Have you guys SEEN this ??? O_O

[Elgee]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SpMDoqQdZ50

 

I thought Kara was having me on - but that is incredible !!

[Barmacral]

Yes, I have actually, it is quite impressive. You'll also enjoy this one (its actually kinda hilarious)

 

And for the record, I've never seen any of that show other than these two clips.

[Jaydena]

Yup we are actually talking about in the Green board in a thread called How Amazing I think. What a great voice.

[Naeann]

She does have an incredible voice.  I had posted a link on my facebook but took it down becase one of my friends left a rude comment saying it's only amazing because she's so homely and no one expected it.  First time I heard it I didn't watch... just played it in the background.. and I was still floored.  Had nothing to do with what she looks like in my opinion.

[Elgee]

The way she looks and her age does have something to do with it, I think - in a "don't judge a book by its cover" way.

 

But that voice is pure awesomeness.

[Desiree]

*drops jaw*

 

O_O

[Loreina]

:) IMHO, she would have been more believable in that role than the Hollywood beauties they always cast in it. A beautiful girl with soot/dirt on her face is still a beautiful girl. And I've just always found it hard to buy a 'he done me wrong song' from a beautiful girl. That just never made sense to me. I'd look at her and think, "WT-? I could understand him leaving you if you were 5'11" and 186 lbs, with mousy brown hair or whatever. But you're 5'5", 120 lbs and gorgeous, why would he leave you?" ::)  I know that probably says more about my hangups than theirs, but oh well.  :)

The song was pitched a little too low for her, but she sang it well. And she's braver than I am.  :)

[Carwyn]

On her yourtube, there is a link to her singing Cry Me a River (not the Justin Timberlake version), that is just awesome.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI2DxkrgpgQ

 

And that Greek thing was AWESOME! omg!

 

Also, this guy back in 2007 was simply fantastic!

 

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

 

it says something about the brits. We would never get away with this kind of stuff here in the states. I am still trying to get the hubby to move back

[Elgee]

I sometimes wonder if it's really the buying public who is so hung up on appearance, or if it's actually the PTBs.

 

Point in case: the Scandinavian guy who won World Idols. The judges didn't give him a chance, because he wasn't "hot". Yet the public voted him in. Was that REALLY just a sympathy vote, or did they actually think he was the best performer?

 

Personally, I don't give a toss what someone looks like, as long as they can sing.

[Loreina]

:) *Stands and applauds Elgee* Amen to that!

[Naeann]

That was somewhat along my thinking too Lorei... that, and in broadway and other theater type productions they HAVE roles specifically for women she'd fit right in for.  Someone has to be the mother or all of the homely types IN Le Mis.  Mrs. Potts in beauty and the beast... so on.  My shock is that it took her til nearly 60 to get discovered. :)

[Carwyn]

Ah yes, Kurt Nilsen, not a very pretty man but boy ca he sing.

 

He is the blond guy that sings last, with the big big voice in the following link.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T2NEU6Xf7lM

 

 

[Elgee]

I think he's cute  ;D

[Carwyn]

I think his voice makes him cute. *nods*

 

I get chills when I hear that song.  And it took me for ever to find the bloody mp3

 

Oh oh, and this song. Personally I like Tim MCgraw's version better, and I don't like the girl's voice, THOUGH I am sure she is probably really famous in Sweden and the likes. But still.. yay Kurt!

 

And as for roles that need to be played by the not so cute people of the world, like myself, is one of the greatest roles EVER.... the Phantom of the Opera. Eric is never once discribed as a handsome man, but oh that voice. *Sighs* Ah, to be Christine.

[Loreina]

OMG that gave me chill bumps!

Nae, she's 47 not 57.  ;) I'm  the one that's closing on 60 rather too rapidly. *sighs*

Eric? 

[Desiree]

awww *pets Lor* don't worry, you're not the only one, dearie ;)

 

but I think if he just got those front two teeth fixed and maybe lost 20 lbs he'd be cute ^_^

[Carwyn]

Eric... is the Phantom. The name that Gaston Leurox gave him.

[Loreina]

:) I know, hence the swooning smiley. I loved the Phantom in the musical. Lon Chaney's - not so much. *G*

[Leane_Shariff]

*nods* her voice is purely amazing, but the new 12 year old kid's voice seriously awesome.

 

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yVU4IkzMNIo

[Desiree]

Eric... is the Phantom. The name that Gaston Leurox gave him.

 

... heh? *is lost*

[Bursius]

Were you all referring to Phantom, as in Phantom of the Opera, or Phantom as in the comic strip guy who lives in a skull cave deep in the jungle, and comes out to save innocents from the clutches of the evil and the corrupt?

[Loreina]

Actually, either would do for me. *rim shot*  :D

But since we're talking singing here, I'm pretty sure it's Gerard Butler and not Billy Zane.

[Desiree]

phantom who? I highly doubt phantom of the opera as he had long black hair and his teeth didn't have a big gap in between them :-\

[Carwyn]

Lol. Phantom of the Opera... the actual character not the actor who played him (Gerard Butler, YUMMY).

 

 

And awesome Phantom reference! I love that movie, billy zain... ah, good times, my friends, GOOD TIMES.

[Loreina]

:) I have been a fan of the Phantom strip ever since I could read. When the movie came out, I liked it. I thought they did a decent job with it, and Zane owned the part. He looked the way I always thought the Phantom would, could I but remove his mask.  ;)  Of course, when I first started reading it, it was his horse I was most interested in...I was one horse crazy kid.  ;D