American Idol 7×02: Dallas Auditions

I pretended to be a good grad student tonight and went over to watch a series of lectures on Victorian Britain from the Learning Company with some friends instead of watching American Idol live. So no live-Twittering went on.

Overall, I’d say the show was a bit better tonight than last night. The judges seemed to be having marginally more fun, though I think Simon’s getting even more jaded than usual. Kady Malloy (the girl who can do a Britney Spears impression) is probably one of the better ones through so far, and I liked the cute farmer/cowboy guy. But mostly because he’s cute. Also cute: the newly married couple with the husband who came in to choose his wife’s songs for her. She couldn’t sing terribly well, but he could come on the show and just stand there, and it would make me happy. Because he was hot. But they were also cute together.

I’m really hating how they’re depicting rock singers, though. Every single contestant who leans toward a rock sound turns out to totally suck (yes, even the one they inexplicably let through), which then reinforces the idea that rock singers suck, which they don’t. Are they consciously trying to only let through the most bland pop, boyband, country crossover, and divalicious belters they can find? Or are those the only people willing to try out anymore?