Originally Posted by Vote For The Worst

AUDITION MYTH #4: "The good singers always make it through."

Even if there are many stages to the audition process, it seems like the good singers will always triumph and continue on in the competition. The producers only like to mess with the bad singers, right? Well, that's not correct at all either. In fact, the first judging process is so ridiculously random, we wonder why anyone even bothers to try out.

As we previously mentioned, the first round of auditions takes place in front of a group producers at a table, who likely aren’t even very qualified to judge a competition (then again, this never stopped Simon, Paula, and Randy). Each singer tries out with 3 other singers for these producers. After singing for a mere 15 seconds, you are told whether you’re moving on or going home. The producers are usually only on the lookout for people with stories that will sell on TV or people who will make incredible fools of themselves. One auditioner figured out that there are good tables and bad tables, meaning that it's possible that the bad tables just pass on everyone and won’t let anyone through to the next round. What if a good singer gets stuck at a bad table? Well, good luck next year! Blogger Matthew Paul David wrote about his experience at the Seattle auditions:

"We made our way down and they did the whole ‘separate into groups of 4’ thing and we waited to go to a table. (there were 11 tables total). We were unlucky enough to be the first to go to a table where the judge/staff member had just come off a break. He didn’t look very nice either. And I was the lucky one to sing first. GREEEEAAAT. I sang “Jealous Guy” by John Lennon and I wasn’t comfortable with my performance at all. But whatever, I didn’t care – after I sang I knew I pretty much bombed it and wouldn’t make it through. I couldn’t hear anybody else in my group sing. We were standing too far back. When we were done the guy told us that he wasn’t going to put any of us through and then said something else but I couldn’t really hear. So we grabbed our ****, went and got our wristbands cut and took the “walk of shame” through the exit that all the rejects go through."

Of course, this sounds highly technical and very efficient at making sure all good singers get through to the next round… not. Afraidofpop shared her audition experience at the East Rutherford auditions this year:

"And here comes Mandisa 2.0. Holy Jesus, she's amazing. "I'm Your Baby Tonight." More Whitney. Big surprise. But she pulls it off and then some. WOW. The arena is applauding. Everyone could hear her. The girl next to her is shaking her head in wonder…OHMYGOD THEY PASSED ON ALL OF THEM. The arena boos… Many of the best singers I've ever heard who don't currently have record deals [are] being cut, right and left."

Obviously if you’re going to cut someone who blows an entire room away, the process is either flawed or not really looking for good singers.

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