Entertainment Weekly’s Worst American Idol Appearances Ever
March 31, 2008 by ElfNinosMom
Ah, an article after my own heart. Regular readers are aware of how much I love the bad American Idol auditions, and Entertainment Weekly must have read my mind, because it has made a list of the Top Ten worst appearances by American Idol contestants. These aren’t the auditions, folks. These are people who made it through to the television show, only to majorly screw up.
The worst performances are listed as follows:
10. Mikalah Gordon “Love Will Lead You Back” (Season Four)
9. Nikki McKibben “Always Something There To Remind Me (Season One)
8. Josh Gracin “Jive Talkin’” (Season Two)
7. Harley Scarnato “Turn The Beat Around” (Season Six)
6. Kevin Covais, “Part Time Lover” (Season Five)
5. Carmen Rasmusen “Call Me” (Season Two)
4. Kristy Lee Cook “Eight Days A Week” (Season Seven)
3. John Stevens “Music of My Heart” (Season Three)
2. Sanjaya Malakar “Bathwater” (Season Six)
I don’t even remember seeing the performance rated as the number one worst. I’m guessing, after listening to it, that I must have blocked it from my memory as too horrible to recall.
Here’s the Entertainment Weekly description:
Accusing Camile Velasco of butchering Elton John’s ”Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” would be a case of assigning blame to the victim. The only correct emotional response to the teen’s rendition — presented in an awkward crouch-and-bounce stance at center stage — would be one of sympathy. Her final, wretched ”ahh-ahh-ahh,” delivered with the indignity of a barnyard beast passing through the slaughterhouse door, was a musical white flag, begging the viewing audience to hang up their phones and put her out of her misery. And that’s exactly what they did.
For your torturertainment, here is Camille Velasco from Season Three, murdering “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road”.
There’s a bright side to this, though, in that it gives me an excuse to post my all-time favorite Elton John song, “Funeral For A Friend/Love Lies Bleeding”
