Are there any Rachel Zevita fans out there in American Idol land? Well, good news, she is back. If you remember Rachel from season 6, yes, that’s 4 years ago, I wrote about her and asked the question “What happened to Rachel Zevita” because she simply disappeared from the show without a trace. She made it to Hollywood, but we never saw her appear on screen after her original audition.
During her audition Jennifer Lopez remembered her and Randy slightly remembered her, but she was able to woo the judges and get the ticket to Hollywood for the second time. Four years ago she was featured on an Idol segment and this year she was the very first audition of the season. Her audition wasn’t huge from what we saw of the edited version of it, and Steve Tyler said she needed to improve, but hopefully Rachel will step it up and make the cut this year. She already has fans and has a great talent and we hope to see more of her.
Along with Rachel we saw a host of good and bad auditions. Most of what we saw were quite good and 50 people from New Jersey got the yellow tickets to Hollywood which seems like a lot from the first audition. Usually 20 to 30 people from each location end up in Hollywood, so we may have a few more this season.
The most memorable audition of the evening was Yoji Pop who was a Japanese Michael Jackson impersonator that had the same strange appeal William Hung did several seasons ago. Will Yoji be as popular as Hung, who knows, but just after his performance he started trending in Twitter, so maybe wwe are seeing the beginning of another cult viral phenom. I’m sure we will see him on the finale as a featured act, just like we saw General Larry Platt Pants On The Ground performance last season.
Stay tuned for an interesting American Idol Season 10!
