Hello! Oh my goodness, hello. Hello, what's your name? I'm Maddie Zahm. How young are you Maddie? I'm 19. So who's here with you? My best friend Marcus- he has Down's Syndrome and we have been best friends for six years. And um, yeah, he's part of the reason that I sing. Can we get Marcus in here to sit with us? Yeah, come on. Yeah, I love that! He would love that. Hey Marcus, would you come with me? I love you Hey Marcus. Hey there. Hey Marcus. Hey, buddy. Are you? That's Luke, that's Katy, and I'm Lionel, how are you? Hi, Marcus. You want to sit with us while we listen to your best friend play? Yeah Yeah Me get that chair here. Do you want me to help her you can grab his hand. Can we borrow that chair right there? Very good. You see it? Sure. He's not wrong All right. All right. Okay, we're gonna check this out. Do you love hearing her sing? Yeah, does she sing to you a lot he sings with me He's incredible. All right, Maddie. What do you want to sing for us today? I'm gonna be singing new rules by du liebe That is my favorite song Talking in my sleep and I'm making myself crazy Out of my mind out of my mind Rodie down already out hoping Too many times too many You ain't gettin over em I got new rules account All right now I'm dying to hear the song between the two of you yeah, okay. Oh goodness Okay, you wanna sing our song Even madder than the moon it's always been inside So great you guys can you say, thank you Thank you Marcus honey, yeah, you've got a set of pipes on you if you do you're an incredible woman Yes, you are. I really do think you've got great potential. Okay, push yourself Okay, bring it down from deep and let it fly out. You know, sometimes you get a little timid Hey, yeah, but you caught it. You got a you've got a got it okay, should we just say this out loud and say yes for me yes from me yes from me and you're going My name is Noah Davis, I'm from Royal Arkansas and I'm 18 years old Hmm WIC. Okay. Wait, can you just say where yes, I know wait, I feel that already What is wait is me not it's not your language. It's just for us wag. We're on oh, come on here, man We're here together. I love you. I love you so much Noah, yes, sir. You're blushing just a wee bit you think so no way But it's precious great. You you get Katy smiling. Yeah I just want to know a little bit about your life cuz I think you're great I grew up on a little farm, but I felt like, you know cities calling me I'm a shitty person and so it's been awesome being here in LA. This is my first time in LA Is it all that you kind of dreamed it would be all I wanted it to be and more that's course What would be the first thing you would do if you win? American Idol I would buy an alpaca Or multiple lots of them why why They're adorable. They're adorable home in YouTube Alpacas running and you'll understand you went to you this is like your American dream You're gonna sing your heart out for months and all you want is now pop I mean, I want other things but like on the top of the list is in our past at the top of the list Yeah, so like the Opaka can experience the rest of the world. Yeah, that's proud Did you know what an alpaca chased me around a friend of Mines backyard? And I was done with the alpacas scared of it again. That sounds actually wonderful Well, I am ready for my wig to go flying. I hope it does go flying out of this room I hope it guys I'm gonna sing Stay by Rihanna and play some piano for y'all Sorry already Betty. Okay, you're not gonna let me know what wig means All right Y'all ready? Wegg wig I'm ready It was a fever a cold sweat hot-headed believer Someday she said if you dare come Around and around Now tell me now tell me now tell me now, you know Not really sure how to feel about it something in the way you Yeah, it takes me all I want you to stay I said I want you to stay stay Just gonna hug this gentlemen get up Noah, please. Okay. Hey, man I'm really I mean, really Really, please, please Right there ladies and gentlemen Big Snatch Sloane Oh out the door. It's in Arcis. It's in Arkansas. You don't want to back The hell wank means If you want an alpaca you can have an alpaca I Believe that's why we Know man, he's intimidating Hello. Hello guys. How are you? How you doing? Fantastic? Thanks for having me. Good lord your dreamboat Yeah, my eyes lit up. What's your name? Dreamboat? My name is Trevor Holmes and I'm 27 years old and I'm from Thousand Oaks, California. What's your story? Do you work? I'm actually doing construction right now, which not fond of but I'm doing it to help support my mom. She suffers from lupus So I'm a part-time songwriter Part-time construction worker wanting to be full-time musician, but sometimes you got to pay their bills so hot. Oh, This is a real no, I mean here's the thing like only hot guys are typically named Trevor. Is that right? Yeah Well, that's like one of the names Trevor. He's hot he does construction on the side. Eddie loves his mom I do very much. So Trevor yes, ma'am. Don't go me ma'am. I'm sorry. I'm just I respect you so much Thank you Katie this is the man you need. Listen, if you're not going to Hollywood. Maybe you can just come here Are you engaged? No, cool. I Do have a girl Lord I hope you can save Katie is cheering for you I Can't count the times almost it was on my mind And just here the day I wrote down all the things I'd say I Just could Baby I know you can't watch it. Oh So here goes nothing in case you didn't know Katie I'm crazy I would be lying. If I said I can't please - yeah, even though I Don't sell you all the time you had my heart a long long time ago Oh Case you didn't know. Oh I'm in the old trailer. Okay, let's get down to business. You're cute and all but just kidding You guys go I can't talk Katie can I tell you something really quick I have literally had a crush on you I'm sorry about it. I'm sorry, but you have been my literally my crush for sure So, I'm sorry. I had to get off that off my chest all joking aside. Just dig in a little more on your voice Every tool you got at some point Which thing Lana you have to have things in Austin because the competition coming Other than that, I find nothing wrong with you at all. Thank you so much. There's nothing wrong. Okay I said Trevor your girlfriend's out with the girlfriends out. So how about we vote? So much I can't thank you enough teach me how to be hot again my wait wait wait Katie's gone she's heart broke. All right, it's all right, how we he walks in I'm like, you're a dreamboat Her eyes are doing whirlybirds That's great. Yes Just like throw away see sound of your life well, you know Thursday if you love it, let it go and then it'll come back and Marry you My friends are not gonna believe a bad Katie's I don't want to say in love with me, but she Katie thinks I'm cute This is the best day life. What an emotional roller coaster for you. I'm so sorry. You were that close of you? How are you? Come on, are you guys? Fantastic, tell us who you are. My name is Alyssa racoon and Dan you can call me ragu like the sauce I'm from Orlando, Florida. I'm a sophomore in high school and this is all I ever want So who came me with you? I came here with my dad. He's my og. That's a good thing I mean ever since my mom moved away, uh, he and I are best buds like this this amazing though So what are you doing for us today? Almost is never enough Bonnie Ariana Grande and Nathan Sykes Wow. Very good I'd like to say we gave it a try. I like to blame Maybe we just saw Wow So close to be If I would have me the way I'm going Take a deep breath and take a bow Okay, listen Sound on that good at 50 You know your voice is still gonna grow. It's gonna grow into like 21 All of my hairs on my legs. I want to go and shave my legs now They just grew an inch and a half cuz I full-body felt you were seen so I'm a believer in you It's like you're so easy on the ears, it's just oh My god, this is all I've ever wanted Wow You're top ten. Yes Okay, so now let me tell you where we are. Okay at 15 years old. This is not supposed to be happening No, but I'm very excited to see where you're gonna go. Thank you guys so much. You're going to Hollywood Yes for me thank you guys so yes from me yeah you me I don't know Thank you, and you'll see your daddy. Okay? Guys of the oh, geez They must be real proud of that first shirt I'm going Hollywood Do what I've been wanting to do my whole entire Life, hi. My name is Michael David R. I have a wife and a little day Maybe this time I'll be lucky Maybe this time the stay Maybe this time For the first time it won't Hobby away Everybody they love a winner Me Peaceful That's what I long to be To be Maybe this Oh Thank you, thank you. Thank you Thank you so much. Thank you This boo Who are you? That was We go in there are you kidding me? I was like shocked myself. I don't know what the heck just happened on that stage But it was something else I know is that I turned I hid the last name and the doesn't want anything I felt like I saw was one right there II just I don't Waited for a couple hours is not gonna drive me nuts because I know that I did my best And I think these all he's getting fault. Okay? You