“I did two original songs, and I have wanted to do one since. But at the end of the day, we have to go off what they send us,” Slater told Parade.
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“You’ve got a lot of really talented people around here,” the 17-year-old from Atlanta, GA, says. “Everybody’s more talented than the next. I’ve never been in a situation where I can’t tell who’s the most talented, because everybody here is just equally talented, and it’s going to be really hard for America to vote. But hearing that I got put into the Top 10, America’s pick, was one of the coolest moments. I was really happy to hear the news that people are enjoying my music. At the end of the day, that’s what I’ve always wanted.”
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“They help me arrange songs in ways I never thought I could,” he says. “’Somewhere Over the Rainbow’ was actually my arrangement. But I was really excited to see and hear that I can take a song, not just a textbook song, and I can move it around how I want it to be sounding.”
Slater is also doing that with the outfits that he dons to take the stage. Once he made it to the live rounds, he was given a budget to select his wardrobe.
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There’s only three more weeks until the American Idol 2025 finale. And there's a good chance that Slater will be around most of that time, so he will have to live with his missing home until the end.
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