And I Am Telling You…


…that it’s really hard to listen to Miss Arkansas 1994 take her soul eraser to “And I Am Telling You” from “Dreamgirls.” Much as I revere the original Broadway production of this musical, the song itself is pretty wretched, and only worked in the theatre because its original interpreter, Jennifer Holiday, absolutely murdered it. (That’s a compliment, hunh hunh.) The irony in the above video clip, clearly lost on Miss Arkansas, is that the whole point of “Dreamgirls” is how for years white artists took black folks’ music and sanitized it for a mass audience. I guess she thought the process should go full circle. That’s post-modern, I guess.

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