{"id":27223,"date":"2024-02-23T05:55:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-23T10:55:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/?p=27223"},"modified":"2024-02-22T11:30:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-22T16:30:21","slug":"lainey-wilson-was-rejected-by-american-idol-seven-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/02\/lainey-wilson-was-rejected-by-american-idol-seven-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Lainey Wilson Was Rejected By &#8220;American Idol&#8221; Seven Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lainey Wilson is killing it this year.<\/p>\n<p>She won the Grammy for Best Country Album and the People&#8217;s Choice Award for Favorite Female Country Artist.<\/p>\n<p>But did you know that she got rejected from &#8220;American Idol&#8221; seven times?<\/p>\n<p>So it was really weird when she finally made it on stage to perform at the season 21 finale.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;I tried out seven times. I took the long way around, but finally made it on &#8216;American Idol&#8217;. I never made it past the first round.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>When Luke Bryan was told about Lainey&#8217;s &#8220;Idol&#8221; past, he was a bit shocked.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;That was the first time I heard that, but I am glad she didn&#8217;t take the &#8216;Idol&#8217; letdown to heart.&#8221; He then admitted, &#8220;we don&#8217;t always get it right.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Lainey was also rejected by &#8220;The Voice.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In case you missed it, her performance at the People&#8217;s Choice Awards on Sunday was really solid. She sang a medley of her most popular country hits.<\/p>\n<div class=\"video-shortcode embed-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" width=\"610\" height=\"355\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/u3ihTyTTp_U\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lainey Wilson is killing it this year.","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":26152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"featured_img_display":"Yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[3337],"tags":[524,800,5520,4887,963],"class_list":["post-27223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-country-music-news","tag-american-idol","tag-grammy-awards","tag-lainey-wilson","tag-peoples-choice-awards","tag-the-voice"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-15 15:25:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"react_link":"https:\/\/chok.com\/blogs\/country-music-news\/2024\/02\/lainey-wilson-was-rejected-by-american-idol-seven-times\/","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/16"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/briwebapp.net\/chokfm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}