'I had no idea what I was doing.'
"I literally walked in. I had no idea what I was doing. No idea it was a TV show, until the audition I was in front of y'all."NBCUniversalKelly revealed that she initially sang"At Last" as her audition song, but producers asked her to choose another and she panicked....Everyone was doing"Lady Marmalade." And I was like, 'Any song but that.' And then out of nowhere,"Express Yourself" came out of [nowhere]...I don't know why.
And I got this phone call from this producer who was screaming down the phone, saying,"You've got a hit!" And I said"What?" "The show aired last night." I went"Really?""And it's a hit."...I really thought it would last about two weeks and we'd get thrown off the air.The judges admitted that they would sometimes play a secret game called"The Name Game" where they dared each other to use certain words or phrases like"spotted dick" in their critiques."[Simon] goes, 'Randy. Paula. Here's my black card.
You were so clever. You knew who you were as an artist. You picked the right songs. And I'll never forget, the biggest treat is I was riding in the elevator at CBS with you, and you were vocalizing and you were singing opera.
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