The last group of acts advanced prior to the Olympics in America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 21. Tonight it’s the Youtube acts that were too cheap to buy a plane ticket to one of the earlier auditions.
Clint Carvalho has brought one his extreme parrots with him. His act is annoying bird calls that make me want to tell him to shut the hell up, but his bird does make its way across the way from another building to him.
Reverse Order is otherwise invisible on Youtube except for the one song they have with about 600,000 views, Sing for Me Baby, which sounds a lot better than this Katy Perry cover. Howard thinks they suffer from not having been together for long enough. Howie thinks they’re young guys acting like a rock band. Sharon’s not sure whether they are rock or pop, but they insist rock. I would have guessed pop.
Ruby Cody is a magician whose goal is not to do magic tricks but rather to bring a nightmare to life. 80s music and puppets. This is just weird. Two of the three judges buzz. Good trick at the end, but it just took too long to get there.
7 in Unison is a group of girl dancers, and their routine for tonight is jazz. Young girls dancing to Fever. This won’t end well. Howie buzzes because he’s bored.
Drew Erwin taught himself how to play guitar by watching videos online. His dad submitted the video without him knowing, and he ended up being America’s pick. His performance of Natalie Imbruglia’s Torn, which I haven’t heard since around the time he was born, gets the judges to tell him nice effort but not quite yet.
Melinda Hill used to be extremely shy but realized through comedy that she could break out of her shell. Starts off funny, but not nearly as good as the two comedians who were in the earlier rounds. Howie tells us to go to Youtube and see that she was funnier in the audition, but I can’t find it. This is pretty pitiful, NBC.
Eric Buss is a goofball who can’t really describe what he does. I don’t get the point of what I just watched or why Howie did not buzz him like the other two did.
Romeo Dance Cheetah is an air guitarist. Oh god. The boys buzz, but Sharon loves barking mad. Howard wants to know why we’re wasting time with a Youtube night.
Puck has been a magician for about 40 years. Which brings us to… a dancing handkerchief. Howard’s seen this before, but he thinks he’s got a chance since none of the acts have been very good tonight.
Bria Kelly has a powerful voice, if sometimes too shouty. The judges all have mostly positive comments, a change of pace.
Cast in Bronze plays a carillon, a 4 ton church bell keyboard, while wearing a stupid mask/costume. This might be something fun to have at Christmas time, but that’s about as far as I’ll go. All three judges buzz.
Maybe the last act of the night will be good. That would be different. Academy of Villains is a theater hip hop dance crew. Anybody who messes up is going to have to do push ups until they vomit, and they had better continue dancing even if they have broken bones. The chick running this thing is a bit scary. But it seems to have produced results. The judges feel as if this act redeems the decision to have a Youtube night. I’m not so sure about that, but they were pretty good.
Stay tuned to dingoRUE for another live recap of America’s Got Talent Season 7 Episode 23, which airs Wednesday at 9/8c on NBC.
Well I can’t tell you how excited I was to have Americas Got Talent back on primetime. It seemed like it took forever and then I was a bit disappointed with the YouTube auditions. I hope things will be looking up for the next episode.