Let me get this out of the way: I love the Wonder Girls. I constantly listen to "Irony," "So Hot" and the entire "Wonder World" album. Hell, I even watched that Wonder Girls movie they aired on TeenNick. Lol, nah, just playin' ... OK, yeah I did.
But my love for WG makes what happened this week so very painful.
The girls performed at this week's United Nations Concert for Peace (or something like that), which is a huge honor. On top of that, they got to share the stage with Stevie Wonder, another huge honor. All of this is great.
What's not so great is what happened once they got on the stage.
For a concert revolving around peace, it was shocking the amount of abuse to which my ears were subjected. The performance was painful, real painful. The girls were off tempo and often not together. A couple of times, it sounded like someone forgot the words. About 45 seconds into the song, "What the World Needs Now Is Love" btw, Stevie had to rescue Sunye, then kept having to prompt the girls throughout the rest of the performance.
Poor Stevie was a great sport, though, and pretty clever, too. You could practically hear the wheels turning in his head: "Ugh, how can I mask this verbal diarrhea? ... I got it! Audience participation."
There were a couple good things about the performance, though. Sohee wisely only chimed in during the easier parts. And who can hate Stevie? The man deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for trying to squelch this musical massacre.
Oh well, if this whole peace thing doesn't work out, the U.S. could always just employ the Wonder Girls to aid the nation's counterterrorism efforts; they could call it wonderboarding. A couple hours in a room with this performance, and he'll talk.
Mmmmm, cheesy
But my love for WG makes what happened this week so very painful.
The girls performed at this week's United Nations Concert for Peace (or something like that), which is a huge honor. On top of that, they got to share the stage with Stevie Wonder, another huge honor. All of this is great.
What's not so great is what happened once they got on the stage.
Poor Stevie was a great sport, though, and pretty clever, too. You could practically hear the wheels turning in his head: "Ugh, how can I mask this verbal diarrhea? ... I got it! Audience participation."
There were a couple good things about the performance, though. Sohee wisely only chimed in during the easier parts. And who can hate Stevie? The man deserves a Nobel Peace Prize for trying to squelch this musical massacre.
Oh well, if this whole peace thing doesn't work out, the U.S. could always just employ the Wonder Girls to aid the nation's counterterrorism efforts; they could call it wonderboarding. A couple hours in a room with this performance, and he'll talk.
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