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 | get happy / happy days are here again → judy and barbra
this is one of my all time favourite duets, so of course i just had to sing it with my beautiful jessie. i’ve had it waiting here in my drafts for a while, so that i could post it when jess was actually around, but she asked me to post it anyway, so here it is. it is always an honour and my pleasure to sing with you, my darling, and i can’t wait for the next one. thank you for lending me your amazing gift and sharing it with all of us.
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 | dyin’ ain’t so bad → bonnie and clyde (laura osnes)
Although I may not seem like it, I am a bit of a diva at heart, and the 11o’clock numbers of musicals are often my favourite to sing. So, I have decided now to work my way through my list of favourite numbers, starting with this masterpiece. I know I’m no Princess Laura, but I adore this song so much and she makes me cry whenever she sings it, (and hopefully I can make some of you cry too - kidding!). I hope you enjoy, and thanks to Jess, for being the angel she always is, and introducing me to the glory that is Bonnie and Clyde the Musical. (also, headphones are better because of reasons… :)
oh hot damn, this is my jam | they just keep moving the line → smash
This one speaks for itself. I love Smash more than the average sane person does, and after hearing Ivy sing this, I had goosebumps, I was in tears, my emotions were just everywhere. Hearing her give it her all, even though she believed that she had lost her chance to be Marilyn at this point, was just incredible and I knew I wanted to give it a try (try being the optimal word here, but I’m pretty proud of it!). I love this song with all of my heart and I would have done it sooner but I couldn’t find a backing until now. Smash lovers, hope you like it, and non-Smash lovers, start watching Smash. Haha but seriously. Enjoy and probably listen with headphones, just for belty reasons. Love to all of you.
oh hot damn, this is my jam | i dreamed a dream → les miserables
After doing loads of research, watching a few different versions of the show and listening to about twenty different versions of this song [including beautiful Jess’s and Hannah’s which I adore], I have used them as my inspiration and decided to challenge myself and audition for a role that I personally don’t think suits me, but is a dream role of mine. Both Eponine and Fantine are such wonderful parts, but I’m right in the middle of where their ages lie, and I can’t sing On My Own all that well. I also think that it would be such a learning experience to play Fantine’s character, and already from trying to pour enough emotion into this one song, I can tell it will be difficult. But she is an incredible woman and the more I read (reading the book too) and listen, the more fascinated I become by her. I’m not getting my hopes up again in regards to the audition, but any feedback would be greatly appreciated to help me in the process. This was only my second take though, so I’ve got a lot of practise to do, but here is [my attempt at my audition song] I Dreamed A Dream.
oh hot damn, this is my jam | i’m not afraid of anything → andrea burns
short story:
i love love love this song so much and always have for many years, so i thought i’d sing it for you, as i have been wanting to for a while, however haven’t, as my computer doesn’t like my belting at all, but today, i thought screw it! and did it anyway.long story:
i’ve had this queued for a while because i didn’t want to pull focus from anyone else, but this song means a lot to me, and i have always felt i relate to it a lot. it was made to be even more special to me, though, following a series of events last week. you see, i ran into one of my bestest friends at uni, and i hadn’t seen her in person for the longest time. we got to talking about what we’d been up to, and she was in our uni’s theatre group’s production of Macbeth recently, which was fantastic! she then went on to talk about the group, Nuts, and the director, who had just finished auditions for a musical. she then said ‘ahh you would have been so perfect for it i’m going to call her up right now and you’re going to audition for it.’ so, despite my adament protests, she called up the director and organised the audition. i was really panicked at this stage because i hate being unprepared for auditions, but my friend then told me the show was 'songs for a new world’, and i stopped panicking. i had been singing 'i’m not afraid of anything’ for the longest time, and although it’s unprofessional to sing a piece from the musical you’re auditioning for at the audition, i loved the song so much it didn’t matter. and i really, really wanted it. i had been waiting long enough for something like this to happen.after the audition, i was told to come to callbacks the next day which was exciting! i thanked my friend so so much for doing this for me, and for being a part of one of those sorted fated moments in life that you feel like they’re meant to be happening, it’s all just meant to be. the callback songs were 'i’d give it all for you’ and 'stars and the moon’ which i already knew as well, which was handy, because i loved the show so much. it was a bit weird being the only one not doing music or arts or theatre of some kind, (which is part of the reason i usually don’t go for these types of things and part of the reason why i question why i love to sing and why i want to perform so much) but i did my best and thought it went pretty well, but i didn’t get my hopes up because i never do, so they don’t get dashed when my dreams don’t come true.
anyway, the next day, i got a call from the director (who was lovely by the way) and she told me [i don’t know how many of you are familiar with the show, but there are only meant to be four people in it] that they were adding a few more people to the show and dividing up some of the songs a bit [as the storyline is very vague and different characters can be singing other characters’ songs so this is possible] but that i had gotten the part of amy, one of the lead females in the show! i was so excited because it is one of my dream roles and because i get to sing 'i’m not afraid of anything’ in front of an audience! i was so unbelievably grateful she had reopened the auditions for me and i really hope i can do the role justice because i love it so much.
i am so happy and nervous and excited all at the same time and i didn’t say anything until now because there has been a lot of stuff happening on here that i didn’t want to distract from and also i didn’t want to jinx anything! but now, the show’s on a month from next tuesday and i am just a ball of emotions, i really can’t believe that i’m actually a part of something i love so much. a lot of crap has been going down in my life lately and i just needed a change. something to sing about.
i only wish i had known sooner so i could’ve made hannah audition with me, but i hope you’ll still come see if you want, and maybe we’ll do it next time!
wow that was a long speel. but here it is, 'i’m not afraid of anything’. i apologise my computer’s reaction to my belting, it was a bit loud at times. i hope you think it’s okay though, because ahhh i’m actually going to have an audience! oh and also, it’s a really beautiful show for those of you who don’t know it, you should check it out!
oh hot damn, this is my jam | stop! → spice girls
STOP (Spice Girls cover ft. Kathy, Jess and Hannah)
CAN I PRESENT TO YOU THE MOST EPIC COVER ON TUMBLR (sorry if this is pretentious but, let’s face it, it is)
I’ve been wanting to sing with Kathy and Jess for such a long time, but there are a surprisingly small number of musical trios around. A few weeks ago an anon sent me a message saying we were like the spice girls, and I thought, why not? Let’s sing a spice girls song! It’s great timing too, with the Olympics closing ceremony only a couple weeks ago.
I love these two girlies so much, and I love their voices more than anything. They’re a constant source of joy and support for me and I hope you all enjoy this :)
OBVIOUSLY THIS IS THE BEST EVER, IT CANNOT BE DENIED. Also the greatest Spice Girls song or the GREATEST SPICE GIRLS SONG?!?!
I love you two so much, you’re so mind-bogglingly talented, but you’re also the kindest and most genuine girls and the dearest of friends. And this is making me smile like crazy.
I really cannot express how much fun it was singing this song! It takes me back to when I was 6 or 7 years old, dancing and singing, light of heart and carefree! Good times. And to be singing it with two people as special as these two incredible ladies, I am so unbelievably grateful to have them in my life. I hope you all enjoy it as much as we enjoyed singing it! And if you like it enough, I’m sure we’ll be up for singing another one soon ;)
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