Went to see Dreamgirls and I’m shocked I’ve not heard of Jennifer Hudson – she was on American Idol? Okay, how can that be? I’ve heard of Kelly Clarkson, I’ve heard more than I care to hear of Jessica Simpson and Paris Hilton – but this woman – give me a break – she is raw unbelievable talent – I have never heard a song sung like “And I am telling you, I am not going to” – the song comes midway through the movie but the entire audience burst into applause – really, one of the most moving moments of music listening I’ve ever seen and heard at the same time. Reminds me of the rare talent and incomparable Queen of Soul, Aretha Franklin. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Went to see Dreamgirls and I’m shocked I’ve not heard of Jennifer Hudson – she was on American Idol? Okay, how can that be? I’ve heard of Kelly Clarkson, I’ve heard more than I care to hear of Jessica Simpson and Paris Hilton – but this woman – give me a break – she is raw unbelievable talent – I have never heard a song sung like “And I am telling you, I am not… <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1kHSD-dq","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/832\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.dangermond.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}