But Can They Sing?

[borborygmus]

Normally, I avoid reality shows, but this one... I may have to tune in to VH1 tonight if only to see who the hell this Bai Ling person is. I've seen her on the Fug site so often, but I had no idea she was a celebrity outside of her putaesque fashion sense.

Now, as for Antonio Sabato? Who cares if he can sing -- he's so pretty.

Kim Alexis? Morgan Fairchild? Just, who cares.

[realitybug]

I'm going to watch only to laugh at the Gotti kid.

[CAgirl]

I saw a preview of this on ET and it's going to be interesting. Bai Ling is doing "Like a Virgin" in this red wedding dress type thing and is doing the whole Madonna thing from the MTV Awards. And her voice is awful!!! Actually all the "celebrities" voices are awful. It's going to be sad and funny at the same time.

Antonio does "Every Breath you Take" and Morgan Fairchild does "These Boots are Made for Walking." The Gotti kid does some hip hop song. That's all I remember.

[clementine74]

This is easily the most horrifying and humiliating hour of television. Ever.

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But what I want to know is what is Joey Pants doing on this piece of doo-doo? He's way better than this, right?

[dwanollah]

THTM was watching something on TiVo yesterday, and paused it for so long that the telly switched to live TV. And all of a sudden, I heard horrific bad karaoke to that Norah Jones song, and-

I was writhing in embarrassment when I figured out what it was. And then AFTER they all go banging on about how GOOD the person (dunno the name) sounded. Which is funny, because even my half-tone karaoke version of "Stand By Your Man" could blow that shit away.

[littleweasel]

Watching it right now. It's giving me that uncomfortable feeling on the back of my neck, like when you see someone fall down in real life and get all embarrassed. My shoulders are creeping up by my ears, I keep trying to look away...this is mortifying.

[duskwolf]

All's I know is I really can't stand Bai Ling.

I read the issue of Playboy with her in it. (What? Girls can read that stuff, too.)

She wasn't all that good looking, and she's one of those chicks who blames her own sense of sexuality on an alter ego (see "Mimi", "Strawberry", "Sasha", "Mona Lisa").

To hear her sing for, like, two seconds, killed. Please, oh, please make her go away.

And I could SWEAR that Joey Pants was better than all of this. Seriously.

It's not like the man was in big movies fifteen years ago, did a bunch of B-movies and fell of the radar.

The man has been in HUGE movies (wasn't he in both Matrix and Memento?) that weren't serially related. So what gives?

ETA: Bai Ling was supposed to have been in Star Wars Episode III, but was rumored to have been cut out because she was in Playboy. I really don't believe that. I think it was just time constraints.

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This thing is great! I laughed and laughed at how awful these celebs are. Joey Pants is the best but that is still pretty bad on this show.

I hate American Idol but this is just so awful that I can't look away. Man, in my world people with some talent singing karaoke = bad; "celebs" with NO talent singing karaoke = the greatest! Damn.

I love how the judges are all so nice. I guess they should be since this is only for charity (although I can see lil'Gotti trying to get a record deal based on this show), but it only adds to the hilarity that Bai Ling gets up on stage, writhes around and rips off her skirt while howling along to Like a Virgin and is then told that although she got off to a shaky start, and the tone and texture of the song were difficult (hee!) she ended up doing a great job. Sure, stupid judges.

That said, I don't know how they are going to fill an hour once the first three contestants get cut.

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clementine74 said:

This is easily the most horrifying and humiliating hour of television. Ever.

LLLLLLLLLLLLLOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLL@at your comment! I have been debating with myself whether or not to watch an episode of this tripe!