Lady Marmalade–Patti LaBelle or Fantasia?
By Tell It Like It 'Tis Thursday • Feb 14th, 2009 • Category: Tell It Like It Tis Thursday •
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Okay APOOO family and friends…who gets your votes for Lady Marmalade? Which version do you prefer…Ms. Patti’s or Fantasia?
Videos of both versions are included below. Listen to them and then leave us a comment and let us know which one you enjoyed the most.
PATTI LABELLE
FANTASIA
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I love Fantasia, but no one can beat Patti LaBelle.
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Hey LH good to see you over here…and I’m feeling you on Patti as well.
Fantasia did a great job, but I’m an old head. Gotta say Miss Patti!
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Carleen…Miss Patti rocks!
Sorry Fantasia, but Patti has got this one in the bag.
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Jennifer…Fantasia has a tendency to be nasally and a screamer.
I had to cut it off.. Fantasia screamed the song…
Nobody can sing Ms. Patti
Cilla…U know…I thought the same thing Fantasia SCREAMED, SCREAMED…if she keeps screaming her songs her voice is going to be shot before she’s 30.
Fantasia could have kept all that screaming. I’ve been through with her since the “Baby Mama” song.
Patti is the Queen.
Nothing like the orignal but Fantasia holds her own.
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Patti because Fantasia was really working my nerves. When I watched her sing this on TV i had to turn the channel because of all the screaming
imo no one can sing ms.patti songs the way she does but fantasia can be a good singer if she focus more on singing instead of the all the hollering she has been doing and find out what works for her voice
Dinah…I agree Fantasia has a good voice…and she stick with the voice that helped her to win AI…I liked her then…but the screaming of late has really turned me off.
Rhonda…I hear you about the Baby Mama song.
Ms. Mary…yep I can understand turning the TV off.
In the beginning I had mixed feelings about Fantasia. Actually, I didn’t like her. Then I saw her movie and I had a change of heart. She is a decent actress, a very good singer, but terrible at hollering/screaming a song. But see, I’m old school as well and a LaBelle fan from 1965 and such (they were Patti LaBelle and the Bluebells back then) There are some voices and talent that simply cannot be duplicated.
LOL – I thought I was the only one who HATED that Baby Mama song! Glad I’m not alone!
Re: the screaming…well, in some respects (1) it could have been an emulation of Ms. Patti herself, cause I’ve known sister to scream into a microphone herself on more than one occasion and (2) a bit of “ego” — with all those divas, wanna-be-divas, and powerhouses in front of a recording camera and a spotlight, there was bound to be some “competition” amongst them. Unfortunately, louder doesn’t equate to better…
Yeah Ms. Patti has definitely been known to be a screamer and shut out Divas down…can I say Diana Ross…hehe.
I go all the way back to the Apollo Theater with Patti LaBelle and The BlueBells so you just know It’s Patti all the way for me. Fantasia does remind me of Dinah Washington when she sings a smoothe ballad.