I 100% believe this! One of my best friends has an amazing voice... like in the ranks of Celine and Whitney (no joke). Girl is a professional singer (reads music, vocal ability, even took classes when younger and recorded music when she was a teen). She tried out for XFactor-USA and she got through THREE ROUNDS. But on the last round (before you can see the judges) she had to sing in front of one of the major producers on the show. She sang a small bit but the producer stopped her and did a full out interview wanting to know her background story. My friend is a single, mother in the military and the producer was trying to put words in her mouth and try to manipulate her story (trying to push her to say that the father of her child was a deadbeat which was far from truth or saying that her only option in life was military or this singing goal but she's college educated...) I mean, it was ridiculous with everything that she told me and she said she'll never do anything like that ever again. Of course she didnt get it because she didnt have the "story" but that's a shame at what these music competition shows have turned into.