‘Idol’ Auditions Like You’re ‘In Line To Go To Hell’
John Nova Lomax of the Dallas Observer was on hand at Houston’s Minute Maid Park as thousands of wannabe ‘American Idol’ stars waited to have their chance to try out for the Fox hit. “It’s exhausting,” 24-year-old hopeful Dennee’ Dimiceli admitted of the overnight wait. “It’s an emotional roller coaster. One minute it’s a rush being here. The next minute you’re like, ‘Why am I sitting in this frickin’ baseball stadium?’ But then you look around at your competition, and yeah, there’s 7,000 people here, but honestly, there’s probably only 2,000 of them that are real competitors.” The parking-lot rumor mill had churned out some grossly exaggerated numbers — there were about 3,000 in the stadium. “And it’s very scary. But I’m 24 years old, and this is my last chance. I live a few miles from here, so why not? Why not try to be the next American Idol? But even living this close I can understand how the people that have driven here from Nebraska and Colorado and everywhere else get discouraged, because when they said we could go home, I got a break. I went home and took a shower–it was like time away from jail, basically. They treat you like you are in line to go to hell.”
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