And We Are Telling You About SNL
Along with rebellious meatballs, this weekend's Saturday Night Live featured The Shins, whose performance of "Phantom Limb" and a superdragged out "New Slang" didn't do anything to change our minds about their live abilities. But Jake Gyllenhaal doing his best Jennifer Hudson doing her best Jennifer Holiday on "And I Am Telling You"? That changed our mind about his falsetto abilities.
Despite knowing every little thing about Dreamgirls (Jennifer Holiday is pissed about not being involved! Beyoncé got snubbed for a Best Original Song Oscar!), we still haven't seen it. Mistake? Does Hudson really steal the film just based on that one song? The idea of Eddie Murphy turning in a statue-worthy turn is promising; he's still paying off his debt to society for his solo career -- one that Simon Cowell was too intimidated to shut down when he had the chance. Which makes Simon an accomplice "Party All The Time."
Posted at 8:32 AM in Video
Tags: Dreamgirls | Eddie Murphy | Jake Gyllenhaal | Jennifer Hudson | Saturday Night Live
'dreamgirls' was one of the most painful movie watching experiences i've had in years. if it wins any oscars, let alone any globes, i will be very distraught.
mistake? absolutely not.
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Stereogum... what is your view on the Shins live abbilities?
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actually Dreamgirls is pretty much ONLY good when Eddie Murphy is on screen, otherwise it's a snooze fest with Beyonce's non acting.
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I've always heard they were incredibly boring--which they definitely were on SNL.
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The Shins are as boring as their namesake. SNL proved that yet again.
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the Shins are as boring as their namesake. The SNL performace proved that.
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> Stereogum... what is your view on
> the Shins live abbilities?
I prefer them on CD.
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Hmm... I've never seen them live, but I thought their performance was quite good. I've certainly seen a lot worse on SNL. What in particular did you not like about it? Was it their execution or on-stage demeanor?
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To this day, the Shins are the only band who have honest-to-God put me to sleep during a show.
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Is it me, or does the lead singer look strangely similar to Kevin Spacey?
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I watched that clip, and saw a guy who doesn't seem to enjoy performing, but who does it anyway, maybe because it's important to him. He looked like he was performing a difficult but necessary job, like a tracheotomy. On himself. It's not very pretty and it's not particularly entertaining, but it is interesting.
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Hellobvq - this is just a testing, don't worry about it
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