Buffy ,'Lessons'
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What pisses me off is that the show won't admit that's what is happening and Carson keeps talking about America saving people.
West coast is America too, damn it.
Re Delvin, I had absolutely no knowledge of that song before he sang it. That seems like it is a good thing.
I had absolutely no knowledge of that song before he sang it. That seems like it is a good thing.
It's from the soundtrack of that Michael Jordan-Bugs Bunny classic, Space Jam.
And, if that's not bad enough, it's a R. Kelly song.
And I can't believe you don't know it, because, despite how awful it is, I feel like it's sung on every one of these singing competitions at some point.
Wow, the Wikipedia page is very detailed. Among other covers:
American Idol candidates Katharine McPhee, Anwar Robinson, Aaron Kelly, Curtis Finch Jr., and Jacob Lusk all performed the song in different seasons of the TV show.
This song also appeared on the first American season of The X Factor, where R. Kelly performed "I Believe I Can Fly" for the first time as a duet with the eventual winner of the show Melanie Amaro.
The song was covered by Tim Olstad on season 3 of the X-Factor.
This song was also performed on The Voice as the last solo song for the second season's winner Jermaine Paul.
The song was covered by Delvin Choice on season 6 of The Voice.
American musical TV series Glee, performed a version of the song in episode fourteen of season three, "On My Way" (aired on February 21, 2012). It is a mash-up track with the song "Fly" by Nicki Minaj featuring Rihanna.
The Voice and Glee are the only ones of those I watch, and Glee is only sporadic, so I am not that surprised.
Wait, "I Believe I Can Fly," is from Space Jam?? Although I cannot imagine having lived in the US for the last 25 years and avoided hearing that song.
I like my bubble. It has lots of music I like in it.
How did you avoid Space Jam? Love that flick. It is just fun.
"I Believe I Can Fly" got sung endlessly at graduations and stuff for a while there.
Lee has a superpower of avoiding omnipresent annoying songs! You must be the one person who could be like, "I was in the Mediterranean in the summer of 1996, and I never heard The Macarena."
Ugh. I Believe I Can Fly is one of the most egregiously overused songs in reality TV singing competition history. It's right up there (or is it down there?) with I'll Be, I Don't Wanna Be, Against All Odds... not terrible songs, just done to death on singing shows. Well, I Believe I Can Fly is a terrible song, but the other ones are not so much.
I've never seen Space Jam but that song has been sung at least once in every black church in America I think.
"I was in the Mediterranean in the summer of 1996, and I never heard The Macarena."
I first heard "The Macarena" in a Polish disco after my cousin forced her daughter and me to go out with two "friends of the family" in downtown Nowheresville, Poland. Good times.