Hollywood Week begins on American Idol

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Hollywood Week begins on American Idol

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Hollywood Week begins on tonight's American Idol, and not a moment too soon to help possibly reverse the rating's free-fall. Auditions were notoriously uninspiring and bland this season.

Viewers have been dropping like flies. Apparently, so have some of the contestants, producer Nigel Lythgoe told the press in a recent conference call.

Seems some of the Golden Ticket winners weren't up for the pace of Hollywood auditions. Randy, JLo and Steven Tyler seemed to pass along any contestant with a sob story, whether they had any vocal talent or IT factor or not. Fatigue and reality set in under pressure.

“The best ones were going to bed by 11:30, 12 o’clock. And the ones that sucked when they started and sucked when they finished were going to bed at 3:45, 4 o’clock in the morning,” Lythgoe said.

Of course, the question then is WHY were any people "who sucked" in Hollywood in the first place? Why make so much work for the judges and the viewers?

One of the contestants even tumbles off the stage, which we will see this week.

“You literally see her wobble and her eyes drop into the back of her head,” Lythgoe said. “She falls, and the cameraman, bless him, tries to dive to catch her, ’cause he’s on the floor on his knees. He doesn’t get there, and knocks his camera, that falls on top of him.”

SPOILER:
It appears our Delray Beach hopeful, Angie Ziederman, the Lady Gaga fan who redeemed her audition with a performance of Blue Bayou, advances from the Hollywood to a Vegas round. She popped onto my @Replies on Twitter last week out of the blue and, to a query on whether she's made it through Hwd or not, she replied, "Wouldn't you like to know?"

To see the complete list of more than 300 Hollywood hopefuls, click here.

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I'm back after not watching any Idol to date...

Posted by: @Lane_ | February 09, 2012 at 08:00 PM

oy vey, that was serious

Posted by: @Lane_ | February 09, 2012 at 08:02 PM

I'm 8 mins behind but I tuned in for the first time last night since the hideous , draggy auditions. It's still gratuitous a la the fall, but at least we get to hear some talent

Posted by: Lesley | February 09, 2012 at 08:08 PM

wow JLo actually did get up off her ass. I'm impressed.

Posted by: Lesley | February 09, 2012 at 08:10 PM

you can fast forward to live, nothing missed

Posted by: @Lane_ | February 09, 2012 at 08:12 PM

gross, it's like Outbreak in there

Posted by: Lesley | February 09, 2012 at 08:16 PM

mentally weak Generation Y-ers.. what is the world coming to?

Posted by: @Lane_ | February 09, 2012 at 08:19 PM

Generation Z? What are they called now?

Posted by: @Lane_ | February 09, 2012 at 08:20 PM

Generation F-ed