naturalwoman21 wrote:
That's so true, m2b. It still scares me how close we came to Kelly getting cut before we ever heard of her. Though, I guess we wouldn't have ever known what we had missed.
We probably would have heard of her at some point, don't you think? I don't think she would have given up if she didn't make it on American Idol but she might have taken a more indie route eventually. Season One was probably the toughest for them to cast though...although they gave them all their character assignments pretty quickly. Nikki was the bad girl, Kelly was the girl next door, Ryan was the rocker chick, Tamyra was the professional that should have already been discovered, Justin was the sexy guy, RJ the cute boy band guy, Jim and EJ were kind of the disposable filler so we could grow attached to the other characters in their show. I think they do it every year..they change the characters around a little....like the country girl and the rocker dude or the struggling single mom or the quirky guy but it just always seems to me like everyone gets assigned a part and they mix in some notsogreat singers or just really out there singers...to allow us time to pick a favorite from the good singers. I personally can't wait for the Movie when the show ends.