Carrere was fantastic in this flick, from her hot looks and stage outfits, to her vocals. I've seen people dog her for her music on this board in the past, but I'm not biting. I thought she was HOT, and her performances were great. She's a legit musician.
shareThe shame is she's totally a legit musician and was one of the hottest women on the planet in her prime.
shareWith her looks, she could sound like a dachshund in heat, and I'd tell her it was the most freakin' incredible singing EVER!
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"With her looks, she could sound like a dachshund in heat, and I'd tell her it was the most freakin' incredible singing EVER!"
Kind of biased and sexist to give leverage to someone just because of their physical body's shape or form.
It's not fair to the actually skilled, either. But surely you couldn't -hear- someone singing well just because their body looks good to you? So you would be lying.
I think it's easy to judge her vocal talents and singing ability separately from her looks. She can sing just fine, I don't get what anyone's problem with her singing is. Someone even grasped such thing straws as "rock is supposed to sound masculine", but who the heck is that individual to dictate how anything should sound?
There's no law or rule that dictates that something must always sound like a certain way. There's a reason people dabble with mixing different genres and such - why can't 'rock' (whatever that means - why can't songs be just individual songs without some strict, rigid definitions anyway?) sound feminine?
It's boring if something always sounds the same, and if it 'HAS' to sound a certain way every time. It's more lively and energetic if we can change things around and add variety and try different experiments and such, to liven things up.
I have never really heard the originals of these songs, so Tia's versions sound perfectly good to my ears, and I certainly do not miss any 'masculine sound'.
I prefer higher pitches anyway, which is my my favorite instrument is violin, and why I prefer the feminine versions of these things - masculine sound would be lower and bring the feeling down and make the whole thing boring and depressing instead of interesting and delightful, plus uplifting.
Just listen to the Ballroom Blitz separately (without looking at her), there's a soundtrack version of it - and be honest, do you really hear something wrong with the singing? I certainly don't, and I have heard it probably hundreds of times.
I have heard japanese pop idols singing in 'live events', and one of them couldn't carry a note at all, it sounded horrible. I liked her looks, I liked her as a character, but her singing was so awful that I would totally understand the comments about Tia's singing, if she sounded anything like those japanese pop idols.
Tia, however, sings every note perfectly and proved in this movie that she really can sing.
I don't know what kind of ear-malfunction some people here have, but the fault is certainly not with her singing.
She was very impressive in this movie. I don't see what people see or hear wrong about her singing, I just can't hear it. To me, she sings fine - she hits the notes, has good, 'raw' expression and sounds perfectly comical at the same time, exactly the way that fits her character in the movie.
I don't see how her performances or singing could have been improved - maybe some people are just weird.
I am not one to jump into the '[insert female here] is h0T!11' bandwagon, but I have to admit to having a little crush on her back in the day - her looks definitely radiate a nicely asian exotique amidst the boring faces in the movie, despite her obvious manjaw.
When I saw her in other things as her past-wall self, I couldn't see her as something attractive anymore even in this movie, but that's the way it goes. Her 1992 version certainly strongly appealed to teen hormonal structure.
That's the problem with youthful, radiating beauty of attraction - it hits the wall and gets destroyed, never to return.
I was in LA in the mid 1990's and I saw her walking toward me in the Del Amo (sp?)mall...WOW the movies don't do her justice, the hip to waist ratio is incredible! Hollywood is full of beauties and her body is almost unreal, I have never seen a woman with a more perfect body. I just looked at her in disbelief...she smiled to me like"yes i know I'm hot,I get that look all the time, but I like it"
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