If Lesslie knew or suspected that America couldn't care less about that old fhasioned style of music why did she insist on performing it the past 2 weeks? I'm not the least bit surprised that she was eliminated and speaking for myself personally, I hate scatting. It sounds like baby talk and does nothing but ruin the music being played in the backround. It may have been the music of choice back in the 20's and 30's but it's not anymore and never will be again. Certainlly not on the same scale as any other mainstream star that most would hear and see on radio and TV.
2007-03-04 18:04:08 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Entertainment & Music ➔ Music
Hunt chose to package herself in that particular vein (i.e., jazz artist), and personally, I think her comment at the end of her song, while humorous, was done in very poor taste.
Like any type of music, jazz will have its supporters and its detractors. We have a pop-rock Idol winner (Kelly Clarkson), two R&B winners (Reuben Studdard and Fantasia), one country winner (Carrie Underwood), and a blues/Southern rock crooner (Taylor Hicks), so I think America isn't too closed-minded to completely rule out a jazz winner in this competition.
I think there are two issues greater than just the choice of jazz.
One, there was the choice of song. "Feeling Good" was a relatively obscure song compared to the others performed that night, and the ejection of both Hunt and A.J. Tabaldo, who delivered a stunningly better version of it, I think, showed the song was too unfamiliar with viewers. Other jazz standards have been performed in the course of American Idol's five (now six) seasons, and several of the contestants have moved on to the next round. As a matter of fact, the Gershwin chestnut "Summertime," as performed by Fantasia, was selected best Idol performance of all time last year on MSN. There is a place for jazz. There just aren't places for every single jazz song.
Two, there's simply the fact that Hunt was an inferior singer. Whether one likes jazz or not, one would have to be deaf to see (a little irony there) that her scatting was impure, her notes scooping all over the place. Her diaphragm control was not at its best, and she obviously did not connect with the audience.
I'm not a big jazz or Broadway fan, but there are good A.I. jazz and standards performances - Katherine McPhee's "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," Mandisa's "I Don't Hurt Anymore," and Elliott Yamin's "It Had To Be You," to name a few from last season - that show America can appreciate jazz.
What Hunt did that night was to place the blame on a musical style that has existed and will continue to exist - even if only on A/C radio formats - well into the next century. On the positive side, it showed a sense of humor and spunk. On the negative side, it showed a woman who wasn't willing to own up to the possibility that that night, she was not the best singer in America's eyes. To that I say, "Shoo!" or, maybe better yet, "Scat!"
2007-03-04 18:33:56 · answer #1 · answered by ganns_the_man 2 · 4⤊ 0⤋
I donot know the program or the singer you mention and probably winn not.
Jazz and scatt singers have veen around for a long time and still are popular. Not with children like you that is for sure. For you to even admit you might like something your peers don't like would be terrible.
Jazz in its many forms has lasted longer than all other kinds of music and will continue to do so.
Good jazz demands that the musitions be of very good talent. Most other forms of music can be played by most anyone with or without talent.
It might just be that some day in your life you learn something.
2007-03-05 02:57:24 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Perhaps if you had any exposure to grown up music and not the atonal junk that children listen to today you'd appreciate scat singing.
Not that I have any idea whether this individual was any good at scat singing, which requires considerable talent to do, since I certainly don't watch drivel concocted for the witless masses like American Idol.
2007-03-05 02:15:32 · answer #3 · answered by Rillifane 7 · 2⤊ 3⤋
It stunk. It wasn't even good scatting if there is such a thing.
2007-03-05 02:06:42 · answer #4 · answered by Sparkles 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
sounds like porky pig to me, a be ba de be ba de be thats all folks.
2007-03-05 02:06:57 · answer #5 · answered by MADLYNN 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
To me,she didn't perform it well.yeah,it seem outdated now.
2007-03-05 02:12:23 · answer #6 · answered by aMUSEd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it's boring.
2007-03-05 02:06:58 · answer #7 · answered by Dovahkiin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋