"Billie eilish wannabe": America's Got Talent fans divided over Cole Swensen's performance

America's Got Talent Season 20 auditions night two featured Cole Swensen's musical performance. The 23-year-old performer arrived with his guitar. While he sang, his mother, Judy, played cello.

With Cole Swensen performing Coldplay's Viva La Vida, he received four yeses from the judges and a standing ovation from Howie Mandel and Mel B. The Audience also loved his rendition of the song and cheered for his performance.

However, fans online had different views of the performance. Some fans enjoyed Cole's performance and had amazing things to share, but others felt he wasn't that good. America's Got Talent fans took to the social media platform X and reacted to Cole Swensen's audition.

A fan wrote on X:

"They literally let vocally challenged billie eilish wannabe sleep inducing cole swensen pass through instead of AUSTIN LMFAOOOO #agt."

Another person mentioned:

"This cole swensen guy is the human form of ambien #agt terrible voice, idc."

One more person wrote:

"Cole swensen is the vocally challenged human form of ambien and you passed on austin for the dumbest illogical reasons i'm so sureeee #agt."

There were many fans who also enjoyed the performance and wrote how amazing it was. A fan wrote:

"Cole Swensen is on IMusic and just played a few seconds of his Linger cover and got goosebumps #AGT."

One more fan commented:

"That was an incredible performance by cole swensen, He is amazing tonight #AGT."

A netizen mentioned Cole and his mother and appreciated their performance:

"Cole Swensen is an amazing singer, and his mom is an amazing cello player. #AGT."

A person mentioned how the performance was "beautiful":

"The tone of Cole's voice is really nice! Beautiful performance! #AGT."

One more fan wrote:

"Cole and his mom Judy were amazing. I definitely see them moving on #AGT."

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America's Got Talent Season 20: Cole Swensen and his mother impressed the judges and the audience

One of the performances on America's Got Talent Season 20 auditions was by Cole Swensen. His rendition of Viva La Vida by Coldplay left the judges and the audience stunned. As his performance ended, everyone cheered for him.

One of the judges, Mel B, said that Cole made that song "his own" and that he had a "distinctive" tone. Sofia stated it was "amazing" to see a family coming together and that it made her emotional.

Before getting to share his actual thoughts, America's Got Talent judge Simon Cowell mentioned that if Cole had arrived alone, his performance would have been "really good." Everyone was shocked to hear that, because Cole's mother playing cello caught everyone's hearts.

Soon, Simon added:

"However, with your mom, it was a great audition. It made everything...way...I don't know...way more interesting and actually made you, in my opinion, very cool to do that, because you're not following the herd."

Simon added that doing what Cole had did made him "stand out." His mother agreed to that and looked at Cole in agreement. She also whispered to Cole, "I told you," which both Sophia and Mel B noticed.

After getting four yeses, as Cole and his mom were leaving the stage, he got emotional. Later, the judges discussed how his mom whispered to him when Simon was telling him about following his own path.

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NBC airs new America's Got Talent Season 20 episodes every Tuesday.