American Idol Episode Recap: Atlanta Auditions
(Here's the Joe's Place Blog recap of the Atlanta Auditions)
American Idol’s Season 9 audition train made its next stop in Atlanta. R&B legend Mary J. Blige joined Randy, Kara and Simon to critique all the would-be pop stars. And once again, we got a pretty decent mix of “hot,” horrible and hare-brained. With the exception of a photo of a young Ryan Seacrest and the audition of a 62-year-old former General, the episode was pretty much paint-by-numbers.
THE GOOD
Keia Johnson, “My Heart Will Go On”
Her version of “The Titanic song” won lots of praise from Randy and Mary, with particular attention paid to her unique phrasing of the oft-covered song. I, however, found the sound of her voice to be very ordinary, as did Simon, who said she easily could easily be cast in Oklahoma. She gets through, but the real tragedy here is that Mary used one of Randy’s favorite (and most useless) phrases: “You can definitely sing.”