TV's Top 5!: Red was not the worst on American Idol

Everyone does seem to enjoy seeing the untalentd try out for American Idol, what I dont like seeing is the way the judges humiliate them. Laughing while they are auditioning and then when they leave the room you can still hear them laughing hysterically and also insulting the contestants by making comments about how they look. Is that how American Idol wants to get high ratings, by humiliating the people that try out? What they are going to do is lose viewers in my opinion. I dont think I will watch anymore of the auditions. Will wait until they have selected all who will go to Hollywood. I love this show have looked forward to the new season but after the first two days of auditions I feel very disappointed.

Did it seem as obvious to you as it did to me that the people that failed their audition would also fail to be hired as a fast food fry cook?

it amazes me that thousands turn up ... and this is what they can come up with? A few who make the cut and... I guess peope who can sing but are merely not good enough aren't sufficiently entertaining

Yeah. I didn't know until last night that each contestant goes through an interview/audition with the producers first and then either does or doesn't get sent to Randy, Paula and Simon. That does seem a little cruel. They know ahead of time that these people have no talent but they send them up there to be humiliated on purpose. I guess that's the name of the business. It's sad...but I'm still gonna watch. Sorry.

for some reason, watching the judges insult and humiliate people who clearly should have been stopped from auditioning makes me feel cheap and dirty.

normally i love feeling cheap and dirty.

but this is just feels wrong.

I truly believe that these so called "singers" are just Ringers to get us to watch the show. These people can't really think they have a shot of being the next Idol, maybe the next Idiot! The show gets top ratings and its because of these first few shows with all the idiots, top ratings means big bucks, come on people, they're just plants, actors.

Had he touched Simon's hair........
--You would have seen a bald Simon and the end of American Idol as we know it.

Yes America, Simon is bald.

I thought the worst was the guy that refused to go and then went to do Simon's hair. The guards were like.... "STAY AWAY FROM HIS HAIR!!!!"

Why did he even sign up to this audition? I think that he wanted to be on TV for attention, not go for a long term career in music. He tried too hard to sound like Freddie Mercury's familiar falsetto in the band Queeen. I laughed at it, but it left a sour taste in my mouth. There are two kinds of people that want to be on American Idol, those that are serious about it and those that aren't and want to have their 15 minutes of fame on TV. This is a BUSINESS--no time for fun and games when you're around those AI people!