It is that time of the year. Another year has flown by and this week marks seven years since I first figured out how Blogger worked and hit publish for the first time. Almost 30,000 posts later and hundreds of thousands of comments I still like to go back to that first blind item that people still discuss. MV. If you have not read it yet, you can read the original 2006 blind right here.
I have a couple of new clues to offer this year.
She has been on a very popular CBS sitcom.
She has been on Saturday Night Live more than once.
Britney - How I Met Your Mother
ReplyDeleteThis is Britney! Wasn't she on How I Met Your Mother?!
ReplyDeleteBrit
ReplyDeleteALSO YOU NEW PEOPLE NEED TO RESPECT THOSE OF US WHO HAVE BEEN HERE SINCE 1995
There, I said it.
Respect? For being on a gossip site longer than some people? If you had been working on a cure for cancer longer than me, sure. But a gossip site? Not so much.
DeleteI couldn't help but notice when reading the old posts on the site that people used to be a LOT more respectful in general - to Enty & to each other. It's crazy what some people will say anonymously that they would NEVER say to someone's face. Sad, really. I've only been here a few years, but I wish I had been enjoying it in the beginning!
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Delete@cece....well said:)
DeleteBacon tough crowd :/
Delete+3 on Cece's comment
DeleteYESSSS!!! It has to be J.Lo. She was on how I met your mother. I know Britney was too but there's no way her singing voice hasn't always been her.
ReplyDeletecrap...J-Lo's been on HIMYM too :( 2010
ReplyDeleteCalm down, J Lo was on HIMYM also.
ReplyDeleteHere's your annual hint: MV = J Lo
True facts.
DeleteJLo
ReplyDeleteHow I met your mother
SNL in 2001&2010
Sorry to break it to ya but JLo has also been on HIMYM!
ReplyDeleteI think we need to keep in mind that at the time the blind was originally posted, Ent and Britney were friends and he said he'd never say anything bad about his friends. I believe he even said she read the site, at that time.
ReplyDeleteCorrect me if I'm wrong, of course.
I remember that too. That's why I've always believed its j.lo. The clues fit both but og enty liked Britney
DeleteI'm sticking with Jennifer Lopez for this one.
ReplyDeletejlo
ReplyDeleteIs there a spreadsheet somewhere? All the clues in a column on the left, all the suspects listed across the top? An "X" marked in each box when there's a hit, their name greyed-out when they are disqualified?
ReplyDeleteI immediately thought of Britney but Jennifer Lopez has also been on HIMYM and SNL (more than once). Were either of them already disqualified?
JHOHOHO
ReplyDeleteJLo was also on Will and Grace. But that was an NBC show.
ReplyDeleteI think at this point Enty is looking for clues which work for both Brit Brit and J-Lo.. we have analysed everything to death.. i kind of think, at this point, we all just pick one of the two and see whether it will ever be revealed..
ReplyDeleteMe, I am on the J-Lo express train, choo choo!!
Funny how the clues apply to both Britney and JLo.
ReplyDeleteThe next MV hints:
-Married nobodies for a brief period of time
-Judged a singing competition reality show
-Have a fragrance line
-Has had plastic surgery
-Has two children
Oops *has not have
DeleteYou're right Amber. He also said that MV's name has 13 letters (fits Brit and JLo).
ReplyDeleteBut really, if you were Lopez and hiring a singer...wouldn't you hire one that sucked less?
I've heard dogs howl with more range.
I've always assumed it was Lopez.
ReplyDeleteBritney was something of an unknown name (apart from the Disney thing as a child) when she released "Hit Me Baby One More Time," and it didn't make much sense for the producers to pick somebody who couldn't sing and wasn't an established name but looked good, then another woman who would be her voice.
Lopez was already a movie star when she started her musical career, she almost never sings live and it makes "sense" to book a sound-alike singer, so the diva won't be obliged to spend time in the studio.
Team Lopez 4ever!
JLO
ReplyDeleteshe has always been a little insecure about her singing voice-has openly said it and said Marc encouraged her to keep singing
has done a lot of commercials
I do believe Brit's voice is her own from back in the day on MM club and Star Search-so there is proof that she actually sings.
Marc probably encouraged her to keep singing so that he looked better.
ReplyDeletePeople walking away
"Wow that woman was awful"
"Yeah but at least the guy was good"
@Bacon Ranch
ReplyDeleteIf Lopez suddenly showed range on her recordings, compared to her spoken voice, more people would suspect that she doesn't really sing on her own recordings. Having a more limited singer makes it more convincing.
Nobody has ever bought a disc by Jennifer Lopez because the voice sounded great. But she sold plenty of them because she was nearly naked in the videos (or was in a wet T-shirt), got exposure through her names and the tunes and the production were sometimes catchy.
plus which of the two is a bigger bitch???
ReplyDeleteJLO for the win
I could totally see her humiliating MV about her looks like the faux superior bitch she is
I can't believe I've spent the last 7 years coming here. Time flies.
ReplyDeleteBritney is so auto-tuned that it would surprise no one if this were her. JLo on the other hand would cause a stir (or would have back in her heyday)
ReplyDeleteAlso Britney's voice although auto tuned sounds very much like her speaking voice, even with fake English accent.
Deletecece, agreed.
ReplyDeleteIt was a joke that may or may not have a tenuous connection to my coffee intake this am.
Just seems that whenever MV is brought up old timers come in and try to pull rank.
I could only wish I had the knowledge to assist with cancer research.
I used to sit in the audience for the new Mickey Mouse Club when Brit was on. She doesn't have the strongest voice but she CAN sing. Producers were interested in her bc she could dance quite well, had good comedic timing and the ability to sing while being a pretty face.
ReplyDeleteThe is SOOOOO JLO !!!
JLo was a fly girl on In Living Color and was mostly known for her dance skills.
she is auto tuned, but I think it is for the effect-the auto tuning sound has actually become popular
ReplyDeleteweird huh?
I wonder how many years we'll have to keep guessing J.Lo til OG Enty invites the oldbies to a conclave where he confirms.
ReplyDeleteIt's been 7 years? Holy fuckballs.
I have somehow in the past missed the MV clues. Wow. I too am curious to know what the previous clues were and who has already been eliminated.
ReplyDelete>>Blogger Freya said...
ReplyDeleteFunny how the clues apply to both Britney and JLo.
The next MV hints:
-Married nobodies for a brief period of time
-Judged a singing competition reality show
-Have a fragrance line
-Has had plastic surgery
-Has two children<<
Nice list!
it's either JLo, Britney Spears or Katy Perry
ReplyDeleteI would think with all the mental health problems BS has had that if this wasn't truly her she would of just quit singing all together. J.lo could be right but her debut album came out in 1999 the original blind implies the year 2000 as being when she first started recording.
ReplyDelete@s.breezy, Britney Spears album, "Baby One More Time", came out in 1999. She was recording it in 1998.
DeleteOne of the past clues...Either our singer or someone she has been married to has had a nickname or a hyphenation in their nickname. J-Lo?
ReplyDeleteK-Fed :-)
DeleteP Diddy
Delete+1 for Angela
ReplyDeleteMy thoughts exactly. It's J-Lo. Plus there is countless footage of Britney as a child singing.
Britney's new ballad Perfume is out, and it's clearly her singing.
Team J-Lo.
>>Blogger Susan M said...
ReplyDeleteOne of the past clues...Either our singer or someone she has been married to has had a nickname or a hyphenation in their nickname. J-Lo?<<
This one might as well be revealed now...
I totally agree. How long can this be dragged out already?
DeleteOr there is K-Fed. Dammit.
ReplyDeleteI thought that it was pretty much accepted that this was J-Lo?
ReplyDeleteI think it's J-Lo though. She's naaaasty.
ReplyDeleteCrap, Susan! Ent is eviLLe!
ReplyDeleteBacon Ranch - you are killing it today!
ReplyDeleteAJ - wow - you were in the audience for MMC?
Yeah it was pretty neat but looong days. I did it for the last two seasons when I was in Florida.
DeleteI think it's JLo.
ReplyDeleteBritney had K-Fed (for the abbreviated name or spouse with name)
ReplyDeleteThat being said, and with much disgruntled-ness, I do believe this is J-Lo. I actually like her. Which, on this site, apparently doesn't say much for me. LOL! I so wish there was someone we were all overlooking.
@Snapdragon You can pull up all the previous MV posts by typing MV into the site's search box. It will pull up a list of the older posts with links you can click on. Sometimes the MV clue is a line at the end of a post about something else so be sure to read through to the end.
ReplyDelete:)
Here you can all the clues and other details
ReplyDeletehttp://www.crazydaysandnights.net/search/label/MV
Angela, that's a great point.
ReplyDeleteTV Junkie, in the 'good old days' if you weren't a member of the clique you weren't even acknowledged.
Also, the ones currently writing this blog aren't the original guy who started it. He sold it.
Sure he may chime in with a post once and awhile but it's not the same as it was 7 years ago.
Next time you take a trip down nostalgia lane, compare the writing styles and the nature of the stories.
The people writing now are very different than the guy writing then.
I totally get that, Bacon Ranch, and I totally agree. The original writer was obviously very different, and it's a shame that it got so big that he has to farm out the work. I'mjust saying that the general tone seemed to be different. There were real stories with some blind items thrown in. It appears that it used to be a more enjoyable read. Hell, it was a more enjoyable read a few years ago when I started reading! I like the community here, but I guess what I'm saying is that if I started to read it today, I might not come back - the poor grammar and spelling as well as the vitriol are a bit off-putting. That being said, I also don't complain about the choice of stories. I wouldn't know a real housewife of anything if I tripped over one of them, so I just don't read those stories.
Delete@s.breezy29 - He actually said he fudged the dates, and was just using years basically as guidelines to tell the story.
ReplyDeleteHard to imagine Britney being unpleasant to the real singer, as described in the original blind. Easy to imagine Jennifer Lopez being unpleasant to *anyone*.
ReplyDeleteGotta be Britney a few years ago after her break down started all her music changed. There is no more singing just talking and it is heavily auto-tuned. That would be around the time that S stopped singing for her.
ReplyDeleteI miss the old Posts back in the day when ENTY could both write & spell. Crazy that it's been 7 years of reading this site. My life has changed SO SO SO much in that time.
ReplyDeleteI remember reading somewhere that when JLo did Selena, she wanted to sing the songs but they wouldn't let her. It was also the movie that made her famous so she probably got the idea then that she wanted to be a "singer", even though she clearly has no talent.
ReplyDeleteThanks @tigercat and @susan!
ReplyDelete"Get off my lawn!!"
ReplyDeleteLove it, @Bacon Ranch!
I really think the MV clues are expanded to fit Brit, JLo, and Shania - and will be revealed as a Timmy/Shimmy.
new release for Brit-Perrfume is singing not talking
ReplyDeletenot bad vocals either
very much in the same style as before the breakdown.....just saying
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DeleteThat could have been a haiku if you tried harder, Rajacat. ;-)
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ReplyDelete@ Tv Junkie - interesting observation. I believe that is why so many people who used to post back then no longer come here ;)
ReplyDeleteNow for my annual MV diatribe:
First of all - remember the Timmy/ Shimmy blind? And how, when it was revealed, it turned out that the original BI was filled with red herrings and wasn't quite as juicy as it read.
MV will never be revealed, but I believe that if it ever was, it would be the same deal.
At first, I thought there was absolutely no way MV could be Britney or J-Lo, because the blind said that "it would rock the music industry to its core". Finding out that Britney or J-Lo have other people singing for them would shock exactly 0 people in the music industry. Or anywhere else. Britneys sweeteners have been named and interviewed, and there have been numerous examples of Britney's demo tracks posted on YouTube as sung by someone else.
I believe S is someone who made some extra cash singing on some demos. She got paid a one time sum of money for services rendered and the demo was sold to the record company to do whatever they wanted with. And then they did.
Later on, when MV made it really big, S wanted a bigger piece of the pie, but she already signed over the rights to those recordings so she can't get the royalties she feels she deserves, the royalties that would make her a fairly wealthy woman.
An example of someone picking "one time payment" instead of "percentage of royalties" and probably regretted it a bit: Vincent Price, for his speaking part on Michael Jackson's "Thriller". He was credited for his work, of course, but still. That had to have stung a bit.
So there you have it.
Now, when it comes to J-Lo, I can clearly hear her speaking voice on her songs, but she is likely autotuned + has backup singers sweetening her with mixed down harmonies. And yes, Britney was a great singer for a kid, but things change. We know for a fact she has other voices mixed in with hers.
So, yeah, MV could be either of these two, or someone else, I jus don't believe the story is as shocking as we originally thought when the blind was first posted.
That is all. Carry on.
Hey Maja, good to see you post again.
DeleteI agree with you, but both J-Lo and Brittney are currently shells of their former selves. The height for them was in the 2000's, which one of the clues had put the time frame in. We'd have to remember how they were everywhere in those years and how 'shocking' it would have been to hear that they weren't really the singers given the stadiums and venues they were selling out at that time. Now though, there are people out there that might not even know Brittney and J-Lo are/were singers.
In fact, I would argue that If you are a pop-singer who dances around quite a bit, most people expect you to lip sync. I'm not sure where it became acceptable for this to happen, but I think Ashlee Simpson's debacle on SNL in 2004 and the concurrent rise of Auto-tune around 2006-2008 made it ok.
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DeletePeople the most major clue was MV's name had 13 letters in it. Do the count--add in these clues--get your answer!
ReplyDeleteAll you have to do is listen to On the 6 and know that is not her voice. Plus it was produced by P. Diddy who was in love with her and would do anything to make her record a hit by having her not sing on it.
ReplyDeleteNone of her subsequent CDs sound like the first one which is why they bomb.
And the one time she tried to sing live with her then husband at an awards show she sounded like a cat dying after being set on fire.
J-Ho fo'sho!
ReplyDeletefemale singers' voices peak in their mid thirties not as children
ReplyDeleteher voice should not have gotten worse since a child unless she damaged her chords somehow....
has anyone ever seen her Star Search tape???? She was a capable singer
that voice she uses for pop music is contrived somewhat because it is commercial.......her mother has also said this
it is JLO
How many hits had JLo had prior to 2006 when this blind started?
ReplyDeleteMaja With a J said...
ReplyDelete@ Tv Junkie - interesting observation. I believe that is why so many people who used to post back then no longer come here ;)
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Because people no longer kiss their ass every time they post?
Could be.
Very well could be.
Thanks for the MV commentary!
@BaconRanch. Longevity does not immediately dictate that you should be respected. Behave respectfully, treat others the way you would want to be treated and you will earn respect.
ReplyDeleteAlso, MV is JLo.
Haha TV Junkie, I'm feeling ya on the Real Housewife stuff. And the videos. Most of the time they are just a waste of bandwidth (though the one about Jimmy Sommerville the other day was pretty cool).
ReplyDeleteIt's obvious that the Enterns are paid per (video/pics of Jessica Alba/Kardashians/insert celebs you've never heard of but somehow make the random photos at least twice a week)
angelface:
ReplyDeleteIt was a joke.
The blog began in 2006.
I said I had been here since 1995.
I'm not saying it was a funny joke, I'm just saying it was a joke.
I thought it was funny! :-)
Delete@Maja - I'm kind of on the fence with you, only because I could see this being a Timmy/Shimmy thing. One thing I think about regarding the actual talent is that at the time when JLo was releasing her first album, she was a huge star, and still was at the time the blind was written. So I think for people to find out that such a huge star was an even bigger fraud would be shocking. I try to keep in mind that the general public are not, as a whole, gossip mongers and on top of all of this stuff. Most people couldn't care less, you know?
ReplyDeleteAnyone who thinks BS can sing needs to watch the video of her with her mic on while she lip-synced on tour. Not to mention that even her auto-tuned voice is awful. She always sounds like she sucked helium while holding her nose.
ReplyDeleteThis has to be JLo.
I hope it is JLo, and not Brit. I would much rather watch JLo go through a public shaming.
ReplyDelete@Amber - but he wasn't talking about the general public, or gossip freaks like us, he specifically said the music industry, so I thought it had to be someone like Mariah or Celine Dion. I see now that all clues point to Britney or J-LO...but like someone pointed out, when it comes to J-Lo, if you're gonna hire someone to sing on your records, why not hire a good singer while you're at it? ;)
ReplyDeleteUm, why is the original blind item is tagged "Ashlee Simpson" ?
ReplyDeleteMV = Paula Abdul
ReplyDeleteS = Vicky Sue Robinson
Mark my words.
I remember reading that S died and MV and to visit. Could anyone verify and link it? TIA
ReplyDelete" Bacon Ranch said...
ReplyDeleteangelface:
It was a joke.
The blog began in 2006.
I said I had been here since 1995.
I'm not saying it was a funny joke, I'm just saying it was a joke."
Pussykatt on alt.showbiz.gossip and alt.gossip.celebrities has been re-posting Enty's blinds since @1995. So it's not that far off.
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ReplyDeleteI do need to try harder then....
ReplyDeletelove a good haiku
All posts should be a haiku
DeleteWould be fun to read
Until it gets obnoxious
What about Mariah? I swear every time I heard #Beautiful I could not believe it was her. Sounds like a totally different person so would fit with the clue that the original singer stand in quit.
ReplyDeletewell except I heard Mariah Carey when she was in the audience on Oprah in the way back before she was famous and she sang a couple of lines
ReplyDeleteshe was fabulous
always had that amazing range to hit those high notes and still does
remember Vision of Love??
nah not Mariah
MAJA!!!!
ReplyDeleteAwesome to See you.
I also heard Christina Aguilera before she was famous at the Star Lake Ampitheater side stage in Pittsburgh where she lived at the time as a warm up act
ReplyDeleteand she was also amazing
not her either.....
@don't rain on my prada- Paula Abdul does not = 13 letters...
ReplyDelete13 letters in name peeps
ReplyDelete@Sugar -
ReplyDeleteI have a headache
Work and life suck wicked hard
That's why I come here.
My you learn fast, grasshopper
DeleteMust be your good looks
I have a headache as well
yes but what name
ReplyDeletereal or stage?
first last middle?
combo of some sort?
what 13 letters...........hmmmmmmmm
Maja I have always fantasized that you are Majandra Delfino
ReplyDelete@rajah, Britney is a heavy smoker. She has been for awhile. I'm sure that doesn't help with her voice.
ReplyDelete@Maja - Eh, it's gotta be somewhat believable, right? Enough to be commercially successful and keep up the charade as long as possible? I agree that it seems like it would have to be one of the really big time divas in order to shake the music industry to its core, but for whatever reason the follow-up "clues" aren't really pointing that direction. I don't know that I think this will even be revealed ever - it's like it's a golden carrot dangling out there to keep people coming back and analyzing and guessing. I do have hope that everyone is wrong and that it IS someone more earth-shattering like your Whitneys & Mariahs!
ReplyDeleteHe's just going to keep giving us clues that apply to both Brit and JLO. This and Coke Mom will never be revealed. He's way too afraid of the repruccusions.
ReplyDeleteAssuming MV is JLo, this would mean S recorded the tracks for the J. Lo album which released in early 2001. I think the only single which was not released as a remix was Love Don't Cost a Thing?
ReplyDeleteMy thought is S recorded the album tracks, J Lo the remixes. Hence the marked difference in the song versions (ie I'm Real and Ain't it Funny). Could it be the remixes and subsequent album were released to cover S's tracks - pun intended?
So if I really understand this, JLo/MV has never actually sung in public? Even in the movie about Selena that "made" her? How can so many peeps keep that a secret?
ReplyDeleteOh no lol Jlo never sang in Selena, they used Selena's real voice!
ReplyDeleteIt's not Britney. She can actually sing, or at least she could when she was little and on the Mickey Mouse Club. JLo.
ReplyDeleteSINEAD O´CONNOR
ReplyDelete13 Letters
Hyphen in the full name:
Sinéad Marie-Bernadette O'Connor
hence the "S" as a clue for the real singer
MV for european example
Ranked in the top 40 biggest female rock artists of all time.
Would be really shocking if she would not be the singer
multiple Gold and Platinum Records
Married often, many children
Mental problems
Producer - shocking heavyweight, easy to ident by description:
Phil Ramone
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Phil+Ramone#v=sm&t=Credits_All&per=500&p=1
I vividly remember watching jlo's first live performance on tv at jay leno. i remember because it was excruciating and I thought I was about to pass out fron second hand emberrasment. she has no voice of her own I'm sure of it.
ReplyDelete@unknown- would the music world be rocked by this? Meh.
ReplyDeletesorry about all the typos above, I'm writing at an impossibly old pc.
ReplyDeletedoesnt britney have another blind about a vocal chord problem due tto breast augmentation she was forced into by her mother?
I'm on the JLo train.
ReplyDelete@Amber, haven't seen you around in awhile, @Libby either.
Glad you're back!
@bflogurl - meh now, back then it would have been shocking.
ReplyDeletetoday wit all the sync for "dance and show"
Back then you need singers and record on tape - today just cubase and computers and its done at starbucks in five minutes, nothing and noone really would come as a surprise nowadays.
I will never believe it's JLo. All of her songs sound exactly like her speaking voice. AND, like someone mentioned, they suck. I thought S was supposed to be a good singer, which is why they hired her to sing instead of MV. So why does the singing still suck?
ReplyDeleteI vote Britney, ya'll.
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ReplyDeleteHmmmm, maybe, unknown
ReplyDeleteBut Britney's speaking voice sounds like her singing/auto tune. If S was a good singer, wouldn't Britney have some awesome power ballads out there to prove people wrong since she is constantly being accused of not being able to sing along with the lip syncing?
ReplyDeleteI would say if S is singing for Britney or JLo, she is lucky to have this fake gig as her voice wouldn't have gotten her far without it.
true about the smoking and the vocal chords-I'll give you that
ReplyDelete@Unknown.
ReplyDeleteYou know, that would shock the hell out of me.
Anyone around when she first it it big in the music world, remembers how beautifully haunting her voice was.
Oh damn.. remember her SNL deal, when she ripped a picture of the Pope? I remember her sounding really good despite the photo ripping.
I don't think this is Brit Brit, I wouldn't be shocked if it was Jlo. Seriously would anyone? We might point and laugh and dish about it... but not be shocked. (IMO of course)
I think this is someone bigger, that really would shock the hell out of everyone.
But it is always fun to play on the MV blinds, and always nice to see posters we don't get to see a lot. *waves to oldtimers*
And wasn't Shania ruled out?
Enty, many congrats to you on 7 years of blogging.Your blog posts are refreshing and very funny and have become a healthy addiction for me. So thank you! :)
ReplyDeleteI like the Jlo guesses. They fit pretty well.
Britney and JLo sing like they speak plus they're so obvious it can't be them. This backup singer must be able to sing so it has to be someone who comes across as having a really good voice which neither Britney or Jlo could ever be accused of.
ReplyDeletebut the dates don't matter---enty has said the times may be fudged to protect the enty!!!
ReplyDeleteso don't go by dates
would anyone care if it was Sinead O-Connor? It night be a surprise but meh......
@trogdor - You explained my thoughts much better than I did. PS THE BURNINATORRRRRR!
ReplyDelete@Silly Girl - thank you! I got super busy with work, but have a little wiggle room now. :)
Maybe Rihanna? She has been on SNL, don't know about a sitcom.
ReplyDeleteI liked her first few more "Island" songs. Not they all just sound formulaic. Never heard her speaking voice so I don't know what it is like but probably a much stronger accent than when singing.
And she probably would have just started working with JAY Z in 2007/2007/2008.
One of the big clues that eliminated so many people was that MV was born in the US. Sinead O'Connor was not. Shania Twain was not. (I always thought it was her until then.)
ReplyDeleteI agree that this blind was written to seem way more shocking than it is à la Timmy/Shimmy. MV is JLo. But I'd secretly love it to be Beyonce.
if it were B it actually would be shocking......
ReplyDeletenot much chance of that though
I would love that also
Dang it all for me going out to lunch and missing the fun till late!
ReplyDeleteI agree that it fits JLo, even if her singing voice matches her talking voice. I think she's just auto tuned now.
Only an MV blind could bring me out of retirement. I'm still "on the six" with JLo. And she is lying about not having plastic surgery. The Fly Girl has a completely different face. I don't do drama, so I lurk but don't post any more. Someone disagreed with one of my guesses once and ripped me a new one.
ReplyDeleteIts a little mind boggling, isnt it? I call it groupthink neurosis. There have been many psychological studies done on it.A cult-like confrontational approach is taken to people whose opinions differ from the status quo in various social settings. I lurked for awhile on here too. I wouldnt let that experience keep you from voicing your opinion. Its your right! ;)
Delete@Cheryl: Just tell them to fuck off and ignore them when that happens. It is the internet, no need to be polite.
ReplyDeleteI'm on the train with JLo as well. The original blind was posted in 2006, Rihanna wasn't around back then.
ReplyDeleteBritney used to have a pretty good voice, distinctive, odd, nasally, whatever, but still a good voice. She sang on SNL and it was obviously her, with breaks and all. I've never been a fan of hers, but I will give her credit for the voice she used to have. Yes, it has weakened over the years due to her health issues and they now autotune her to death and she lip syncs her concerts, but she doesn't want to be out there anyway. If she wasn't lipsyncing and putting on a good show, there would be riots at those arenas. She will lip sync her Vegas shows too. It's insurance. She could probably sing a song or two live now, but no way can she do a two hour show without "vocal support." She hasn't taken care of her instrument the way the Josh Grobans, Streisands, etc of the world do.
It is JoLo who threatened to quit Idol if she had to sing live
ReplyDeleteThis is J.Lo. No ifs or buts. I have a very reliable source in her camp who spilled all the J.Lo gossip to me! ;)
ReplyDeleteAlso when it comes to their singing voices, Brit Brit may not be able to sing but she's always sounded like herself. J.Lo's voiced changed dramatically about halfway into her career so...
I remember Mariah making snide comments about Jennifer Lopez not singing any of her own music. Btw, I totally own loving If You Had My Love back in the day. Way, way back
ReplyDeleteIt's not Katy Perry, this blind item predates her fame.
ReplyDeleteI remember when the MV blind very first came out, and there were tons of guesses. I can't remember for sure, but I think in the early days, I might have been on the Shania Twain bandwagon. But for years now, I've thought it was J. Lo. And wasn't it just a couple of months ago that Enty made some reference in a J. Lo story or photo that made us all think it was an MV hint?
The bottom line is, everyone who said Enty & Brit were friends is right. They were friends when this BI started, and Enty never wrote unflattering things about his friends - Leo, Britney, etc.
Whenever he talks about J. Lo, it is ALWAYS with dislike and contempt. And I think this is a big part of why he doesn't like her. Not only is she a nasty person apparently, but her "talent" is based on a sham. Exactly the sort of thing (OG) Enty would despise.
Hi Jason! Hi Trogdor!
ReplyDelete@JSierra - I had to Google Majandra Delfino.
I am definitely not her.
agreed FS
ReplyDeleteThanks rajahcat. :)
DeleteHi e'erybody!!!
ReplyDeleteI have always believed it was Shania, and I thought some of the clues were red herrings. Because the guy who started her was Mutt Lange, who produced some of the biggest groups for decades---THAT would rock the music world.
He was also Shania's husband when he made her a star, and when I saw video of Shania singing in a very old beauty pageant---TOTALLY different voice.
This was pre-internet for me. I've never been able to find an old vid of Shania online though. Hard to believe nobody uploaded any.
(If anyone finds one, my hat's off to you. I haven't looked in the last year.)
BUT---if I accept all Enty's clues as 'real', I say JLo. HER producer was Diddy, which would certainly have destroyed a huge number of reputations. Diddy was EVERYTHING for those few years, when the blind was written.
Nice to see you oldsters here. I lurk.
I remember her first album, it was pre-Mutt and had What Made You Say That and Dance with the One That Brought You (Sean Penn was the video director, back before everyone associated him solely with sleaze) and her voice was fine.
ReplyDeleteAnybody who saw JLo and Marc Anthony perform Esapemonos live at the Grammys knows the woman can't sing. he spent the entire song trying to get her back on key. It was horrible.
ReplyDeletehave to believe it is JLo since she didn't and couldn't sing in the Selena movie and a friend who worked on her first CD said her voice was Pro Tooled out the ying yang on the entire disc.
ReplyDeleteI agree with the Jlo guesses - I remember wathcing one of her concerts on tele and I was shocked to se her basically just rolling about on the floor with a few 'whoa-oh's whilst her backing singers sang the actual song. Compared to Pink or Girls Aloud and other pop tarts, there was a serious lack of actual singing.
ReplyDeleteGood to see some old faces around, and hello to the newbies
Another non-clue that applies to both suspects. Thanks for nothing, Enty!
ReplyDeleteAnd I'm just checking in - hello to everyone, haven't been around for a while :)
Nice to see you again. Looks like little Rocket is doing well.
DeleteOh, and Sinead O'Conner has always been a beautiful singer, she can bloody write too.
ReplyDeleteOh, and I've always been on the JLo train. The fact that Enty described her as a huge fucking bitch to the singer is what sealed it for me.
ReplyDeleteI will say this again: Not everyone singfs like they speak. There a ton of soprano opera singers who have mezzo speaking voices.
ReplyDeleteEverything is auto tuned to shit and the style of music would explain why Britney sounded different when she returned post breakdown.
This will never get revealed and Enty pulls it out every so often for clicks (congrats all you sheeps!!BAHH from me). It also brings out all the old timers from the original so hey to Maja with a J!
JHo cannot sing her way out of a paper bag and is completely manufactured as is Britney to an extent. But there is evidence of Britney singing A Capella live but never, NEVEH of Jho.
And the only time we did hear Jho was when she was TRYING to sing but she never actually could get the song all the way out. You hear a few words but never even an entire line.
If everyone reads the blind carefully you will see how easy it is to eliminate a lot people. It says about or around 2000, so that doesn't mean exactly. Next, Britney started out as a child on mickey mouse club long before. The time frame alone eliminates Shania, as well as Mariah and Beyonce (who have clearly proven their singing abilities live. I thought j-lo too, but then looking again, it says that S was making a living as a back up and demo singer(who would hire j-lo as a back up singer?) J-lo started as a backup dancer on in living color and for Janet Jackson around the early 90's. Then went into "acting" long before her music career. so either the time frame of this blind is wrong, none of these guesses are right, or its totally BS (which is totally not out of the realm of possibility as some of the blinds here are just too obviously fake or at least grossly exaggerated ).
ReplyDeleteJ.Lo's manager that made her a pop star, Tommy Mottola, made this happen. He is a very shady type of fellow. Please recall that at this time J.Lo was dating Puff Daddy, whom I might add is another shady type of fellow. An NYC radio station played J.Lo's actual voice in the studio and I remember saying, "So THAT's why she didn't sing in Selena." Despite her unfortunate singing voice, she can dance better than anyone else in the industry. And Jenny From The Block was a club banger. Anyway, congrats on 7 years of blogging!
ReplyDeleteI just came on to say "Hi!" to the oldies.
ReplyDeleteI too used to think it was Shania and I'm not really convinced it's not (for many of the same reasons Libby outlined).
Otherwise...JHo. Mostly because I can't stand her and I would be amused to see her disgraced. Shame on me for thinking that.
I have always thought JLo was a phoney. Tommy Motola & p Diddy created her like scientists created Frankenstein. She can dance, but her real singing voice is terrible. 7 yrs & I'm sticking with my same guess.
ReplyDeleteI agree, it has to be J. lo and not Brittany. I saw Brittany on the Rosie O'Donnell show, back in the late 90's, and I remember Rosie was on her tour bus and Brit was singing a capella. So this can't be her. It has to be J.Lo. Never seen the girl sing live and she's an absolute bitch. Real nasty. I had thought it was Shania way back when too, because she usually lip syncs, but if the clues are all correct it couldn't be her.
ReplyDeleteAgreed that he is going to keep posting ambiguous clues that fit both Brittany & J. Lo to cover his ass.
We'll never know for sure...oh well.
Kelly Clarkson!!! Now that would be a shocker, some of the previous clues would have to be BS though. Would not put that kind of stunt past Cowell
ReplyDelete100% JLo. Also, enty will never refer to her as a singer or will only do so as "singer" but usually celebrity. The only time I've ever heard her sing passably well was a performance on AI and that was at the end of her marriage to Marc Anthony. You know she had him be her vocal coach through that whole marriage.
ReplyDeleteI am still on the JLo train. Britney doesn't have a good voice and never has. They autotune her to within an inch of her life and always have. Now, if this blind were to be current and not from 2006, then I might go with Britney simply because I don't think she can sing anymore and her Daddy wants to ride that gravy train as long as he can.
ReplyDeleteBut JLo fits EVERYTHING. I don't see Britney being a bitch to the real singer either. She's loopy but not a bitch. JLo, definitely.
@Libby: How you is, betch? Long time now see.
ReplyDelete@Lola: I miss you and the fiesty go rounds where we slap the shit out of each other verbally. These other betches are too emotional and jump right to name calling. There is no build up, tiptoeing around niceties before cranking it up to full throttle.
You give a much better argument, using intelligence and a cooler head to come at me. I long for the days where we would lob paragraphs at each other, trying not to give an inch. I even stopped using Twunt for you, and yet you have forsaken me, leaving me to flounder with these crack ho equivalents of debaters.
With the arguing and lack of sex, it reminded me of the waning days of my last true Girl Friend Experience. Could you atleast yell at me to do my own fucking laundry and take the garbage out? PLEASE! I need this Lola. I ache for it.
That was beautiful....*wipes year away...." "memorieseess from the corner of my mind......"
DeleteDo your own goddamn laundry for fuck sake!
Delete(I already took the trash out though)
Feeling better?
@hannah: thank you
Delete@Lola: That's it, Sweetness. You know what I like. You know how to wrap me around your finger.
Maybe if I didn't have to change the oil in your car and mow 4acres of lawn I'd have the TIME to do my own frigging laundry. Heaven forbid you get off your ass and do it. The fucking Bravo channel would fall apart without your eyes on it for all 7hours of Million Dollar Listings.
I love you, Betch.
Britney hasn't taken care of her "instrument" like the Josh Grobans and Barbra Streisands? Are you fucking serious?
ReplyDeleteJust because a rubber band can make musical sounds, doesn't make it an instrument honey.
Bubbles,
DeleteI'm not your honey, but the next time I hear Groban, or Streisand or any other singers like them refer to their vocal cords as their instrument, I'll try to pass on your correction to them.
Love seeing the old guard! *waves hi*
ReplyDeleteYou know, Count, the rest of us are RIGHT HERE! Most of us can read!
ReplyDeleteI said it back then and I'll say it again, it's not Shania Twain born in Timmins Ontario, she was singing in bars long before she was legal and performed in a "Vegas" type lounge show to support her siblings after her parents were killed in a car accident. She recorded her first album in 1993 prior to meeting Mutt Lange - "you may be hearing one of the best country torch singers since Patsy Cline. True, Shania Twain has a long way to go before she reaches that exalted peak, but attention must be paid." Rolling Stone review of Shania Twain debut album 1994
ReplyDeleteJLo didn't start off a singer, but an 'ethnic' looking dancer, IIRC. Her 'singing' came later, as if it would make her a total package. Totally her.
ReplyDeleteBritney was a singer to start. I poptart of a little kid, but a singer, nonetheless.
Shania was a singer to start, even if her voice is different now than before, you can't be a bar singer with autotune.
If these MV are real, i think it's been pretty much solved... First- there's footage of Britney recording Me Against the Music, not to mention her live performance of Not a Girl at the AMAs - and she sounds just like the CD so clearly its her on the album.
ReplyDeleteAlso- CDAN posted this on November 26, 2006
"The first comment/subject I want to address is the S/MV item. The only thing I will say is I will not confirm or deny anything. I really cannot do that. However, with that being said, one thing I will say about myself is that I love my friends, and if you are my friend you know you will not get trashed here or behind your back or anywhere else. Some of you have guessed a certain person and I make very clear in another entry that she is a really good friend of mine and therefore could not be the correct guess. Also, she reads the blog, so be nice. lol"
He was clearly talking about Britney because in a previous post (TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2006) he said the following:
"I need to start off by saying that I think Britney is a great person and one of the funniest people I have ever met. The other thing is that she is very intelligent..love makes people blind and she got suckered by K-Fed plain and simple..but as a businesswoman she knows what she is doing and when I have dealt with her, she has been incredible. I have not spoken to her since she got married because she kind of withdrew from the business part of her life..Right after she got married I had some talks with one of her "people" about a new product but nothing ever came of it and I honestly think she just was not that interested in anything but marriage...I hope now that she is back doing her own thing that I will have the chance to sit down with her again and get to know all the inside info..we shall see.."
Prior to the 26th, theres no one else he really spoke that highly of who is a singer so clearly Britney isn't MV!
If these MV are real, i think it's been pretty much solved... First- there's footage of Britney recording Me Against the Music, not to mention her live performance of Not a Girl at the AMAs - and she sounds just like the CD so clearly its her on the album.
ReplyDeleteAlso- CDAN posted this on November 26, 2006
"The first comment/subject I want to address is the S/MV item. The only thing I will say is I will not confirm or deny anything. I really cannot do that. However, with that being said, one thing I will say about myself is that I love my friends, and if you are my friend you know you will not get trashed here or behind your back or anywhere else. Some of you have guessed a certain person and I make very clear in another entry that she is a really good friend of mine and therefore could not be the correct guess. Also, she reads the blog, so be nice. lol"
He was clearly talking about Britney because in a previous post (TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2006) he said the following:
"I need to start off by saying that I think Britney is a great person and one of the funniest people I have ever met. The other thing is that she is very intelligent..love makes people blind and she got suckered by K-Fed plain and simple..but as a businesswoman she knows what she is doing and when I have dealt with her, she has been incredible. I have not spoken to her since she got married because she kind of withdrew from the business part of her life..Right after she got married I had some talks with one of her "people" about a new product but nothing ever came of it and I honestly think she just was not that interested in anything but marriage...I hope now that she is back doing her own thing that I will have the chance to sit down with her again and get to know all the inside info..we shall see.."
Prior to the 26th, theres no one else he really spoke that highly of who is a singer so clearly Britney isn't MV!
If these MV are real, i think it's been pretty much solved... First- there's footage of Britney recording Me Against the Music, not to mention her live performance of Not a Girl at the AMAs - and she sounds just like the CD so clearly its her on the album.
ReplyDeleteAlso- CDAN posted this on November 26, 2006
"The first comment/subject I want to address is the S/MV item. The only thing I will say is I will not confirm or deny anything. I really cannot do that. However, with that being said, one thing I will say about myself is that I love my friends, and if you are my friend you know you will not get trashed here or behind your back or anywhere else. Some of you have guessed a certain person and I make very clear in another entry that she is a really good friend of mine and therefore could not be the correct guess. Also, she reads the blog, so be nice. lol"
He was clearly talking about Britney because in a previous post (TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2006) he said the following:
"I need to start off by saying that I think Britney is a great person and one of the funniest people I have ever met. The other thing is that she is very intelligent..love makes people blind and she got suckered by K-Fed plain and simple..but as a businesswoman she knows what she is doing and when I have dealt with her, she has been incredible. I have not spoken to her since she got married because she kind of withdrew from the business part of her life..Right after she got married I had some talks with one of her "people" about a new product but nothing ever came of it and I honestly think she just was not that interested in anything but marriage...I hope now that she is back doing her own thing that I will have the chance to sit down with her again and get to know all the inside info..we shall see.."
Prior to the 26th, theres no one else he really spoke that highly of who is a singer so clearly Britney isn't MV!
Nugent I have no idea what you wrote and I don't care because in your picture you are gorgeous!
ReplyDeleteHow do you feel about MILFs on the west coast little boy?
like I said MV brings out all the older posters..Love seeing them here.
Count you and Lola need to get a room.
'Sup Libby & Rocket?
ReplyDeleteAdd me to the MV is Jenny Lopez group.
@Cheryl: I'm right there with. I even deleted my log-in and use a new one now.
ReplyDeleteI always felt that the gal that was Canadian was the filler-inner, back in the timmy/shimmy days for ent. I noticed a likeness in her comment writing style and some of the ent posts. Whats more, I was always curios if she had some connection with the publishing of Jezebel. She mentioned it in one of her comments, and again, an early article had the same writing style.
Whewwww....after all these years it feels good to say this and be done with it.
I believe I brought this up in a previous MV thread, but weren't there a ton of rumors that Christina Milian actually sang part of 'Play'- not just writing it for JLO?
ReplyDeleteIf u listen to the chorus I really hear Christina, not Jlo. Their voices are very similar, especially if they are mixed right.
Milian is only credited as a writer and sometimes backup vocalist, but think she sang the whole chorus, not Jlo.
@TTM: I hope you are displaying your fiestiness and you aren't insulted by the crack ho line. I wouldn't lump you in with them because: 1 you are witty, 2 you are a sweetheart, 3 I don't think you ever called me a hurtful name.
ReplyDeleteThe broads out there who should be insulted know who they are. They resort to base name calling because they cannot participate in intelligent discourse. Possibly their intelligence isn't at fault . It could just be their opinions are stupid with holes in em as wide as Lohan's keister when Dina has rent due.
Hey rocketqueen, I was wondering about you. How is that baby doing? Hi to libby, Cheryl, maja with a j and all the others!
ReplyDeleteI agree with j lo as MV. Plus, she is a super-liar about her plastic surgery. Her face was pulled so tonight a few years ago, she looked like a fish.
I forgot, did S die?
ReplyDeleteJ-LO fo shizzle
ReplyDeleteYeah she died didn't she?
ReplyDeleteAbout ten or so years ago I won tickets to a small, intimate J-Lo concert at a theater near Times Square. You had to be over thirteen to attend, and my kids were younger. I passed the tickets to my cousin and her three teenagers. They went, and said the audience was only a few hundred people and everyone was up close.
ReplyDeleteJ-Lo lip-synched the entire time. She did not perform one song live, and my cousin and I both said probably because she doesn't actually sing. I always thought she was MV.
Hi all! Long time no lurk. (Aka Ruby) After getting reamed here over some comment I made about a "person who shall not be named" for fear of being reamed again, I gave up commenting. Nice to see a lot of the ol' gang coming out. Timmy/Shimmy was one on my favorites~ Anyways, I am on the J-Lo train for all the same reasons.
ReplyDelete"Nooo...Really? said...
ReplyDelete@Cheryl: I'm right there with. I even deleted my log-in and use a new one now.
I always felt that the gal that was Canadian was the filler-inner, back in the timmy/shimmy days for ent. I noticed a likeness in her comment writing style and some of the ent posts. Whats more, I was always curios if she had some connection with the publishing of Jezebel. She mentioned it in one of her comments, and again, an early article had the same writing style.
Whewwww....after all these years it feels good to say this and be done with it."
Here is a link to an article with interviews/quotes of/from various early Jezzie writers if you want to see if you can find a similar writing style.
http://thehairpin.com/2013/11/remembering-the-early-days-of-jezebel-with-anna-holmes
When I first saw so many comments on this thread, I was sure I would be opening up a flame war. Instead, I see all of these wonderful old-timers mixed in with some of the newer regulars, and very little mis-Ent-ropy.
ReplyDeleteI hope you ladies and gents come out of the shadows more often. I miss you all.
Oh, btw -- I think it's JLo.
*waves hi to the newbies* :)
ReplyDeleteI like the Kelly Clarkson guess. I like that one a lot...no one would be shocked if it was J-lo or Britney, NO ONE. But Kelly...yeah.
Bacon, I thought your joke was funny!! ;)
ReplyDeleteAll of you who have gone into lurking, come the fuck back out!!!!!
ReplyDeleteI was SO on the Shania Twain until the whole born-in-the-USA clue. It has to be J. Lo, although that would not shock me in the least. Beyonce would FLOOR me.
I can't believe how long I've been reading this blog. I wonder how many hours I have collectively wasted over seven years. LOL.
I believe MV has kids.
ReplyDeleteOops, right-o! I guess I just want it to be someone who would shock us all.
ReplyDeleteGreat to see all of ya'll.
ReplyDeleteOne ticket for the J-Lo train, plz.
Even without the kids it's not Kelly C. She's another one who has been on SNL and obviously performed live. Also, when she's been on The Voice and that horrid Duets show she did, in her coaching moments she'll sing a line or two, and like Xtina, you can tell Kelly has a voice.
ReplyDeleteAn earlier post reminded me that I've seen Britney do something like that too, I think it was years ago on one of those MTV day in the life types of shows where they followed Brit around off stage. She was walking in NYC and she bought sunglasses from a street vendor and admitted that she lost them so often she only bought crappy ones now. At some point during that show she was doing something boring and singing to herself. Not fantastic, but she could carry a tune and wasn't all weak and breathy.
Hi to RocketQueen, Ms Cool, Maja, and Libby. Good to see you all. Glad to see some others come back after negative experiences, even with new names. Please don't let anyone chase you away again, just do what I do and respond 'LOL' to people like that. Or, even better, just ignore them. :)
the pic in the original blind, old mike and gardenia in the hair makes me think it is a clue towards billie holiday.
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The point is HONEY that they are singers and do have instruments indeed and you mentioned someone whose main instrument is autotune in the same breath.
ReplyDeleteI think S is Vanessa Marquez. I was investigating credited JLo backup singers and when one of Vanessa's tracks was playing, my boyfriend randomly asked me, "is that JLo?"
ReplyDeleteI think S is Vanessa Marquez. I was investigating credited JLo backup singers and when one of Vanessa's tracks was playing, my boyfriend randomly asked me, "is that JLo?"
ReplyDeleteActually, I think Vanessa might be too young. Anjelia Pelay is another possibility. I think it's a good bet that Rodney Darkchild Jerkins is the producer. So searching for backup singers he worked with around the time of Jlo's first single is probably the best way to find the voice that made JLo rich. BTW, this IS Jennifer. It's clear, even to naive fans, that JLo vocals are sketchy. Take a moment and compare My Love Don't Cost a Thing to her newer single with Pitbull. Also listen to her live performance on SNL and her leaked studio attempt at Streisand's disco song. Even if MV is fiction, JLO is a definite MilliVanilli story. It's a testimony to modern-day low standards that she made millions off of faking it and avoided serious scrutiny all of this time. She doesn't even deserve Pia Zadora-level fame.
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