This frightening Goth contestant is really a past 'Idol' winner in disguise
When 20-year-old Goth girl Lady Mapo -- who got her stage name from her dead cat, natch -- stomped into the American Idol audition room Monday rocking her clunky platform boots, head-to-toe Hot Topic couture, double lip rings, corpse-blue lipstick, and a scowl, and practically trailing clove smoke behind her, she seemed on a mission to bring Idol to the dark side. (She also kind of resembled RuPaul's Drag Race alumnus Adore Delano, who competed on Idol Season 7 as Danny Noriega, but I digress.) “Last year was boring -- too American,” Lady Mapo drawled monotonically in her deep Daria voice. The judges looked scared. Personally, I was hoping she’d do a scary-good cover of a Siouxsie or Sisters of Mercy deep cut. Instead, Mapo surprisingly cued up “Rainbow Connection” -- the warm ‘n’ fuzzy Muppets ballad that last season’s winner, Maddie Poppe, sang at her adorable audition and reprised with the actual Kermit the Frog on the finale. I got ready for Mapo to “make the song her own” with a death-metal Cookie Monster voice. But then she dramatically ripped off her black Bettie Page wig… and lo and behold, it was the actual Maddie Poppe!
Maddie actually made a spookily convincing Goth. The judges never saw it coming (I sure didn’t!), and they seemed greatly amused -- and probably a bit relieved -- to find out it was the Season 16 golden girl under all that sooty black eye makeup. I just wish they’d put Lady Mapo through to Hollywood. She looked like she belonged there already. Don't forget to check out Yahoo Play - our new interactive app where you can cash in your points and get tons of cool stuff! Download it now in the app store. Read more from Yahoo Entertainment:
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