Pleasantly Surprised by Glee's Don't Rain on My Parade

[Drunk Chita Rivera]

So I just got "Don't Rain on My Parade" from the Glee soundtrack and it is great. Lea Michele sings the song beautifully and thankfully they didn't make it too pop sounding. I suggest everyone should try and get a listen.

[luvtheEmcee]

So was I!

[PiraguaGuy2]

It sounded good, but I'm generally getting a little sick of Michele's voice. Same with Amber Riley's. They seem to begiving Michele all the belty songs and Riley nothing but stereotypical "big black girl" numbers. Maybe they could give more than one song a season to Ushkowitz and Agron, or maybe even Santana and the idiot blonde one.

[A NIce Macaroon]

I hate the way they mix Ms. Michele's voice on every song. She's a capable singer and doesn't need that digital sound that some pop singers with weak voices use to conceal their flaws.

[legally_popular]

^I agree. And yes, I love the song too!

[SporkGoddess]

I know, I wish Ushkowitz got to sing more. She has a great voice.

[A NIce Macaroon]

Did they ever release her "Tonight"?

These episodes were all filmed before they started getting public feedback. I think we'll see several changes in role size and song assignments when they return.

[Pgenre]

LEALPHABA IZ LIKE SO KOOL U GUYZ! SHE IZ LIKE SO EFFFING GOOD U KNOWWWW> //

That being said, I want Lea and Idina to do the Babs/Donna Summer "No More Tears (Enough Is Enough)". There, I said it.

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[Drunk Chita Rivera]

"LEALPHABA IZ LIKE SO KOOL U GUYZ! SHE IZ LIKE SO EFFFING GOOD U KNOWWWW> // "


What??

[A NIce Macaroon]

Chita for your convenience I have used my recently patented Wickhead translator for the post in question.

"Lea Michele is really, really talented, everyone. She is very, very remarkable. You know it."

[SporkGoddess]

Chita, what's your avatar from? It's really cute!

I listened to Amber Riley's "And I Am Telling You" and I just wasn't that blown away. Dunno why, I usually love her voice.

[MusicSnob1]

Drunk, you WOULD be surprised. It's really not that good. We must be listening to two different recordings.

I am so over Lea Michele - her tonal qualities are obnoxious and she's such a bore!

[alterego]

GLEE is alright, but if I want showtunes in a television series I'd go for something like this - the BBC's BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE everytime.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JH1hD3g8AwM

and

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OGYgSif36ic

[charlieoflondon]

Beautiful people is great, I believe it shows on Logo in the US? I'm from the UK and its one of my favourite shows

[Phyllis Rogers Stone]

Pgenre, you got her name wrong. It's Lea Michelphaba!

[Pgenre]

Sorry, PRS: BUT OF COURSE! It's positively morrible I made that mistake! Maybe I need some personality dialysis-ter?

Beat me with the olive whip, beat me with the cane!



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[JoeKv99]

I haven't seen it but I hate it. Why don't they sing anything from Dance of the vampires?

[Pgenre]

I'm sure they will, probably sometime after Thursday when ADDAMS gets panned.

And "Total Eclipse of The Heart" will undoubtedly make an appearance sooner or later on GLEE.

Better luck next time!

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[Drunk Chita Rivera]

"Chita for your convenience I have used my recently patented Wickhead translator for the post in question. "

"Lea Michele is really, really talented, everyone. She is very, very remarkable. You know it."

I knew what it meant I just thought it was unnecessary as I didn't mention anything about Wicked or acted like a crazy fan.


SporkGoddess, It's a New Yorker picture!


"Drunk, you WOULD be surprised. It's really not that good. We must be listening to two different recordings.

I am so over Lea Michele - her tonal qualities are obnoxious and she's such a bore!"


And who exactly are you? And what did you mean by that? You think I have bad taste? You really have no right to criticize my opinion.

[Dantes]

I don't bet the Glee hate, this is a fantastic and quirky show, yes they don't sing live on the show, yes they mess with the vocals and yes the music and sound of the vocals does not feel like it comes from an organic place in the show when they start singing....but i thought that was the point, to give it that quirky edge

"I listened to Amber Riley's "And I Am Telling You" and I just wasn't that blown away. Dunno why, I usually love her voice."

I loved her take, this is a big song for such a young lady and she was fantastic

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

Honestly, I did not like her version of this song. Lea Michele's voice is just kind of nasal and she randomly makes those strange breathy squealing noises that I just don't understand. It's not a bad interpretation at all, but she impersonated Barbra Streisand the whole time, in her intonation and pronunciation and everything, and that kind of annoys me, too.

[ggersten]

Not to defend Ms. Lea, but, a 15 year old HS student WOULD try to impersonate Ms. Streisand. They would have listened to Funny Girl a zillion times and learned every intonation. A 15 year old would not necessarily know how to make a song her own. Still, I really really enjoyed the rendition (although the audience reaction was a wee bit over the top - thank gd for the judge's scene!). Best part of Amber's number was the "do I really have to tell you what song?" as she knows how stereotypical it is for AA girls to sing AIATY. But, her rendition was good - not blow it out of the roof. It's a great powerful song - but it really takes having been beaten up in life to give the song its true power. When you watch the Tony clip of Jennifer Holliday, you see and feel the pain and emotion in that number. While Ms. Holliday was young then, she'd certainly lived some of the Effie role (hired, fired, hired etc) Ms. Riley just isn't there yet.

[E.Davis]

I agree with ggersten. She is 15 years and she it is not Lea Michelle singing the song, it is Rachel Berry singing...So of course she is going to singing it the way she has learned it and listened to it since she was 4.

[CapnHook]

I just have one comment to add after reading the original post:

In GLEE, it's not 100% up to the actors as to HOW to sing the song. They are very much directed. There is always a subtext going on which takes the songs out of their original context and therefore the next thing you know, we'll have "Get Me To The Church on Time" sung gangsta-style.

[Schmerg_The_Impaler]

I guess I know what you mean about a fifteen-year-old girl not knowing how to make a song her own... but whoa, is Lea Michele's character only supposed to be fifteen? I've only seen clips, not a full version of the song, but fifteen? I thought she had trouble passing for a high-school senior, let alone a sophomore!

I know it sounds like I hate Lea Michele, but I don't. She is perfect for the role of Rachael, though, from what I've seen. I just don't really like the music direction of this show (and I have a chip on my shoulder when it comes to digitally altered vocals, especially since I know she can sing without them, as a stage performer).