I know I’m a couple days late on this, but visiting the indispensable Rickey.org late last night, my heart skipped all kinds of beats to discover Fantasia covering "Lady Marmalade" at a UNCF tribute to Patti LaBelle. Around the 1:40 mark, ‘Tasia begins to tear into the song like a starved wolf into a perfectly cooked filet mignon — and I mean that in the best possible way. When she’s done, there’s nothing left but the realization that you’ve witnessed the kind of soul-searing greatness that never seems to happen in our polite, sound-bite-ready, auto-tuned times. I know, I know…a lot of you will accuse my favorite Idol of all time of doing nothing more than screaming like a banshee, but the look on Miss Patti’s face at the 3:40 mark (pictured) says it all: Quit tryin’ to act balky! Chair dancing and mild-to-moderate holleration will be required — even if you’re watching at work!
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Fantasia’s second act: The EW interview
Holy crap she’s amazing!
I am in love with Patti and Fantasia. I miss this, the letting-it-all-go kind of performance, the pure enjoyment of the song…I will take pitchy singing in this kind of performance over a cookie-cutter Mariah Carey dog-whistling high note every time.
They should have had Fantasia sing My Country Tis of Thee, in place of ReRe too
Girl can siiiiiiiiiing!
SHUT THE DOOR! This performance was off the hook, as a UNCF donor and alumni, I love that spotlighted our little piece of heaven/talent showcase known as the evening with stars.
PS
You know Tasia was jamming with that little hip two step walk….It was obvious from jump, that it is her JAM !
Whoa. If you like to sing, you’ve gotta love this.
yowza.
Rickey.org is not indepensible but the most unintenionally funny website ever …the reverence given the Idols is hilarious.
Ah, Slezak, I am ALWAYS with you on any Fantasia posts. She not only sang the heck out of that song, but she owned the stage, the camera, the audience. And that big, beautiful smile at the end had me giddy. She’s the first AI performer I ever voted for cuz she had me in tears after “Summertime.” She just loves what she does so much, and so do I! LOVE HER!!!
YES!!! Tasia betta sang!!! that’s my girl!!!
DAYUM
kelly’s my favorite american idol but DANG i gotta give it up to ‘tasia. that was phenomenal.
now i gotta go look for that Jesus duet between kelly & fantasia on youtube
I went into that clip full expecting to hate it, but holy crap, that was pretty awesome.
That’s not singing, it’s a religious experience.
OMFG OMFG OMFG OMFG
i just like screamed
that was f***ing AMAZING!
i like died on the spot.
SHE IS AMAZING!!!
wow. wow. wow. wow. wow. wow. wow.
YESSS!!