By Breaking Celebrity News Staff

What Shawn Armenta lacked in talent, he made up for in drama.

The Phoenix airline worker, 50, didn't take kindly to the feedback he received from the judges following his performance of his original song Candy Girl, as The X Factor's rousing new season kicked off Wednesday.

Following the horribly-out-of-tune performance, Simon Cowell compared the singer to "a mouse trying to be an elephant."

Armenta shot back, "I worked way too freakin' hard for this, and I'm not a bad singer -- I know I'm not."

New judge Demi Lovato tried to be sensitive in her rejection, telling Armenta that "a lot of people work really, really hard for their dreams, but it