Same idea, different genres. Mrs. Miller was pop songs, Jenkins[wikipedia] was almost exclusively opera.
If people paid me 6-figure sums to do something badly, I would be happy as a Jessica!
On an unrelated note, I am now accepting offers to sign me up for a 6-figure tap-dancing contract…
Believe me, you ain’t seen nothing like this.
I love this guy.
I don’t think Simon is too happy about his success. I can hear his voice saying “he’s making a mockery of this competition”.
Well good for him. Do we really need another Keli Klarckston, Klay Achen, or Just-in Gwareenie. Throw them on the pile of dime-a-dozen “vocalists”.
Hung singing badly at least might be interesting. And I don’t think anyone telling him he sucks is going to hurt his feelings. The overwhelming majority of people can’t carry a tune. He just get his 15 minutes and some cash for it.
To be able to sing horribly, like everyone does while driving in their car, and not be embarassed to let other people hear it and laugh at it is cool.
I see it getting a cult following in college dorms the way that Chris Burke kids album from “Life Goes On” did.
The guy’s lack of delivery is his delivery, and it’s brilliant.
Long live the Hung!
AOL put up Hung’s full CD as part of a listening party. Morbid curiousity in the vein of renting Faces of Death made me stop and listen to the whole thing.
It was lurid. It was out of tune and in parts, out of key. In fact the key was snapped off in the ignition of the Dukes of Hazard villain’s k-car that was going off the ramp too slowly and you know is going to crash in the swamp/tree/ravine but still you watch. If Re/Search ever comes out with “Incredibly Strange Music Vol.8”, this would make a good contender for a focal piece.
It’s sad to think of all the good music out there and this gets time anywhere. Yarf.
I listened to snippets on iTunes. It is god awful. Obviously it’s a dumb fad, not even a genuine fad, but a joke fad.
The WB has announced that they have an American Idol parody in the works in which the good singers get voted off until they end up with the worst one of the bunch.