Divas Week

[dreiser]

Or at least it seems like that. First we had Whitney Houston's two part interview on Oprah which was fabulous just because of the sheer honesty involved on Whitney's part. Then we had Cyndi Lauper on Bones last night which made me squee out loud. She was great as the psychic. I include her in this post since I love her to death but to be frank she's probably not really considered a diva. But Cyndi is made of awesome and so was her acting on Bones so I include her.

And then there's today which had Mariah Carey performing the second single from her new album Memoirs Of An Imperfect Angel on Oprah. The album comes out September 29th.

Now, I love Whitney and I was super excited about her new album but I have to admit I'm more excited about Mariah's. Out of all the diva category singers Mariah is probably my favorite. I love her even when she's acting cracky insane. She's always entertaining as hell in her interviews and is really funny. Plus she has more #1 hits than any other artist in the USA. Anyway! Her new single enforced my love because it's a cover of I Want To Know What Love Is by Foreigner and it's one of those versions where the song almost seems brand new because of how it's done. So good, people.

For anyone who's a Mariah fan like me, please watch it on Oprah.com because she gives a perfect performance. Normally I'd embed the video but they don't give the option on the site. Oprah doesn't want to share!

I like sharing though, which is why I'm offering a random download of I Didn't Mean To Turn You On by Mariah Carey which was my favorite cover by her until she came out with the latest track.

Comments

[bluemd.livejournal.com]

I love Cindy! She was awesome in Bones. It was a great season opener and didn't disappoint. I hope we get to see more of Cindy in future chapters!

[madame-diggory.livejournal.com]

I freakin love Cindy!!! I'm trying to come up with a reason to have her perform in one of my fics. The Mariah/Whitney crazy battle royal is always good for a laugh, I can't believe I missed both episodes of Oprah.

Speaking of Divas, did you hear that VH1 is doing another Divas special and apparently Jordan Sparks is performing? Jennifer Hudson I can understand, the woman has an Oscar and she can really belt out a song but the majority of the Divas list is a mystery to me.

[dreiser.livejournal.com]

I just programmed my dvr to record VH1 Divas now. I had no idea they were doing another one. And I also just looked at the list... it is puzzling. None of those people are really diva material yet. Kelly Clarkson and Jennifer Hudson are divas in the making but they're not really at that level.

Adele has a wonderful voice. I'm looking forward to seeing her on the show. Leona Lewis as well but I haven't heard a lot of her stuff.

However the inclusion of Miley Cyrus and Jordin Sparks? To be fair I haven't listened to anyone associated with American Idol except Kelly, whom I love, but they seem to be odd choices.

Why not get Whitney and Mariah? They're on publicity blitz for their new albums anyway. I want them on Divas again. I'm still amused by the duet Mariah did with Aretha where she totally held back her vocal range out of respect and Aretha still insisted on proving her diva superiority in ranking by singing over her. It was sort of trainwreck fabulous.