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Maybe it’s just me, but after what seemed like the perfect beginning to a new season last week, San Francisco’s auditions seemed a little humdrum. There just didn’t seem to be much to get excited about, and in addition, we seemed to see a return to the overwhelming bad auditions.

While we saw the judges putting through several singers last week that had marginal talent, or at the very least, very raw talent, this week we saw them not ready to put those that they couldn’t see winning the whole thing through. That, of c

ourse, is except for the very annoying Tatiana Del Toro. Along with being very inappropriately dressed, she also had the most annoying laugh. I have no idea why they gave her a ticket to Hollywood unless they’re just looking for someone to add a little levity to the whole thing.

Not that Tatiana was the only one that didn’t need the judges help to become a target for writers such as me, as we also had Akilah Askew-Gholston, who seemed to have a more scientific approach to her audition. Not only did she bring all the songs she has ever written, as Tatiana had, she also brought diagrams of the body and didn’t know the names of any of them, correcting Ryan Seacrest that it wasn’t a “tray-kee-a,” but a “tray-shee-a.” When her audition didn’t go well, she blamed it on singing out of the “wrong rectum.” Just how many rectums do you think she has?

It seemed to be the exact opposite for the guys. While they had their share of failed auditions, they only male auditions that stood out were the good ones. It was back to marginal, raw talent for Jésus Valenzula. His kids are the ones that encouraged him to audition. He wasn’t the best, but I could see what the judges were getting at. They wanted to hear him sing something the way he would sing at home with his kids, not something he prepared for them, as it was too affected. Nevertheless, they gave him a chance in Hollywood. I’d like to see him make the semi-finals at least, meaning he needs to figure out how to just sing and not necessarily make it seem like he’s trying so hard.

We seemed to have a lot of amateurs, other than Tatiana on today, but one singer certainly seemed like he was being prepared for this his whole life. Adam Lambert has been doing musical theater since the age of 10 and is currently appearing in a stage production of Wicked. While he was definitely one of the better sounding ones of the day, the judges complained he sounded too theatrical. Then again he was singing Bohemian Rhapsody, and that’s a hard song to sing without being theatrical. Just ask Wayne and Garth.

Not to be outdone, Kai Kalama, another professional musician, not only sang well, but had one of those emotional stories that pulled at our heartstrings. He only gets to do his music at night, as he takes care of his mother who has a seizure disorder during the evenings. It would definitely be hard on his family for him to be away during the show, but he wants to do it for his family.

Kai wants to buy a house for his mom and make sure she’s always taken care of, assumably not always by him. Kai sang really well, although the judges wanted a little more personality out of him, with Simon suggesting Kai watch him on previous versions of the show to see “confidence.” Again, he sounded good, but I think without the backstory, we wouldn’t have thought the same of him.

Tonight’s auditions are in Louisville, so we’re promised some country singers it seems, and hopefully we’ll get a few more with talent than the twelve that were put through to Hollywood from San Francisco. I’m also hoping for a return to last week where it just leaves us with an overall good feeling instead of just asking, “so?” I need to be wowed.

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