Now for this year’s action.

Interesting…not a whole lot of drama this year. The drama they’re trying to create is kinda lame. They’re really making Mary Powers (the rocker chick) out to be the villain. The biggest drama was the Big Mike baby thing. Which still makes me kinda mad. He should have been there.

Okay…on to the groups!

Faith (Charity Vance, Ashley Rodriguez, and Michelle Delamor) – Not a fan of Charity, who forgot her lyrics. Ashley’s just okay. Michelle wasn’t really highlighted, so I don’t have an opinion on her.
Verdict: Everyone is in.

Team Awesome (Mike Lynche, Seth Rollins, Tim Urban, and Michael Castro) – They were all decent. Not outstanding, but definitely not bad. And Michael Castro didn’t even get a solo or a lower third. Guess he’s not going through.
Verdict: Mike and Tim through, Seth and Michael out.

Neapolitan (Liz Rooney, Thaddeus Johnson, Jessica Cunningham, and some girl named Paige) – They’re all pretty terrible. And there’s some stupid drama between them and “Destiny’s Wild” because they stole their a cappella idea. Uh oh.
Verdict: All through. Maybe I just hated the song.

Destiny’s Wild (Todrick Hall, Theri, Jareb Liewer, and Siobhan Magnus) – They’re slightly better (although the ending was absolutely awful). I agree with Ellen though that they were very weird. I think it’s the song. Such a terrible song.

The Mighty Rangers (Tori Kelly, Maddie Penrose, Mark Labriola, Kimberly Kerbow, and some guy named Danny) – Tory is boring. Maddie is awful. Mark forgot his words and wasn’t good anyway. Kimberly also forgot words and was bad.
Verdict: Tori and Maddie are through, the others are out. Mark cried.

The Phoenix (Ben Honeycutt, Jeff Goldford, Moorea Masa, Jermaine Sellers) – Ben and Jermaine were fantastic. Jeff was okay. Moorea wasn’t good. As a group, they were pretty darn good. The judges were pretty tough on them. Interesting.
Verdict: Jermaine and Jeff are through, Ben and Moorea are out. Wow…I liked Ben. But of course, I love Jermaine, so I’m very happy to finally see him again.

Big Dreams (Matt Lawrence, Amanda Shechtman, and two other guys) – Matt wasn’t awful. Everyone else was. Matt wasn’t good either.
Verdict: All out.

Middle C (Janell Wheeler, Jermaine Purifoy, and Casey James) – They were all pretty good. I like the other Jermaine better.
Verdict: All through.

Three Men and a Baby (Andrew Garcia, Katie Stevens, J.B. Ahfua, and some other guy) – Andrew was great again, J.B. (a new face) was VERY good. I still don’t like Katie.
Verdict: All through.

The Dreamers (Mary Powers, Hope Johnson, Margo May, Alex Lambert, and some other girl) – That was probably the worst thing I’ve ever heard. Margo was particularly awful.
Verdict: Mary, Hope, and Alex are through. Margo and the other girl are out. Yuck, I thought Hope and Alex were terrible too.

That’s it…71 made it through. No group stood out, and there was no funny drama. I will officially dub this the worst Group Round ever. And I had to stay up until 10 for it too. Gross.

Next week that 71 becomes 24. Tuesday will be the last performances and the whole splitting everyone into rooms thing. Wednesday will be the complete waste of an hour episode where we hear no singing and instead have to watch people walk up to a chair and hear whether or not they made it. BUT THEN…the real show starts. And my game starts! Hooray!

Until then…

Mark Labriola – Well there’s a different story. Kidnapped by his mother. He was really good. Really really good. Hmm…I liked him better before he cried.

Kimberly Kerbow – She’s really annoying. As is her daughter. She wasn’t good at all. She was terrible. Ugh. Heh…I was gonna say that she looked like she was wearing a wig. And then Simon said it. And Kara and Posh agreed.

Danelle Hayes – What a whiner. “Getting into the music industry is so hard. Sob sob sob. I’m the only one who has struggled in this business. Whine whine whine.” Hmm…so apparently if you cry in the audition, it means you wear your heart on your sleeve, and it doesn’t really matter how well you can sing.

Casey James – Booooring. I agree COMPLETELY with Simon. No charisma, no effort. This is such a stupid show. He has now taken off his shirt. Why do I watch this? It’s for my fans.

Tori Kelly – Boring. And sounds really young (because she is). Wow, Simon and I are on the same page tonight. He called her voice annoying. Posh says women are going to like her. I may not be the BEST representative of women, but I don’t like her.

14 made it through from Day 1.

Whoa…they’re playing a new Katharine song! That’s something. Maybe they’ll invite her on to sing this season.

Nicci Nix – Wow…this girl is super annoying. I feel like someone with such an annoying speaking voice should not sing such a stupid song.

Haeley Vaughn – UGH. NO ONE should be allowed to sing Carrie songs. She didn’t even get the words right. She should have said, “I don’t even know MY last name”. Come on now. Although I am always biased against people who sing Carrie songs…in this case, I just thought she was terrible. And it was made worse by the fact that she butchered a Carrie song.

26 people total from Denver. It started out REALLY well. And went downhill from there. Really far. Oh well. Only one more day of auditions! This one is labeled, “Road to Hollywood”. I think they did this last year – showed auditions from throughout the process. To show off some of the people who didn’t get airtime before. That’s nice.

I will tell you in advance, there is a slight chance that my blog will not be updated immediately after the show tomorrow. It’s airing at 9, which…if you know me, is my bedtime. I know I have to eventually make it til 10 once the 2-hour shows and 9:00 results shows start, but I figure the auditions are less important. Besides…who reads this anyway? You can wait til Thursday.

Until then…