Vancouver’s Daniel Seavey is one of only 12 contestants left on this year’s season of “American Idol” on Fox.
The 15-year-old Union High School student made the latest cut in a broadcast Wednesday and followed the news of his survival with a performance of “Straight Up” by Paula Abdul. Contestants were asked to perform the songs they sang while auditioning for the show.
In Wednesday’s broadcast, he appeared to forget the lyrics about midway through his performance, but he quickly recovered and got the crowd going by stepping away from the microphone stand and grabbing some of the hands that reached at him from the front row.
The judges weren’t impressed.
“You’re young, and you’re inexperienced, and I think compared to what we saw before, the performances haven’t been strong of late,” judge Harry Connick Jr. told Daniel. “And as cute as you are, you’re inexperience is really showing, man.”