Brittany Murphy Branches Out
It's time for a new installment of So You Think You Can Sing!
Here we have the new single from Paul Oakenfold, featuring shrinking starlet Brittany Murphy on vocals. The tune is climbing up Billboard's Hot Dance Club Play chart. I admit her voice isn't terrible ... but this publicity photo prevents me from taking it seriously. Paul, what is up with that expression?
Watch the video at Yahoo! Music.
It's Stereogum's pick for second silliest music duo of the week. (Michael and Clay take top honors.)
Posted at 3:07 PM in Video
Oakenfold with long hair?
Brittany Murphy looks good.
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that reminds me of the time two weeks ago when i was standing in line for a baked potato at coachella and matisyahu had just finished up on the main stage and all of those people were walking, lemming like, to see Paul Oakenfold and I'm like, "oh you poor suckers". i even snapped a picture of it. wait- stereogum hates coachella. forget all that.
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Oakie's hair is worse than Clay Aiken's new 'do.
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Brittany is OK with me.
I have two words for you.
Luanne Platter.
Done, and done.
Oh, and I didn't know that Oakenfold was famous enough to be in Madame Tussauds. Go figure.
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i think she did good.
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She sounds sexy as fuck!
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Fluxblog posted this a few weeks ago. I think its pretty good, and I agree with Matthew's point that at least her voice sounds like her personality in her films - its not the bland tone of some other musical starlets.
I can't wait for Paris's album to come out!
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I can't wait to hear Paris's cover of "Crazy"...oh wait, I can.
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i dunno i think meatloaf and katherine Mcphee were pretty ridiculous. She looked scared of him
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wow, not bad
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20 years later, Oakey has reverted back to the mullet. Awesome.
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Try this: http://livefromaustintx.com/play/
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1. That was an incredibly lame video.
2. Oakenfold is better heard and not seen.
3. Brittany was quite impressive.
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Brittany has a great voice actually. Anybody ever see Little Black Book? She sings in that and is pretty awesome.
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Years ago, Brittany Murphy did an audition tape for a Janis Joplin movie that blew away everyone in Hollywood.
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not a fan of her acting, but she sounds pretty damn good in that song.
i want oakenfold's fauxhawk back please.
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brittany murphy is a fox
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she does indeed have a better voice than i would have thought. but paul is looking like crap in that photo ... why do i remember him as being like, less frankenstein-ish?
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Yep, I got the track form Fluxblog too, and I'm lovin' it...Rather surprised by Brittany's vocals, but definitely in a good way. :)
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that chick is mondo wierdo in the annoying way a gaggle of chatty 12 yo girls is annoying/
i have an opinion, yeah!
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Her voice is fine enough, but it's music for video games and TV commercials for energy drinks.
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It's a great song. Unfortunately, I have a Mac and can't watch the video. :(
From the photo, Oakie looks like he's wearing a wig. Not a good look. He can do better.
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this song is dumb because it has not meaning whatsoever. it was created for, seemingly, no reason, including just for fun. how the hell did someone hook this up? what were they thinking? why murphy? why not like, jessica alba? i don't get it.
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me and my brother have a name for that wretched, wretched face - Gretchen Oakenpig. he's so frightening.
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Uh, Paul - Benny Bennasi called. He wants his bass line back.
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Nice to see that Paul Oakenfold is still putting out vastly derivative and shallow music.
As for Ms. Murphy's voice it's called Antares Auto-Tune. This is the technology behind any recent female pop star.
She should have just used a vocoder.
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they got jessica simpson juice all over her
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no offense...
but, that's the worse shit i've heard all year...
makes me cuss...
and that's not cool...
sorry....
but, that shit does suck...
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Shitty track, good voice bit it is so digitally treated that you can't really tell who's merit it is.
Brittany Murphy has proven in the past she can really sing and has a beautiful voice. Watch for "one Tin Soldier" from the King of the hill OST
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000021XSI/002-2014720-0325644?v=glance&n=5174
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;)
Oh, and for more info on Britts music career:
http://www.brittany-murphy.com/discography.php
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I've been listening to this for awhile, and I had no idea Murphy was the vocalist. I liked it better when I didn't know, but it's not too shabby nonetheless.
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Of course her voice is digitally treated. Why is that necessarily a bad thing? Brittany Murphy is not Aretha Franklin, and no one is saying she is. The world's big enough for both of them, and for open-minded people to think they both have merits. If you only listen to the great, you'll miss out on the many benefits of listening to the merely good, or the merely good-for-right-now.
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Antares Auto-Tune.
This is worth repeating. It matters because it is cheating. Much like DJing with a laptop is cheating.
This single technology is responsible for fooling so many people into thinking that:
1. Their favorite pop star has a brilliant voice, when in reality they are constantly sharp or flat a little bit.
2. In order to sing, without knowing of this technology, a person thinks that they must have perfect pitch.
In reality, only a few people have perfect pitch. The merits of a person's voice lie in its orinality and unique-ness. That's the whole point. Leonard Cohen is distincive because no one sounds even remotely like him.
The record industry fowarding this sort of uniformity of voice is detrimental to the overall quality of recorded and potentially performed music.
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Lord help us all - she sounds like Beth Ditto!
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His expression is the product of the "Garbage" that he and Brittany are emulating. It does stink, Paul.(Wow, mean! I'd better check myself before I wreck myself.)
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"Much like DJing with a laptop is cheating."
I don't know which makes me laugh more, your arrogance, or your ignorance.
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La La Lala La La
Sheets of Egyptian Cotton
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She should just stick to what she is good at....
what was that again?
http://ultra8201.blogspot.com
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Hey there, Paul Oakentroll.
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Okay. Make it DJing with Itunes, then.
As for the Antares shit, that does actually exist, so . . .
Do you have any constructive arguments to the contrary?
Or do you just pass judgement and move on?
THAT is arrogant.
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cool song, but of course,the club record of the summer is "DanceFloor" by Jimi La Lumia....
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if anyone saw LITTLE BLACK BOOK, she sings GREAT in that movie. she def has a good voice, it just needs a lil help, and her acting is good. SHES REAL unlike a lot of people in HOLLYWOOD.
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This just in.......Antares Auto-tune is not destroying the music industry.
Pop music serves a purpose. If every piece of music recorded was underground/indie/avant garde/raw/etc., then what would be underground/indie/avant garde/raw/etc? Pop music?
Pop music is music for the masses, and no I'm not talking about Depeche Mode. Yeah sure, some stuff that gets played on the radio is actually good, but most is just a commodity. So what.
If what is being played on the radio was the only music available, then it might upset me. But there is so much music out there that I don't even pay attention to what is being played on the radio.
I guess the point I'm trying to make, if I could get the damn thoughts to transfer from my head to the keyboard, is that many bands get together to make music that is an alternative to pop music, which is a good thing. If everything was cool and thought provoking then what would be the alternative to that?
Good music sounds that much better when it is surrounded by crap. Would Leonard Cohen sound as good if everyone else sounded just like him?
I just don't buy the whole sky is falling argument about Antares Auto-Tune. I don't think it is detrimental to the music industry at all. In fact, I think the opposite is true, the more it is used, the more new bands will form to rebel against it. I don't understand why people get so upset about someone using it. To me, it's almost like getting upset at a fast food place for not using the highest quality ingredients. You know what you are getting when you walk in the door.
Does any of this make sense or am I alone here?
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Here's a fun story... when I worked in Chicago doing coat check my friend who I worked with (as was sleeping with) came home from work and told me she had been coat checking at a champagne bar called "Narcisse" and some guy was djing there. I said "who?" and she said some guy who looked like a frog and was doing lines of coke the size of a yard stick. Then she suddenly remembers and says "Oh yeah it was Paul Okeyfold or something"... I guess one of the guys who djed there had some hook up with Oakey and Hernann Catanno or whatever his name is. The point of this story is maybe this is why that photo is so photoshopped and maybe why he looks like he is mad bloated. And he says he doesn't do drugs.... pleaseeeeee.... although "Zoo York" was a pretty good remix/song.
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Her voice is fine enough, but it's music for video games and TV commercials for energy drinks.
Can't agree with you more Glenn.
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I feel that those five seconds of "Rollin' with the Homies" in Clueless and her singing in Riding in Cars with Boys was evidence enough that Murphy could sing. I don't know why it’s coming as such a shock to everyone. She has a really great voice: strong, mature, lovely and very much her own.
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When I heard about this I laughed my ass off! I was like "Damn! Hollywood hath no shame!" But I must admit, I think It's actually REALLY GOOD! For both of them! I think Britney Murphy is a better singer than an actress AND she's looking better... as in it looks like she's actually EATING these days... maybe the secret of success lies in the consumption of carbs! (Although maybe not for Oakenfold! Yikes! He looking like a bloated Danzig with a hijacked Planet Of The Apes wig... no bueno...) I actually can see Miss Murphy having a really sucessful career if she keeps churning out such GAY anthems. (...and I mean that in a good way... Gays + Diva Fag-Hag= MONEY and Gay Pride Performances for LIFE! Then of course the mainstream will be quick to follow..) Good job to both of these two strange creatures... If they put out an album, I would buy it... even if it was for the camp factor... like most probably would! It could sit next to my copy of Aqua, Spice Girls, t.A.T.u, and La Bouche...
::wink! wink!::
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