Saturday, May 03, 2008

Scarlett: Stick to Acting, Please.

Most of us know of Scarlett Johansson as that cute, blonde, big bossomed actor in those movies. If anyone was curious to know if she should stick with that or perhaps branch out into some tangentially related, yet practically speaking completely different career, here is proof positive that she SHOULD NOT. I give you, the first video from Scarlett's new album featuring the short blonde one (yes, she's tiny, people) singing a horrible cover of Tom Wait's "Falling Down":


I mean, I had heard some people talking about how bad she was at singing and read a review here and there about it. But man. This really REALLY blows. It's proof, once again, that just because you can act, doesn't mean you can sing. Or vice versa for that matter. It's like the late, great comedian Mitch Hedberg once said, after describing how people ask him to do acting gigs just because they've seen him on stage at a comedy club:
"That's like working really hard your whole life to be a chef and after you finally achieve it, somebody comes and says, 'Great -- can you farm?'"

Maybe Scarlett should try farming...

-e

3 comments:

Benjamin Chiang said...

HAHAH nice post!!!
It especially kicked ass because you included a Hedberg reference!!

SPREAD THE WORD OF THE HEDBERG!

"I never made a hole in one, but I did hit a guy once and that's waay more satisfying"

Unknown said...

are you sure it's not someone else covering it with SJ in the video? It totally doesn't sound like it.

Likewise, norah jones should stick to music.

Euge said...

Yep, it's just Scarlett, in all her, uh, glory.

I haven't seen the Norah Jones flick yet, but I'm finding it hard to believe that her performance could be worse than SJ's singing. Yet, anything is possible...