Solange “Viva La Vida (Coldplay Cover)”
Mixtape Maestro isn’t ashamed to admit to being a proud sipper of the Solange Kool-Aid. Not only did she pull out one of ’08′s finest R&B releases, but with ONE single managed to singlehandedly best nearly the entire underwhelming (and under-selling) multi-solo album output of all of Destiny’s other children, not to mention previously multi-platinum (and now somewhat pointless) chanteuses like Ashanti.
But the praise has got to stop somewhere, and with Solange, she definitely hits a wall with this ill-advised cover of Coldplay’s “Viva La Vida”. As the American Idol judges famously sneer, this song is just too big for her, her humble chops hopelessly unable to match the track’s epic loom (and those needless melismastic runs she attempts to sneak in? Major no-no!).
When the only positive comment someone can say about your performance centers on the goofy choreography of your back-up dancers, you know you’ve pulled off a dud. Where’s the winning 60′s girl group motif when you need it?
Way harsh, Tai. I think Solange turned out a decent fangirl karaoke rendition… She didn’t make the song her own, but she managed to perform it decently. Plus, I love her random crack addict dancing. She’s so fucking amazing in the weirdest untapped potential sort of way.
WOW!!!! She makes me really love this song.. Thanks solange!!! Hi Haters!!! LOL
Oh Yea and solange is excellent if u didnt know!!!