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Tonight on "America's Got Talent," we are back in Seattle tonight. Piers says it's "freezing cold" there. Umm... hello London? This is kettle. You're black.
Our first act is 24 year-old Chris Keg, The Lone Ranger of Rock. He is a red-headed rocker who kind of looks like a drag queen being Bret Michaels. He... sounds a little bit like when Marty McFly's hand starts to disappear and he can't play "Earth Angel." Those are the sounds coming out of Chris's guitar. He's no Tallan Noble Latz. NEXT!
Bad Montage. Hottie Silvia Brasil is an off-tune belly-dancer-person who should probably just stand still and never open her mouth. Madmat, the Indestructible Man has a sword act that just scares us all. Then there's the Shanghai Pearl, a stripping pink gorilla. Me not love you long time.
The first good act of the night is a woman who had a cleft palate fixed and still has scars and whatnot. Her name is Kari Callin and she has a beautiful alto voice. WE JUST FOUND OUR SUSAN BOYLE and she's maybe an even better story, seeing as she has previously auditioned for things and the casting folks took one look at her and said no thank you. I mean, you just can't help but love that. The lady is not a looker and it must have taken a lot of courage to get up and do this show. I agree with Sharon, total goosebump moment. She's through unanimously. Good for her.
Good Montage. Simon Chaban does fire acrobatics. Now that is a Vegas act. Keith Johnson played the guitar and sings "Walking in Memphis" and while he's good, he doesn't wow me. His blue eyes will probably help him though. Pixie Mystere is the act I've seen on commercials for weeks. They are little girl acrobats, but their outfits scare me. It's like the Munchkins from Space.
Reality is a group of best friends that sings. They aren't quite the creepy Wisconsin siblings, but they are close. It's two guys and three girls and they sing "Sit Down You're Rockin' the Boat" from Guys & Dolls. It's very Big-Tent-Revival creepy and the vocals aren't even that good. Next!
The next act is Destined 2 Be, a group of five guys who dance hip-hop with a lot of awesome popping and ripples. Very cool. Have you guys ever seen a black-light dance show, where a dance crew dances in darkness with only black light so you can only see their gloves or the stripes on their pants or whathaveyou? I think this crew would be amazing with something like that. They are through unanimously.
Rashida Jolley is a singing harpist. Man, that is a rare instrument to play. Rashida plays and sings "Killing Me Softly" and she is quite good. It's so interesting to hear that song done on the harp. It adds a completely different feel to it, I like it. Her voice needs a little polish, but there's no reason she can't go through to Vegas. The judges give her mixed reviews but do send her through.
The next good act are two friends named Anthony and Matt who don't have a name for their group. Matt plays the guitar and sings while Anthony tap dances. Huh. That's... really interesting and surprisingly entertaining. The judges love it too, they are through unanimously.
Good Montage. Louis and Laura perform Argentinian Tango, it's quite sexy. David Hasselhoff may have even "rowr-d." Father and son the Kalinis perform an acrobatic act that is very cool, especially when the son balances with one hand on his father's forehead. Chris Camp The Whip Guy and wife Lauren perform a whip act that would probably fit in quite well in Las Vegas.
The last act of the night is our piano-playing-singing lovely from last year, Mia Boostrom. Oh, I liked her last year. She was so great, I'd like to see her go far this year. This year she plays "Georgia On My Mind" at the keyboard while dressed like she just came from Haight-Ashbury. Either way, she's just great. She reminds me of Norah Jones, I'm just a big fan. The judges put her through uanimously. Yay!
Before the show is over we see Mariah Carey's new video "Obsessed." Huh.
Join me here next week for even more auditions. Hopefully at some point we get to the Vegas rounds and thankfully this year we don't have the Olympics to contend with.
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Yeah, when I saw Kari my first thought was "Here we go...she's our Susan".
Looks that way so far.
Sorry, but Kari is not Susan Boyle. First, a Susan Boyle has to look like a failure from the get-go. Thanks to the inspirational editing and the string of awful beforehand, all surprise that Kari would be good was removed, just like Kevin Skinner.
Also, Kari wasn't that good. Her lower notes were good, but she shouted the higher notes. If she didn't have the sob story, she'd be another run-of-the-mill cruise ship singer.
So because the woman isn't attractive, they think they found another Susan Boyle?
Do these judges actually think that they're attractive?
I guess they're hoping they can find another poor soul to use.
Pathetic.
STILL NO CAN-DO SUSAN BOYLE./
KARI SHOULD HAVE BEEN ON AMERCAN IDOL SCREAMING LIKE THE REST OF THEM OVER THERE.
FYI, THERE IS A SOUND THATS SOOTHING- THATS TRADENMARK SUSAN BOYLE... I DONT THINK EVEN THE VETERAN PROS HAVE BEEN ABLE TO PRODUCE THAT UNIQUE SOUND
SUSAN IS SOOTHING, SHE IS YOUR MAMA , YOUR GIRLFRIEND, YOUR LOVER, YOUR BEST FRIEND AND SHE TELLS YOU ITS GONNA BE ALL RIGHT.
THATS SUSAN FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO DONT UNDERSTAND THE FERVOUR IN HER FOLLOWING.
WE ADORE SUSAN..KARI WILL DO WELL AND GET A SINGING CAREER BUT NO SUSAN HEREEITHER..KEEP LOOKING BUT PERHAPS, JUST GET SIMON COWELL TO GET US SUSAN'S CD OR DVD..
I understand the comparison to Susan Boyle - both women didn't fit the mold of attractiveness. I get it.
But, I'll be waiting to see more from Kari. As much as I want her to do well, her singing was just a little off. She was yelling at the end, not singing. We can chaulk it up to nerves maybe, since she obviously has a great voice.
But Susan Boyle also has that quirkly, wacky sense of humor that was so on display during her audition. She's inspiring and funny at the same time, with not a trace of a chip on her shoulder.
There really is only one Susan.
I hope Kari shows her stuff! And I hope we'll get to see more of her personality. She'll need a better performance in the Vegas round, at least IMHO. Crossing my fingers for her and hoping she hits it out of the park.
http://mel31602.blogspot.com/2009/07/americas-got-talent-recap-our-new-susan.html
Check out my recap here. Like others I didn't think Kari was that good on the high notes, though she was very good in the beginning of the song. I really liked Matt and Anthony and think Rashida and Mia have potential. Also don't laugh but I loved Reality- I thought their vocals were great and they deserved another shot.
I agree there is only ONE Susan Boyle. Susan has got a voice of Angel And is a pretty lady, I am 100% Susan Boyle.I cannot wait to see her again. I spend hours listening to her video, She is one and only singer that as ever got to me. I cannot get enough of her.Stop making every one into Susan Boyle. x
There is only one Susan Boyle so you'd better stop looking for another one.
There is only one Susan Boyle. It isn't fair to Susan to use her name over and over to promote other less talented people (or to use her name in an article title to get people to read their articles), and it isn't fair to other contestants to expect them to meet Susan's high standard. Also you write that this lady was rejected at an audition so that makes her story better than Susan's. If you had researched properly, you would know that Susan was rejected many times at talent shows, sometimes in a humiliating way (see Michael Barrymore audition), over many, many years. Susan's fans watch her on YouTube and have her voice on their MP3 players and have made DVDs of her performances so they are never without access to her beautiful voice. That sort of devotion by fans could never be matched by all the Susan wannabes put together and multiplied exponentially!
There's never a dull moment with our Susan. We can't get enough of her. She's such a breath of fresh air. They didn't manufacture Susan and they can't duplicate her. To clone Susan you'd need the whole package and that's impossible. BGT kept telling people they had other stories and talents like Susan's on their show and none came even close
Her uninhibited sense of humor and wit are inimitable.