Comments on: Let Me See You Shake It, Big Girls

By: meowser

meowser — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:38:20 +0000

It sounded like there was one in particular who had a little trouble with pitch on the higher notes, now that I listen again. But you know, they’re so charismatic it’s easy to forget that! (On recordings, of course, that sort of thing can be fixed pretty easily.) And “Shakit” is great fun!

By: Peggy

Peggy — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 19:21:14 +0000

I’m really thrilled to see all the fatties being respresented and passed through on this show. They are not being ridiculed, mocked or made fun of. I agree that these girls were off the mark musically, they were quite off several times, but they had a great look, a great stage presence and pulled it off. There have been two individual fat men and a group of three fat men (all singers who were not flat and did a great job) who have all been sent on to the finals. The finals will begin airing in two weeks so stay tuned! If I remember this show correctly from last season, the viewing public gets to vote for the winners. I’m very proud of every one of them!

Looking forward, Peggy

By: PandoraCaitiff

PandoraCaitiff — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:11:28 +0000

BBW: Big Beautiful Women.

By: Kate217

Kate217 — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 16:07:00 +0000

Thanks, Shinobi, I thought that I was imagining the “out of tune” thing. Glad to hear that someone with a trained ear got the same thing. :)

Other than that, I loved the performance.

By: shinobi

shinobi — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 14:12:01 +0000

As a fat chick who sings (Opera, I’m sooo the stereotype) I am excited to see these chicks being sexy, and strutting their stuff.

However, Wow were they out of tune. I’ll have to listen to some of their other stuff because this was (hopefully) just a nerves/venue/one time issue…… but first I need to go wash out my ears.

By: meowser

meowser — Fri, 29 Jun 2007 00:56:08 +0000

Agreed with Madge, they’re probably closer to average-size than fat, but geesh, in a world where even Norah Jones is asked to lose weight for a movie role (!!), anything that nudges the acceptability needle over a bit is worth celebrating. Furthermore, as a singer myself I really believe being of larger build can give more richness of tone (as is certainly demonstrated here), and that’s something the music business keeps forgetting in limiting its female-singer roster to size 4 and smaller.

By: missa

missa — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 23:44:43 +0000

I was certainly impressed by the judges reactions (although it still irks me that Piers thinks his personal sexual preferences are part of the judging criteria, but that’s another issue) and really enjoyed the first half of their performance. The second half got a little painful, imo, but that’s probably more the fault of that dreadful song than of the group themselves. I’m certainly looking forward to seeing them again!

By: Rachel

Rachel — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 15:44:44 +0000

Well, I imagine that if you too spent years cavorting with too-thin women with overly-large boobs spilling out of their too-small bathing suits, you just might feel confused when you see a woman with curves dancing on stage.

By: Madge

Madge — Thu, 28 Jun 2007 13:36:19 +0000

These women are great, sexy, talented. (can’t listen with the sound on, no speakers). Did any of the judges use the word FAT?
They’re not fat, imo, not that anything would change if they were (they’d still be just as sexy, talented, great). But is this what society considers fat these days? sheesh. I just think they look healthy and not starving.

By: alison

alison — Wed, 27 Jun 2007 23:05:54 +0000

speaking of what’s on TV…
Anyone take a gander at the joke that was
Shaq’s Big Challenge last night?