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Life doesn't always provide us with second chances. But considering the "best of the rest" episode of "Idol" — essentially, whatever was entertaining in the seven audition cities that didn't already make it on the air — it seems like "American Idol" is looking to wrong that right.

Take what happened with 19-year-old Alesha, a California bleach blonde who had her similarly haired mother in tow. The girl, who wasn't exactly bubbling over with performance presence, busted into a Celine Dion number that Simon deemed "painful" and "dreadful."