"Lookin' like a fool with your pants on the ground!"

I actually haven't watched this season of American Idol at all so far, despite being an avid fan for as long as the show has been on (probably about half my life haha).  I honestly am just not in the mood to see people get ridiculed for the sake of entertainment during the audition process. That's honestly what they do. One contestant called into a local radio show here in Arizona, Johnjay and Rich on the station 104.7 fm, and he described the process he went through. He was a music teacher who actually sang on radio and had a decent voice, but when he was shown on television, he messed up his audition.  Although American Idol depicted him as performing in front of the judges, he actually did not get that far. There's a few audition processes contestants must go through before they actually get to see Simon, Randy, etc (who else is a judge these days anyways?). So he performed well in front of the producers, then the producers told him to sing a Pussycat Dolls' song for fun. He did and did the job terribly because it's not the style he should be singing. Then he went to see another set of judges with this horrible performance in his mind. This audition was videotaped, and he sung the song of his choice horribly because of his previous bomb. This was the performance that was put on tv and was spliced together with the comments of the real judges to make it look like he actually sang in front of them. If this is the truth, this part of the American Idol show is completely fabricated, and as much as I love my trashy television, I'm not going to buy into it.

However, from the show is our annual phenomenon. We've had William Hung and many others, but now we have "General" Larry Platt!  If you haven't heard "Pants on the Ground" yet, it's a hilarious hit that has taken over our nation. Check it out!