Just pray and go for it.” And the audience in that room was very supportive, as well. Then, in my heart, I was just like, “This is your moment. And my hand was shaking so hard that I had to take the other hand and hold it. I wanted to meet him so badly and I wanted to sing on that show I had prayed for that. I remember it was so scary, because a couple of months before that, I had put up a picture of Simon Cowell on my wall. TVLINE | What was it like being on that stage during the audition? There was one camera shot from behind where we got the “Stacy’s eye view” of what was going on there. So I was really happy that people felt my passion and had compassion for me and my story. But then they aired the whole audition and people were so supportive: “Wow, we love your voice” and “You made me cry.” I feel like that was a genuine moment for me.

STACY FRANCIS | Well, I really beat myself up I found everything wrong that I could with that “Natural Woman” performance. TVLINE | Having that pre-season hype, did that make you feel anxious or excited, or maybe both?

Masked Singer’s Sea Queen Revealed? Go On, ‘Try’ to Tell Us We’re Wrong I’m like, “Okay, maybe I can get an endorsement deal with a waterproof mascara company.” I could just stand in the commercial with mascara running down my face and, “Don’t use that mascara, use this one.” STACY FRANCIS | I’ll never live down the mascara running down my face. TVLINE | So let’s talk about your “Natural Woman” audition, which was used heavily in ads for The X Factor‘s first season, then got released as part of an eight-minute promo reel before the season aired. TVLine caught up with Season 1’s 10th place finisher to ask her about controversy over the way her backstory was presented on the show, her personal take on the right time to go for a glory note, and whether or not she thinks she’s cut out to be a pop star. So I'm going to do more of that, you know? So I learned so much.Stacy Francis brought drama to The X Factor stage right from her audition - a tear streaked rendition of “(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman” - all the way to her final moments on the stage (a tense judges’ vote on whether to cut her, or petulant rapper Astro). And they feel really impressed and happy and excited. And everyone's like, 'Oh my gosh, goosebumps.' And I'm like, OK, and like, you know, as a performer, all you want to do is make people feel something.Īnd oh, this actually gets people to get goosebumps. So I started to play around with that.Īnd 'Purple Rain,' for example, it just goes bigger and bigger and bigger. But on the show, I was like, if I sing real loudly, people respond. Like, I used to just sing very quietly and restrain myself. And also, I got to develop my vocals and realize what people like and don't like and, you know, take that into consideration a little bit. I've only known the music side of things. And because of that, I got to learn all these great, you know, techniques of performing on stage and what actually goes on with, you know, styling, staging, and choreography like this, things that I've never knew before. Otherwise, you'll fall behind.Īnd you know, I went through it. Like, it was like you've got to learn quickly like this. But also what a great training ground for somebody to like get into the industry. So it was like a really steep learning curve. And I had never experienced that before until then. Yeah, like, it was just a lot of things to do. You had to, you know, go with like do 100 things you got to learn, like two new songs. And it was just the schedule, crazy schedule every single day. And yeah, so that was what I wanted to keep doing.īut then when I was on the show, there was just a lot of pressure being on television. Then I was working, sort of working as a singer-songwriter, performing in little- you know, I did the Korean Christian circuit. Video transcriptĭAMI IM: You know, for me, I grew up all my life playing music. The X Factor winner Dami Im reveals brutal truth behind reality TV.

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