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From Rhizome Artbase
Marisa’s American Idol Audition Training Blog is a performance in which the artist embarked on a year-long journey of preparation and training to audition for the television show American Idol, documenting the process on a blog. The highly personal digital narrative attracted a massive online following for critically investigating the American Idol audition process and its perpetuation of gender stereotypes and normative beauty standards, as well as the show’s perverse take on what it meant to be a “good singer."