Lea Michele and Chris Colfer Tackle Evita: You Must Love Them?
"Don't Cry For Me Argentina" is a Patti LuPone classic, a Madonna career-changer, a standard of the American stage, and now... yet another symbol of Rachel Berry's haughty elitism. Yep, Glee, Lea Michele, and -- strangely -- Chris Colfer are attacking Andrew Lloyd Webber's salute to Eva Peron, and the audio is ready for your constructive criticism and/or scoffs and/or LGBT sympathies.
I take it the awkwardly overlapped vocals are justified in the episode, because they're a little jarring as is. Otherwise? It's a cute cover. I've railed against Glee in the past, but I think its showtune renditions are often novel. Retooling stage standards for a pop audience is an excellent idea, and a much better one than re-recording Billboard singles with watered-down Kidz Bop vocals. You'll remember that the show couldn't add any chutzpah to Madonna's dance hits, but here, Ryan Murphy's henchmen infuse the Material Girl's big Broadway ballad with youthful (and believable) earnestness.
What do you think? Should Glee always stick to the stage? Or should it continue adding T-Painful AutoTune to radio jams?
Glee (Rachel & Kurt): 'Don't Cry For Me Argentina' [YouTube]
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The best part is toward the end, around the 3:20-ish mark. The doubled voices sound great there.
. . . The vocals aren't combined at all in the versions released for the show:
http://www.gleethemusic.com/us/episode/special-education
A fan just combined them on youtube to create a duet. They released two separate solo versions.
Chris:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P86HXP_LvNk
Lea:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oFRvUy-3JV8
C'mon, guys, do your research, please!
I would be shocked if anyone OTHER than LM & CC sang this, given they have done the dueling Broadway divas thing on the show before. I think they sound great, and am also glad the show still adds some classic Broadway into the mix of soulless pop (2 Bruno Mars songs in one episode? Really?).
Wow that is really weak we haven't even heard the duet if it is a duet.
They both sound fantastic, can 't wait to see the context.
I prefer Lea's voice but are remarkable.
Yes. There is nothing wrong with exposing Glee's audience to the wonders of musical theater. The opening chords of the orchestration of "Don't Cry for Me..." still gives me goosebumps all these years later. While I've loved the pop songs that Glee has included (to remind oldsters like me that there's still good music being produced) it was Broadway that gave this homo hope of a larger world beyond his boyhood bedroom.
THIS IS NOT THE REAL VERSION. GLEE WOULD NEVER PUT THIS TOGETHER LIKE THAT. SOME RANDOM PERSON JUST OVERLAPPED THE SOLO VERSIONS.
Honestly, Glee was about giving voice to the misfits and now it's just more of the same. Diana and Ken had no chemistry singing together. I wasn't wowed, amazed or impressed. Only Lea and Chris are singing the BIG songs now, because poor Amber is being forgotten in the back. Is sad what is happening to Glee and the fact the featured on Sectionals were all cheerios or jocks says a lot.