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Did you like shelleys singing?

posted 11 years ago by k-man-3
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Was kind of strange but she had a good voice. glad they ended it when they did though.

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[–] jcosyn-1 10 years ago

I agree. Her singing was painful, atrocious, pointless, talentless and utterly devoid of merit. It was the worst idea ever introduced into the series.

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[–] Hoffhammer 10 years ago

I just watched those episodes recently and fast-forwarded through the "musical numbers". Horrible and annoying.

[–] darryl-tahirali 10 years ago

Did you like shelleys singing? - k-man-3

Hmm . . . I'm sure I've posted on this, but that seems to be one of those posts that has been "deleted by an administrator." Not that my comments were rude or controversial in any case.

So, in a word, no. I see what the show was trying to do, and it was an interesting idea although I'm glad that it didn't get dragged out over several episodes. It was also probably an opportunity to showcase Cynthia Geary, who had majored in "voice" at university. I think that her singing was supposed to be deliberately bad (that may be the NX optimist in me), as that was part of the "joke," and I sure hope that "Stand-up Wife" was supposed to be a deliberately bad song because it was indeed a wince-inducer.

I have to admit that I thought "The Snake" was done quite effectively--maybe that's why my prior post was flagged?--but that is an Oscar Brown song and is pretty much fireproof even in Geary's hands. And I do like Leonard's explanation for why Shelly was singing in the first place. But overall it was an idea that did not survive its execution.

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[–] fanaticita 10 years ago

Shelley is my least favorite character in this show. Can't stand her.

[–] TracesOfLove 10 years ago

I liked her version of The Snake. I like it better with a female singer. Sometimes through the episode her singing made me cringe, but I liked that it did. It made it seem real. So overall it didn't bother me. I think everyone has the right to sing. No matter what they sound like.

It's not so bad as long as you can keep the fear from your mind.

[–] J-Street1 9 years ago

No. Sometimes I wonder about actors singing in shows, if it's written in there or thrown in because an actor wanted to get the attention of a music producer or something. It's like one of those bad "American Idol" auditions.

I saw the same thing on a couple of "Party of Five" episodes where Neve Campbell sang like an elder lady from a classic "Disney" film.

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[–] tomkaren1994 9 years ago

Equally horrible was Maurice singing at Holling and Shelley's second non-wedding. ARGH!!!