Idol-Talk: Season 10 Auditions - Milwaukee

American Idol 10: Milwaukee Auditions
Airdate: Wednesday, January 26, 2011 [8-10pm]

Audition: Milwaukee, WI

Now that we've got Premiere Week behind us and now in the midst of Week 2, I'm thinking this week's Idol-Talk entries will be shorter than last week.

The episode starts off with 'October 2, 2010, 8:45am' on the screen, followed by a clip of Steven Tyler and Randy Jackson singing together. Next, we see season 8 second runner-up Danny Gokey at the Cattle Call audition stop in Milwaukee, WI.

My Favorites:

• Scott Dangerfield - "Dreamin'" (student teacher)
• Thia Megia - Adele's "Chasing Pavements" (15-years-old)
• When I heard her name, I kept having this nagging feeling that I've heard that name before. I found out today that she was on America's Got Talent. I think I might have to look back on my AGT Commentary and see what I thought of her back then.
• Hayley Reinhart - "Oh Darlin" (she tried out last year)
• Naima Adedapo - Donny Hathaway's "For All We Know" (she works at Summerfest)

Good/Average:

• Chris Medina - The Script's "Breakeven"
• His fiance got into an accident, sustaining a traumatic brain injury
• Scotty McCreery - Josh Turner's "Your Man" and a Travis Tritt song (very deep, country voice)
• Steven had to be bleeped, saying something about "suck a duck" - best line of the night)
• Molly DeWolf Swenson - "Sitting On the Dock of the Bay"
• She's a White House intern from Seattle (in my home state)
• Earlier in the day, she got punched by Randy when he was high-fiving everyone

Average:

• Jerome Bell - "Let's Get It On" (he sings at bar Mitzvahs and weddings)
• Tiwan Strong
• Afterwards when he was celebrating with his family, one family member got a charlie horse; Ryan tried to help her while everyone else was celebrating Tiwan's victory, oblivious to what she was going through.

Shouldn't have received a ticket, but the judges caved in:

• Emma Henry - "True Colors" (15-years-old; a little rasp in her voice; she recently received her learner's permit and drove her family to the audition)
• Randy says "you'll get swallowed up in this competition," but caves in and voted her in)
• Alyson Jaydos - "Come Together" and "Dream On"
• Steven Tyler is her Idol.
• Steven: "You look like you could be one of my--," not finishing the sentence. What comes out of his mouth keeps getting more and more hilarious.
• Steven said it was very pitchy, but caved in and said yes only because she was a fan of his.

Misc. Notes:

I can tell that Jennifer Lopez is having an easier time saying no, often times being the first of the three to say no. And she is definitely becoming the head judge.

I found only one instance when Randy was Simon-like: "I thought it was terrible and a joke."

At one point during the episode, a clip was shown from the holding room where some guy does blackflips and ends up landing on a cameraman on his back holding a camera.

Every 15-year-old auditioner who came in received a ticket to Hollywood on Day 1 (I'm not sure about Day 2).

I'm not sure if I heard correctly, but I thought I heard Ryan Seacrest say that 53 singers advanced to Hollywood.

Tonight, we're back to a one-hour episode from 8-9pm with a stop in Nashville; in fact, there will only be one-hour episodes from here on out for the rest of the audition process. See ya then...