'American Idol' Contestant JMarie Thanks 'Idol' for Helping Her Confidence

American Idol hopeful JMarie shares the show helped her with more than just her singing career 

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Speaker 1 (00:00):
We are bringing in Jay Marie. Maybe you don't know
that name, but you will. Jay Marie, who's on American
Idol on Sunday night, eight o'clock ABC stream on Hulu.

Speaker 2 (00:10):
Hi j Marie? Hi? How you doing?

Speaker 1 (00:13):
Ryan?

Speaker 2 (00:14):
I am great? You look like a superstar. Thank you.

Speaker 1 (00:17):
I try so I got to tell you. J Marie
auditioned for American Idol. A lot of people we meet
say I never thought I would do it, or I
just didn't think I had a shot, or in jay
Marie's case, which is why I wanted to talk to
her again, because you got emotional about your audition and
about people shutting you down and telling you no, and

(00:38):
you couldn't do things. And I think I know, Tanya
and I have been in that position. Have you been
in that position since you were good enough? You will
not make it. I've been told you will not make.

Speaker 2 (00:47):
It until I got to kiss. Everyone says your no
to me. So many doors closed.

Speaker 1 (00:51):
So talk about that a little bit, Jay Marie, and
how you got through it.

Speaker 3 (00:55):
Honestly.

Speaker 4 (00:56):
Yeah, I grew up with like I knew I could
sing right, and people would tell me I, like Jay,
you could sing, but they would always tell me that
I was too chunky, or I wasn't cute enough, or they.

Speaker 3 (01:07):
Just don't see me on stage. They would always compare
me to like the other great women in the industry.

Speaker 4 (01:12):
So I started in my own real life just comparing
myself to the everyday girl working down the street, because
like I grew up with people comparing me to people
that I looked up to and telling me that I.

Speaker 3 (01:23):
Wasn't good enough. So honestly, I just really started in
this point in my life trying to like fight against it.

Speaker 4 (01:29):
To be honest, like my whole life has just been
a series of me thinking, you know what, I want
to do this. I want to be an artist, but
maybe I don't have what it takes because I just
always felt like there was something about me that wasn't
good enough. And I just feel like in this point
in my life, and thanks to American Idol too, it
really helped me a lot inside. I'm not gonna lie
like it was more than just a singing competition. It

(01:51):
really made me believe like I was accepted and I
can be in those spaces with all those other great artists.

Speaker 1 (01:56):
And how much does people in life they tell you
won't shouldn't I had. I know specifically one person in
my early days that actually told me you'll never work
in TV. You'll never You're not good enough. You never
you Ryan, That's what they told me. This was a
TV producer said you'll never do it upset me so much,

(02:18):
so much that can't make I can't say no to anything. Yeah,
let me play some of her audition.

Speaker 2 (02:23):
Here sings why did she goes in? And sings a
carry Underwood song? To carry Underwood, I dug my.

Speaker 4 (02:27):
Dies it to the side of it, pretty little soup,
the fall wheel driver my name and two with a Lanbacy.

Speaker 3 (02:40):
To the Louis Wilson on a boat last.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Smashed all in all maybe next time?

Speaker 1 (02:52):
Before did she.

Speaker 4 (02:55):
Got Shane?

Speaker 2 (02:56):
Did you lear in the eye? I mean, what do
you do when you're singing the song to the artist?

Speaker 3 (03:01):
I did look her in the eye in some insanity.
I don't know what happened.

Speaker 4 (03:05):
So I don't know what took over me, because right
before I went in there, I was like crying. I
was so nervous, and I do remember looking her dead
in her eyes.

Speaker 1 (03:13):
That has to be like an out of body experience,
I think to be singing her song to her.

Speaker 2 (03:19):
Plus you dug you. I heard the you dunk deep
into the soul when you sing that grit I did.

Speaker 3 (03:26):
I was terrified. Though I'm not gonna lie. I feel
like it wasn't on the body experience.

Speaker 2 (03:30):
I don't think I'm.

Speaker 4 (03:31):
Because like I feel like when I left the room,
that's when I was back to me, and when I
was there, I feel like I was a whole.

Speaker 3 (03:36):
Different chick, like I get you.

Speaker 1 (03:39):
You gotta see Jy Marie in this audition singing into
the Eyes of Carrie Underwood on Sunday eight o'clock ABC
streaming on Hulu.

Speaker 2 (03:47):
Jamuary, so great to see you.

Speaker 1 (03:49):
Congratulations on all the breakthroughs you're talking about here, and
we wish.

Speaker 2 (03:52):
You the best.

Speaker 3 (03:53):
Thank you, Ryan, I appreciate you, and I'm gonna keep.

Speaker 2 (03:56):
Working, keep working. Thanks bye, guys.

Speaker 1 (04:00):
Side Jay Marie singing how about car Enderwood beating up
a truck?

Speaker 2 (04:07):
I love that Carryer. That's one of my favorite carryers songs.