Joy, who is a graduate of Taylorsville High School in Taylorsville, Utah, appeared in the auditions phase as Megan Corkrey and then added her middle name Joy during the semi-finals. After the Wildcard episode, she dropped her last name, stating it was her ex-husband's and that she wanted to be known as Megan Joy from there on out. She has a son named Ryder.[2] She has stated that she is musically inspired by, among others, Björk after listening to her when she was 16.[3]
Joy revealed that. "I tried out for everything I could think of during junior high, in high school - didn't make anything," she added that "Even the choir that anyone can be in, I wouldn't even make like a silly little solo."[4] "It was sad," Joy said. "I cried a lot in those years." “I’ve never tried writing, so I don’t know what’s inside, but maybe it’s something super different and awesome that, you know, is new.”
Joy successfully auditioned for the eighth season of American Idol in Salt Lake City, Utah in 2008. She sang "Can't Help Lovin' Dat Man" by Helen Morgan and Simon Cowell said Joy was one of his favorite auditions, and that she had a seriously good voice. She had never had any formal singing classes.[5]
Joy is known for her strange dance moves and a fairytale sleeve tattoo.[3] Judge Kara DioGuardi has described her as "having a way of putting her signature on everything she does". DioGuardi mentioned on an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno that Megan Joy was one of her favorite two singers in the competition,[5] and Cowell has also expressed numerous times that she is one of his favorites.
Joy was not one of the three finalists chosen out of her semifinal performance group, but she returned for the "Wild Card" show and was selected by the judges to be in the Top 13. On the April 1 show, Joy remarked that she didn't care that Simon had not liked her performance the previous night. When she was subsequently eliminated, Ryan Seacrest asked Cowell if he would be using the "save" rule in Megan's case. Cowell demurred: "Megan, with the greatest respect, when you said that you don't care -- nor do we. So I'm not going to pretend that we're even going to contemplate saving you," replied Cowell. Thus her encore performance of "Turn Your Lights Down Low" would be her "swan song" on the show.[5] Despite all the bickering, Joy says that she and Cowell remain on good terms. After Wednesday's program, she says they both laughed and he told her that he enjoyed watching her. Joy had never been in the Bottom 3 prior to her elimination.
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