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"Last week, we began our search for another American Idol star, and this week, we continue that search. You&amp;#039;d think that after 13 seasons, we&amp;#039;d have scraped the barrel of talent out there, but there&amp;#039;s always a bit more where that came from, so off we head to Detroit, Michigan to see what they&amp;#039;ve got.  First up, we&amp;#039;ve got Keri Lynn Roche, a 24-year-old waitress from Detroit. She&amp;#039;s come equipped with her acoustic guitar and she&amp;#039;s doing a nice little version of Imagine Dragons&amp;#039; &amp;#039;Radioactive&amp;#039;. She&amp;#039;s very much a coffee house singer and certainly not right for the show. Keith wants to hear her sing without the guitar, so she then launches into a rendition of &amp;#039;I&amp;#039;d Rather Go Blind&amp;#039; by Etta James, which is a bit better.  Jennifer loves her style and the way she emotes when she&amp;#039;s singing, while Harry appreciates that she&amp;#039;s so much in her own head and doesn&amp;#039;t pay attention to the cameras. Keith also thinks she&amp;#039;s cool, so you know what that means: she&amp;#039;s through!  Julian Miller, 18, is heavily influenced by Motown and also plays guitar. His voice is super soulful and really modern, as well, so he&amp;#039;s a shoe-in and also gets a yes from the judges. Same goes for Paris Primeau and Olivia Diamond, singers with pre-made showbiz names and pretty decent voices, as well. Next, we&amp;#039;ve got 15-year-old Malaya Watson. She&amp;#039;s a tuba player in her high school&amp;#039;s marching band and has a rather, er, &amp;quot;outgoing&amp;quot; personality (read: slightly obnoxious in that high-strung teenage way) but she&amp;#039;s got a pretty solid voice. The judges all love it and they don&amp;#039;t even need to debate on it: she&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;blessed&amp;quot;, according to Jennifer, and she can&amp;#039;t wait to see the transformation Malaya is going to go through in the coming months. She&amp;#039;s going to Hollywood!  Moving right along, Bryan Watt has come up from Georgia to perform Carrie Underwood&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;So Small&amp;#039;. He&amp;#039;s a classic country artist, which always seems to play well on this show in recent years. Is he anything special? Far from it, but because he&amp;#039;s not horrendous, he gets a ticket through to the next round. After all, it was a &amp;quot;cool, confident, easy performance&amp;quot; - Harry&amp;#039;s sure he&amp;#039;s Superman!  Khristian D&amp;#039;Avis is 22 and despite being born and raised in America has an accent as if she was raised in Italy. She performs Whitney Houston&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Saving All My Love For You&amp;#039; and while it&amp;#039;s not the worst thing I&amp;#039;ve ever heard, it&amp;#039;s just not good enough. The judges seem to agree: Keith finds it too inconsistent, while Jennifer likes her style but felt the performance was inconsistent.  Unfortunately, Khristian breaks down into tears and loses her accent as she says that she wants more from life. Jennifer notes that there&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;a lot going on there&amp;quot; because she&amp;#039;s clearly a mess, but somehow she gets two yeses and will get to try again to be her real self. What a nightmare.  Next up, 17-year-old Jena Asciutto is singing Adele&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Rollin&amp;#039; in the Deep&amp;#039;, albeit a slightly different version of it. There&amp;#039;s something really strong and melodic about her voice - vaguely similar to Hayley Williams, I feel - and I sorta like her.  Harry&amp;#039;s first comments are about the way she closes notes off and a query as to her heritage since she&amp;#039;s a &amp;quot;beautiful girl&amp;quot; (ugh, great), but Keith is a little more helpful as he reveals that he loves her voice because you could see her personality within her voice. Jennifer is a fan because Jena sang the track nothing like the original. It&amp;#039;s unanimous: she&amp;#039;s going to Hollywood.  Melanie Porras, 19, got her love of music from her dad, who put his own dreams aside to raise her. She does a jazzy little version of Peggy Lee&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Fever&amp;#039; and has a great voice, but Jennifer thinks the choice is too safe, so she launches into Bon Jovi&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Wanted Dead or Alive&amp;#039;. Well, that&amp;#039;s different enough. She&amp;#039;s got some great breaks in her voice - definitely worthy of Hollywood. Harry thinks she&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;already got the seeds&amp;quot; and Jennifer can see her recording albums, so it&amp;#039;s three yeses for Melanie. Next up, 18-year-old Liam Newberry is performing Frank Sinatra&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;The Way You Look Tonight&amp;#039;. He was raised in theatre, and his voice reflects that. He&amp;#039;s got an okay voice, but it&amp;#039;s not really for American Idol, to be honest. Jennifer feels like it lacked much feeling or &amp;quot;swag&amp;quot; - or, as Keith points out, a lack of &amp;quot;sexiness&amp;quot;. Harry urges him to forget everything he learned in musical theatre. He gets a no from all three judges.   How about Jade Lathan, a student who&amp;#039;s come in with a flower headband on to do a version of Amy Winehouse&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Back to Black&amp;#039;? She&amp;#039;s certainly got talent, though I&amp;#039;m a bit of a Winehouse purist so it&amp;#039;s hard for me to listen to anyone doing covers of her. Harry thinks she&amp;#039;s &amp;quot;absolutely adorable&amp;quot; and fun to watch. Jennifer appreciates the &amp;quot;whistly thing&amp;quot; in the back of her voice and thinks the whole package is right. Keith has nothing to add, but this one is simple: she&amp;#039;s through to Hollywood. Sarah Scherb is 19 and quite pretty, as the judges are quick to point out. She also has a nice voice - &amp;quot;nice&amp;quot;, not amazing or anything. Most of her audition is spent talking about her dad&amp;#039;s job at Delta (the airline) and the fact that Jennifer Lopez doesn&amp;#039;t fly commercial; either way, she&amp;#039;s through. Same goes for Sydney Arterbridge, a 15-year-old who impresses with Minnie Ripperton&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Loving You&amp;#039; - even that incredibly high note. Next up, 26-year-old Maurice Townsend is giving it a go with John Legend&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;So High&amp;#039; as his four small children wait outside. I really like this guy, even before he starts singing - but it certainly helps that he has a great voice. The personality makes it even better, so I&amp;#039;m on board with Maurice already. Unsurprisingly, the judges are into it and it&amp;#039;s a unanimous yes. I can&amp;#039;t wait to see what he does throughout this competition - I&amp;#039;m pretty sure he&amp;#039;ll end up in the live shows.  Sometimes, auditionees come back for another season when they don&amp;#039;t make it too far in previous years. Such is the case for David Oliver Wills, who made it to Vegas last year before he was cut. Now he&amp;#039;s doing Alex Clare&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Too Close&amp;#039; and he&amp;#039;s actually really, really good - certainly improvement over last season. Unsurprisingly, the judges are totally on board and he&amp;#039;s heading to Hollywood. &amp;quot;It felt right!&amp;quot; Jennifer exclaims. Brandy Neelly is another returning singer, and she&amp;#039;s doing a Hunter Hayes song this time around. Her voice is great - super country star and damn good for only 18. She&amp;#039;s also got the emotion down perfectly and is great to watch. Jennifer isn&amp;#039;t such a fan of the nasal quality in her voice, but Harry and Keith are, so that&amp;#039;s enough to get her through to Hollywood.   Oh dear. Next up we&amp;#039;ve got a Keith Urban superfan, Ethan Harris, who gets Keith to sign a drawing he did of his idol before he launches into a performance of one of Keith&amp;#039;s songs. This guy is 20 years old, by the way. He&amp;#039;s got an okay voice - he&amp;#039;s not tone deaf, but that&amp;#039;s about all I can say about it. He&amp;#039;s a bit too weird for my liking. Harry thinks it&amp;#039;s funny that his speaking and singing voices sound exactly the same - he dubs it &amp;quot;cool&amp;quot;. Jennifer calls him &amp;quot;pleasant&amp;quot; to listen to and admits she was surprised that he could actually sing. Keith is always honoured when someone chooses to sing his songs, but he also has to try and be logical. Either way, all three of them say yes, which is a bit of a shock. Leah Guerrero, Zach Day and Symphony Howlett are similarly successful, making it through to Hollywood despite their auditions being slightly touch and go. They&amp;#039;ll get another chance to get it together, so we&amp;#039;ll see what happens (if they actually show them again come Hollywood).  Next up, Detroit-native (and current Hollywood dweller) Ayla Stackhouse, 17, is keeping it current with a version of Little Mix&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Wings&amp;#039;. She&amp;#039;s got a great, soulful voice, even if it&amp;#039;s not the best song choice to showcase it (and it isn&amp;#039;t). Harry Connick Jr. thinks Barry Gordy would have picked her up at the height of Motown, and Jennifer agrees- she&amp;#039;s got the whole package. It&amp;#039;s a unanimous yes for Ayla.  Eric Gordon comes in next to give a rendition of a John Mayer song that&amp;#039;s better than the original. He&amp;#039;s got a bit of a James Dean vibe and his pompadour is slightly obnoxious, but he&amp;#039;s got some soul and a great quality to his voice. Jennifer admires his groove and sense of timing, while Harry loves seeing all the different influences on his style. He&amp;#039;s through, unsurprisingly. After a few dud performers whose names aren&amp;#039;t worth remembering, we&amp;#039;ve got quintessential hipster Ryan Nisbett doing a cover of Sarah McLachlan&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Angel&amp;#039; and is really hard to pin down. He&amp;#039;s got an androgyny to him and to his voice, but it&amp;#039;s clear he can really sing and has a bit of grit to him. I kind of like him, but I fear he may quickly become obnoxious if he continues in the competition. The judges, however, are all incredibly impressed and he gets a yes from all three. &amp;quot;He&amp;#039;s going all the way!&amp;quot; Keith says as he leaves the room.  It&amp;#039;s time for the final audition of the night, and it comes from Marrialle Sellars, who reminds me SO much of Miley Cyrus in every way. Even Jennifer notices it, so I&amp;#039;m not crazy. She&amp;#039;s 17 but she&amp;#039;s got something else about her that is beyond her years, and she completely makes Bruno Mars&amp;#039;s &amp;#039;Grenade&amp;#039; a new song. She gets a yes from all three judges and tells the camera before she leaves that she plans on being the next American Idol - on Harry&amp;#039;s instruction.  And that&amp;#039;s it for the auditions in Detroit! We&amp;#039;ve found some good stuff, but there&amp;#039;s still more hopefuls to come on Thursday night in Atlanta. We&amp;#039;ll see you there! American Idol airs Wednesday and Thursday nights on Fox "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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