VIDEO: Lauren Alaina Breaks Out On American Idol

May 5 2011, Published 9:15 a.m. ET
By Breaking Celebrity News Staff
It was the Lauren Alaina show on Wednesday's American Idol.
The Rossville, Georgia native, 16, dazzled on a night contestants had to sing songs from the past and present.
Alaina's rendition of Carrie Underwood's Flat on the Floor and The Righteous Brothers' Unchained Melody led judge Randy Jackson to say she can "sing like a bird."
"That's what you proved tonight," Jackson told her.
Judge Jennifer Lopez said Alaina's take on the ballad, popularized in the film Ghost, "was a beautiful song, sang beautifully.”
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