Puerto Rico to "Idol": No Gracias!

Posted Aug 4th 2008 4:44PM by TMZ Staff

American IdolWhat if you held "American Idol" auditions and no one showed up?! Not paging Nigel Lythgoe!

On Saturday, "A.I." held one of their typical open call auditions in San Juan, Puerto Rico and instead of the usual capacity crowds lined up practicing their awful renditions of tired Whitney Houston standards, according to El Nuevo Dia, only around 300 fools turned out. Ay dios mio! In contrast, last month 7,000 wannabe Taylor Hicks' camped out overnight at auditions held in Northern California.

In other words, don't expect to see a Spanish-language Carrie Underwood album anytime soon.



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1. I don't blame them for not showing up, they aren't Americans.

Posted at 4:48PM on Aug 4th 2008 by Daisy Duke

2. Daisy Duke, that was a totally ignorant comment. Just an FYI to you Puerto Rico has it's own version of the show called Objetivo Fame translation Objective Fame.

Also, Puerto Ricans serve in the US Army, Navy, and Marines they give their lives like any other american for their country. that makes them as american as anyone else!

Posted at 4:55PM on Aug 4th 2008 by MrsMarallano

3. THIS IS THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA NOT PUERTO RICO ! DAMN!

USA! USA! PLEASE HELP US. WE NED HELP HERE TOO . NOT JUST THE OTHER COUNTRIES . WE NEED HELP!

ANGELINA'S KIDS ARE AMERICANS NOT FRENCH OR WHERE EVER SHE HAD THEM. HER 3 BIOLOGICAL KIDS ARE AMERICANS!!! SO IF YOU DON'T LIKE THAT ANGIE THEN STAY OUT OF OUR COUNTRY!

Posted at 4:59PM on Aug 4th 2008 by america needs your help

4. Daisy Duke doesn't even her own country... Boricuas are Americans. Now count your blessing because caribean people are probably THE most musically gifted people in the world...now please keep your racist fat head burried in the ground.

Posted at 5:01PM on Aug 4th 2008 by pimp

5. Learn history girl, not only we are part of your country (USA), we are, as everybody in the Americas, americans! Go and learn the meaning of words!!! and please stop the appropiation of definitions. Carribean, Central America, SouthAmerica, we are AMERICANS!
Why people did not go to the auditions in Puerto Rico? simple, they have better things to do. We don't (puertoricans) "dream to become famous." By the way I am not a hater, Iike the show, but we have one version in Spanish that is more popular to us called "Objetivo Fama.", search this and you will know the reality before talking what you don't know!

Posted at 5:03PM on Aug 4th 2008 by What is Americans?

6. AMERICANS NEED YOUR HELP.
WE ARE HAVING A HARD TIME HERE !PLEASE HELP US. WE HAVE PARENTS KILLING KIDS WE HAVE MONEY PROBELMS WE HAVE PEOPLE GETTING FIRED FROM JOBS AND I CAN GO ON...........
THIS ISN'T RACIST YOU DUMB ASS. WE NEED HELP HERE ! SIMPLE AS THAT !

Posted at 5:04PM on Aug 4th 2008 by america needs your help

7. Let me get this straight: If 7,000 people show up, that's good. If 300 show up they're fools.

So those 300 people could have been OK with you if others would have showed up. Are you implying those 300 knew the other 6,700 people?

This was obviously written by some fat ex-jock who hates people.

Ta!

Posted at 5:08PM on Aug 4th 2008 by CoolGirl2008

8. I DONT CARE ABOUT HISTORY. I'M TALKING ABOUT NOW. AMERICA IS GOING DOWN REAL FAST . WE NEED HELP .
SIMPLE AS THAT .

PLEASE HELP US HERE . PEOPLE ARE ALSO DYING HERE . I DON'T NEED TO GO ON BECAUSE EVERYONE ALREADY KNOWS WHATS GOING ON HERE. OUR GOVERNMENT IS KILLING US . WHATS THE WAR FOR?? I SUPPORT OUR TROOPS BUT NOT THE WAR. WE ARE LOOKING LIKE COMPLETE FOOLS RIGHT NOW !
SAVE AMERICA !
I'M NOT VOTING THIS YEAR BECAUSE THEY ALL LIE. THEY SAY THINGS THAT WE WANNA HEAR BUT THEY NEVER GO THROUGH WITH IT .
SO DO NOT VOTE!! IF YOU DO YOUR ONLY VOTING FOR LIARS!

Posted at 5:13PM on Aug 4th 2008 by america needs your help

9. EWWW....THANK GOD CERTAIN OTHER "MEDDLING" COUNTRIES ARE NOT PART OF THE U.S..

.AT LEAST "NOT YET".... CAN WE SAY..NO TALENT..... AGAIN I'D LIKE TO ADD EWWW...I WILL STOP WATCHING IF THAT EVER TAKES OVER..........

Posted at 5:15PM on Aug 4th 2008 by KATHY =( ^-^ )=

10. EWW.. ...REMEMER YOU HAVE TO GO WHERE THERE'S TALENT...THANK GOD CERTAIN COUNTRIES ARE NOT U.S. TERRITORY..AT LEAST "NOT YET"... . M X C

Posted at 5:15PM on Aug 4th 2008 by KATHY =( ^-^ )=

11. THEY HAVE LOTS OF TALENT BUT PLEASE DONT VOTE !!!

DO NOTTT VOTEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

Posted at 5:22PM on Aug 4th 2008 by america needs your help

12. Most of the 300 people that showed up to the PR auditions were americans. Everyone in PR watches Objetivo Fama; American Idol is not really popular there. I don't even know why they held AI auditions there.

Posted at 5:28PM on Aug 4th 2008 by Puertorrican Mami

13. Hey P.R is the smart ones becuz honesly we no how NOT to embarss ourselfs. Unlike u americans who u no u can't sing but u still want to becuz honeslty u just wanna be rich and famous. P.R. no that ther is way more to life then money and fame. Stupid daisy got it all wrong u ingorannt whore. One that note I have a song that all Puerto Ricans should no.... Que Bonito bandera que bonito bandera que bonito bandera la bandera Puerto Ricana........

Posted at 5:28PM on Aug 4th 2008 by deathangelx

14. Ideathangelx: It is "bandera puertorriqueña" not "bandera Puerto Ricana"

Posted at 5:30PM on Aug 4th 2008 by Puertorrican Mami

15. Go back to school and brush up on your American history. Puerto Ricans are natural-born US citizens, and have been since President Wilson signed the Jones-Shafroth Act of Congress in 1916. Repeat: Puerto Ricans are born US citizens.

Posted at 5:49PM on Aug 4th 2008 by Texarican

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