Emotional Audition Has Judges In Tears On NEW American Idol 2025

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00:00You've got it.

00:01I know.

00:02We can do this.

00:03Yeah, we can.

00:04And you're going to be in there, right?

00:05Yes.

00:06Great.

00:07You can tell I'm nervous.

00:08Yeah.

00:09It's all right.

00:10One more.

00:11In Nashville, Tennessee, ladies and gentlemen.

00:13Mrs. Davis.

00:14All right.

00:15Come on in here first.

00:16Love you.

00:17All right.

00:18Hey.

00:19How are you?

00:20Welcome.

00:21I am not performing today.

00:22Oh, wow.

00:23Well, you might as well give it a shot.

00:24I mean, you know.

00:26I'm so grateful to be here.

00:28I have a special student of mine, Slater Nally, and he wrote a song for my son that

00:36was killed eight years ago.

00:39Slater had heard the story about my son, and I had written a poem, and the second year

00:45that I taught him, I asked, you know, would you mind looking at the poem?

00:49I'd love to see, you know, what your thoughts are and how you turn a poem into a song.

00:53So he did, and two weeks later, he wrote the song, and that's what he's going to sing

00:58today.

00:59Oh, my gosh.

01:01What's up?

01:02How we doing?

01:03We're good.

01:04Tell us who you are.

01:05I'm Slater Nally.

01:06I'm 17 from Atlanta, Georgia.

01:07Atlanta, Georgia.

01:08Very good.

01:09Well, you have had, like, the coolest introduction ever.

01:10Well, thank you.

01:11She's pretty awesome, too.

01:12It seems like you guys have a very special bond, and that's amazing.

01:13Yes, sir.

01:14Yes, sir.

01:24Thank you, Slater.

01:25Thank you, Slater.

01:28Oh.

01:29Yeah, thanks, Slater.

01:30Uh huh.

01:31Yes, sir.

01:32Yes, sir.

01:33I'm very grateful for her, and I'm glad that I could offer such a small notion, but I'm

01:34glad it's helped so much.

01:35Oh, thank you.

01:36Talk about the song for us.

01:37Yeah.

01:38This song's called Traces of You.

01:39I wrote it for Carter Davis.

01:40That's probably the most deep thing I've ever, 100 percent most deep I've ever written about.

01:43I didn't know Carter before any of this happened, and when Miss Davis told us, I just felt this

01:51presence come into my life essentially and I knew that I needed to do

01:56something. I went home and started working away on little notebook pages

02:01and eventually it turned into a song. I'm sorry.

02:05For Slater to not have known Carter and to write this song is just, it captured

02:15Carter, it captured hope. There's that person that I wish was still in my life.

02:21Just our faith that carries us and it felt like there was light and hope in

02:29the middle of it too. She was happy with how it turned out and yeah I'm just

02:37happy to be able to be here and play it and at least put a little joy in a

02:41dark place.

02:44Let's hear it.

02:57Your life was like a river running home

03:04That crooked smile made people talk, you know

03:11About the boy whose eyes flickered like the light before it goes

03:18Your life was like a river running home

03:24In the dark of night you always found the sun

03:31One look at you and I just come undone

03:38Now you visit me in shadows I can't reach and I can't run

03:45In the dark of night you always found the sun

03:52The moment breaks and you appear

03:59For a second I swear you're standing right here

04:05I'd give anything for love to be enough to make it true

04:12As the memories come resting in the view

04:17Of these traces of you

04:28Somewhere past the sky I can feel you dancing in the air

04:41Every single time I see a bird fly by I'm reminded

04:48It's your answer in my prayers

04:55The moment breaks and you appear

05:02And for a second I swear you're standing right here

05:09I'd give anything for love to be enough to make it true

05:16As the memories come resting in the view

05:21Of these traces of you

05:28Traces of you

05:39Your life was like a river running home

05:46That crooked smile made people talk, you know

05:54You okay over there?

06:03I'm not!

06:05You gonna be okay

06:07I'm not okay

06:09That was amazing

06:14Even though this was about your son

06:18Every single person that hears that can

06:21Fill in that memory with somebody that's in themselves

06:24And I couldn't have imagined you doing that any better

06:28Thank you very much, seriously

06:30That one line

06:32Your life was like a river running home

06:35God, the blues man

06:37That's the one

06:39Very powerful

06:41Thank you very much, it means a lot

06:43You just stick to walking out on stage

06:45And singing with your heart

06:47And the rest will take care of itself

06:50Sometimes we don't have to vote

06:52Luke, will you count it off so we can give it to him correctly?

06:561, 2, 3

06:58You're going to Hollywood

07:00That was amazing

07:02Oh my goodness

07:04I'm so lucky just to be able to sing that song

07:06Obviously meant the world to me

07:08You're going to Hollywood baby

07:10To have this gift

07:12I don't know, it's like

07:15To have this gift

07:17I don't know, it's like a little piece of Carter gets to live on in song

07:19Oh man

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