Idol Chatter & Voice Views

OK, I know you’re dying to know more about some of the talented singers we saw during tonight’s American Idol auditions Dallas.

Here goes …

Let’s start off with Todrick Hall, whose audition just became one of my all-time Idol favorites. Loved that original song. Did you catch those lines? “Simon’s face looking so unimpressed / sitting there like a bump on a log / Randy, what I got to do to be your dog.” Great stuff.

And not at all surprising, given Todrick’s background. According to his MySpace music page, this 24-year-old from Texas has been performing since age 9 and considers himself an actor and dancer as well as a singer.

His resume? Well, he’s performed at Disney, on cruise ships (please, no one tell Simon) and, more recently, made his debut on Broadway in “The Color Purple.”

He also wrote and produced a contemporary version of the Wizard of Oz called “Oz, the Musical,” that he took on tour, performing in front of 3,000 kids across America, according to that MySpace site.

Folks, here’s a hunch. We just met a season nine frontrunner.

Among the other golden ticket recipients …

* Maegan Wright is the gal we met Wednesday night whose parents divorced, leaving her to form a bond with her younger brother.

Head to her MySpace, and you can hear several songs from the Texas gal. “Love Is” is easily my favorite of the five you’ll find there.

According to her MySpace bio, she started playing the piano at age 4, starting singing soon after that and started writing songs at age 14.

She was 20 at the time of the Idol auditions in Dallas, and the show’s blue bar identified her as a cosmetologist.

Perhaps, but she’s also apparently part of a cover band called “Signed, Sealed and Delivered.” Or at least, she was before Idol.

Oh, she classifies her music as pop, R&B and hip-hop. And she’s “terrified of bugs.”

* We only saw Stephanie Daulong for a moment on Wednesday’s episode. But you can hear Stephanie by heading to her MySpace page. You’ll find six songs there.

Idol’s blue bar identified Stephanie as a 20-year-old bartender/songwriter from Austin, Texas. Her MySpace page indicates Stephanie either plans to release or has recently released an album called “Sleeping With Wolves.”

She classifies her music as southern rock / pop / soul, and she certainly has a distinctive sound. I haven’t had a chance to listen to all six of those songs, but “Back Up Plan” is very good. The title track to the aforementioned album is there, too.

Here’s what she writes on MySpace about her passion for music: “I wake up every morning and pinch myself because it feels like a dream come true to be able to do what I am most passionate about as a career. This art is my outlet to feeling shy, sexy, witty, insecure, vengeful, goofy, sad, young, wise, confident, and whatever other emotion that pours through my psyche & onto paper.”