oh hot damn, this is my jam | always better → kelli o’hara (the bridges of madison county)
so i could make a hundred excuses as to why i’m not fond of this cover (i’m not classically trained, i’ve barely practised, i do not want to be compared to our lord and saviour kelli o’hara) but, instead, i shall say that i wanted my first cover of the new year to be something i loved, and i love this show more than my own life (which you will already know if you’ve been following me at any point over the last year) and dream of playing francesca johnson one day more than anything, so, though it’s not great, please try not to criticise (unless it’s constructive) because it means that much to me, but i hope it gets better over the years so that my dream becomes a reality. + requested by the beautiful jen (ilikebroadwaythings).
oh hot damn, this is my jam | maybe this time → cabaret
So this song has been stuck in my head for about three weeks now and I have no idea why, other than the fact that I love it a lot, but I thought I’d sing it anyway. Ideally I wanted it in the musical key, not the film version because it gets to be pretty high in beltiness at the end, but couldn’t find a lower track anywhere! Maybe I’ll reupload in the lower key one day when I do find it, but here’s this for now - hope it’s okay.
oh hot damn, this is my jam | la vie en rose → cristin milioti
So words really can’t describe what How I Met Your Mother means to me. I’ve been a fan for so long, it has gotten me through so much of my life and I can’t even begin to explain my thrill over the years at seeing multiple Robin Sparkles videos, Ted getting another step closer to meeting the mother, Barney becoming a man who loves with his whole heart, Robin loving him back and Marshall and Lily growing as a couple, going on crazy adventures, having babies and loving each other through thick and thin. They are all a part of me, and I am so thankful for that, I get emotional just thinking about the fact it’s all over. So in honour of the show’s finale and the amazingness that it has been, I decided to do one of my duets with Cristin because I love the song so so much, it pretty much sums up how I feel about the show, and because Cristin as the mother pretty much made the show even more mind-blowingly incredible than I thought it could be. Enjoy, and I’ll try not to cry too much this week after it’s over.
oh hot damn, this is my jam | the wizard and i [wicked] → idina menzel
part 2 of my wicked gift. ♥
oh hot damn, this is my jam | no good deed [wicked] → idina menzel
okay, so i just wanted to take the chance to say thank you. to followers old and new, to everyone who has ever listened to anything i had to say or acknowledged me at all, you have all changed my life in ways both big and small, but either way, they have impacted me. so i thought i’d sing you one of my favourite songs [which doesn’t reflect what i just wrote at all] but the song means a whole lot to me, so i hope it still works.
oh hot damn, this is my jam | let it go [frozen] → idina menzel
i haven’t even seen the movie yet [it’s not out in australia] but i am head over heels in love with this song. idina sings it so incredibly, it was a bit of a challenge, but here it is!
oh hot damn, this is my jam | broadway, here i come → jeremy jordan
it’s a dream of mine to sing this song and to sing with jeremy, so i thought why not make my own dreams come true? haha that sounds SO SAD and my goodness i sound hilarious compared to him, but my it was a glorious four and a half minutes of my life. made up the harmonies pretty much on the spot, so they may be a little rough. :3
oh hot damn, this is my jam | still hurting → sherie rene scott [the last five years]
i’ve been having a bad week; one of those weeks where you can’t sleep or do anything because you keep thinking about the fact that you have no idea where your life is headed or what you’re doing or why you do what you do when you are so in love with doing something else. you know that feeling? anyway, i was really feeling this song today, so i sang it once through when i got home (which is why it’s far from perfect) and this is it.
oh hot damn, this is my jam | dancing on my own → robyn
This one is purely for my brother. Much as I love him, we have very different tastes in music (I personally do not listen to techno or club music, or that much pop these days,) and he does. A lot. But he loves Robyn a lot and asked me to sing a cover of this one, his favourite song at the moment, and because he thinks I should practise my vocal acrobatics more, but I only agreed if I could do an acoustic version of it (because I suck enough at pop songs as it is). So he agreed and this is my attempt. Hope you like it J.
oh hot damn, this is my jam | skyfall → adele
This one’s pretty much a tribute - I think this is one of the most epic bond songs ever, let alone one of the most amazing songs in general, and as we all know, I think adele’s just an absolute queen, and I’m so happy she won her golden globe yesterday; she deserved it so much. JSHBDFJKDN I just love this song. and the little bond riffs throughout it kjasndlfkajn… chills.
oh hot damn, this is my jam | let me be your star → smash (katharine mcphee and megan hilty)
Fade up on a star,
With it all her in her sights,
All the love, and the lights, that surround her.With the gorgeous Kathy singing Ivy’s part, and myself singing Karen’s.
It may be a bit silly, but I feel like I owe so much to this song. When I watched the Pilot episode of Smash, back in January, this song (and the whole feeling of it, of the idea of the show itself) awakened a sense of inspiration in me and a great longing to sing that I haven’t had (or have suppressed) for quite a while now - an inspiration that was then further fueled by the beautiful friends I’ve made here, both in kindly encouraging me and in raising their own glorious voices to share with us. I would never have thought I’d be brave enough, or even want to, post as much as I have, and it would never have happened without this song or without my friends.
Being able to go back to it now, and do it as a duet with someone as talented and as dear as you, Kath, means the world to me. YOU SOUND AMAZING, and I was absolutely thrilled to be able to sing with you, and I love you dearly. You are a star to me. <3
Jessie J, you are perfection. Ditto about the feels of the song, though. I just couldn’t get it out of my head it just had so much passion and drive in it. And of course the fact we felt the same way about it lead to a duet. It was so much fun singing with you, and you are my gold star as well. Can’t wait for the next one… <3
Cover #3
Someone Like You (Adele)
Well, here you go: another Adele cover! I think Someone Like You is by far my favourite Adele song.