Chapter 55: The Dawn of a Turning Point
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"What's wrong? Is there some romance happening to you?" Sid asked with a wicked grin.
"I wish I had!" Simon Cowell rolled his eyes.
If you want to say what Simon Cowell is most famous for? Of course, his "peerless poisonous tongue"!
And now Becky is young, but the time she has worked hard at the bottom of the music industry is not short, especially after she was rudely terminated by RCA Records, she is very sinking. This also makes her naturally have a crush on musicians with dreams, so it's not hard to guess what happens when these two people are together.
"And you're arguing?" asked Sid with a smile.
"Yes. Simon Cowell nodded.
Its practical quarrel is simply too gentle. Fergie is young and vigorous, and Simon Cowell, under the instruction of Fire Lion TV, not only did not restrain his poisonous tongue, but on the contrary, he was suspected of deliberately abusing it.
In this way, the fierce conflict between Phigi and Simon Cowell is actually inevitable. In other words, from the beginning of the selection of judges, it was deliberately designed as such.
"This lad can do anything but sing. Simon Cowell pointed to an 18-year-old contestant in the Portland audition.
That's how straightforward he said it in front of this 18-year-old young man and the two foreign judges.
Becky shook her head angrily: "I don't agree! I don't think under any circumstances, you can't say that others can't do anything." "In her music career, too many people have said this to Phiggy's face, and it makes her very uncomfortable and angry.
"Yes, but Ferge, he's only 18 years old. He also had the opportunity to ...... in front of three music industry judges: "Simon Cowell wants to convince young Ferggy.
But Fergie didn't eat it at all, "Simon (Cowell), I know what you mean, but I just don't agree!"
"No, I think you're doing the Virgin. Simon Cowell is not a fuel-efficient lamp, and a fluttering sentence can kill half of his popularity.
"I am not the Virgin. Fergie retorted with a roll of her eyes.
"No, that's what I think. Simon Cowell was unrelenting.
If there is anything that attracts attention about the earliest "American Idol", it is that it is true and unpretentious!
The contestants sang ugly, and the judges had different opinions and quarreled head-on. No one had ever quarreled on the stage of a TV screen before!
Even the previous "Who Can Be a Millionaire" and "Survivor" on Fire Lion TV had battles of wits and intrigues, but such a vibrant and sincere scene was the first time in the history of world television!
"Simon (Cowell), Americans have a habit of saying bad things behind people's backs and saying good things in front of people. Sid squinted at Simon Cowell and said, "But I want you to tear up these boring masks, and then make everyone obsessed with all of this!"
"Anyone really likes this!?" Even Simon Fowler, the show's producer, couldn't believe Sid.
"We'll see. Sid smiled, not explaining.
In fact, the audition of "American Idol" was not smooth, although the Fire Lion did not ignore the initial publicity of "American Idol" like the "historical" Fox, on the contrary, the Fire Lion Group gathered its own group strength to promote the audition of "American Idol" quite vigorously.
But because of the joint suppression of other Hollywood groups, the popularity of "American Idol" is not too high. At the audition in Oklahoma City in the Midlands, there was a dilemma that no one came to compete.
Simon Fowler had to take the lead himself, handing out flyers in local malls and begging people to come to the race.
And the level of the early contestants is really poor!
Many people sang with their throats pulled, and throughout the audition process, all kinds of strange, crazy, funny, and wild people and situations emerged in endlessly. Simon Fowler says he feels like he's in a veterans' club in Dallas.
Even Simon Cowell began to reflect on "What am I doing in the United States?".
To put it bluntly, if you only look at the auditions in the early stage, "American Idol" is a disaster, and don't think about the next season at all. After this season, everyone can go back to their own homes and find their own mothers.
Until, the day of the audition in Los Angeles.
A blonde girl in a denim bandeau dress walked into the waiting room, "This is my dress that I changed from jeans." The girl giggled at Nick Canon.
The girl was an 18-year-old girl who had just graduated from high school for a year, and when she was still in school, she was a member of the school choir.
After graduating from high school, she came to Los Angeles to become a singer, and she also found an unknown music producer to work with through various methods, but a year later, she made no progress, and she decided to return to Dallas to serve dishes and work as a waitress in a bar under the urging of her parents in her hometown of Texas.
At this time, her roommate saw an advertisement for "American Idol" from People magazine, and on the recommendation of her friend, she decided to participate in this "What What Idol" music competition show. Hey, it's said that the champion can win 1 million prizes!
I wonder if there is a bonus for 2nd or 3rd place?
At this time, another crying sound came in with the footsteps, why do you say again? Because almost every contestant who entered the singing room came out crying!
What the hell is going on inside!?
When the girl walked into the studio, it was actually a simple big room, with the "American-Idol" logo on the empty wooden floor, an oval American Idol logo hanging in front of a simple long table, and two women and one woman sitting behind the table, and the girls didn't know any of them.
Then the young and beautiful female judge looked at the data sheet, "Are you?"
"Hi, my name is Kelly Clarkson and I'm from Texas. Kelly (Clarkson) said with a grin.
"Oh, hello, Kelly (Clarkson). Fergie greeted with a smile.
"What are you going to sing to us?" asked Randy Jackson, the black uncle next to him.
"At Last by Etta James Jane. Kelly (Clarkson) surprised Fergie.
"It's a difficult choice. She laughed, but that only drew a disdainful pouting from the Englishman sitting next to her.
Etta James is a black female soul singer, in fact, she is known as the most important female singer of the golden age of soul music in the European and American music scene! A pioneer of B singers, and she is very talented, whether it is blues, gospel, jazz or soul music.
Rolling Stone magazine once described her as "singing with a roar, a low cry, a joy, a laugh." This female singer's black and blue voice can linger for three days. ”
Such a black blues song, sung by a little white girl, the contrast and difficulty can be imagined.