The American Idolater

Well, the last of the audition city episodes, and only one more audition episode to go before we start to get into the meat of the show. I don’t care what the producers say, you can only take so many terrible singers before you want to stop watching. I think they went overboard [...]

This looks like a pretty weird story.
It says that Akron Watson auditioned for American Idol in San Antonio and got through to Hollywood on “yes” votes from Simon and Paula. Producers sent a crew out to talk to him and get one of those back-story segments that they love using. And then things [...]