American Idol Hannah Harper News: America Votes to Save the "Screaming Goat" Contestant Who Broke Simon Cowell's Eardrum and Twitter's Mute Button. In a twist that has the internet split between "spiritual awakening" and "sonic warfare hymn," Hannah Harper's American Idol audition—a genre-defying scream-singing of a folk song—has become the most polarizing moment in reality TV history, topping charts for both "most skipped video" and "most ironic revenge on modern culture."