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It didn’t take long for American Idol to produce its first meme-worthy moment of the season.
After a two-year hiatus, the reality juggernaut made its triumphant return last night. New hosts! New network! Same Idol. While the show’s still in the process of finding its next Kelly Clarkson or Jennifer Hudson, the musical reality staple that helped redefine the genre already gifted us with its first buzzy moment of the season: wig.
Many fans tuning into last night’s American Idol premiere were perplexed by the use of the term “wig” between judge Katy Perry and contestant Noah Davis. The covert secret language between the two even confused Lionel Richie and Luke Bryan, as the clueless duo couldn’t decipher the meaning of “wig.”
“It’s not your language. It’s just for us,” Perry told her co-stars. Here’s what Decider’s Joe Reid had to say about the memorable exchange in his American Idol review:
Katy Perry bonds with Noah Davis over their shared stan-culture nomenclature (“Wig”! he gasps, pantomiming having his edges fully snatched by the moment; Katy concurs; Luke and Lionel puzzle heterosexually), and then Lionel Richie is so impressed by the lad’s singing that he promises him an alpaca. You had to be there. (But honestly, Lionel taking 30 seconds to relate the story of the time an alpaca aggressed him is why I have hopes that he’s our Paula.)
Lionel Richie and alpaca aggression aside, you don’t need to rewatch American Idol to learn the meaning of wig. During a recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel, Perry herself cleared up any confusion about the definition.
“It’s a language that sometimes the kids and I speak,” Perry told Kimmel. “It’s a little bit internet language. But when somebody basically sings really well… they sing so well that the wig flies off.”
Urban Dictionary agrees defining the term as “when someone does something so good that they go bald,” or “when something happens so unexpectedly, that your wig flies off your head.”
Watch the first episode of American Idol on Hulu.
