And Jennifer, Jennifer, Jennifer… is Going to Love Jennifer
Posted on June 30, 2007 - Filed Under Uncategorized
I know every diva lovin’ blog on the planet has already posted this but who am I to deny divas their due? Plus I wanna talk about it… “And I am Telling You” was and always will be a show queen classic. It wins its vessels TONYs and Oscars. One could make a case for it as the greatest of all showoff showtunes. Witness the Jennifers, Holiday & Hudson
Holiday has been singing the song too long so now instead of flourishes she’s just chewing on it. She’s actually eating the song and laughing at her own freaky mastication “ha HA!”. To keep up JHud will have to let her own rendition go berserk. This encourages the most brazen display of overacting that I’ve seen since… well… Jennifer Hudson and Beyoncé battled it out at the Oscars or if we’re talking films: since Glenn Close did Cruella, Faye Dunaway was Mommie Dearest or Billy Bob made Halle Berry feeeeellll goood!
What I love most about this song as a diva duet is that it totally subverts the meaning. It’s no longer a desperate sexist ‘I’m nothing without my man’ plea. Now it’s a lezzztastic girl brawl. By the end of the number, the Jennifers have forgotten all about the audience and it’s all about Jennifer lovin’ Jennifer and vice versa. Hilarious. And heavenly if you love the Divas Gone Wild subgenre of entertainment. And who among you doesn’t?
Now I’m off to dream of future pairings…
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