"So you can sing high notes, right?" "Very high." "What's... hit me a high one right now." "Okay, um..." "All right, Nashville, come on." "♪ Ah ♪" "♪ ah-ah-ah-oh ♪" "Wow." "For the just the second time in our ten seasons, idol's tour of America has brought us deep into the land of hopes and dreams..." "Nashville, Tennessee." "We've had a report of 10,000 people waiting in front of bridgestone arena." "But in fact, we were taking over the streets..." "As the crowd soon swelled to a staggering 17,000." "Yeah!" "He can do it!" "The judges are ready to find the talent..." "Hey." "Good morning." "And across the street, the contestants are ready to deliver the goods, each one of them hoping to garner the success of country's biggest star..." "Carrie Underwood, who recently added "grand ole opry" member to her already-impressive resume." "So we thought it was appropriate to hold our auditions in the opry's most famous home..." "the ryman auditorium." "It's a legendary venue with 17,000 legends in the making." "Bring 'em all in, line 'em up, let's go." "♪ Ooh-ee ♪" "Who will continue Carrie's legacy?" "Probably not this girl." "I'm Christine McCaffrey, and I'm 27 years old, and I'm originally from Springfield, Missouri, and now I live in west palm beach, Florida." "And what do you do in west palm beach, Florida?" "I'm a dental assistant." "Great." "Is that fun?" "It's lot of fun." "I really love making people have a happy smile." "I'm gonna twinkle like a star, and I'm gonna make the universe a better place, because I have the gift that will make everybody else respond to what I have." "Thank you." "Okay." "Bye." "Bye." "Do I go to the second door too?" "No, go this way." "♪ Suh uh oh-oh-oh ♪" "♪ oh oh oh-oh-oh ♪" "♪ suh uh oh-oh-oh ♪" "♪ oh oh oh-oh-oh ♪" "♪ ah-ah-ah-ah-ah-ah ♪" "♪ obsessed, ah-ah-ah-ah-ah ♪" "♪ ah ah ah ah ah ah ♪" "Oh, my God!" "What is this?" "We're on American idol." "No!" "Mm-hmm." "Do you do voiceovers for cartoons?" "I don't know!" "You should." "You should do." "Really?" "Really!" "Really, really." "Okay." "So what are you gonna sing?" "I have Lee womack, uh, I hope you can dance." "Oh, one of my favorite songs." "Great song." "Okay." "Go." "Okay." "♪ I hope you never ♪" "♪ lose your sense of wonder ♪" "Oh, come on!" "♪ I hope you ♪" "♪ get your fill to eat ♪" "♪ but always keep that hunger ♪" "♪ May you never take ♪" "♪ one single breath ♪" "♪ for granted ♪" "Really." "♪ God forbid ♪" "♪ he ever leave you ♪" "♪ empty-handed ♪" "♪ I hope ♪" "♪ you dance ♪" "♪ I hope you dance ♪" "Really?" "♪ Hope you never take ♪" "♪ one single breath ♪" "♪ for granted ♪" "Really?" "Really." "Really?" "Okay, sweetie." "We're gonna vote, okay?" "Yeah, we're gonna vote." "Sounds good." "I'm gonna say no." "Awesome." "It's a no." "You're not serious, are you?" "I'm very serious about going on in American idol, 'cause I have the ability to write lyrics, and I have the ability to sing them." "Do you have the ability to read minds?" "What am I thinking right now?" "Hmm..." "I think it's a yes!" "No." "You can't read minds." "That's for sure!" "What would you like me to sing?" "I'll sing anything." "I just want you to go that way." "I'll do that too." "Have a nice day." "Thank you so much for your time." "That's not serious." "No, she was serious." "No!" "And you were mean!" "I'm not buyin' it." "I can't buy it." "Just say no and let it be." "I thought I was nice." "Your mother would like to hear the good news." "Oh." "I did my best, and I got..." "I am so glad." "I got one yes and two nos." "That's okay." "I'm proud of you." "You did?" "I did." "Who said yes?" "Uh, Steven Tyler." "He did?" "Yes to what?" "Uh, he said I have a good voice for American idol." "He did?" "I'm gonna say no." "Awesome." "He did." "Okay." "I missed that scene." "So a small misunderstanding there, but that's nothing compared to the disconnect between these two." "So how you guys feeling today?" "A little nervous." "Excited." "This sucks." "My name is chelsee oaks." "I'm 23, and I'm from Nashville, Tennessee." "My name is rob bolin, I'm 23, and I'm from Nashville, Tennessee." "And..." "We're exes." "The first day that rob and I met, he asked me up onstage to sing with him." "So we've been singing together literally since the day that we met." "We just sort of..." "Clicked." "You guys..." "You were together and you broke up, and you auditioned for idol at the same time, knowing that you were gonna see each other possibly if you made it and also compete in the same competition if you made it to Hollywood?" "We still lived together after we broke up." "That's not a good idea." "Did you date other people while he was living with you?" "Yeah." "All right." "♪ You don't know ♪" "♪ what it's like ♪" "That's so uncool." "For a while there, we were talking and getting back on good terms and, uh..." "It's turned opposite now and gone sour." "Are you friends?" "Uh..." "At this point, not really." "But it'll..." "In time it'll work out." "So you guys know I'm a hopeless romantic." "There's no way to fix this whole thing?" "We can't get it together?" "We can't make it happen?" "Three years, and you duet?" "We love each other very much, and it will always be that way for the rest of our lives." "I mean, honestly, we have something together, but we tried and we tried and we tried, and it just didn't work out." "Steven, do something!" "Wow, man." "Rob, is that the way you feel as well?" "Rob is so in love with her." "Little bit different, but..." "How do you feel, rob?" "It sucks." "Wouldn't be doing my job if I didn't ask how this all went down, how this all happened." "What's that?" "I mean... were you the reason for the breakup?" "No, I was not the reason for the breakup." "They broke up, you know, we met." "You know, I didn't rob before." "I really don't know him now, so..." "Sing something together first." "Come on." "♪ Baby, you don't know ♪" "♪ what it's like ♪" "♪ baby, you don't know ♪" "♪ what it's like ♪" "♪ to love somebody ♪" "♪ to love somebody ♪" "♪ the way I love you ♪" "Oh, please." "You guys are killing me right now." "You guys are killing me, man." "You were one voice." "You know, sometimes the deepest passion comes from friction, and you know, um..." "I saw how much in love you were." "You're in sync." "Let's hear you separately once." "Okay." "I'm gonna stand here." "You first." "Yeah." "♪ Oh, mother, mother ♪" "Mm." "♪ There's too many of you ♪" "♪ crying ♪" "♪ ooh, brother, brother ♪" "♪ brother ♪" "♪ there's far too many of you ♪" "♪ dying ♪" "Love his voice." "♪ You know ♪" "♪ we've got to find a way ♪" "♪ to bring some lovin' ♪" "♪ here today ♪" "Okay." "Now it's your turn." "Now it's your turn, chelsee." "This makes me feel a lot better." "You can stand over there." "♪ All of these lines ♪" "♪ across my face ♪" "♪ tell you the story ♪" "♪ of who I am ♪" "♪ so many stories ♪" "♪ of where I've been ♪" "♪ and how I got to ♪" "♪ where I am ♪" "Okay." "Nice." "Come on back up." "Do you know what I love is that you guys both sang well with all the emotions that are going on up there." "I agree." "And as beautiful as you both sing separately..." "You sing really beautifully together." "Thank you." "Your harmony together was so deep." "So let's vote." "Uh..." "I'm gonna say yes to both of you." "I think that you both have very interesting big voices." "Thank you." "I say yes to both of you too." "And I say yes to both of you, and guess what you're both doing?" "You're both going to Hollywood." "♪ It's a quarter after one ♪" "♪ I'm all alone ♪" "♪ and I need you now ♪" "Get outta here and fall in love with each other all over again." "She's going to Hollywood!" "Hey." "Hey!" "Love goes to Hollywood." "They're gonna get back together." "They'd better." "They'd better." "Have you met?" "Yeah." "Yeah." "Come on, give him a congratulations." "There you go." "Where do we go from here?" "Uh..." "Hollywood." "Hollywood." "There we go, all right." "That was, uh..." "That worked out pretty cool." "We wish you luck, and we wish you luck." "Thank you so much." "Thanks, all." "See you later." "Nice to meet you guys." "Whew!" "Break?" "I think so." "Over the next hour..." "The judges and music city continue to be in perfect harmony." "Yes!" "Best we've seen today." "You are going to Hollywood!" "But later, Nashville hits a sour note." "Reeee, reeee, reee!" "♪ there goes ♪" "♪ my life ♪" "♪ there goes my future ♪" "Welcome back to music city." "It's 10:00 A.M., and American idol has taken over Nashville's main drag, Broadway..." "Where more than 17,000 have packed the streets to audition." "And back inside the ryman, things are starting to get interesting, to say the least." "Oh, I like it, Randy." "I can touch my tongue to my nose." "Ah!" "Would you like to see it?" "Sure." "Okay." "That's it." "I say yes!" "Whoa, whoa." "Whaah!" "Whoa, whoa." "Waah, waah, waah!" "Nashville's bringing out the animal in Steven Tyler." "Whoo!" "And the same can be said for this guy." "Get, cow, come on, cow!" "Move on, cow, move on, cow!" "Come on back here!" "My name's Alan Lewis." "I'm 26 from Franklin furnace, Ohio." "I'm a tattoo artist and many other things at the same time." "Yeah!" "So by the looks of you, you're a pop singer." "You know it." "Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha!" "My whole life, I been told, no, Lewis, he's got his head in the clouds." "Yeah, you're good, but you're never gonna do nothin' with it." "But you know what, man?" "You continue to try." "We fight in this life for everything that we got." "We're warriors, man." "So did someone tell you you could sing?" "I mean, I been hearing this my whole life... "hey, man, go try" "American idol," and I was like, man, ain't that all pop and stuff... nothin' against you." "Nothing against you." "Everyone's got their own flavor of ice cream." "That's right." "So, you know, mine's vanilla, I guess, and yours may be chocolate." "You know, but..." "Okay, baby, well, what are you gonna sing?" "I'm gonna sing skynard's simple man." "Mm..." "And, uh, on your cue and I'll sing." "Let's get it." "♪ Well, mama told me ♪" "♪ when I was young ♪" "♪ "sit here beside me ♪" "♪ "my only son ♪" "♪ "you'll find a woman ♪" "♪ "yeah, baby ♪" "♪ and you'll find love" ♪" "♪ "There is a someone ♪" "♪ "up above ♪" "♪ "and be a simple ♪" "♪ "kind of man ♪" "♪ "oh, be somethin', child ♪" "♪ you love and understand"... ♪" "Whoa, okay." "You caught me." "Ha ha ha ha ha ha!" "When you yell at my voice, you messed me up, too." "You've got one of the best laughs I've ever seen." "Ha ha ha ha ha ha!" "You know..." "We're all just who we are." "That's right." "I feel like you're really more..." "Of a band guy, right?" "I guess..." "ln your point of view." "You know, if you look it that way." "I mean, like I said, my point of view..." "Love criticism." "Because if you tell me, "no, I'm not feeling you," so that's just gonna make me go home and practice... work harder." "Ten times harder than what I was." "That's good." "You know, the greatest musicians of all time have failed their auditions once or twice in life." "All of us have." "That happens." "Good stuff." "Yeah." "There's a reason for everything in this life." "Oh, yeah, 100%!" "100%." "100%." "All right." "Good luck to you." "Thank you very much." "You guys have a good day." "We enjoyed you, man." "He came in here, the toughest guy in the world, and then he left here like..." "Philosophizing." "Like he's so humble." "So you're saying we took an untamed tiger..." "And turned it into a baby." "Yes." "Oh, okay." "Good luck." "I hope everything works out for you." "Yep." "See you." "Nice to meet you." "So the judges have tamed the beast..." "But are they ready for this beauty?" "My name is stormi henley." "I am 19 years old, and I am from crossville, Tennessee." "I was miss teen usa 2009." "My boss was Donald trump." "It was really nerve-racking being on the stage." "And I think after knowing that I could win that competition and perform in front of so many people, it's really given me the confidence to come here." "I really want to see how far I can make it on my talent." "Uh-oh!" "Uh-oh!" "♪ Oh oh oh oh oh ♪" "Wow!" "Hi." "Hello." "What's your name?" "Stormi." "No!" "It's weird, isn't it?" "What?" "That's your real name?" "Yes." "It's on my birth certificate." "Wow." "I like that." "It's beautiful." "You look like you could be miss something." "I was miss teen usa." "You're reading that!" "I'm reading it." "You're cute." "What are you gonna sing?" "Father, can you hear me?" "Okay." "♪ Father, you know we need it ♪" "♪ I've never seen so much pain ♪" "♪ father, you know we need it ♪" "♪ there's no more heart ♪" "♪ of stone ♪" "♪ we're ready for your power ♪" "♪ now the sin is gone, father ♪" "Mm." "You got a beautiful..." "Little tight squeaky little voice, you know?" "You ever throw it out a little harder than that?" "I don't." "I never have." "You never let loose?" "Mm-mm." "Well, all right." "Is there singing in this competitive thing with miss teen usa?" "There's not a talent division." "There's no talent portion." "We're talented..." "But there's not a talent division." "Whoo!" "All right, baby!" "All right!" "I feel you." "Okay." "Let's take a vote." "Let's do it." "I think with a little work you can belt that out." "So I'm gonna say yes." "I think you're gorgeous, but the voice is not strong enough for me." "I'm gonna say no." "It's up to Randy, but..." "It's up to me?" "Yes, baby." "Really?" "It was just okay." "I don't know..." "Okay, Randy, come on." "Wow." "Yeah!" "Seriously, you two?" "Seriously?" "Seriously?" "Okay, okay, okay." "Rub it in." "That might be the smallest voice we've ever heard." "That may be." "In five cities!" "But it was powerful." "I mean, she was beautiful." "America, I'm going to Hollywood!" "So stormi continues her reign as queen." "But later, someone gives her a run for her money." "Younique." "And the emotions run high." "It's 4:00 P.M. in Nashville." "And as stormi celebrates with gold, unfortunately, her name describes the mood in the judging room." "I'm gonna say not yet, no." "I'm gonna have to say no this time too." "Definitely a no." "Definitely." "Where did it go wrong?" "Everything." "But our next contestant knows that every cloud has a silver lining." "My name is adrienne beasley." "I'm 22 years old, and I'm from wickliffe, Kentucky." "I live on a farm." "It's a lot of hard work." "It really is." "Whoa!" "My name is Freddy Simmons." "My name is carolyn Simmons." "And we are adrienne's parents." "When I was two years old, I was adopted." "My parents, they are white." "And that was a lot different for me, like growing up." "♪ I was lost ♪" "♪ in the lanes... ♪" "When we were out in public, people would be totally like confused what was going on." "She has fit into the family just..." "Just like a hand in a glove." "I just see adrienne as adrienne, you know?" "She's just ours." "When she walked out the door fixing to go to Nashville, I said wherever God takes her is gonna be fine with me." "They've helped me out so much, and I wanna be able to, like, return that." "Like I really do." "♪ Steady as a preacher ♪" "♪ free as a wee♪" "♪ and couldn't wait ♪" "♪ to get goin' ♪" "♪ but wasn't quite ready ♪" "♪ to leave ♪" "♪ there's a wild wild whisper ♪" "♪ blowing' in the wind ♪" "♪ callin' out my name ♪" "♪ like a long-lost friend ♪" "♪ oh, I miss those days ♪" "♪ as the years go by ♪" "♪ oh, nothing's sweeter ♪" "♪ than summertime ♪" "♪ and American honey ♪" "Mmm." "Very nice, very nice." "Thank you." "Wow, yeah!" "I hear something so special in your voice..." "And I can't put my finger on it right now, but it's something special." "Thank you." "Yeah." "Nothin' was put on." "You nailed the chorus." "You almost made me cry." "I mean, I wasn't sure why." "There was something in your voice that's so special." "You hold that real... hold that close to you." "You really surprised me there in the middle." "I really felt that." "And it sounded so good in this ryman audororium, and this room was built for that." "Sounded good." "I was like, yeah, all right!" "Use that room, girl, go for it!" "Thank you very much." "I'm gonna say yes." "I'm gonna say yes." "I guess you're going to Hollywood." "Oh!" "Yeah!" "Hollywood!" "Hollywood." "Thank you guys so much." "Oh, my gosh, I wanted this so bad." "I can't believe it." "Congratulations." "You did it." "You did it." "Welcome to Hollywood." "All right, thank you." "That's so great... there it is!" "You didn't exist, and we didn't... when she was singing... that's great." "Hello?" "Dad, I'm going to Hollywood." "I'm going to Hollywood." "I don't know who's gonna pay my way, but I'm goin' to Hollywood!" "My world could definitely change, but no matter what, the farm's always been my home." "Coming up... with day one of Nashville in the rearview mirror, can day two stay the course?" "Wo-how!" "That's what 're e okoking for." "Or is another collision waiting for us just over the rise?" "Nashville has a lot of highs and lows." "It's just an auditionbubuddy." "It's early morning in Tennessee, and the town of Nashville is already bustling." "As people go about their everyday business, all signs point to idol auditions." "And today the judges arrive with huge expectations." "If Nashville brings it today like they did yesterday, we'll have all the winners from this one town." "Perhaps we'll find a shining star in 28-year-old Camille emerics." "Singing is something I've done ever since I was small." "I ended up being our junior regional soloist for our hometown, and people are very surprised when they hear me sing." "I have a huge voice, and I'm like 5'2", and everybody's looking at me like, "where did that come from?"" "What are you gonna sing for us today?" "Um, I'm gonna sing some sweet thing for you from chaka Khan." "Chaka Khan." "All right." "♪ you're my heat ♪" "♪ you are my fire ♪" "♪ you make me weak ♪" "♪ with strong desire ♪" "♪ you turn me on ♪" "♪ my whole life long ♪" "♪ you be right ♪" "♪ or be wrong ♪" "Oh!" "♪ I just want to ♪" "♪ satisfy you ♪" "♪ 'cause you're not mine ♪" "♪ I can't deny it ♪" "♪ don't you hear me talking ♪" "♪ baby ♪" "♪ love me now or ♪" "♪ I'll go crazy ♪" "Wow." "You know, the acoustics work..." "No matter what." "Yeah, it's big up in here." "Wow, girl." "Come on, girl." "Oh, my goodness." "You know what?" "You gotta go back home and practice and get good." "No." "Yes." "Don't sing... just don't do it." "Oh, come on." "Just don't do it." "Don't do it." "Honestly, just don't do it." "Baby, that was horrible." "Loud..." "It hurt." "No." "I'm sure you're a nice girl." "There's many talents you have." "So is it a no for you?" "Um..." "Let me see." "Uh..." "Yeah, it's a no for me." "It's a no for me too, baby." "It's a no for me too." "Go practice." "What a waste of time, you know what I mean?" "Four hours." "Oh..." "It was terrible." "I'm just trying to be honest." "And for the next hour, that honesty was downright brutal as the search continued for the next fresh face in music." "♪ I can't believe ♪" "♪ it's happening to me ♪" "♪ some people wait a lifetime ♪" "♪ for a moment like this ♪" "Oh, okay." "This is too much." "Help!" "But there was more strange talent to be uncovered." "♪ if I had known ♪" "♪ for just one second ♪" "♪ you'd be back to bother me ♪" "♪ go on now, go ♪" "Wow." "Ooh." "♪ I sacrifice ♪" "♪ and I'm sayin' ♪" "♪ amen-ah ♪" "♪ amen-ah ♪" "♪ and I'm alive ♪" "♪ and I'm alive ♪" "Okay!" "What kind of joke is this?" "You know, you really don't have a good voice at all." "It's a no for me." "Nashville has a lot of highs and lows." "But outside, it was mostly lows." "Any luck, man?" "No." "I'm sorry about that, buddy." "Come here." "Come here, man." "It's just an audition, buddy." "Nice to meet you." "Thanks, buddy." "As I usher out the heartbroken, the contestants waiting are certainly feeling the pressure... no one more so than Jackie Wilson." "I am like..." "Whew." "I got..." "I got the jitters." "But I'm..." "I'm gonna be okay." "I'm gonna do this." "Hello." "Hi, baby." "Hi." "What's your name?" "Jackie Wilson." "Yeah." "How old are you?" "I am 28 years old." "Is Jackie ready?" "Yes." "For years, Jackie's been ready." "Yes." "Since three." "Since three years old?" "Yeah." "♪ Though you don't call ♪" "♪ anymore ♪" "♪ I sit and wait ♪" "♪ in vain ♪" "♪ and I'm gonna rap on ♪" "♪ your door ♪" "♪ Tap on your windowpane ♪" "♪ said I'm gonna ♪" "♪ camp by your steps ♪" "♪ until I get through to you ♪" "♪ 'cause I got to change ♪" "♪ your view, baby ♪" "Whoo." "Yo!" "Yo!" "Jackie's first concert." "Yo." "I cannot believe I'm standing here right now." "Crazy, dude." "Crazy vocals." "You did it!" "You did it." "Crazy." "You made us clap." "What?" "You were so feeling it in the high notes and just lettin' it out and tellin' it like it is." "You blew it out." "I say yes." "Absolutely." "Yes." "Million percent yes." "You're going to Hollywood, baby!" "You did it, Jackie!" "Wow." "So unassuming." "Wow-how-ah!" "♪ Whoa, yeah ♪" "♪ you know that you are ♪" "♪ a shooting star ♪" "Oh, you're her boyfriend." "Whoa, that was... that threw me." "Oh, my gosh!" "I knew that threw you." "Holy cow!" "That girl was unbelievable." "Amazing!" "She sang that song like she wrote it." "Just remember that when the other people come in." "Like that's what we're looking for." "Whoo!" "Coming up, more standout performances..." "As one contestant blows the judges away." "Wow-wuh!" "I think we found the one today." "Welcome back to Nashville." "Without further ado, I give you..." "Well, I'll just let her tell you." "My name is latoya Moore." "I'm 26." "I'm a recording artist." "And I'm from Nashville, Tennessee." "I do see myself as a star." "Many people will look at me, and I don't even have to say a word." "They see the glow." "They see a glow about me." "Younique." "Latoya...[Echo] Latoya..." "I'm designed to be here, and I hope the judges see it." "Thank you, God." "You ready?" "Ready!" "I think they're ready." "Let's do it." "Okay." "I want you to relax." "There's cameras in there." "All right." "All right." "Why, hello!" "Hello." "Ooh." "Somebody's ready for their close-up." "Yes." "Look at that smile." "My God!" "What's this cd?" "This is my album, and I brought it just for you all to share." "Thank you." "Only one?" "Only one." "For the three of us?" "It's spread around pretty good." "You mean people took 'em." "Oh, I gave generously." "Mm!" "Anyway, Steven... but I still love you all." "It's good to see you, miss J.Lo." "Thank you." "And Randy." "And nice to meet you too." "Nice to meet you too." "♪ When I close my eyes ♪" "♪ When I close my eyes ♪" "♪ I break down and cry ♪" "♪ it's all about the way you ♪" "♪ love me ♪" "♪ yeah-eah ♪" "♪ the thought of your kiss ♪" "♪ my heart can't resist ♪" "♪ we fell so deep in love ♪" "What song was that?" "That is tamia, when I close my eyes." "Oh." "Are you sure?" "Yes." "That sounded nothing like that." "Definitely unique." "I can definitely do this." "I will be glad to choose another song, because this has been my dream for a long time." "Baby, the sound, the tone is not good." "It was just... it's almost... it's like annoying." "Eee..." "Reeeeeeee." "It's almost like that." "So is it no-go for me?" "I really can't believe that." "Um... we're trying to keep it real, 'cause this is gonna help you, hopefully." "All right, thank you." "Okay, sweetie." "Don't forget your number there." "♪ If this world were mine ♪" "♪ all that I own ♪" "♪ you've been so good to me ♪" "♪ if this world were ♪" "♪ mi-ine ♪" "Still a no." "Thank you." "You're an idiot." "What is wrong with everyone?" "♪ It's all good to me ♪" "So, younique... did you understand what they were trying to say?" "I guess I did." "How do you feel about your audition?" "They probably would have liked it if I took it a little bit slower for 'em and, um, maybe..." "I think they were fine with the pace." "This town is going crazy." "Nashville's insane." "So mean!" "Well, I mean..." "But as the afternoon wore on, it was the guys who finally changed music city's tune." "♪ Wake up, Maggie ♪" "♪ I think I got something ♪" "♪ to say to you ♪" "♪ It's late September ♪" "♪ and I really should be ♪" "♪ back in school ♪" "Mmm, I like it." "♪ Oh, Maggie ♪" "♪ I couldn't have tried ♪" "♪ anymore ♪" "Very nice." "Very nice." "♪ Things just get so crazy ♪" "♪ living life gets hard to do ♪" "♪ I would gladly hit the road ♪" "♪ get up and go if I knew ♪" "♪ that some day it would ♪" "♪ lead me back to you ♪" "I think you got a really great voice." "♪ I said ♪" "Oh, man!" "♪ Papa was a rollin' stone ♪" "♪ wherever ♪" "♪ he lay his head ♪" "♪ was his home ♪" "♪ and when he died ♪" "Oh, you got it up there." "Nice, man." "That was so good!" "So good." "Thank you, Mr. Tyler." "Yes, Steven?" "Yes!" "Jennifer?" "Yes!" "Oh..." "That was a cheerleader yes." "100% yes." "Welcome to Hollywood." "You got three, dog!" "You're gonna go to Hollywood." "You are going to Hollywood!" "Love you!" "That was great." "Whoo!" "Yeah!" "That felt so good." "I don't know if it feels better for me when someone comes out and sings..." "Hi!" "Tennessee was back on track." "You guys give dreams..." "And you've given me one." "Hey, hey, hey, hey!" "But as night falls on Nashville..." "Can another star emerge?" "Can another star emerge?" "My name is Matt dillard." "I'm from cheatham county." "It's right out of Nashville." "And I'm 27 years old." "When I was growin' up, my family decided to take in foster children." "♪ I don't know you ♪" "We have special needs children." "That's something that's real dear to our hearts and, uh..." "Helping 'em have a better life." "Ooh!" "Give five." "My family, they've had 700 foster children through 23 years now." "Give Nana a kiss." "We get to watch children come from being very sick to helping them have a full life." "♪ And take this ♪" "If I make it, I'm gonna be able to help a lot of people and that really, uh, really inspires me a lot to get in here and do my best." "♪ When I am down ♪" "♪ and oh my soul so weary ♪" "♪ when troubles come ♪" "♪ and my heart burdened be ♪" "♪ then I am still ♪" "♪ and wait here in the silence ♪" "♪ until you come ♪" "♪ and rest awhile with me ♪" "Started a little high on that." "I know, I know, I know." "What I do like, though, is I come in here, you're like the country boy." "You got the hat on..." "And you sing Josh groban." "And it sounds like you're from a whole 'nother kind of thing." "I was like..." "I can pretty up too, if you want me to." "I can pretty up!" "I'm not trying to suck up or anything, but I mean, Jennifer" "Lopez, I'm sitting here, and that's a little bit hard to sing in front of..." "My favorite actress and my favorite judge and my favorite rocker." "I mean..." "Steven, what do you think, man, of Matt?" "I'm on the fence." "He has a very, very pretty voice." "Randy, what do you think, man?" "I'm gonna give a very small yes." "I just hope that you don't get swallowed up." "He's saying yes." "I'm saying no." "I think that you need to have a better audition." "Steven..." "Yes or no?" "Whoo!" "Yes!" "Going from the country to the hood." "Yeah!" "Let's go!" "Yeah!" "Coming up, the unanimous choice for best audition in Nashville." "Yes!" "You don't want to miss the first step of her idol journey." "Welcome back to the ryman auditorium here in Nashville," "Tennessee where there have been so many great country music moments here." "We're trying to keep that legacy alive." "And over the past two days, we may have done just that." "♪ There was a dream ♪" "♪ and one day I could see it ♪" "But the stadium which once held 17,000 dreamers..." "Has only one more who remains." "My name is Lauren alaina." "I'm 15 years old, and I'm from rossville, Georgia." "It's fun living here." "I like it because it's kinda simple and laid back." "I would say I'm a typical 15-year-old girl." "Ta da!" "I'm always singing." "It's what I love to do, and my family's super-supportive." "Especially my cousin holly." "She's really the reason that I started singing." "She's like a sister to me more than a cousin, 'cause I was raised with her." "I really looked up to holly growing up, 'cause she's so beautiful and it was like my goal to be like holly." "I love you." "I love you too." "Three years ago, holly was diagnosed with a brain tumor, and they told her that she was gonna have to take chemo and radiation and that she would lose all of her hair." "I didn't know whether or not she was gonna live." "And I don't know what I'd do without holly, 'cause she's my... she's like my big sister and..." "So I just tried to do as much as I could, and I stayed with her." "I did a fundraiser." "I sang, and all the money I got I saved up for holly." "Are you ready for the audition?" "Oh, yeah, I'm ready." "I've been here all day." "I know." "You're the last one." "Get in there and good luck." "We'll be waiting for you." "Cross your fingers." "Fingers crossed." "♪ Hey, Lauren ♪" "Hey, Lauren, what's going on?" "Come on in." "How y'all doing?" "We're good." "So your name is Lauren what?" "Alaina." "And who inspired you to come and audition?" "Um, my cousin holly, actually." "Well, she's the reason I ever started singing." "I would go over to her house and we would go to her room and listen to music and just sing all the time, and she urged me to try out, so here I am." "Right." "Do you wanna bring her in?" "Holly!" "I hear those footsteps." "Where are you, ho... hey!" "Hello." "Come on in." "Aw, you're gonna make me cry now." "Aw!" "Whose little girl is this?" "That's ours." "That's yours?" "That's our baby." "You look too young to... thank you!" "Well, she looks a little bit older probably than she is, right?" "She's 15." "She'll be 16 in about two weeks." "Are you excited?" "I'm about to fall over." "♪ You never looked so good ♪" "♪ as you did last night ♪" "♪ underneath the city lights ♪" "♪ there ♪" "♪ walking with your friend ♪" "♪ laughing at the moon ♪" "♪ I swear you looked ♪" "♪ right through me ♪" "♪ but I'm ♪" "♪ still living with your ♪" "♪ good-bye ♪" "♪ and you're ♪" "♪ just going on with your life ♪" "♪ how can ♪" "♪ you just walk on by ♪" "♪ without ♪" "Best we've seen today." "Wow-ah!" "Best I've seen today in Nashville." "I'm telling you, I'm blown away." "I'm sitting here like you could have sang the whole thing." "We're just like we're enjoying it that much." "Oh, my God!" "Don't cry." "You're gonna make me cry too!" "Don't cry, you're too pretty." "No crying." "You'll mess up your makeup!" "Guys, we gotta give mad props, though, to holly." "'Cause holly, you saw something, man." "You definitely got a gift." "See, I think you should cry." "'Cause you're gonna make 40 million people cry." "Tears of joy, baby." "But I mean, you've got real natural God-given talent." "I been saying it every season." "It doesn't matter what age, where, what, what, what." "If you got it, you got it." "And you got it." "And you definitely got it." "One, two, three." "Yes!" "You're going to Hollywood!" "I can't wait to see you there again." "Wow!" "Oh, can I say one thing?" "Yes." "My family's dying to meet y'all, and I'm last." "Can I go get 'em real fast?" "Yes." "She is "beyondo" cute." "Aah!" "The last one of the day!" "Last one of the day." "I gotta go get my family." "Oh, believe me, they're ready for you." "She's a baby." "She's 15 years old." "Hi." "Hello, Lauren's family." "Hi!" "Will you sing something in front of your family?" "My mom and dad's song is one of yours." "Oh, yeah, sing that." "Sing that." "♪ I could stay awake ♪" "♪ just to hear you breathing ♪" "Whoo!" "♪ Watch you smile while ♪" "♪ you are sleeping ♪" "Sing it!" "♪ While you're far away ♪" "♪ and dreamin' ♪" "♪ I could spend my life ♪" "♪ in this sweet surrender ♪" "♪ I could stay lost ♪" "♪ in this moment ♪" "♪ forever ♪" "What y'all think?" "Dude!" "Yo!" "Congratulations!" "That's a wrap!" "♪ I close my eyes ♪" "♪ I don't wanna fall asleep ♪" "♪ 'cause I'd miss you, babe ♪" "♪ and I don't wanna ♪" "♪ miss a thing ♪" "That's it for the historic ryman in Nashville." "As we close up shop and the judges head out..." "Yeah, yeah!" "Great day in Nashville." "Steven has one last prediction." "I think we found the one today." "We found her." "Oh, yeah, we did." "Yep." "And with that, our road trip continues." "It's not our first time at this rodeo, but when we hit Austin, we're welcomed with an unlikely kind of Southern hospitality." "Unh!" "Get the [Bleep] Out of my face." "What just happened?" "No matter what may transpire..." "People are bringing the pain and the fire." "You're going to Hollywood." "One thing is for sure." "Whoo!" "The Texas-sized talent..." "I think you're awesome." "You might be one of the best people we've seen." "Rules the roost."