>>>Cure_Ewan wrote:
>>>
>>>>"fille" <filledep...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
>>>>news:9f5208cb-34d1-4e81-a57f-9dacc8293f8a@k2g2000hse.googlegroups.com...
>>>
>>>>>Asia'h Epperson - "How Do I Love"
>>>>>Her dad died in a car accident a few days ago. She has a husky-sounding,
>>>>>almost hoarse-sounding, voice. What's a "Knee Jew"? She keeps singing
>>>>>about a Knee Jew. Her voice is OK, but the texture is too heavy for my
>>>>>taste. She's choked up about her dad. The judges all said she was great,
>>>>>but they're grading on a "your dad just died" curve, because she wasn't
>>>>>really that great. She was good enough to pass, though. Dad Just Died Girl
>>>>>passed.
>>>
>>>>I just thought this back story was too much - I mean, c'mon - your dad
>>>>just dies and you're auditioning for American Idol? Call me cynical.
>>>
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>>>>Yeah, the last thing I'd be doing at that time would be auditioning. ?I'd be
>>>>with my family. ?I feel the same way about the single mothers who choose to
>>>>audition rather than raise their young children. ?Still, I can see why the
>>>>judges passed this girl through. ?To be able to hold herself together so
>>>>well under a time of such great duress bodes well for her ability to
>>>>withstand the pressures of the AI competition. ?As for her husky voice, I
>>>>got that she was incredibly horse from crying so much.
>>>
>>>I felt that way at first too - that she should forget about auditioning
>>>and be with the family - but then I started thinking that she's
>>>undoubtedly right in that her father would want her to go through with
>>>it (isn't that how all parents are), her family probably encouraged her
>>>to continue and quite possibly *all* of her family need something
>>>positive like this to help them through it. ?If she didn't audition, in
>>>another year the father will still be gone and the family will still be
>>>grieving, whether she auditioned or not, but maybe she will have had an
>>>amazing and positive experience. ?And I agree about her voice - I think
>>>she'll sound different next time we hear her.
>>>
>>>tzigaane-
>> a little. I tried to put myself in that story and I know if that were
>> either. So with that in mind I'll go easy on Dad Just Died
>> Girl..................................for now. ;-p
