Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
pinoyidol2006
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#1Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/23/12 at 11:54pm
Nobody here probably watches American Idol after the whole "sounds too Broadway" debacle, but I was watching the finale, and Jennifer Holliday was there to sing her song with a finalist. I wish I had a link right now. Anyway, for those who watched, what did you guys think?
As always, she looked like she was going to eat the microphone.
I like your imperturbable perspicacity.
#2Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 12:18amThis was one of the scariest things I've ever seen...and I loved it.
JP2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/07
#2Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 12:26am
She also wore a wig from Party City.
#3Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 12:51amAt least she was eating the microphone differently this time. I got a good laugh. Anyway, this girl probably should have won, but that's a separate issue.
JP2
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/2/07
#6Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 1:04amShe looks like Gayle King on a bad menopause day.
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HBP
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#7Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 1:42amhahahah i can't stop looking at those gifs.
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#9Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 1:50am
omg, look at their faces after Jennifer 'sings' the "not walking out" line at 1:21
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1hqCQLSCFc (go to 1 min 21)
"You can't overrate Bernadette Peters. She is such a genius. There's a moment in "Too Many Mornings" and Bernadette doing 'I wore green the last time' - It's a voice that is just already given up - it is so sorrowful. Tragic. You can see from that moment the show is going to be headed into such dark territory and it hinges on this tiny throwaway moment of the voice." - Ben Brantley (2022)
"Bernadette's whole, stunning performance [as Rose in Gypsy] galvanized the actors capable of letting loose with her. Bernadette's Rose did take its rightful place, but too late, and unseen by too many who should have seen it" Arthur Laurents (2009)
"Sondheim's own favorite star performances? [Bernadette] Peters in ''Sunday in the Park,'' Lansbury in ''Sweeney Todd'' and ''obviously, Ethel was thrilling in 'Gypsy.'' Nytimes, 2000
#10Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 8:03amAmazing. But the most amazing point of all is that the contestant, a 16 year old girl totally held her own with Jennifer. What a powerhouse that girl is and she really should have won!
#11Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 8:44amI was mortified by what I saw... but ^^^ props to Jessica for holding her own.
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#12Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 8:57am
the only better would have been her teeth popping out then
her wig falling off.....she is a FREAK....love her
Jessica should have one..she really killed it and held her own next to someone who was making all those faces..I would have started to laugh...and Jennifers ending was so over the top crazy...like a drag show
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#14Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 12:18pmThey could have at least put her wig on a little tighter. It looked like it was gonna fly off.
PattyO'Furniture
Featured Actor Joined: 8/12/04
#16Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 12:58pm
That was epic!
Jennifer: "NOOO Bitch, this is my song..and this is how you SING it"
Jessica: "You're in my show, bring it"
Jennifer: "SANG gurl"
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Updated On: 5/24/12 at 12:58 PM
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#17Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 1:03pmCan someone please show me how you make these little clips?
HUSSY POWER!
------ HUSSY POWER!
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Broadway Legend Joined: 5/18/04
#18Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 1:14pm
I immediately ran to Facebook to see what RobbieJ had posted...
It was... words fail me.
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#19Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 1:20pm
She is incredible! She will always have the definitive version of this song to me because she's not afraid to give it her all. She doesn't care how she looks, she's invested in the message, and that's what makes it amazing.
Jessica definitely should've won. She was fantastic the whole night and the night before.
#20Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 1:21pm
I'm sorry...but in which parallel universe did Bebe Chez 'hold her own' with Ms. Holliday?
What I saw was akin to those nature documentaries where a starving lioness takes down a limping baby antelope.
Holliday brought it all. The extensions...the crazy...and the pipes. I was stunned by how clear her voice sounded.
And then there was the little Latina budgee, chirping away next to her, thinking she had soul. Thinking she knew what the song was. Little Bebe Chez is not going? Where? To eigth period??
Bitches, please.
Updated On: 5/24/12 at 01:21 PM
#21Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 1:41pm^lol
<-----I'M TOTES ROLLING MY EYES
#22Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 2:31pm
Son of RJ: What parallel universe do YOU live in? One that on its face has some pretty racist appearances, for one. "The little Latina budgee"? "Little Bebe Chez". If you applied those descriptions to other ethnic groups, i.e. that little back budgee, for example? And by the way, the word is budgie, YOU BUDGIE. (look it up, folks). Or "little boy ..." to a black male contestant.
But to say she was chirping? Really? REALLY????
Too funny in such a sad way.
CZJ at opening night party for A Little Night Music, Dec 13, 2009.
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#23Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 2:39pmcalling that contestant a budgie is offensive- to budgies.
#24Jennifer Holliday on American Idol
Posted: 5/24/12 at 2:46pm
Oh lawsy. She calls herself Bebe Chez...it's her 'alter'. Kinda like Sasha Fierce is Beyonce's 'alter.' If you watched that show (and I shamefully did...all season long), you would know that.
I'd have had no problem calling Vonzelle of a prior season a 'little black budgie' Or Colton of this season 'little white gayboy Christian budgie.' If you have a problem with it, I don't have the energy to care.
I've yet to come across a definition of budgie that is offensive to anyone. It's a bird. Bebe Chez is bird like. Like Vonzelle and Colton. Sometimes she chirps. Sometimes she honks. Frankly, I like the pipes...but girl got the personality of a budgie.
But thanks for the spelling lesson! It's one to grow on.
Updated On: 5/24/12 at 02:46 PM
