‘American Idol’ Season 22 auditions, part 4: The not-so-secret Sauce and the two that got away
This week's "plot twist" involving Julia Davo and her "best friend," past contestant and current mean girl/thunder-stealer Alyssa Raghu, was totally twisted.
The fourth and most emotional/exciting auditions episode of this 22nd American Idol season got especially exciting Sunday, when a ghostly pale manic pixie dreamgirl all decked out in go-go boots, a Lisa Loeb “Stay” dress, an Edgar Winter-pageboy, and “rock” and “roll” kneecap tattoos strutted into the audition and declared that she wanted to be “our generation’s Debbie Harry,” “a female David Bowie,” “a complete rock icon,” and, of course, “the next American Idol.” Her name was Julia Davo, and she got my full attention — and the attention of judge Lionel Richie, who seemed to think she could at least be the next Lady Gaga.
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