I don't think having prior experience should mean they don't get a chance. If they were terrible enough or under poor management, etc, they deserve a second chance if they did what everyone else did--line up outside for hours for an audition. In the end, the people vote, so I believe it's fair enough. Not all who are fortunate enough to have released albums are what I'd consider great or even good singers and sometimes the good ones don't sell for one reason or another.
She wasn't the first. Carly made it to tour, and she had previously been signed with a different label with a different surname and never got anywhere. Michael Johns had released an album or two in Australia. The current Danny Gokey is a church choir instructor, I believe. And then there were horrible vocal trainers who auditioned in the past, but had sounded tone deaf. There had been bar/lounge and hobby singers, so I don't see the difference. They're all professions but just with different avenues of marketing.
What got this contestant dropped was the fact that she might have been acquainted with the producer(s) thereby possibly influencing the selection process. She did include in her audition form her past, whereas, I believe last season, those "professionals" did not. I specifically recall Carly being one of them and thereby bringing on this talk about the fairness of a veteren entering this competition. |