American Idol Recap: Top 17 Out Of 30 Semifinalists Are Revealed

The moment we’ve been waiting for has finally arrived on the Feb. 12 episode of ‘American Idol.’ The top 17 (out of 30) contestants that will make it through to the live semifinals have been revealed!
On the Feb. 12 episode of American Idol, we learn 17 of the top 30 contestants who will battle it out for the title! See below for who made it to the live semifinals and to read all about the special kinds of torture that Jennifer Lopez, Harry Connick Jr. and Keith Urban have been inflicting on these innocent young kids this week!

‘American Idol’ Recap: Feb. 12 Highlights Semifinalists Revealed
While we don’t see full performances from our Top 30, we do see each of them sit down in a director’s chair facing the judges head-on in what looks the most stressful job interview on earth. It’s nice of the judges to take the time to speak with each hopeful individually, but we genuinely can’t imagine a more nightmarish scenario. At least when the judges keep it short and sweet, you know that the contestant has been cut; it’s when they tease them, slow down their speech, hedge, and cut to commercial that we know they’ve really made it. See: Spencer Lloyd.

We saw a number of contestants get cut because of their phenomenally bad decision to go with an original song. You guys. Don’t you know to give the people what they want? More covers of Adele! More covers of “Royals!” Males singing songs from female artists, like Maurice Townsend singing Miley Cyrus‘s “Wrecking Ball!” Females singing songs from male artists, like Austin Wolfe singing “Radioactive!”

But we digress.

The episode was fairly straightforward and progressed by rote, right up until Jessica Meuse and Jesse Roach were forced into an impromptu a capella sing-off for the judges; they were told that they were quite similar and that there could be only one. In the battle of Jess v. Jess, it went to Meuse.

Because the judges love to torture people, they had Leah Guerrero and Andrina Brogden interview together. Without even being given a chance to sing off against each other, the judges cut Leah. We’re not too sure why they would have made the choice to have them in the room together! It seemed super cruel.

American Idol ended on a cliffhanger with CJ Harris and Casey Thrasher sitting in front of the judges together. Given the opportunity to sing off against each other for a spot, they delivered some powerful off-the-cuff performances. We wonder who will make it! Our money’s on CJ we’re just not sure about the hype surrounding Casey!

Female ‘American Idol’ Semifinalists 8 Out Of 15
1. Emily Piriz
2. Jillian Jensen
3. Malaya Watson
4. Bria Anai Johnson
5. Jessica Meuse
6. Emkay Noubilette
7. Kristen O’Connor
8. Andrina Brogden

Male ‘American Idol’ Semifinalists 9 Out Of 15
1. Spencer Lloyd
2. George Lovett
3. Sam Woolf
4. Maurice Townsend
5.  Dexter Roberts
6. Emmanuel Zidor
7. Jordan Brisbane
8. Malcolm Allen
9. Alex Preston

And that’s all she wrote! Tomorrow night, American Idol will round out the list of 30 contestants going to the semifinals.

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American Idol Recap: Jennifer Lopez Sings With Auditioner Briana Oakley

The ‘American Idol’ stakes are higher than ever now that we’ve hit group auditions! Just as we were getting to know and love these hopefuls, they are starting to drop like flies. See below for most memorable moments and to read about the group that Jennifer Lopez just HAD to sing along with!
Parting is such sweet sorrow. We’re getting to know our Idol hopefuls better and better only to see them get cut one by one. It makes for a very dramatic experience in our living rooms. We saw some really great group auditions on this Feb. 6 episode, and some real disasters including when Alyssa Siebken, one of our favorites from auditions, totally blew it by forgetting lyrics! Such a rookie mistake! Read on to find out whether fan favorites made it through and to find out which group sounded so great that Jennifer Lopez just had to sing along!
‘American Idol’ Feb. 6 Recap: Most Memorable Group Auditions In Hollywood Week 1‘American Idol’ Contestant Chokes
1. “Has there ever been a boy band in country?” Jennifer asked Harry Connick Jr. about the self-proclaimed Backstreet Cowboys. Made up of Casey Thrasher, 22, Ben Briley, 24, and Dexter Roberts, 22, these boys sang a plaid-filled country version of the Backstreet Boys’ “I Made It That Way.” It was a suuuper entertaining performance, and the judges sent them all through right away, but we weren’t so sure that Casey deserved his spot! He’s talented, of course, but Dexter annihilated him as the true standout of the group.
2. A group featuring MK Nobilette, 20, Briana Oakley, 17, and more, just absolutely killed it singing Lorde‘s “Royals.” Jennifer even jumped in when Briana started singing because she was getting so into the melody! That’s a surefire way to know you’ve made it in and she did, of course. What’s better singing with Jennifer Lopez or winning American Idol? (Just kidding. It’s clearly winning. But singing with JLo is pretty cool, too.)
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3. A group comprised of Caleb Johnson, 22, the ever-charming CJ Harris, 22, Tyler Ahlgren, 20, sang with Matthew Hamel, 16, sang Alex Clare‘s “Too Close” and sounded pretty great! The judges picked out Caleb as the best in the group and sent home Matthew and Tyler though we thought that Tyler could have been given another chance! Matthew had an incredibly poor attitude about being cut, so good riddance. Matthew, you’re 16. Some humility wouldn’t hurt you. You’re not untalented, you’re just underdeveloped as a performer!
4. In case you’re curious, HollywoodLifers, we still can’t get enough of a good Lorde cover. Sorry, not sorry. Savion Wright, 21, sang with John Fox, 20, and two others. John did not make it through, where Savion and the others did. We found this very confusing, as the song sounded great and we thought that John harmonized beautfully with the rest! But hey, we just write the recaps.
5. Our absolute favorite group of the night sang The Jackson 5‘s “I Want You Back” and wow, they were fantastic. Christina Collins, 17, Olivia Diamond, 22, Queen Bulls, 18, and Malaya Watson, 16, knocked it out of the park. They sang incredibly well, with feeling, and they had real stage presence. It’s not enough to just be a good singer! You have to own the stage, too, and these four girls knew what they were doing.
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Spencer Lloyd, Mr. Bright Eyes himself, was worried about his group forgetting the lyrics and with good reason, because Alyssa Siebken, 20 totally did, as did Megan Miller, 23. However, Megan skidded by along with Spencer and Alyssa went home. That’s really too bad we loved her cutesy acoustic cover of Waka Flocka’s “No Hands!”
We think that 16-year-old Stephanie Hanvey‘s mother would put Kris Jenner to shame in a stage mom contest. After Stephanie was the only one to be sent home out of four girls, her mother blamed the other girls! Yep, totally their fault for being better singers. Sorry, Stephanie! You’re a super sweet girl and talented, to boot, but this just wasn’t your time. Tell your mother to come at me!
Next week will be a biggie: with 77 hopefuls left, they will each be singing solos to try and make it to the next stage of the competition! We hope the judges are ready to break some hearts! (Ours, obviously.)

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American Idol Recap: Hollywood Week 1 Begins With Shocking Twist

Now that auditions are over, the Feb. 5 episode of ‘American Idol’ takes us to Hollywood and the judges had a shocking twist in store for the hopefuls! Read on to find out if your favorites from the auditions made the cut!
“If you screw this up, it’s over,” said Harry Connick Jr. in the opening teaser of this week’s episode. Well, yes. That’s how this thing works. But he was referring to a twist that the Idol producers sprung on the hopefuls: just when they thought they were home-free and on their way to Hollywood, they were escorted to an airplane hangar to sing for their lives! Or their chance at the Idol throne, whatever. See below to find out which of our favorites made it!
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It seemed kind of rude to tell the Idol kids they’d made it only to take them to an airplane hangar and then make them audition again this time in front of their competition. It’s a good way to see if they’ll crack under the pressure, but it was downright cruel to split them up into two buses and make it so that they wouldn’t find out whether they were cut or not until the bus took them to the airport, back home, or to their hotel, in Hollywood. You guys!
A lot of hopefuls who auditioned in their respective cities just utterly choked in the hangar. For example, Tristen Langley, son to AI alum Nikki McKibbon, didn’t make the final cut. That’s so sad for them both!
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Luckily, not too much time was spent on this horrible mind game the bulk of the auditions found themselves in Hollywood proper! Here’s how some of our favorites fared this week:
Spencer Lloyd, 19, sang “A Great Big World” and Keith Urban told his fellow judges that it was the perfect song choice for him. It really was! He pulled it off perfectly and gosh, he is just so handsome, HollywoodLifers. He is going to make it far.
Majesty Rose York, 21, sang Feist‘s “1, 2, 3, 4″ and sounded just as precious as she did in her audition.”I love her,” Jennifer Lopez told Harry. We love her, too! She’s pretty great. And how can you not root for a preschool teacher? She is basically a Disney princess.
We loved Austin Wolfe, 17, in her audition when she sang Imagine Dragons’ ”Radioactive,” but we were kinda bummed by the fact that her choices while “Take It All” by Adele were a bit confusing and, we’re sorry to say, but her singing faces were crazy distracting. What was up with that? However, she is enormously talented, so she deserves her spot!
Did we call CJ Harris being the most charming person ever, or what? When he walked on stage, Jennifer breathed out, “hello baby,” for which Harry made fun of her mercilessly. CJ really impressed the judges with his version of Ray LaMontagne‘s “Trouble!”
Kenzie Hall, 17, sang Macklemore‘s “Can’t Hold Us” and we’re not exaggerating: it was our favourite performance this season so far. Her voice was clear as a bell and she interpreted the rap in such a beautiful way that she has been even more cemented in our minds as a top contender for the Idol grand prize.
Maurice Townsend, 26, continued to be the literal best with Shontelle‘s “Impossible.” We kind of hope Maurice wins so that he and his million kids (fine: four) are comfortable forever!
So, now that the Idol hopefuls have been whittled down from 160 to 104 and they’ve put themselves into their own groups for the group auditions (and cuts) to follow, the talent we’re seeing is getting more and more impressive!
We’re big people; we can admit when we’re wrong. So, some of our favorites didn’t make it through and for good reason.
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