LuzElena Avitia was on the phone listening to Gina's farewell conference call with reporters, and provides her summary of the proceedings: Simon Cowell, a father figure? Newly eliminated idol Gina Glocksen thinks so, telling reporters she saw him as a parental type on the show. “…He’ll say that I had a bad performance just to make me stronger because he did like me and he does see something special in me.
He just wanted to push me to that next level.” Glocksen was voted off Wednesday night after her performance of Charlie Chaplin’s classic , which by definition clashed with the Idol’s rocker-chick image, but nonetheless seemed awfully appropriate as an exit song. “As I was singing it, it kind of clicked like after the first couple lines that I sang like, ‘Wow I’ m just actually singing about myself’ and I kind of changed one of the words like, ‘when there’s clouds in the sky, I’ll get by…’ instead of ‘you‘ll get by.
’ That song is definitely going to be a very special song for me for the rest of my life now.” Also special to Glocksen is having made it this far in the competition. She tried out for three times before making it to the top 10 on her fourth attempt.
“I’m glad that I got cut on the previous rounds when I did, she said, because they obviously thought that I had things to work on. And I did that and I had a couple of years to work on it. And I think that it really came out this year.
” The Idol experience, Glocksen says, includes 15-hour days, with their schedule running from Thursday to Thursday. “We pick our song on Thursday, rehearse them for three days, meet with our mentor on Saturday, do the Ford (which sponsors ) shoot on Sunday, rehearse on Monday, show on Tuesday, show on Wednesday, pick songs on Thursday, and it's just a continuous circle.” Lastly, here are some tidbits Gina fans might want to know: Favorite star mentor during the show: Diana Ross Song she wanted to sing but couldn’t: by Pink during Top 24 week (Pink doesn’t clear her songs).
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