Jennifer & Jennifer

[jawnbc]

Last night's BET Awards, both Jennifers sang "And I am telling you I'm not going" as a duet.

Watch on YouTube

*applause*

Comments

[poztatt.livejournal.com]

Ok, thanks for this. Daaaamn.

[bookbear.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the movie, and while Hudson sings it well, she sings it like a nice pop song. But Holiday blows her out of the water as far as singing it as a character song, a fierce angry diatribe from a character in total self-denial, completely convinced she's right, but still desperate. She just seems so much more true to the nature of the song. Hudson's rendition is too supplicating. (right word?)

[jawnbc]

I think Hudson added a level of vulnerability to it that gets lost in Holiday's performance. And I think Hudson was trying to both stake her claim to the song while giving props to the original. An allegedly moody and at time bitter original.

I think they're both excellent.

[beastbriskett.livejournal.com]

Wow! Any more emoting and they would have blown out the lights!

[logisticslad.livejournal.com]

It was bound to happen sometime, and this seems like a good venue for the powerhouse duet.

[aadroma.livejournal.com]

Oh my God! I loved that!!!

[deafdyke.livejournal.com]

I like the Jake Gyllenhal version better.