****, I'm pissed because I thought of the perfect video to share, but it's been taken off YouTube! It was a video of Heather Headley singing Sarah McLachlan's In The Arms Of An Angel. It was a good performance up until the final minute, then it took a sharp left turn. She started doing these awful and messy sounding riffs and runs, and the final note was so tragic. She went through the entire musical scale, but couldn't find the correct note to sing, and then just screamed in triumph.
My next thought is nearly every Fantasia performance on AI after she won. I love her, but these performances are iconic for all of the wrong reasons.
****, I'm pissed because I thought of the perfect video to share, but it's been taken off YouTube! It was a video of Heather Headley singing Sarah McLachlan's In The Arms Of An Angel. It was a good performance up until the final minute, then it took a sharp left turn. She started doing these awful and messy sounding riffs and runs, and the final note was so tragic. She went through the entire musical scale, but couldn't find the correct note to sing, and then just screamed in triumph.
And yes, Fantasia's guest appearances on Idol were always such a kii...she'd have on some tragic outfit and it would just be an all around mess. Simon's face during the Bore Me performance is hysterical