent for finishing well on the show, and of course they didn't.<br />
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That made it a cakewalk for the girls provided they hit the markers. Amber Holcomb severely lacks creativity for her type but is a far better singer than the typical 0-19 black girl, but as a Southern girl that's not that creative she's struggling to get votes (as we noted there's a direct correlation between region and placement), even though 0-19 black girls tend to get votes on the show. Candice Glover is a 20-23 black Southern girl who's like Holcomb--can sing, little creativity, and she's fighting against the Southern girl factor not getting votes, and 20-23 year old black girls historically get fewer votes than 0-19 year old types. Angie's breaking a ton of barriers about 0-19 year old white girls not getting votes as well as being from the Northeast, but she's by far the most creative and that could lead to wins. Kree's a 20-23 year old Southern white girl, and both the age and the region are lukewarm for getting votes in this competition, and she's also old fashioned, but she can sing. But as we know, singing isn't a real correlation for getting votes.<br />
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Of the four, only Amber has a real positive marker for winning, and possibly Angie, but all of them have offsetting markers from past seasons such that if they had cast any competent guy with voting markers, they could have been ousted. It was more wrecking the guys' side than really stacking the girls' side with voting markers. It was blatant, but probably had to be done as the graphs showed below.<br />
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1482901438415079226.post-31139167391249835532013-03-14T06:01:00.000-07:002013-03-14T06:01:00.773-07:00AI12 ALGORITHM-BASED POWER RANKINGS, WITH EMPHASIS ON SONG CHOICESo for the first official post of AI12, we're going to analyze the forward momentum of the contestants with a heavy emphasis on song choice/creativity. In other words, do an old song? Get docked off. Do a song that has been done a bajillion times on the Idol stage? Get docked off. Performing the song well is only one part of the equation. <div>
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This chart is a lot to digest, but the bottom chart is the most meaningful one: it shows that Kree has the best song picking ability of all the contestants, and in fact she chose the best songs during the semifinals and with her victory song compared to the others. Burnell Taylor is a close second, in fact having the 3rd-5th best songs in all four weeks, so at least he's consistent. Rounding out the bottom of the pack are Paul Jolley, who really suffered in the top 10 with that Lonestar "Amazed" song, which is one of the worst songs for this competition, and Amber Holcomb, who is really consistent in choosing old AND overdone songs. The worst is Lazaro Arbos, who is showing his admitted lack of musical knowledge by choosing a lot of overdone Idol staples and singing them poorly, which hurts him.</div>
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And this is what makes Kree so impressive: that she has the highest creativity and the highest current momentum. They don't necessarily go hand in hand, but Kree excelled at Vegas and with her victory song, because she can sing those songs. You could make the case that because she's leading these two categories, she's the frontrunner by a clear mile. Candice Glover lands second here, because she's been consistently able to sing her songs to offset a relative lack of creativity, and Angie Miller rounds up the top three--she's also creative and can sing, but at this stage she's a poor version of Kree on both fronts. The best bet for the guys' side is Burnell Taylor--2nd in creativity, 4th in momentum, and as we mentioned the audience tends to appreciate creativity more than overal momentum. Devin Velez (4th, 5th) isn't that far behind. As mentioned with Amber Holcomb, her serious lack of creativity is really stymieing her forward momentum. Paul Jolley is also near the end of the list with his mediocre singing and tendency to choose poor songs. Lazaro Arbos, as with his lack of creativity, and is a horrid singer and is easily at the very end. If it weren't for his sob story, I bet this guy would have been cut at Hollywood.</div>
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10) Anoop Desai (6th, AI8)--Anoop brought cheesy fun to a lot of current hip hop songs at the type. Hilarious to see him covering Chris Brown and T-Pain. Hipster music that had absolutely no place in Idol. 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9) David Correy (Top 16, XFUS2)--This dude looked like Chris Rene but had a Bruno Mars type of voice. Marketable, right? A lot of the pre-XF youtube recorded sound was pretty chill, a vibe of Frankie J meets Bruno. 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8) Astro (7th, XFUS1)--Astro kind of brought rap to these competitions because Idol continually refuses to do it, so it was sort of a breath of fresh air. Personality for days, and of course he was known for his rap songwriting throughout his run. 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It seems like when she was younger, she was choosing cooler, more relevant songs, but of course it doesn't hurt to get the songwriter/instrument stuff as you grow older. 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6) CeCe Frey (6th, XFUS2)--It was kind of hilarious how she wanted to make herself marketable before X Factor started. Have to give her some credit for attempting to be the next Ke$ha based on some well-produced music videos before X Factor. 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5) Jimmie Allen (Top 60, AI10)--This dude didn't even crack the semis on Idol, but for us spoiler types we saw a pretty good recorded alternative rock sound with some soul. The songwriting is decent, but the beats put it over the top. Seemed pretty relevant. There's a few choices, "Perfect Stranger", "Beautiful Day", "Stay Away". He's done some hip hop joints which were awesome too and stuff you'd never see on Idol (which is why he didn't advance far):<embed allowfullscreen="true" allowscriptaccess="always" bgcolor="#000000" 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4) Chris Rene (3rd, XFUS1)--Chris was kind of unique for spoiler types too--again, Idol's deprived everyone of real hip hop for so many years, seeing some inspirational Common type stuff was kind of jarring. "Young Homie" was his release after XF, but obviously it was also written before the show as his audition became viral. 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3) Phillip Phillips (Winner, AI11)--Man, this was very promising very early on. The thought process among us spoiler types was that Phillips was in tune with a ton of hip-hop. Come on...a guy doing Dave Matthews jams on DJ Khaled, Eminem, and Lil Wayne? From the South? Wowza. And he's also covered Usher, which he did on the show, but it would be way cooler if he fashioned himself into a fusion hip hop rocker, for whatever reason, instead of going into this snoozy alternative rock path that eventually led into some folksy light rock which was a complete deviation from whatever he did here. Really unfortunate. Although, must say, his backtalk is very hip hop-ish in attitude. 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2) Jessica Sanchez (2nd, AI11)--Although Andrew Garcia was technically the first youtube contestant for Idol (in that he had a built in youtube fanbase that carried him through many horrid performances), he strummed guitar and sang in monotone. Jessica like Andrew did a ton of current songs, which were suddenly but not surprisingly thrown into the dumpster during her Idol run, but before that she was more or less a Beyonce imitator. Everyone knows her vocals and whatnot, but what was refreshing was that for spoiler types, she attempted to be very current, a stark contrast from all these old covers we'd see from past contestants. 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1) Emblem3 (4th, XFUS2)--Emblem3's just a special case here. They're not exactly planty, but they had a lot of original material before X Factor. Their vibe is pretty much a hybrid of all the surf/power pop/alternative stuff that spanned the 1990s-2000s, with your RHCPs, Third Eye Blinds, Sublimes, Yellowcards, Good Charlottes and Simple Plans all being mixed into one. And combine that with Justin Bieber with a dash of Linkin Park, and there's just a lot of very current comparisons that you'd never see anyone on Idol being compared to at all. It's like Mike Shinoda, Justin Bieber and Benji Madden all decided to team up and form a group. The bad boy image is an extra touch, since that's stuff that gets you eliminated early on Idol. But they're number one on this list because of their relevance (they look like they're from the future compared to Idol) but also because of the musicality and songwriting. Their music is slick, has nice guitar solos, a great Cali vibe, and can fill in a relevant spot today. There's a bunch to choose from, from their X Factor original Sunset Blvd to Tequila Sunrise to True Friends to Riptide, but "Curious" is one of their more hyped songs, so let's put this one here:<br />
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Now let's move on to post-Idol, post-XF stuff:<br />
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Honorable mentions:<br />
Casey Abrams (6th, AI10)--Get Out. Casey goes pop. Yay. 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Ashthon Jones (13th, AI10)--Mayday (Lecrae feat Big KRIT and Ashthon Jones)--This is pretty much gospel diva belting with gospel rapping. Kind of cool, and quasi-current, which is why it makes the list. 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Blake Lewis (2nd, AI6)--Your Touch by Blake Lewis--Everyone's been saying that Blake was a few years ahead of where music was heading by doing his dance pop too early, and not surprisingly the label didn't know how to handle him initially. Now he's got a second chance and he's attempting to piggyback off Alex Clare, more or less. A lot of dubstep and breakbeat, this guy is British-influenced. American Idol can produce a dubstep contestant? Awesome. 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10) Chris Richardson (6th, AI6)--Far Away by Tyga feat Chris Richardson--Richardson clearly wants to bring the Robin Thicke/JT falsetto to this song, and this song actually made it to the charts and stayed for quite a while. Mad swag. Never thought Idol and Ca$h Money would go in the same sentence, much less with a white contestant, eh? This was a pretty decent success for Chris, and it's current, and Chris has long been one of the more current Idols. 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9) Stefano (7th, AI10)--Yes to Love by Stefano--Very tender, simple song. Simple but to the point, and good vocals with some current beats. Good hook. That's all you need. 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8) Adam Lambert (2nd, AI8)--Sleepwalker by Adam Lambert--Actually one of the better songs in his albums. The ballads normally are. Yeah, it's written by Ryan Tedder, so it's trite...but still, this song has its purpose. Too bad this guy flopped after several singles, because this song never saw the light of day. 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7) Marcus Canty (4th, XFUS1)--In And Out by Marcus Canty feat Wale--This was a pretty great joint with hard hitting beats and a rapper to make Canty look urban cool. Very good effort that might have made a bigger dent, but hip hop's a bit underground now. 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6) Elliott Yamin (3rd, AI5)--Fight for Love by Elliott Yamin--Yamin was a very underrated Idol contestant who on top of his very good old school R&B vocals had a real knack for writing songs that were mainstream enough. That's how he got his first hit. Unfortunately, he was a one-hit wonder, but this was another pretty good gem from Yamin, and got some play around college campuses. 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4) Anoop Desai (6th, AI8)--All Is Fair (Crazy Love) by Anoop Desai--Really cool, well written lyrics, well directed vieo, Anoop shows his sensitive R&B and current hipster side. Too bad he came off of Idol and lost all of the hipster credibility, because he's actually one of the most current artists churned out by Idol. They just don't realize it. There is a touch of Chris Brown's vocals in here. 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3) Kris Allen (Winner, AI8)--Before We Come Undone by Kris Allen--This was a very underrated song that never saw the light of day because Kris flopped in his second single with Train. Unfortunate, but a South African Idol winner adapted it and made it his single. Good lyrics, current for the time--for a WGWG, he really has an ear for current-tinged pop which really helps the cause. In fact, that's what I really like about Allen--he's a decent enough singer but the pop rock ear puts it over the top. 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2) Emblem3 (4th, XFUS1)--Chloe by Emblem3--This song doesn't technically belong in this list because it remains to be seen how much traction this song will gain, but this is said to be their first single. You know, a lot of power pop, power rapping, good times feel, etc. It received a very good reception--and with 1D writer Savan Kotecha on this song, and E3's ability to sell the song as it plays into their vibe, there's quite a good chance this song can be a good radio hit. They're more friendly than 1D because their hip hop sensibilities will fit with the radio. 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1) Kelly Clarkson (Winner, AI1)--Beautiful Disaster by Kelly Clarkson--I was torn between this song and "You Found Me", but this song was known more. Kelly spawned a ton of hits off her first album, but there were still a few underrated gems, such as this one, that didn't really see light of day. Kelly's first album was arguably the one where she showed her raw vocals the best, and there's something innocent about her voice back then, that makes it more likable than some of her later work. 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So, as we've already established in Epoch 3, we've had a ton of WGWGs win. But what about the remaining WGs that were cast by the wayside? It might be constructive to see what brought the eliminations of these WGs, to see if there could be "strategic" casting of WGs in the future. Since this first occurred in Epoch 3, we'll analyze the ones found in Epoch 3. We'll only focus on the ones who got eliminated outside of the top five, because if they're in the top five, clearly the audience favors them.<br />
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Colton Berry (Age: 18/Staunton, VA/ AI7): Berry was sort of a fish-out-of-water Will Makar type back in AI5, but this was sort of the time when Bieber gained popularity. AI, always behind the curve, just didn't realize it at the time, and gave Berry minimal pre-semis exposure. Not saying he's Bieber, but surely, their vocals could be on par with each other. But the show was massively pushing Archuleta, so that, coupled with a subpar performance of "Suspicious Minds", made him eliminated.<br />
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Garrett Haley (Age: 17/Elida, OH/AI7): Haley had even worse treatment than Berry--he had no pre-semis exposure, so no one knew who he was. A horrid performance of a Neil Sedaka song was definitely enough to get him eliminated, and Simon made comments about him looking too pale. Fodder from the start. Imagine if Simon told Phillip he looked too cheesy, or something.<br />
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Jason Yeager (Age: 28/ Grand Prairie, TX/AI7): Yeager was actually a WG who might have been a WGWG, but he was a family man, from the South, sang frau-appealing standards, and might be a country singer. Might be. Put this guy in AI11, and he might have won this show in his sleep. But here's the problem: the guy had zero pre-finals exposure. Zilch. If there's one way to de-pimp these WGs, this is almost always the way. The contestants can't awwshucks their way out of it. Yeager also didn't sing much country as well--his two songs were "Moon River", an Andy Williams standard, and "Long Train Runnin'". There might have been an identity crisis in there, and he sang both songs horribly according to WNTS, with comments about being cabaret. All the pro-Idol audience strengths were offset by zero exposure, horrible song choices, and horrible performances. If Idol can cast more guys like Yeager to fill future WG slots, and brand those guys the same way, then they could have a greater chance for a non-WG victory.<br />
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Robbie Carrico (Age: 26/Melbourne, FL/AI7): Carrico's sort of the more aggressive, mic-wielding screaming WG in the vein of Daughtry and Maroulis of previous seasons. Those types were shock eliminations as the Idol audience prefers their WGs humble, and Carrico was yet another casualty of this line of thinking. It didn't help that his background isn't the type to get votes: he was a former boybander turned rocker--we're not making this up--and was constantly bombarded with concerns about whether he was "authentic" enough. Despite turning in a good performance by Three Dog Night to open the semis, the aggressive WG plus his background couldn't offset decent pre-semis exposure and a good performance. Perhaps Idol should cast more aggressive mic-wielding WGs or WGs who have authenticity problems again.<br />
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Luke Menard (Age: 29/Crawfordsville, IN/AI7): Menard is another guy, like Yeager, who could have won this show in his sleep: family man, looked cute for the Idol audience, near enough to the South, seemed very awwshucks humble. Again, though, he was done in by similar factors to Yeager: he had zero exposure previously, and his song choices were dire: I know they were constrained by '60s and '70s and '80s music, but "Killer Queen" and especially the last one, "Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go?" If those songs weren't cheesy enough, his performances were--he constantly received 20/100s in WNTS. One might say he actually overstayed the competition due to his humility, but his case illustrates that horrid cheesy song choices can actually oust future WGs, provided they take the bait.<br />
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Matt Breitzke (Age: 27/Bixby, OK/AI8): Breitzke was the quintessential Idol type: South, family man, and had pre-finals exposure that portrayed him as a hard worker who could actually sing. Recipe to get far, right? As Terry McDermott and Nicholas David of the Voice have shown, these types get votes. Bretizke's problem was that he might have looked too aggressive for the show, and he only fueled that by doing the aggressive post-grunge Tonic song for his semi's choice instead of some safe coffeehouse WGWG song that always gets votes. When he did a poor performance that got criticized, he started backtalking, and with his aggressive demeanor that might have turned off the votes. Backtalking aggressive looking WGs is thus another way to cast.<br />
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Brent Keith (Age: 29/Blanchester, OH/AI8): Keith had a lot of the stuff that, had he played his cards right, could have easily made him a winner in this show: family guy, a country singer, had his audition shown. The show opted not to pimp him as he got an early semis slot, but Keith self-inflicted his elimination here: he went with modern country. With an Idol audience accustomed to Travis Tritt, Keith Urban, Garth Brooks and other old school joints, he opted for Jason Aldean. That's a no-no. In addition, he backtalked when Simon criticized him, so he didn't have the awwshucks attitude of previous WGs. Contrast that to Michael Sarver, who looked humble and was supposedly "country" (he duped the audience into it), and Keith lost out. Modern country, backtalking...take note, TPTB, for future WGs.<br />
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Nathaniel Marshall (Age: 19/Malone, NY/AI8): Marshall got a ton of Hollywood exposure but was portrayed more as a drama queen rather than as a singer, and right on cue the show cast a Meat Loaf song on him to make him more the joke. If Idol could waste their WG slots on people like Marshall who don't take the show seriously enough or are humble enough to get votes, all the better.<br />
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Nick Mitchell (Age: 27/Brookfield, CT/AI8): See Marshall above. Same thing, except Mitchell received a ton of exposure pre-semis but was cast as a joke right from the start, personality over singing. Right on cue with his semis song. More slots need to be wasted on these for the WGs.<br />
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Alex Wagner Trugman (Age: 19/Studio City, CA/AI8): Wagner-Trugman had his audition shown but seemed too geeky for this game, and seemed like a joke contestant. The show hated him, gave him an early spot and made him growl out an Elton John song. Geeky joke type WGs are another to cast.<br />
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Von Smith (Age: 22/Kansas City, MO/AI8): Von, in the words of Simon, was very Clay Aiken-ish--looked a bit fish-out-of-water nervous on stage, sang belting diva notes. Didn't seem awwwshucks enough like Aiken to get votes, and to be fair, the Idol audience prefer musicians rather than belters already in Epoch 3. So even a decent performance could not get votes, although to be fair by this time TPTB have already de-pimped him by giving him the first slot. They did give him a wildcard but he bombed and wasn't chosen. Belting WGs therefore is another way to go.<br />
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Ricky Braddy (Age: 26/Nashville, TN/AI8): Braddy's another one of those types who fits the WG profile--from the South, family man. He didn't really have all the ingredients to get votes, though: he looked too intellectual for the Idol audience (or wasn't conventionally cute enough for them), and despite being from the South, he was very much more in tune with old school R&B. He gave very good performances of a "A Song For You" and "Superstition", and while had sort of a base to get Elliott Yamin type votes, he didn't seem awwshucks enough for that. In addition, the show really, really depimped him and didn't want him to far--he had zero exposure, got placed in an early slot (2nd) for his semis performance, and then despite singing well for a wild card performance, the judges bounced him again for Jasmine Murray and Megan Joy. Just goes to show you--if you get zero exposure and the show really wants to get rid of you, even if you're a WG, they can.<br />
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Tyler Grady (Age: 20/Nazareth, PA/AI9): Grady was too self-absorbed in his persona as this hard rawk frontman type to the point he became a poser and a caricature. He had decent exposure pre-semis, but he's from the Northeast, a place that doesn't get votes, and is a hard rawker who was not humble and acted like a poser in his performance of "American Woman" where he wielded a mic, did the "uhhhhs!" and made faces while receiving his critiques. Casting WGs like Grady--from the Northeast, hard rawk, posers, doesn't take criticism well--should be very easy to do.<br />
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Alex Lambert (Age: 19/North Richland Hills, TX/AI9): Lambert was a guitar strummer and from the South. That's all it takes to be the winner of American Idol, right? Wrong. Lambert almost purposely didn't want to connect with the audience--he seemed moody, might have been a troublemaker, was poor with interviews, and gave completely the opposite of an awwshucks vibe throughout his run. He had zero stage presence and seemed quite depressed. Lee DeWyze might have looked depressed, but his case didn't have the feel of Lambert's. So despite two good performances at the end, the audience never connected with him at all. It might all boil down with the humility, as Lambert's case shows. In addition, the show gave him only Hollywood exposure, for better or for worse.<br />
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Tim Halperin (Age: 23/Omaha, NE/AI10): Halperin's from near the South and has a sort of bland, coffeehouse voice and probably was perceived as "cute" by the Idol audience. Winner material, right? Well...I saw some of Halperin's pre-Idol youtubes, and he actually seems too creative for Idol's shenanigans, having some pretty high quality recordings, so it was likely the audience didn't understand him. Halperin had his audition shown but had an early spot with a poor performance of an unknown Rob Thomas song. The show hated him, and that's why he got booted--if he wanted votes, he would have went Beatles, or Bob Sager, or something.<br />
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Brett Loewenstern (Age: 17/Boca Raton, FL/AI10): Loewenstern was riding on sob story and had a ton of pre-semis exposure, but he had no real WG voting attributes and only had an ok voice. He turned in a decent performance but being more personality than singer it's not surprising he was booted. Idol should cast more WGs this way.<br />
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Robbie Rosen (Age: 17/Merrick, NY/AI10): Rosen had his audition shown but was too R&B for the audience to understand--anytime you cover "Down" by Jay Sean pre-Idol and then make it to the Idol stage, you're unlikely to gain votes. He was also more piano belter, and of course, he was from the Northeast, so he'd never get votes. It's a good way to cast WGs--piano types, like R&B, from the Northeast. More of that.<br />
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Adam Brock (Age: 27/Washington, PA/ AI11): Brock only got exposure at Hollywood, probably looked too nerdy, and for whatever reason thought of himself as a R&B gospel belter. Also, pre-Idol youtubes showed him as a jazz musician, so between those two, he'd never get votes. An early slot with a subpar performances means that the show has always thought of him as fodder. Nerdy/jazzy/belting WGs is another way to go.<br />
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Creighton Fraker (Age: 28/Queens, NY/AI11): Fraker is from the Northeast so he'd never get votes, and also he fashioned himself as a belter, another way to dissuade the Idol audience as they like their WGs as musicians. Casting WGs this way=way to go, as he had a late spot and a ton of pre-semis exposure but still couldn't get the votes.<br />
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Eben Franckewitz (Age: 15/Loveland, OH/AI11): Franckewitz pre-youtubes showed him as theatrical, and you can tell that even though this kid really wanted to be Bieber, he was way too theatrical in his performance and turned in an awful, off key performance of an Adele song. Biting off more than he can chew with that song. A ton of exposure and a late spot means that TPTB wanted him to advance, but song sabotage and being a fish out of water is a way to hurt WGs.<br />
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Chase Likens (Age: 21/Point Pleasant, WV/AI11): The second of the two country semis fodder, Likens had the template: probably cute for the Idol audience, sang country, was from the South. That's definitely enough to win the show. So what happened? The show hated him. He was virtually the only contestant with zero pre-semis exposure, so no one knew who he was, and then: he got modern country. Like Brent Keith. A Hunter Hayes song that no Idol audience could ever relate to. Where's the Garth Brooks? So TPTB sabotage with song and exposure can really sabotage these WGs.<br />
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Reed Grimm (Age: 26/Ellsworth, WI/AI11): Grimm was way too unconventional for the show personality-wise, and liked jazz. That's enough not to get votes. He turned in a poor jazz performance of a current song in an early slot, so the show wanted to get rid of him, stat, even though he had a wildcard which he also didn't care about. Seems like he didn't care about getting votes, and being too unconventional was a way to waste a spot on a WG.<br />
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Michael Johns (Age: 29/Buckhead, GA/AI7, 9th): Johns' performances were quite well Idolsphere wise--he had an average of 62/100 for all his performances, which is in the upper crust of Idol contestants. In addition, he was a family man, hailed from the South, sung the sort of '70s rock the Idol audience loved--pretty much a recipe for success. He had a ton of exposure pre-semis as well, helping his cause, and Idol gave him the pimp spot the first week, so they really wanted him to do well. So what went wrong? Many people cite his last "Dream On" performance where he butchered the high note at the end--and this brought other contestants (ahem, Gokey) to butcher that note. It's odd to think considering the other performances one performance can break him, but "Dream On" might be one of those songs that can really hurt a contestant. Perhaps TPTB should keep doling this song out for WGs to sing, to test this hypothesis. Another thing? Johns was from England. I know Terry McDermott from the Voice got to 2nd place despite being very similar to Johns, but back at AI7 perhaps the Idol audience wasn't as receptive to internationals. I think that's changed now, though, but it's definitely preferable to cast someone that's international rather than someone who's really from the South.<br />
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Michael Sarver (Age: 28/Jasper, TX/AI8, 10th): Sarver was a weird case. The template reads out like this: family man, hard worker with a job, from the South, sort of an awwwshucks thing he had unlike Breitzke. He also had a ton of exposure pre finals. That's what propelled him to the finals. Had he sang country, he would have won this thing in his sleep. But his problems were two-fold: the major one was that he just didn't sing country. At all. He fashioned himself an R&B crooner. O-Town, Gavin DeGraw, Michael Jackson, The Temptations, nothing was country. And he was a very poor R&B imitation. There was no authenticity in what he did, and even the Idol audience could see into that. Casting delusional WGs like this would really help the cause a lot, but in the youtube era this might be harder to do.<br />
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Scott MacIntyre (Age: 23/Scottsdale, AZ/AI8, 8th): MacIntyre was almost always riding on sob story throughout his run, and the show really pushed him: he was given a ton of pre-exposure, given a late spot for his semis. He wasn't a rocker or a country guy, but did this piano soft rock Billy Joel type fare. Also, he had a very average at best voice and his performances were relatively poor. Casting a WG who does this piano rock thing doesn't appear to get votes, and one who doesn't have a good voice is a bonus.<br />
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Tim Urban (Age: 20/Duncanville, TX/AI9, 7th): Had Chris Golightly never been replaced, Urban would have never made this list. Urban, like Lambert, plays guitar and is from the South, and had his flaws: namely, he was a horrid singer throughout his run. He also looked like a fish out of water and looked like he sang for the fun of it rather than showing musicianship, sort of like a Jonas Brothers clone catering to the tweenies, which he probably did. He really overachieved because of that. Still, the fish out of water/poor singing is something Idol should carry over to WGs, but avoid casting tween/frau bait perceived as "cute" WGs because they overachieve.<br />
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Paul McDonald (Age: 26/Huntsville, AL/AI10, 8th): McDonald's voice and character were way too quirky for the audience to understand from the get go, so even though he had his audition shown, liked rock and was from the South, and was of typical WGWG winning age, he wasn't close to being the winner. There was some backtalk as he thought he was better than the show and was too indie, and he ended up zoning into a bunch of middling, lazy performances. It's like the audience really, really wanted to vote for this guy based on the template, which is why he overachieved, but his persona was too much for them at the end. The show seemed to realize that and started to give him a lot of early slot performances to try to eliminate him, and the T8 first slot finally did him in. Again, casting people too indie for this game, with quirky voices/characters who think they're above this is a good way to cast WGs.<br />
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Stefano Langone (Age: 22/Kent, WA/AI10, 7th): Langone is probably too Italiano, sort of like Rosen, to really latch onto the votes, and in addition, he's from the Northwest, a place that never gave votes to anyone except Blake Lewis, and sings R&B. His performances were somewhat middling as well, and he eventually became too cheesy and some have accused him of being arrogant as well. He also had a habit of closing his eyes and avoiding contact with the audience. Casting middling singers from the Northwest who don't make eye contact and are cheesy/arrogant is a method to cast WGs. In addition, he got eliminated on a current song, "Closer", so we know the Idol audience hates these current songs.<br />
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Casey Abrams (Age: 20/Wilmette, IL/AI10, 6th): Abrams is a musician who plays guitar. Should win, right? Nope. Despite being given a ton of pre-semi exposure and given the pimp spot in the semis, as the show really wanted to push him as some sort of credible musician, Abrams was too quirky, growly and grunty in all his performances, to the point where many can be construed as jokes. And also...America don't like jazz. Abrams also has California roots, for what that's worth. Casting someone who can be seen as a joke and is a jazz musician for a WG can be useful, like Abrams.<br />
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Colton Dixon (Age: 20/Murfreesboro, TN/AI11, 7th): Dixon, although from the South, never seemed like he would get votes. He played piano way more than the guitar, for starters, and his rawk was influenced by Fueled By Ramen's emo stuff. While we have to give credit to Idol for actually trying to go current with the rawk (Paramore stuff attracts the tweenies, and Yellowcard/Simple Plan have always been 2000s popular), it's too current for the Idol audience, so they won't understand anything that's not Aerosmith, Queen, etc. In addition, the show sabotaged Colton by making him emo-ize a Earth, Wind and Fire chestnut while alienating his Christian base by singing "Bad Romance". If that isn't sabotage, we don't know what is. So the Fueled by Ramen, piano influenced, song sabotage issue is something Idol can do for future WGs.<br />
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As you can see, in Epoch 3, there's just so many ways for Idol to sabotage their WGs. Certainly many with flaws make in the top five (Durbin is probably too aggressive with the metal for the audience, Gokey had an identity crisis with soul music, Jason Castro purposely tanked, etc), but for the most part the winners were all awwshucks humble, from the South, wielded guitars, and branded themselves as song rearranging musicians. The majority of the contestants above weren't any of the former or the latter two. So we'll see if Idol catches onto that and uses the fate of their past fodder WGs to start sabotaging them in the future.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><b>6) Idol's contestant pool will be depleted.</b></span><br />
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Regardless of how well X Factor US or the Voice fare next season, the fact that contestants have options for different competitions starts to streamline the talent. Moreover, of all three shows, Idol is by far the one that has the most restrictions. They're getting a <i>wee wee wee</i> bit more lax--they lowered their minimum age limit from 16 to 15--but at the end of the day that doesn't do much to move the needle. Also, Idol's probably the most stringent in terms of plants--especially after X Factor allowed people with record deals to audition for XFUS2, and the Voice has always been receptive to plants since its inception. We'll see the ramifications of this below. I'll break this category into subsets since it deserves further attention, starting with how X Factor might affect Idol:<br />
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<i><b>(6a) The effects of X Factor.</b></i> Having done spoilers for X Factor for two straight years, it's pretty obvious that X Factor is leeching into the OMG15! (or used to be OMG16!) contestants that Idol used to like. Nowadays, twelve or thirteen year old types just can't stand the wait to be fifteen and audition for Idol: they try out for X Factor. <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/x-factor-us-2-spoilers.html">Initial spoilers</a> reveal a ton of standout 12-14 year old types, types that have auditioned for the American Idol experience in the past, types that in a X-Factor-less world normally would have tried out for Idol to fulfill their quest for "singing". <span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Also, two of Simon's contestants last year (Rachel Crow and Drew Ryniewicz) might have auditioned for Idol had it not been for X-Factor. Of note was that Jessica Sanchez nearly auditioned for XFUS1 last summer (she was spotted with friends for audition) before an apparent change of heart, so had she made it on that show, what would Idol be left with for its token "pop" contestant? Yeah, that's right. I know we are going to say, oh, some of these contestants came from <i>Star Search</i> or <i>America's Got Talent</i>, but face it, most people don't really remember those shows, or at least the contestants within them.</span><br />
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Sure, many of them won't make it to the liveshows, but they get the stain of being a X-Factor reject if or when they choose to audition for Idol. Don't forget, X Factor might also opt to highlight younger contestants that were cut, to show that they have *marked* those contestants before Idol does. So the talent pool for Idol's younger contestants is lessened as a result.<br />
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<i><b>(6b) The effects of The Voice.</b> </i>Let me go on a brief side-tangent here before we talk about how the Voice impacts Idol--for a show that skews super young in terms of song choices (it has by<a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/idol-avoiding-songs-1990s-and-beyond.html"> far the most songs after the 1990s</a> of all three singing competitions) it has probably the oldest contestants of all three shows. Jermaine Paul was 33; Jamar Rogers 29; Juliet Simms 25; Tony Lucca 35; Chris Mann 29. Javier Colon was 33 when he won, Nakia 36, Vicci Martinez 26, Frenchie Davis 31, Beverly McClellan 41. Of course, the Voice is super receptive to plants, so they are able to rake in a lot of older types with past record deals/industry experience already, but it's just interesting that they have a ton of people in their late 20s and 30s throughout and yet they sing super current songs. It's like we've entered into a parallel universe, but it's reality: in the Voice, we have old people singing newer songs, and in Idol, we have young people singing older songs. Nothing tends to be age-appropriate. If there could just be a simple switcheroo it would be the ideal setup, and that's why both shows are flawed. There's that mismatch, by and large.<br />
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In terms of affecting Idol, the Voice actually has a tendency of taking Idol-experienced contestants for their competition (Vicci Martinez did AI1, Frenchie Davis AI3, Jermaine Paul AI7, Jamar Rogers AI8), but considering that they love older plants to begin with, their methodology for getting contestants is different from Idol. In its older contestants, Idol doesn't mind if their contestants are part of bands that have released CDs before (Lee DeWyze with <i>Slumberland</i>; Paul McDonald with the <i>Grand Magnolias</i>) but they don't appear to want super plantiness in their contestants. But seeing how Idol is skewing younger (see (6c) below) makes one wonder if they're depriving their older age talent due to those restrictions, but we'll get to that. Anyhow, we'll see that Idol probably opts to skew younger nowadays, so in that case, the Voice doesn't really affect it as much as X Factor does.<br />
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<b><i>(6c) Idol needs to renovate its contestant pool</i>.</b> Although really, I wonder if it might be too late--had they made these changes, instead of sitting pat thinking about how good their ratings are in the "now" as opposed to in the future, they might have fared better. <span style="background-color: black; color: white;">So between X Factor sapping all the youth away from Idol and Idol unable to procure more older contestants because they've exhausted a large part of the market already (and the rest are plants that they avoid), Idol is forced to go younger, as the lesser of two evils. It's easily noticeable that Idol, particularly in AI10, AI11, skewed way younger than in years past (take a look at contestant ages below for the top 12/13):</span><br />
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AI9: 23-24-27-26-16-19-20-17-24-23-24-24<br />
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Obviously, there's more <20 years old type contestants in AI10 and AI11 than in AI8 and AI9. The top five certainly featured far more younger contestants as well.<br />
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<i>Why younger? </i>In retrospect, it's not that surprising why they want to go young: as with all major sports, younger=more potential, more moldability, and less backtalk. Recent older contestants have seen a lot more backtalk, probably because they're been through the ropes (i.e. Elise Testone this season, Paul McDonald in AI10, Crystal Bowersox in AI9, Amanda Overmyer in AI7, list goes on). With McDonald not making it far because of that and Bowersox flopping hard in terms of the label's expectations, Idol has made a conscientious decision to simply avoid that. Sure, it looked like Elise and Erika wanted to improve and were doing everything to "connect", but judging from all those bottom three appearances both made, well...it's not happening. Elise in particular played the Idol game horribly, but read <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/ai11-contestants-3-13-how-they-fared.html">here </a>for more of that.<br />
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Also, does anyone believe that older contestants are marketable? In XFUK, the older contestants are seen as the "joke" types, being awfully outdated and never making it too far. Wagner, Sami Brookes, Mary Byrne, Storm Lee, the list goes on. The demographics in the US (the <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/07/prognosticating-idols-future-based-on.html">average age of the Idol viewer is 48 years old</a>) appear to skew far differently for these shows, which is why older contestants make it farther, but at the end of the day, they don't see much success. Susan Boyle catching-lightning-in-a-bottle type situation aside, the Voice has had two thirty year old winners that are flops, or appear to be flops (Javier Colon/ Jermaine Paul) and XFUS had a 30-year old runner-up in Josh Krajcik, who hasn't done much of anything to date. On the flip side, Chris Rene, who's approaching 30 but again is not completely a WGWG (hip hop tendencies even <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/06/chris-rene-anything-greater-than-ai8.html">allowed him to gain exposure in the relevant charts</a>, although it was just a flash in the pan), Rachel Crow (13 year old during XFUS) and Marcus Canty (old school, but still more current than Joshua Ledet) have released singles already. Even Simon rigs his audience during auditions to be full of screaming teenage girls, even if the core viewing audience doesn't reflect that. It's clear that everything caters towards younger viewers, and the pros of that were already established in Part I.<br />
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<i>Can younger people sing old songs? </i>But in addition to the talent being sapped by other contestants, there's another major problem here: Idol's forced to go even younger, and now they're attempting to grasp into contestants that were born deep into the 1990s (think 1993 and beyond) now. These people most likely grew up listening to music in the 2000s (Backstreet Boys, Nickelback, Beyonce, and all the perceived "junk" that now appears on the radio that Idol so <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/idol-avoiding-songs-1990s-and-beyond.html">desperately attempts to avoid</a>). Already, my friends at Whatnottosing have noticed that the contestants actually sang modern songs better than the old songs this year, when given the opportunity (see this <a href="http://www.whatnottosing.com/library/editorials.asp?id=86">article </a>for the details). Want further evidence? Let's compare the modern theme weeks of AI11 and AI5--AI5 was widely known as having older contestants, and since it came earlier in the decade, this mean that many of their contestants were born in the late 1970s/early 1980s. By contrast, AI11's predominantly younger contestants were born into the heart of the 1990s. Here's the average <a href="http://www.whatnottosing.com/episodes.asp?id=70">approval rating</a> of AI5's modern theme week (an atrocious 40.9--below the average across seasons, which is usually around 49-52). And here's the <a href="http://www.whatnottosing.com/episodes.asp?id=177">average rating</a> of AI11's modern theme week (an insane 59.9, so it's well above the average). So that's just a microcosm of Idol's contestants being more in tune with current music than older music. Idol was lucky that there staple of younger contestants--namely Joshua, Hollie and Jessica--were really able to hold the fort down and sing older songs quite well, so this led to the highest overall approval rating <a href="http://www.whatnottosing.com/seasons.asp">across all seasons</a>, according to WNTS. But how long will this last? Idol can't go casting on throwbacks and balladeers, forever, and of greater importance is that face it, how many 1990s born contestants will actually sing those songs that well now? We've already seen the tide turning in favor of more modern songs, but if Idol insists of making people born in 1995 and 1996 sing the Shirelles and the Rolling Stones, well...it could be a trainwreck. And if Idol lasts for that long, by 2048, will they still insist on their contestants to sing music from 70-80 years ago (i.e. the Beatles and Elvis)? Or will they go for less "old", and make them sing Ke$ha and Justin Bieber? That's the quandary Idol will eventually have to face, if they're rock-solid insistent on <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/idolmetrics-song-creativitysinging.html">decreasing the creativity</a> of its contestants.<br />
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To sum up, Idol has made the conscientious decision to skew way younger, but it's being affected by two major things: (1) the songbook, which we've touched upon quite a bit on how that's screwing Idol in <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/07/prognosticating-idols-future-based-on.html">Part I</a>, and how Idol's insistence in songs from 1960s-1980s will affect the 1990s born generation and their ability to sing them, and then there's (2) the sapping talent from other competition shows, particularly the X Factor in leeching away the younger talent. So how has Idol taken measures to counteract that? Well, there's this...<br />
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<i>The farm system</i>. To give Idol slight credit here, they have started a farm system to try to retain their talent: Hollie Cavanagh, DeAndre Brackensick and Colton Dixon were three contestants showcased extensively in the pre-Finals rounds of AI10, and all three came back for AI11, and to show their appreciation, Idol gave all of them finals spots. Other contestants that tried out last year that made it to the finals this year include Reed Grimm, Chase Likens, Joshua Ledet, Aaron Marcellus, Brielle Von Hugel, Chelsea Sorrell, and Jeremy Rosado, so Idol is definitely attempting to hold on to their contestants, <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/life-of-idol-flops-and-filler-pretty.html">even if many of them will end up on this list at the end</a>. Also, Idol's audition rounds had far fewer joke auditions in AI11 than ever before, showing that they want to retain even more of their talent: I'd be surprised if Gabi Carrubba, David Leathers, Ariel Sprague, Johnny Keyser, Richie Law, and Lauren Gray don't audition next year, between Nigel's attempts to convince them and between their pre-Finals footage they received.<br />
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But the question is, how long will this "farm system" hold up? Idol developed the farm system in AI10, before X Factor US started and in conjunction with the first season of the Voice, but now that both of those shows are more established it's questionable whether Idol receives enough of the "talent" now to develop. It might still work for AI12, with Leathers, Carrubba, Sprague, Keyser (if they audition) making it...but it will be interesting to see what sort of contestants Idol highlights for its auditions/Hollywood weeks in AI12. We'll see if the "talent" still remains with them. But with these shows around them starting to sap into the talent, it's likely we'd see diminishing returns.<br />
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<i>Entropy</i>. At the end of the day, there's likely to be a lot of entropy anyway. The more these shows last longer, the more we'll see a lot of contestants who tried out for other shows. We've seen Jamar Rogers, Jermaine Paul, et al being Idol rejects on <i>The Voice</i>, but also we've seen a <a href="http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/idol-worship/austion-percario-x-factor-american-idol-341737">guy from X Factor's manufactured group InTENsity</a> audition for Idol, and Idol rejects like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MV02jzOL0bI">Caitlin Koch</a>, Chrissy Feliciano, George Trice and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YkXqhUkR2cw">Tora Woloshin</a> audition for The Voice. They'll become interchangeable and "marked" to the point of being unmarketable. We'll see if "one man's trash is another man's treasure", but I doubt it in this case.<br />
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<b><span style="font-size: large;">7) The International preferences are more popular in the US than "The Idol Audience" preferences.</span></b><br />
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This statement wasn't the case before this year, but that's the way mainstream music has been shifting. Look <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/state-of-american-idol-vs-charts-aka.html">at this chart</a>--we have our fair share of Canadians, English, and Gotye.<br />
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Look no further than Canadian Idol--Carly Rae Jepsen faded into obscurity after winning 3rd place back at Season 5 of Canadian Idol, but five years later, she has a massive international hit in her hands (although with huge, huge help from Bieber's promotion, admittedly). Still, regardless of whether Bieber feels a sort of Canadian kinship with Carly Rae, the fact that she could even get that help speaks volumes. Nowadays, Idol winners, which are WGWGs, may team up with Lifehouse and Nickelback, but as we've established in <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/epoch-4-more-wgwgs-concept-of.html">Epoch 4, that meant a lot more in 2005 than in 2012</a>. As we've established in <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/07/prognosticating-idols-future-based-on.html">Part I </a>of this article, Jordin Sparks had awfully generic singles, but her teaming up with DeRulo/Chris Brown may have indirectly helped her--notably in her youtube views, for example. So because pop/hip hop is in the "in" right now, there are more avenues to success, even if it comes many years after the fact (as with Carly Rae's case).<br />
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And let's focus on Carly Rae more--she established herself as a folksy singer/songwriter on the show, doing acoustic stuff and strumming a guitar, more or less. In other words, she seemed like your typical Idol contestant at the time. But, with Bieber's help, a catchy summer pop song that can reel in the tweens, and a pop image, she had the recipe for success. She branded herself differently from what she was on Idol and saw success. We've already seen mild successes for people who brand themselves--did anyone think AI6's Chris Richardson would ever team up with Weezy in Ca$h Money records, and to <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/idol-songs-youtube-views-most-to-least.html">have the 14th most views on youtube among Idol contestants</a>? Yeah, thought so. He branded himself differently and saw a little success because of it, so this isn't without precedence. As I mentioned in part I, we've seen Didi Benami, Stefano Langone and Antonella Barba attempt to do the same thing, probably in the advent of Carly's success. All this further verifies that for aspiring "pop" types that venture on Idol, Idol's a horrible business model. And again, Carly's success here stands in stark contrast to the triumvirate of WGWGs (Cook-Allen-DeWyze) that we've produced at native soil. So, there's that as well.<br />
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But it's not just Canadian Idol--it's also X Factor UK. Amazingly, Simon acted as a trendsetter for boybands once again, despite the fact that everyone thought that they had evaporated from the face of the earth in 2001. But it wasn't that surprising in retrospect--the Bieber phenomenon had already hit full swing, and there has always been a lucrative teen market for music. It's certainly what the radio types look for. They didn't have to conform, since they were already branded as pop at the very beginning--but like Carly, they had "catchy songs" and were able to have a sound that piggybacked off the success of Bieber and Hot Chelle Rae (their sounds are very similar).<br />
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And that's why we talk about identifying the market--how did Jay Sean, Tinie Tempah, Calvin Harris, all British guys, have hits here in the US? They're all hip hop guys. Because of the genre, they were able to team up with guys here stateside, and create a similar sound that was able to become a hit. A lot of piggybacking of sounds going on. That's why they were able to leapfrog guys like Cook, Allen, and DeWyze in terms of singles successes. For all of Simon's ego and faults, at least he's found the market and is now trying to Genentech-churn contestants of that style. <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">From spoilers, it appears that Simon is looking for super young pop girl types and groups (bands/boybands). So looks like he's trying to hit that target again. Idol, on the other hand, is rapidly perceived as a venue where coffeehouse indie guitar strummers can find a break, improve their lives by a little bit, but give zero value to the record companies at the end. The rule goes like this: Stateside pop/hip hop > International pop/hip hop >> Stateside other. </span></span><br />
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So this concludes analyzing Idol's future. We've established that Idol's core viewing audience and horrific judging essentially makes Idol incompatible with the current music market, but that Idol is also shooting itself in the foot by improperly "branding" its pop types through the use of old-age songs, as Interscope has made a lot of poor decisions. As a result, pop types from other countries have overridden anything that Idol winners have done recently. Idol's contestant pool is also dying: they refuse to cast anyone who shows attitude, they refuse to cast plants, and X Factor is screwing up its plan of casting younger contestants by getting them when they are 12-14. Their imposed farm system only appears to be a temporary solution. Idol's insistence on using old songs is also like putting a dam to hold back a torrent of water: it can hold the fort temporarily, but as the contestants are born deeper into the 1990s, their likelihood of singing those old songs well decreases. So Idol is facing a songbook issue, a contestant issue, and facing a waning audience as a result of it--blog traffic for Idol sites have decreased as a result of the diminishing returns of the Idol brand, despite having more contestants. With a very flawed songbook, branding and audience in competition and poor marketing judgment post-competition, it's a vicious cycle to failure that is the end result. And this time, other competitions (possibly the X Factor) might produce successes that will stand in stark contrast to it. We'll see if Idol can wake up from its slumber.<br />
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And we'll end with this gif of what Nigel's probably thinking right now:<br />
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<a name='more'></a><b><span style="font-size: large;">1) Idol is incompatible with the Current Music Market.</span></b><br />
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Idol probably still takes the cake for promoting its winners among all three shows (for now), due to their reputation as a show that has once spawned stars. Also, the show runs from January all the way to late May (with tons of audition/Hollywood footage as well as being the longest running Finals of all three shows~so the audience could "know" the contestants better). Then, they host the summer tour to cater to the Idol fanbase. Then, they sign with Interscope, which is a label that has had success with marketing current (even if vocally challenged) peops like LMFAO, Carly Rae Jepsen and Eminem. This whole process is why Idol's top five contestants, if they're able to make an impact, always grab over 100K followers on twitter--the process is drawn out such that they are able to get people's attention, at the very least, in increments over time. The contestants get ample opportunity to showcase themselves.<br />
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But that's where it ends: notice I said <i>for now</i>. Despite the constant structure and the opportunity for promotion that it presents, it's really the end product that matters, and if that doesn't succeed, it will trickle down into all aspects of the show. <span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Just like analyzing players across sports, we start to look at the last five years as opposed to the whole aggregate. And Idol in that respect is just a case of splits: the last five years were what we in Jork Vs TPTB dub the WGWG-laden <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/epoch-3-wgwg-era-concept-of.html">Epochs 3 </a>and <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/epoch-4-more-wgwgs-concept-of.html">4</a>, but that's a stark contrast to Idol's "golden" years in <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/epoch-2-concept-of-piggybacking-and-why.html">Epoch 2</a>. Through the span of Epochs 3 and 4, Idol has hemorrhaged a huge part of its 18-49 audience, and one could argue the teens as well--everyone knows that, by and large, music that populates the radio is what the teens like (One Direction, anyone?) and if the teens don't like you well enough, then your voice won't get heard. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Let's get right to it: the average age of the typical Idol viewer <a href="http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/14/entertainment/la-et-0414-idol-voice-20120414">is 48 years old, 14 years older than when Idol first premiered in 2002</a>. That's a good and reliable audience for buying Susan Boyle/Jackie Evancho music, and I'd still argue they can have an impact (Lionel Richie's album sold well), but face it, is Idol churning out 10-year old classical singers or 50-year old types singing musical hits? Nope. That's probably for X Factor, which has that age range from 10-google, while Idol only prefers its niche brand of 15-28 types. So if Idol winners (and 2nd/3rd placers) are going to rely on their 48 year olds to purchase their music, well, that's not a recipe for radio to start spinning the tracks. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Anyway, so if (1) you're not going to get the teen audience, then we have to go to (2) you better have caught fire at a time when your style of music was popular, so that when you start to hemorrhage your fanbase you'd still have enough to buy your album. So, if you're wondering why Lionel Richie is still selling in Epoch 4, during a world of electropop, there's your answer. And if you're wondering why <a href="http://www.billboard.com/news/linkin-park-maroon-5-aiming-for-top-of-billboard-1007445552.story#/news/linkin-park-maroon-5-aiming-for-">Linkin Park</a> is able to be a chart topper in 2012, also in a world of electropop, it's because they've gained a ton of fans way back when (<a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/concept-of-piggybacking-and-why-it.html">Epoch 1</a>) to carry over to today. Not to mention that Linkin Park's really a rap rock/nu metal sort of group, and their collaboration with Jay Z earned them a ton of hip hop fans, so the transition to today's music is actually quite easy for them. Anyway, that's why the getting-one-foot-in-the-door aspect is very important. And in order to get the fanbase for (2), you better utilize the concept of (3) piggybacking. That was illustrated already in all of my epoch articles, so I'll spare the words, but needless to say if there's already someone in the charts that's similar to your style of music, then it helps a lot. Some of them turn out to be flashes in the pan (Owl City, Gotye?) but having a similar sound to what's current will pique the interest of radio types.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Get that fanbase by piggybacking and/or teens = get that reputation with radio = get more freedom for sound experimentation. That's the recipe.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">We've already discussed at length about how WGWGs <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/epoch-4-more-wgwgs-concept-of.html">are no longer becoming chart toppers</a> or populating radio at large, but that's what Idol keeps producing. So until Nickelback or something catches fire once again, Idol's just in a holding pattern--it's a show that just cannot dictate the flow of music, rather it has to latch on to the "current sound". And the WGWG sound is not it for now (if some consider Gotye a WGWG, I'd argue he got lucky and caught fire internationally before it became a hit here). Idol's promotion starts in the States, and if lucky, it grows outward internationally. But since Idol has had a hard time conquering the States themselves, well, then there's no luck internationally. Again, the sound is not in the "in", and it's obvious why--</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white; font-size: large;"><b>2) Idol is lousy at branding its "pop" contestants.</b></span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> I'd even argue that the WGWGs get a lot more free rein--certainly, their rate of introducing new songs in what I call my "creativity" marker is well higher. Even country contestants, such as Skylar Laine and Scotty McCreery from last year, have high creativity marks. Just look at the creativity markers <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/idolmetrics-final-battle-jessica-vs.html">here</a> for stark contrast. The thing is, as established at 1) above, unless the WGWG sound is hot, Idol won't produce any hit churners. Idol can easily do that with country--it's a relatively fluid market that doesn't change too much over the course of time, and they feel a kinship with the "cheesy" coronation songs Idol often churns up--but do they want to be known as country Idol? Not sure about that. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">But look everywhere else--Idol pop/soul singers are forced to do all the ballads and old-school Motown songs that populated by and large the first Epoch. That's an awful way to brand yourself--nowadays, it just appears to be better as a "hey, I look the part, I sing current pop music, albeit halfway adequately" rather than "I'm an excellent singer who can go through all the runs and trills and '60s songs. Oh yeah!". Yeah, the first is more interchangeable, and that's a subject that has long irritated the median-age Idol viewer, as many pine for the days when musicianship, and then singing, was at a premium (probably in that order). For reference, Joshua Ledet, Hollie Cavanagh and Jessica Sanchez had some of the lowest creativity scores of the past year--they were doing a ton of songs that have been done on Idol billions of times to the point of running over a horse, backing up, and running over it again. And that's a songbook issue--Idol avoids music from the <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/idol-avoiding-songs-1990s-and-beyond.html">1990s and beyond like it's a plague</a>. While this is fine for the WGWGs and country music--the former can strum their guitar and twist up the song, while the latter can instill the twang--the pop/gospel types have to sing it straight up, eliciting greater comparisons to the original. And that's why Idol's "pop" contestants never win with the audience, although we'll get to that audience even more in 3) below. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">And even if Interscope "likes" a contestant enough to sign them (i.e. Pia Toscano), even they struggle to re-create a more current identity for the contestant, since Idol has already branded said contestant as an old-fashioned type through their constant <3 of old songs. It doesn't help that Pia had zero stage presence, but that's another story. But that's why Interscope, which is largely a hip hop record label, and theoretically should be a good fit for whatever "pop" types Idol churns out, just struggles with Idol contestants. Stefano Langone also attempted to branch off into pop and redefine his image from Idol--again, that's what the "pop/soul" contestants have to do. If you ever wondered why Jessica Sanchez didn't sing the songs from her pre-Idol youtubes on Idol, that's why--she even admitted that she was forced to do "competition-type songs" on the show. Read: Nigel wants all of the "pop/R&B contestants to do Whitney, Mariah, Motown. The list ends there. And like Langone and Toscano, she's saying the typical stuff: Oh, I'm going to do more up-tempo, my sound is going to be more current, I'm going to do more current songs, etc. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Anyway, let's go back to Langone, or "Stefano" as he's called nowadays. While he has the right idea to "revamp" his image to fit the current market by teaming up with New Boyz (they've been affiliated with Hot Chelle Rae and Chris Brown, both of whom have been able to gain radio presence) and by attempting the currently lucrative pop/electro market, I think that stigma is too deeply ingrained--he was old-fashioned on Idol, with the exception of a few Ne-Yo/Bruno Mars songs, and he probably was forced to act "cheesy" in order to appear less threatening to the Idol audience. That's why Idol never gets any contemporary hip hop/R&B types--they'd probably appear too threatening to the Idol audience. Again, we'll get into that in 3) below.</span></span><br />
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I'd also wonder if Interscope is giving up on making the contestants current. Two things: in AI10, Jimmy brought in his bandwagon of music producers, like Ron Fair, Jim Jonsin, Darkchild, and Rock Mafia, among others. These are by and large current music producers--in fact, the last three have had hip hop hits in the 2000s, so sheerly by name recognition the prevailing thought was that they'd help to make the Idols more current. But instead, we saw Idols stay in their lane--and apparently the music producers got tired of producing stuff for country, metal, old soul, etc, because even they realize that it just doesn't sell nowadays. On a side note: wasn't it funny to have Darkchild, who's penned hits for Lady Gaga and Destiny's Child, write country songs for Scotty McCreery for the competition? These guys effectively sold out, but just to save face, they have to coin terms like "<a href="http://idolator.com/5879592/scotty-mccreery-lauren-alaina-pia-toscano-rodney-darkchild-jerkins">Darkchild goes country</a>" for the lol factor. These producers had their uses: while Idol still insisted on using old songs, at the very least the producers tried to modernize them to fit the style of current music (i.e. pop/R&B beats), even if it often drew the ire of the median-age Idol viewer. Also, some of the contestants were able to team up with the producers after the show (Pia with Darkchild, Stefano with Rock Mafia) but as mentioned, they were way too immersed with the poor in-show old-school branding that Idol gave them, that even the producers couldn't help re-define their image/sound.<br />
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But the more alarming thing is that Jimmy seems to be giving up the current sound. The stable of those music producers went away for AI11, and while Idol's had a few vocal coaches, does anyone think that Michael Orland or Peisha McPhee can help contestants "brand" their voices into a contemporary fashion? Michael <a href="http://michaelorland.com/bio.htm">doesn't appear to have any contemporary credits</a> to his name, and Peisha McPhee is best known as being Katharine McPhee's mom, more or less. Also, considering Jimmy helped the contestants with song selection, the fact that he encouraged all of the pop/R&B singers to sing Idol's old stuff is alarming. Last year, he at least offered "You and I" by Lady Gaga and "Rolling in the Deep" by Adele (before that song became overdone) to Haley, tried to get Paul McDonald to sing the horrible but at least contemporary James Blunt song "You're Beautiful", and at the top three gave Scotty McCreery a contemporary Thompson Square song and Lauren Alaina a contemporary The Band Perry song. That at the very least helped the show appear fresher.<br />
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This year, Colton had the lion's share of contemporary songs, but it appears that Colton chose those songs more of his own volition, rather than Jimmy giving it to him. Having done <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/early-youtube-analysis-of-ai11-top-24.html">spoilers </a>for this crew, Phillip and Jessica (ironically, the top two of this season) were the two contestants who deviated the most from what they did pre-Idol. Both were dumbed down by Idol's song choices, by and large. Phillip survived in large part due to the audience, which was already receptive to WGWGs, (see below, again) but also because he rearranged the songs beyond recognition to fit his limited range. But before Idol, all I saw was hip hop...more hip hop...and more hip hop. That's why with the success of Linkin Park, his route is probably more that way...and that would explain why he would hate his coronation song as well, most likely because he doesn't want to be known as a Mumford and Sons piggybacker (Mumford, while successful on an album perspective, hasn't had many chart hits at all). Jessica as mentioned was forced by Idol to conform to singing old songs as a play for votes.<br />
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So in terms of really branding the contestants the way they wanted to be branded (what they were pre-Idol), both Jimmy and Idol failed on both counts. But to see where Jimmy's really at play with song choices, look at the top three choices: No More Drama (2001), I'll Be There (1970), and We've Got Tonight (1978). In order to make them appear "marketable", he gave Jessica and Phillip 1970s songs *facepalm*. The Joshua song was more recent, but even then that song wasn't too too well known, even among the 2000s kids. Ultimately, Jimmy failed at all three counts here. And then, we get to the coronation songs, where Jimmy showed even worse instincts by giving Jessica "Change Nothing".<br />
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He gave Phillip a better song, "Home", and while that song has gotten decent airplay because it sounds better than most coronation songs, considering the market there is for WGWGs he'd probably be better served giving a better song for Jessica and a worse song for Phillip. Considering the popularity of Charice, and considering that AI hasn't tested the rabid Filipino base since Jasmine Trias all the way back in Epoch 1, it's way better to test those waters rather than to keep dipping yourself into the same median-age Idol audience pool over and over again, because as Albert Einstein once said, the definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. And as X Factor likes to emphasize the international appeal, Jessica also has more international appeal, between the Filipino fanbase and the fact that pop is more receptive to the international masses to begin with. She has more followers (705K)--nearly double as many as Phillips (482K), and even more than McCreery, last year's winner (579K). There's definitely the Filipino fanbase for her. Instead, with the winner, Idol's dipping itself into that water for the fifth time in a row.<br />
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But back to the subject at hand, it's surprising that for a hip hop label, Interscope's really struggling with the pop contestants, between AI10 and AI11. Idol exacerbates the issue and it will forever remain an issue until they completely obliterate their stringent decade/theme weeks, but Jimmy also took a step backwards particularly during AI11. They could get lucky with Jessica though--having done spoilers for other shows, they might be lucky that she didn't join X Factor, because she very nearly did for XFUS1. Instead, she's actually done stuff that's attracted a few 2000s hitmakers, like <a href="http://www.eonline.com/redcarpet/2012/premieres/news/american-idol-s-jessica-sanchez-why-does-akon-say-he-wants-her-voted-off/312282">Akon </a>(incidentally, read the article: Akon subtly disses American Idol by saying that she's "overqualified for the show", and wants her to be voted so that he can sign her--Konvict Music anyone?) and <a href="http://www.disneydreaming.com/2012/05/03/jesse-mccartney-hits-the-recording-studio-with-jessica-sanchez/">Jesse McCartney</a> (who found success with a sound that piggybacked off Justin Timberlake circa 2006). That sort of outside marketing only helps these contestants. And with the rabid Filipino fanbase which she simply accumulated because she advanced that far into the competition, she might find a few good singles in spite of Idol and Jimmy. Sometimes it's that sort of luck, but still, Idol's and Interscope's track record with branding the "pop" types are horrible. Don't give people the impression you want to be Celine Dion, if Beyonce's your goal. Simple as that.<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;"> If you've lost the identity, you've lost the branding, and then you've lost the narrative, and simply stated, you've lost the opportunity. Incidentally, some have tried to get into that pop market after displaying their style completely differently on the Idol Stage--look no further than <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=pQgrH6DlIW8">Didi Benami</a> (who was an acoustic guitar strummer on Idol) and <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9MayOdh1VU&feature=player_embedded">Antonella Barba</a> (sang Idol staples during her run).</span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: white;">Let's look back for some precedence on this matter. Kelly Clarkson had a distinct sound on top of being a good singer, but even that's not enough. I've touched a lot about this on <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/concept-of-piggybacking-and-why-it.html">Epoch 1</a>: I mentioned that she sort of piggybacked off P!nk with a rock ballad sort of sound, and they also had similar topics about sour relationships. In fact, that's largely what propelled the success of her <i>Breakaway </i>album, so by finding the sound that's hot, and establishing a similar topic across all of the songs in the album, that's how you gain success. She gained a lot of fans that way and even though subsequent albums were more generic, she gave herself more leeway to screw up, so she still sold better than most Idol alums. That's why we keep emphasizing the one-foot-in-the-door aspect. </span></span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Jordin Sparks' sound was more generic--I remember she said that she wanted to be a Beyonce-lite coming off her Idol win, but she portrayed herself as a bit Disney-esque throughout her Idol run, and while her songs were positive and poppy, they were awfully generic. It was only when she did that ballad with Chris Brown and leeched off his followers did she gain a ton more followers. But, the sound never took off because of the Disney-esque stigma that Idol cast on her, her second album was completely rudderless even though she repeatedly kept trying to say it was about female empowerment, and she's been relegated to leeching off Jason DeRulo for his followers and also doing movies like Sparkle. This isn't to say she isn't a failure--for Idol standards, she's actually one of the better ones--she leeched off the right people to gain new followers, and <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/idol-songs-youtube-views-most-to-least.html">that's why she's 2nd in relevant youtube views and 3rd in overall youtube views</a>. She just can't sustain music by herself, and is casting herself as an actress/singer type. Idol tends to do that with many anyway--many of these types go to Broadway, or just do <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/life-of-idol-flops-and-filler-pretty.html">nothing at the very end</a>. But Jordin shows that even with a lack of branding, as long as you're immersed into pop music, there are still avenues for success.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">What's also funny is that Idol has J-Lo to look at for "proper" branding: she established herself as "Jenny From The Block", with the Bronx-tough-girl attitude, teamed up with rappers to solidify the image early on, and projected a dance pop vibe even in the late 1990s/early 2000s when this started out. Yeah, she couldn't sing at all, but that's why branding is more important than singing: the Idol Genentech machine has churned out a ton of singing-bots and musician-bots, but does it matter if they don't brand themselves in a relatively unique way? There's no way to gain fans. And she's continues the dance/electro-pop aspect in her songs today, and is able to maintain, and possibly improve, her base with Idol's help. It's funny how many of the contestants don't understand this sort of branding within the Idolsphere, and they just act as singing-bots, willing to sing all the old songs, cave into the competition, and not really care about the consequences as much post-Idol. That's what hurts them the most.</span><br />
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Ultimately, Idol is holding down its contestants down by improper branding, and I'd say they are just getting lucky because their contestants have some sort of appeal to the outside (Jessica=Filipinos) or because their contestants are lucky to team up with others (Jordin). But in part II of this article, we'll focus on what Idol will have to face if X Factor, where their judges are known for saying, "You look/act like a pop star", produces a pop type that has more success than Idol does, especically with Idol's proclivity for WGWGs.<br />
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<span style="font-size: large;">3) <b>Continuing with the first two...the age factor</b>. </span><br />
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Face it...Idol's audience skews old. As mentioned, this makes Idol completely incompatible with the music market, as elaborately discussed in 1) above. With the clear lack of overs and young classical girls, the next best thing for Idol's audience is the musicians, and because Idol always casts at least two or three of these every season, the law of averages always state that one will run. Simple logic--if one gets kicked out, they inherit the rest of the votes, unless the judges do some serious depimping (which see below, has never happened in the AI10-11 era). If WGWGs were actually popular worldwide, Idol would be a good business model--that's what it churns all the time. But it isn't, and Idol's left with tons of flops at the end. This also has a trickle-down effect on Idol's "pop" types--because of the audience, many of them, as mentioned in 2), are forced to be docile, sing slow ballads, and not sing anything upbeat for fear of not raking in the votes or being "too hostile".<br />
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This also jibes with the fact that Idol has never had any hip-hop or rap types, even though it's been around the US for nearly forty years and <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/concept-of-piggybacking-and-why-it.html">has dominated the charts ever since Idol first started</a>. They're too hostile for Idol's "family-oriented" show, and have been left out for 11 seasons as a result. Instead, we see Joshua Ledets and other old-soul types who have their best bet in a relatively profitable, but incredibly niche, urban market. But for those who do have the "pop" aspirations, the Toscanos, the Langones, and possibly the Sanchezes, they end up branding themselves in a completely different way on the show, and their subsequent pop albums, no matter how good they sound, just don't gain traction. It's bad enough Idol's audience couldn't give them the winner treatment, but that they had to sell their soul to sing old songs just to gain exposure, which doesn't pay off because the viewing public never agreed with their sound in the first place. It's a vicious cycle which happens with Idol's "pop" types, and because the WGWG sound has eroded from the charts since 2009-2010, it's why Idol, despite increasing numbers of contestants, is actually seeing diminishing returns. It's a horrible business model because of the audience.<br />
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This is also reflected in various internet websites which receive fewer comments on Idol-related news. There's more chatter reflecting the median-age Idol viewer's concern regarding why their favorite WGWG contestant isn't doing well, and album sales predictions and charts show that only Kelly Clarkson and country artists are doing stuff that's relevant nowadays. Idol-centric blogs find more slow news days because fewer and fewer Idols are enjoying success, so many of them have to cover that up and find more side topics/other competition shows to discuss, but even they know that they are getting fewer hits, getting the same tired comments and seeing fewer articles to post than ever before. Considering everything's progressively being relayed through the Internet nowadays, if you're seeing diminishing returns on the interwebs, that means the business model is getting even worse.<br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">Ultimately, if Idol wants to maintain its audience, it needs to find a perfect medium--getting a relevant contestant to today's music, one has a sound that can piggyback off current chart toppers, and also one that could possibly appeal to the tweens of today and also the median-age Idol viewers who watch the show. WGWGs as mentioned as out of the question, the pop types can't catch on with Idol viewers and have their credibility tarnished by singing old songs, so it's really hard to find this type. David Archuleta was perhaps one of these during AI7, but he came at a time just right after Hannah Montana and right before Bieber as mentioned in <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/epoch-3-wgwg-era-concept-of.html">Epoch 3</a>. Perhaps it's a tween type, but it's hard to say at this point. Idol would be better served trying to lose those viewers and make itself more relevant, but this being a TV show it's obvious they won't do that.</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-size: large;">4) <b>Horrific judging</b>. </span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white;">I doubt judging matters for the future--it might matter with TV ratings, perhaps, but as a marketability blog, it doesn't hurt as much as the three above. Certainly telling "it was beautiful" to a contestant who largely hides behind their guitar and has limited range does zilch to improve them, and it also makes viewers lose brain cells, even if that might not affect the viewers too much. That's why in the fourth epoch we've largely seen contestants who were exactly the same in style from start to finish--Scotty McCreery and Phillip Phillips didn't do anything differently from their initial audition to their performance in the finale. Judging, however, does set parameters for who does well and who doesn't--if you're in college, wouldn't you be pissed if you got all the correct answers and got an "A" for the paper, while a fellow classmate got all wrong answers and also got an "A" for the paper? Stuff like that makes me wonder if people like Jessica gets pissed for the amount of effort Phillip puts in. So judging could have skewed a few of the results had the judges actually had a pulse in doing actual "judging", but they opted not to and let the cards fall as they may, which, just like entropy leads to eventual clutter in reality, leads to a WGWG in <i>American Idol</i>. Idol's lucky XFUS and The Voice didn't do much better at all in terms of actual judging, if better at all, but if one of these shows actually focuses on judging and presents a stark contrast with Idol, then they might be forced to change (No, The Sing-Off doesn't count because no one watches that show). I'll end this first part with a youtube showing Christoph Waltz of <i>Inglorious Basterds</i> just proving how incompetent the Idol judges are. </span><br />
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So, in the vein of American Ninja Warrior as seen in my <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/06/american-ninja-warrior-preliminary.html">previous post</a>, I've also been keeping a close tab on America's Best Dance Crew (2nd season running watching this). First of all, a couple of thoughts: 1) It's way better than any of the so called "dance" shows out there. Primarily, it's all hip hop, which means that we aren't bored with <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gyDtD694JaM">old-styles of dancing</a> that <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHdMFS2uM7A">permeate </a>a lot of these shows. Also, check a list of the theme weeks: Britney Spears-Flo Rida-Madonna-Drake-JLo-Pitbull-Rihanna-LMFAO-Katy Perry. Yeah, mind-numbing electropop dreck aside, isn't this the song list that Idol aspires to get? Won't it be hilarious to see a contestant cover "Club Can't Handle Me" or "Wide Awake" or "Get Right" by JLo? Contestants have handled <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0azGlw8mLTQ">the first</a> before in these singing competitions, so don't think it's impossible.<br />
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Anyway, isn't it ironic that Randy is the "executive producer" of this show and they had a J-Lo week? Idol, take some hints, your crew's basically working for this show that has a way fresher songbook than yours. Psshhh...acoustic WGWG versions of LMFAO or Pitbull, or cast a Cher Lloyd type just for the hilarity. Also, let's go to Randy for some funny hypocrisy, as he took over MTV's twitter last night:<br />
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Yeah...Randy, dude, your comments on twitter are as dry as your "judging" on Idol. And if you're into swag, tell Idol to cast some "swag" contestants. And if Katy Perry is hot, tell them to instill a Katy Perry week--it's way better than hearing "And I Am Telling You" for the eighth time. Just like how hilarious the autotuned JLo is like judging contestants who sing better than her, or judging WGWGs, Randy looks awful when he touts singers dancing to dance pop while critiquing actual singers. Dude, I think D-Trix, Lil Mama and JC Chasez, if nothing else, would bring younger judges to Idol. Younger=more current songs. Capish?<br />
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So...rant ended on the ABDC/Idol front. Let's get right to the winners...Elektrolytes. I actually liked this crew from day 1--as said in the title, they're what I call a "parkour dance crew". They can dance--but they seamlessly couple it with a ton of parkour moves. It's a very athletic crew, pretty diverse (a mixture of different races, but get this--no Asians!--they broke the streak of dance crews not having an Asian to win). They also have the backstory thing working--they're from Gilbert, AZ, a place with no hip hop in sight, they have two brothers in the crew (first time that ever happened to win), they overcame an injury, they got <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xx8mvUXEL8w">ditched on America's Got Talent</a> (clearly, those hack judges love their comedic acts better), so there were definitely a slew of factors that helped them. But most of all, they combined attributes of the best crews--they sort of had the parkour backflips and daring of crews like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZeEWbYQ2Iww">787 Crew </a>from last year but also combined it with the staccatos, humor and general athleticism of past winners like <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dlG8BMxtC4Y">Poreotix</a>, and the framing of moments, geometric lines, robotics and clumping together aspects such as what<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4DRwcl_8Ogc"> I aM mE</a> had. Most of all, they had a trademark--their Elektrolytes symbol as seen in the picture above. Branding is important for memorization among the masses. As D-Trix keeps saying on this show, the show's a marathon, so if you keep having the tricks, and keep displaying them week after week in new and creative ways, then you can win. Seamlessly meshing them with choreo makes it even better. It's sort of like how Idol should operate from a singing perspective, but ever since the WGWGness pervaded since Season 7, as <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/05/epoch-4-more-wgwgs-concept-of.html">well documented</a> here<br />
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Look at all the past winners--JabaWockeeZ, who's local to my area and has <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1rrS44-X-w">danced with heavy hitters</a> like Shaq, Super Cr3w, Quest Crew (which D-Trix was a part of), We Are Heroes (a girl group that has more swag than anything that was ever come out of Idol), and then Poreotix and I aM mE. I aM mE isn't a traditional athletic group, but they do have their prototypical stunts guy in Emilio. Still, all things considered, this is a very athletic group that relies on stunts, more or less. It's why Mos Wanted crew didn't win--they have a guy who went to a similar high school than I did, but largely they're trying to bring back traditional roots hip hop dance, although I see how they're trying to follow in I aM mE's footsteps by featuring their stunts guy in Ricky Cole.<br />
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Elektrolytes was largely the real stunts crew--sure, their opponent had a few backflip types, but they were more like young gymnastics dancers doing hip hop, rather than being true hip hop types. Elektrolytes had several stunt guys, a krumper, a flexible guy, a high jumper, a fast hand reflexes guy...list goes on. Every person had their specialty. But at the end, it was clearly their stunts guys they featured most...and that was Sal and Marcus. Let's go to the template:<br />
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Features: Walk with his hands, Downrocks, Freezes, Babies, Power moves, Double legs, Backflips, Front Flips, Butterfly twists, Side flips, Head slides, Knee Rolls, Comedy, Acting<br />
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#1: Flo Rida Week (Front flip)<br />
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#2: Flo Rida Week (Head slide)<br />
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#1: Madonna Week (Side flip)<br />
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#2: Madonna Week (Freeze)<br />
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#3/4: Madonna Week (Comedy)<br />
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#1: JLo Week (Double leg)<br />
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#2 David Guetta (Butterfly Twist)<br />
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#3 David Guetta (Side Flip off crew's shoulder)<br />
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#1: Flo Rida (Backflip off Robot)<br />
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#2: Flo Rida (Side flip)<br />
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#2 Madonna (Backflip)<br />
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#3 Madonna (Backflip off member of crew's stomach)<br />
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#2 J-Lo (Backflip off object)<br />
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#3 J-Lo (Backflip)<br />
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#2 Pitbull (Backflip off robot)<br />
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#2 David Guetta (Side Flip off Crew's Shoulder)<br />
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Ben<br />
Features: Splits, Flexibility, Spinning, Backflips, Side Twists, Crab Push Ups, Nunchucks, Acting, Comedy, Illusions<br />
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<img alt="clubcant2.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_clubcant2.jpg" />
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#1 Flo Rida (Splits)<br />
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<img alt="hungup4.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_hungup4.jpg" />
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#1 Madonna (Side Twists)<br />
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<img alt="hungup5.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_hungup5.jpg" />
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#2 Madonna (Acting)<br />
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<img alt="hungup9.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_hungup9.jpg" />
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#3 Madonna (Flexibility)<br />
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<img alt="drake3.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_drake3.jpg" />
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#1 Drake (Illusion)<br />
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<img alt="drake4.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_drake4.jpg" />
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#2 Drake (Illusion)<br />
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<img alt="jlo2.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_jlo2.jpg" />
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#1 J-Lo (Spinning)<br />
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#2 J-Lo (Splits)<br />
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<img alt="jlo4.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_jlo4.jpg" />
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#3 J-Lo (Backflip)<br />
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<img alt="jlo6.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_jlo6.jpg" />
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#4 J-Lo (Comedy)<br />
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#1 Rihanna (Acting)<br />
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#1 David Guetta (Nunchucks)<br />
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George<br />
Features: Butterfly Twist, Side Twist, Robot, Side Flip, Comedy<br />
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<img alt="clubcant4.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_clubcant4.jpg" />
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#1 Flo Rida (Butterfly Twist)<br />
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<img alt="hungup4.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_hungup4.jpg" />
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#1 Madonna (Side Twist)<br />
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<img alt="hungup9.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_hungup9.jpg" />
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#2 Madonna (Comedy)<br />
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<img alt="drak3.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_drak3.jpg" />
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#1 Drake (Robot)<br />
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<img alt="jlo9.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_jlo9.jpg" />
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#1 J-Lo (Side Flip)<br />
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#1 David Guetta (Butterfly Twist)<br />
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Kyle<br />
Features: Airwalking, Leaping, Backflips, Side Twist, Comedy<br />
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<img alt="clubcant2.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_clubcant2.jpg" />
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#1 Flo Rida (Airwalking)<br />
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#1 Madonna (Side Twist)<br />
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<img alt="hungup8.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_hungup8.jpg" />
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#2 Madonna (Comedy)<br />
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<img alt="drake1.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_drake1.jpg" />
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#1 Drake (Backflip)<br />
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#1 LMFAO (Leaping)<br />
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Nico<br />
Features: Capoiera Kicks, Nunchucks, Side Twists<br />
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#1 Madonna (Side Twists)<br />
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#1 Pitbull (Capoiera Kicks)<br />
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#1 David Guetta (Nunchucks)<br />
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Joey<br />
Features: Predator Fingers, Side Twists, Acting<br />
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<img alt="hungup2.jpg image by rydjorker121" src="http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v159/rydjorker121/th_hungup2.jpg" />
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#1 Madonna (Predator Fingers)<br />
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#2 Madonna (Side Twists)<br />
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#3 Madonna (Acting)<br />
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Chris<br />
Features: Krumping (so he says)<br />
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No pictures; he didn't really stand out individually, actually<br />
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So, on an individual basis, Elektrolytes had their two feature players who got a ton of roles--Sal in particular with a ton of backflips and parkour type stuff, Marcus with his B-boying and general floorwork but also helping out with the twists. The group really has everyone who can do a side twist, so we know they're athletic, and when they go all out in twists they employ George, Sal and Marcus to do the work, with Kyle and Ben also showing backflip work as well. Ben stands out with the flexibility and Kyle with the airwalking and leaping, and both them and Marcus can act, so they also employ that. Nunchuck work at the end was done by Nico and Ben, and Nico was also useful for capoiera work. However, really, it seems like Nico, Joey and Chris didn't do much--the last two didn't get any feature roles at all. I guess with a 8-person crew, if six of them can handle it, that's pretty much all you need--last year's winner I aM mE thrived in choreography, staccatos, and robots rather than individuality--although Phillip Chbeeb was known for his flexibility (like Ben), and Emilio (like Sal) was known for the stuntwork, while the other guys filled in the blanks and the girls generally did choreo work, more or less. Sort of like a boyband--a five person group only needs three main singers and two to blend in the background?<br />
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And then we can go to the Collective:<br />
Features: Elektrolyte Symbol, Lining Up, Choreography, Play to the Crowd<br />
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#1 Flo Rida (Lining Up)<br />
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#1/2 Madonna (Choreography)<br />
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#1/2 Drake (Play to the Crowd)<br />
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#1 LMFAO (Elektrolyte Symbol)<br />
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#1 David Guetta (Elektrolyte Symbol)<br />
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#1 Katy Perry (Elektrolyte Symbol)<br />
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Even collectively, the Elektrolytes played to the crowd, had choreography, did lines, did staccatoes, spread out, made robots, generated illusions (with Ben) on top of capitalizing on their top crew member's talents. And each of the top six members has their own unique quality, or add on to the crew in general. So this was a good crew for sure. An athletic crew--jumping, backflipping, side twisting, airwalking--that's stuff made for parkour. May I recommend <a href="http://jorkvstptb.blogspot.com/2012/06/american-ninja-warrior-preliminary.html">ANW</a>?<br />
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