“I cried with you”: American Idol fans echo Katy Perry’s sentiments over the Santa Fe school shooting incident
Samuel Coleman
Published Jan 15, 2026
The famous reality rivalry series American Icon season 21 circulated a spic and span episode on Sunday, February 26, 2023, at 8 pm ET on ABC. It reported the new arrangement of competitors acting in the second piece of the tryouts attempting to dazzle the adjudicators and watchers and procure their passes to progress to the Hollywood Week round of the opposition. While some figured out how to intrigue, others neglected to do something significant.
On the current week’s episode of American Icon, Three pointer Louis regarded his old neighborhood of St Nick Fe after it got a terrible standing from a school shooting occurrence in 2018. Katy Perry pummeled the framework in a close to home explosion. Fans repeated the adjudicator’s feelings and took to web-based entertainment to communicate their feelings.
The hit ABC series debuted its 21st season last week and has been very generally welcomed by the audience. Watchers have cherished seeing the challengers act before the three adjudicators – pop princess Katy Perry, Oscar-winning artist/musician Lionel Richie, and country whiz Luke Bryan.
All through the episode, fans saw numerous endearing and persuasive stories that left them profound.
This evening’s episode of American Symbol saw the adjudicators inviting the competitors to the second round of tryouts. All through the episode, watchers saw a great deal of skilled vocalists and performers make that big appearance.
Many tryouts left them astounded and a few even brought tears. One among them was Three pointer Louis’ tryout in the opposition.
The 21-year-old vocalist went into the tryout room with a great deal of energy and fervor. Three pointer, from St Nick Fe, Texas, is a full-time sleeping cushion sales rep and was good to go and prepared to perform for the adjudicators, who took a moment getting a kick out of the chance to the contender. For his tryout on the show, he sang Bourbon Myers’ Stone.
The American Symbol passes judgment on completely partaken in the exhibition and gave Three pointer a thunderous applause. Luke Bryan expressed that the contender had a “wonderful voice” and it was just time that “Chris Stapleton’s supporters fired appearing.”
After inquiring as to why the vocalist decided to make a big appearance on the truth rivalry, Three pointer owed it to his involvement in the school shooting in St Nick Fe that transformed him.
On May 18, 2018, a shooter strolled into St Nick Fe Secondary School and ruthlessly shot eight understudies and two instructors. In spite of the fact that Three pointer survived the ordeal, he lost a great deal of his companions and furthermore left a terrible standing about St Nick Fe, which the challenger needed to eliminate. This left the appointed authorities profound and saw a close to home explosion from Katy Perry.
“Our nation has f***ing bombed us. This isn’t completely fine. You ought to be singing here since you love music. Not on the grounds that you needed to go through that. You didn’t need to lose eight companions.”
While Lionel noticed that individuals of the nation have endured this for such a long time that it has turned into a standard, Katy noticed that a change needs to occur. The adjudicators, still close to home, gave their endorsement and high level Three pointer to Hollywood Week.
Season 21 of American Symbol has seen a lot of ability over the fourteen days of the show being on air. A few performers and vocalists have tried out and have left the appointed authorities shocked with their melodic abilities.
As the season advances, numerous different challengers will knock the watchers’ socks off. Fans should remain tuned to observe what’s more to come this season.
Remember to check out a spic and span episode of American Symbol next Sunday, Walk 5, 2023, at 8 pm ET on ABC.