8/14/2007
Internet Video Gives American Idol Hopeful an Edge
Can an Asian-American ever hold the American Idol title? Paul Ethan Hahn says a resounding "yes" and Internet video might be his Ace in the Hole.Paul grew up in Murray Hill, New Jersey and has always been a big country fan. He also loves the hit FOX-TV program American Idol. And if Paul has his way, he’ll be the first Asian country singer on American Idol.
"I wanna make Paula Abdul cry and show that jerk off Simon how to sing. I want to be the next American Idol!" Paul quips.This week, Paul Hahn entered an online FOX 29 Philly Idol contest and hopes that a hi-tech edge will help him bypass the massive lines outside the first round of judges.
FOX 29 posted an open American Idol audition on their website. The winner gets to perform live on Fox's morning show, Good Day Philadelphia, and gets to bypass the first round of judges at the open American Idol Philadelphia auditions later this month. To enter, all you had to do was upload a video of you singing.
Paul recorded his American Idol demo using his Apple MacBook Pro laptop, with a built in iSight camera, and the video editing program iMovie.
"It was so easy," says Paul. "I just opened iMovie, recorded about a minute sample of my singing, burned a DVD and threw it into the mail. The whole process only took about 10 minutes."Since Idol's first season, we've seen Kelly Clarkson belt out high notes, a plethora of Sanjaya hairstyles, and even a contestant who went on to win an Oscar. But we haven’t seen any serious Asian-American contestants get a real shot at the Idol crown (sorry but William Hung doesn't count).
Will Paul's dream of telling off Simon and getting to sing a country song on American Idol come true? Can Internet video voting give this American Idol hopeful a back door to stardom? That's in the hands of you, the voters.
You can watch and vote for all the top 10 Philadelphia contestants, including Paul Hahn, on FOX 29’s web site: http://media.myfoxphilly.com/idol/idolvote.html. The top 5 get to perform live on FOX 29's morning show Good Day Philadelphia and the winner gets to bypass the massive lines at the Philadelphia open auditions for season 7.
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Can you imagine if the on-camera judges had to screen 20-30,000 contestants individually at each location? It couldn't work.
you're kidding you mean 3 judges dont sit through 50,000 auditions every year within a few weeks? Waahhh you suck, get over it, also the writing was boring and had too much to prove. Use the other door on ur way out.
Doing the math, you figure if the judges are in your town for 2 days, the maximum # of auditions they could do would be roughly 12 an hour, and I don't see Paula and Simon working more than 8 hours a day, so that's maybe 96 auditions a day, and they're there 2 days. So 10,000 people show up, minus the 192 auditions done by the star judges, leaving 9,808 auditions that need to be done by some other judges.
Nevertheless, the show has interest because it puts some very funny things on display - namely the fact that people often don't realize how lacking they really are in talent. Professional musicians and actors lose auditions all the time and life goes on, but amateurs think of things as "once in a lifetime." Because in real life, their lack of talent will never give them a real shot at a music career. Real musicians practice and work hard and network and move on. When the show gets boring for me is when they choose their final 32 or whatever it is and force them to grind through week after week of pop cover songs by mostly amateur singers.
Taylor Hicks, by the way, is in my opinion the best true musician to ever sneak through the competition. He'll probably be over produced and over packaged, which may cause him to lose most of what is appealing about him in the first place - authentic passion and talent. Time will tell.
The show's format also does a poor job of attracting any singer/songwriter type, because original music is not encouraged. The producers of the show know that 98% of original music is boring, and doesn't sell, so their best bet is to feature a parade of hits. They are in business to earn a profit after all, so you can't blame them.
Nevertheless, the show has interest because it puts some very funny things on display - namely the fact that people often don't realize how lacking they really are in talent. Professional musicians and actors lose auditions all the time and life goes on, but amateurs think of things as "once in a lifetime." Because in real life, their lack of talent will never give them a real shot at a music career. Real musicians practice and work hard and network and move on. When the show gets boring for me is when they choose their final 32 or whatever it is and force them to grind through week after week of pop cover songs by mostly amateur singers.
Taylor Hicks, by the way, is in my opinion the best true musician to ever sneak through the competition. He'll probably be over produced and over packaged, which may cause him to lose most of what is appealing about him in the first place - authentic passion and talent. Time will tell.
The show's format also does a poor job of attracting any singer/songwriter type, because original music is not encouraged. The producers of the show know that 98% of original music is boring, and doesn't sell, so their best bet is to feature a parade of hits. They are in business to earn a profit after all, so you can't blame them.
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