The morning after Janell Wheeler, Ashley Rodriguez, Joe Muoz and Tyler Grady were eliminated from Season 9 of American Idol, they opened up about their American Idol experience on a press call.
Janell Wheeler was eliminated on the Top 24 results show, but has a positive outlook on the Idol experience and her future. Many of the semifinalists experience problems with song choice their first week out, and thats what Janell struggled with too. I think I knew exactly what [the judges] wanted from me, Janell said. I just was choosing to do it the second week. The first rehearsal with me and that song was a little more country; however, it lost a lot of its rugged sound and energy, so I did switch it back to the rocker version and I felt like it definitely pumped me up and helped me perform better. But I think that in order for me to really have secured a place to the next round, I should have gone ahead and brought the guitar out and performed a top 40 hit like American Boy, which I was definitely planning on doing next week. But I will definitely, as I progress in my future, I will be sticking with a style that I do best, which is so close to my Hollywood audition, the most memorable one, which was American Boy.
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