《美国偶像》第8季海选旧金山开唱
The American Idol season has begun. We won't be seeing it, of course, until January of 2009, but the nearly year-long process has kicked off with the first round of auditions in San Francisco.
American Idol auditions are a bit different in reality than the way they're portrayed on TV. You don't just get to show up at the site, wait in line for a couple of hours and then waltz in to see Simon Cowell, Paula Abdul and Randy Jackson. No, you have to show up early, wait a long time, get a ticket, come back another day, wait some more, make it past the preliminary auditions and, if you're good or bad enough for the cameras, then you come back to see the holy judge triumvirate.
It all began last Thursday morning at the Cow Palace (no actual cows) in San Francisco. Reportedly, 7,000 aspiring singers showed up for the auditions.
Today, the American Idol Audition Road Show made its way to Louisville, Kentucky.
第八季美国偶像的宣传片：
新的一季《美国偶像》又开始了，当然，我们要到2009年1月才能看到，第一轮海选已经在美国时间7月17日于旧金山开始。
不过海选的实际过程和电视上表现出来的很不一样。你在海选地点露个面，排上几个小时的队，然后进去见西蒙·考威尔、宝拉·阿布杜和兰迪·杰克逊？没这么简单。你要很早就到海选地点去，等上很长时间，拿张票，改天再来，等上更长的时间，通过最初选。只有表现很上镜的（要么很好要么很糟糕）才能回来觐见三位评委。
这些已经在上周四早晨旧金山的牛宫（其实没有牛）开始了。据报道有7000名选手参加海选。今天，美偶的海选已经到了肯塔基州的路易斯维尔。
