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Hold The Phone: Nicole Richie Can Sing?
Posted by Molly Friedman at 7:06 AM on March 1, 2008
Casting a star in a Broadway production tends to either bomb disastrously (Julia Roberts in Three Days of Rain, anyone?) or succeed spectacularly (Fantasia in The Color Purple, who killed). So when we heard the news that Nicole Richie is up for the role as Roxie in the long-running Chicago, we got nervous. Sure, she'll bring in the tweens, but can the girl actually sing? We did some investigating on that "debut album" Richie promised her public way back in 2005, and found a scratchy YouTube video featuring one single called "Dandelion" that may or may not have been planned for release. And we're no Simon Cowell, but we predict she'll breeze through "Funny Honey" much more smoothly than cringey-voiced Renee Zellweger did in the Oscar-winning flick. Judge for yourselves after the jump.
Casting a star in a Broadway production tends to either bomb disastrously (Julia Roberts in Three Days of Rain, anyone?) or succeed spectacularly (Fantasia in The Color Purple, who killed). So when
Though we can't get any sense of whether or not Nic can dance, she has been known to boogie on a banquette or two to the crowd's approval. But after listening to the song, we're rooting for Nicole's chances on landing the part. And noticing how vastly better Nicole's personal and professional life is going compared to former upper-handed BFF Paris Hilton (a baby, a role in a Fosse musical, a devoted boyf, and finally some meat on her bones), we're on Team Richie, all the way.
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gwendolyn
Posted 9:17 AM 1/3/08
@Maya_Twocents: I don't have much interest in Nicole Richie, but if she were to knock a spectacular Sally Bowles out of the ballpark, that would be some sweet revenge for her.
gwendolyn
guitarsnob
Posted 9:17 AM 1/3/08
*neither of whom
guitarsnob
guitarsnob
Posted 9:17 AM 1/3/08
Chicago? Everyone does fucking Chicago. Chicago is, like, the new Pussycat Dolls, except when the Pussycat Dolls were performing at the Viper room with Carmen Electra and co.
If god damn Kelly Osborne and Ashlee Simpson - neither of who have any discernible talent - could hold their own (they did, right?), no doubt Ms. Richie will, at the very least, finish her run.
Anyhow if I were her I'd hold out for one of General Stanely's daughters in a Penzance remake.
THAT is where she'll get some credibility.
guitarsnob
Maya_Twocents
Posted 9:17 AM 1/3/08
Wow, I'm pretty impressed. Sounds like that might be her actual singing voice - and it's quite passably decent. How pleasantly surprising. I usually expect celebutard recordings to be all squeezed, multi-tracked and Neptune-y. (Ahem, Paris.) If she can dance at all, she'll do just fine.
Stunt casting is all the rage, anyway. She'll be Sally Bowles next, mark my words.
Maya_Twocents
People Paula
Posted 9:17 AM 1/3/08
Well, she is Lionel Richie's daughter.... Sort of.
People Paula
Garrison Dean
Posted 9:40 AM 1/3/08
That pose makes her look like she's feeding a litter of puppies.
Garrison Dean
cookieheadjohnson
Posted 10:30 AM 1/3/08
And don't forget Sheila E's her aunt; I'd like to see them close the show with "Glamorous Life."
cookieheadjohnson
Little Mintz Sunshine
Posted 2:06 PM 1/3/08
Is there nothing she can't do? Aside from digest a meal and use birth control? And of course by "use" I mean not understand that the pill may be rendered useless by copious amounts of Vicodin, pot and booze.
Little Mintz Sunshine
gwendemarco
Posted 3:15 PM 1/3/08
Bob Fosse died for our sins.
gwendemarco
heidiho
Posted 3:40 PM 1/3/08
Hey, Nicole lost the tween support when she stole Lizzie McGuire's man.
heidiho
raincoaster
Posted 4:40 AM 2/3/08
Dandelion came out as a single last year. Compared to Paris' atrocious "music" it's actually pretty good, and a lot more vocally ambitious than anything the rest of the celebutards have tried (except perjury).
raincoaster
Miss d
Posted 11:41 AM 3/3/08
I'm more concerned that she's liable to snap a femur attempting a high kick...
Miss d
Muscato
Posted 4:42 AM 4/3/08
...and in 30 years, she and Paris can bus-and-truck it across the country as Mame and Vera Charles. Or maybe Mama Rose and Herbie...
Muscato
Hanapana
Posted 6:46 AM 4/3/08
How many verses are in this song? Million bucks says she can't sing it without reading the lyrics, cuz that's what it sounds like she's doing anyway.
Next thing we'll hear is her singing Mother Goose songs in the same melodies.
Hanapana
Hanapana
Posted 7:11 AM 4/3/08
OH, I almost forgot.....Uncle Kracker be pissed because she obviously stole his sheet music.
Hanapana
The Authority
Posted 11:55 AM 6/3/08
Nice job actually. Not a bad tune and not a bad performance.
The Authority