[cheers and applause]
- Hi.
- Hi. - Hello.
Welcome to "America's Got Talent."
- Thank you.
- What's your name? - My name is Mia Morris.
- Hi, Mia Morris.
And how old are you, Mia?
- I'm 17.
Junior in high school.
- Where ya--where you from?
- Nashville, Tennessee.
- Obviously you go-- you go to school.
- I do, unfortunately, yes.
- Unfortunately? - [laughs]
- You're not enjoying school?
- School schmool. It is what it is.
- I agree. - [laughs]
- Could live without it, you know.
- That's funny.
- And what are you gonna be doing for us tonight?
- So I'm a songwriter.
I'm gonna be playing one of my songs.
But I'm also a multi-instrumentalist.
Um, and I'm-- [chuckles]
[cheers and applause]
I'm playing as a one-woman band.
- How do you play as a one-woman band?
How do you play everything?
- With this here loop pedal.
- Oh, looping.
Explain to the people what looping is.
- So I like to describe a loop pedal
as a recording studio at your feet.
- Right. - I'll show you.
Check.
This is what a loop pedal does.
- So you record each individual sound yourself
and then it plays on a loop and hopefully it comes together
and magic happens. - And hopeful--
hopefully it comes together, yeah.
- I love that.
Is this what you want to do for a living?
Like, what's the dream?
- My dream is to share my music and my writing
with the world.
- Wow. - Yeah.
- I cannot wait to hear what you do.
- Thank you. [cheers and applause]
- I like this kind of thing.
- [beatboxing]
[playing bass guitar]
- Whoo.
♪
- Wow.
♪
[vocalizing]
- That's cool. - Isn't that cool?
- ♪ Your daddy thinks I'm a loser ♪
♪ He likes his life of illusion ♪
♪ I got a bad reputation, yeah ♪
♪ Like the rest of my generation ♪
♪ Don't want you to trying to fix me ♪
- Whoo!
- ♪ I don't care what you think I should be ♪
♪ What I should be
♪ Before you even say
♪ Hey, hey, hey
♪ I've already gone my way
- Whoo!
- ♪ So if anyone's asking, I'm not ♪
♪ La, la, la dee la
[cheers and applause]
- They loved it.
- She did it, man. She did it.
[Paramour's "Ain't it Fun" playing]
- Thank you.
♪
- I--I--I just want to start.
I just think you're a star.
I think looping is so cool. - Thank you.
- The fact that you're playing every instrument--
I could watch a concert.
I could watch you doing this.
I--I just love what you did.
Heidi, what do you think? - I thought it was
a lot of fun. One-woman show.
both: Yeah. - Thank you.
[cheers and applause]
- Sofía? - I think you're one
of the coolest girls that's been standing
in that stage. - [giggles]
- Simon?
- I think, Mia-- you know, look,
it was at times a bit of a mess,
but then again, it should be.
You know, it's kind of, like, it's all done in the moment,
so therefore it's not perfect,
but it shouldn't be perfect,
which is why I loved it so much.
- Thank you.
- I'd rather listen to somebody like you
who's original and talented rather than someone
who comes with some horrible backing track
and sings a song I've heard a million times.
This year it's all about originality.
- I can do that.
- We're gonna vote really quickly.
I'm giving you your first yes.
[cheers and applause] - Thank you!
- I give you a second yes. - Thank you.
- Sofía?
- I love you. Yes.
- Thank you. - Three yeses.
- Whoo!
- This is genius, Mia. Absolutely genius.
Four yeses. - Four yeses!
- Thank you guys so much!
- I love you! - Thank you.
♪ Oh
- All right, Mia, you rocked that.
You rocked it.
- Cute. - I loved that.
- Yeah, that was cool. - It was so cool.
It was cool. - It's cool.
- Let's go!
- You did so good, honey. That was great.
- Thank you so much.