I’m obsessed with this beautiful song. It’s just perfect. Nicole stirs the soul the way Phantom did with Music of the Night. Brilliant music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and casting Scherzinger was beyond fantastic!! ❤
She is soo freaking talented. This song alone would want me to one day see the play and Nicole on the stage. She deserve all the success as a pop artist and also a Broadway actress ;)
Greatest Norma, ever and forever. In spite of the minimalistic on stage version, Nicole really make us believe she is Miss Desmond at her upmost level. Flawless and more!.
Waited so long for a up to date soundtrack this did not disappoint its AMAZING, BEAUTIFUL she makes a FABULOUS Norma. I only hope they make the movie one day!!
I just wish this would come back to the West End. I was so lucky to see it at the end of the run and was blown away. This song fills me with emotion. The whole show utterly brilliant. Thank you Nicole and the rest of the cast, I wasn’t expecting to feel that way about a show. You were outstanding. ❤️
Finally, Nicole ! Ever since I’ve heard your vocals on PCD albums I’ve been waiting for your BiGBangExplosion ! And here it is. You are fully deserving all the flowers. This is how your gift should be presented right now. Who knows how you’ll showcase it next. But I’m excited to see it.
this makes me tear up! Always has been a fan of Nicole, half-Filipino after all. Haha yes, we owned her lol😂. but honestly, she is so talented and for so long I don't understand why she was cast aside specially in the US. Now it's her time! It's been a long time coming!
I don't think I've heard a reaction like that and I really get it. I heard it for the first time on the album (in a way although there were bootlegs out I literally heard it was brilliant that I thought I'll hear it when I hear a proper recording) and WOW - No wonder it got the whooping and cheering on the night. THOROUGHLY DESERVED. BRAVO!!
Finally, a rendition that transcends the typical bombast of the Broadway singing sensibility into a more layered, textured and intimate style of cinema.
It was lowered for Glenn. Betty and Elaine kept the change because it added a certain tension, but I like the original Key to the end that Patti originated. Patti could sing the hell out of the role, but was too young to “get” Norma. Glenn acted the hell out of Norma, but her singing was just passable. Fun fact: they had to lower the railing on the grand staircase for Elaine Paige since she was so short, all you would see was her turbin floating down the stairs.
Talk about having paid your dues. This woman is ridiculously talented, a true triple threat, and because she hit her solo career just a little too late, she’s had to languish on bad contest shows
This is the only version that is comparable with the original sung by the creator of the role, Patti LuPone. Still in LuPone’s version, “I’ll be me “ is sung all together in the same breath.
Interesting that it's 30 seconds longer than previous versions. Extremely well sung, of course, and the jazzy take is interesting for the first sections. Strange she takes a breath before the final note a la Close which she doesn't need to and pronounces it "I'll be may" which I'm sure she doesn't need to either.
Does anyone else feel the tempo is way too slow, and somewhat drains the energy out of the song and diminishes the emotional impact? As much as I still love her version (this recording as well as the live performances I saw at the Savoy), I can’t help but wish she’d sing it just a tad faster.
Noooo I love this tempo!! I always found the original a little too fast. The way Nicole sings it you can hear every little nuance she adds and every little artistic choice. I think the tempo fits her version.
The one night production that the royal Albert hall in London. With mazz Murray was far superior. This is too slow this was too slow.. call look on RUclips . The one night special of sunset boulevard from the royal Albert hall London. That was far superior all round.
Creepy, over-confident, defiantly slow. I like these choices. But I do prefer Paige both musically and psychologically. I mean, who couldnt? Hope Nicole is celebrated for her artistic contributions finally.
Still like Patti's better.....She doesnt have that psychotic edge in her voice.....sounds almost like a folk singer with a guitar in the 60s.....I'll be MAAAAAAAY" HATE that cheating vowel sound!
That’s interesting - because I’ve found Nicole’s Don’t Cry for Me Argentina the best that I’ve heard. And I don’t really care for Patti or Mandi’s version at all. Even though Patti’s a much more capable singer - I thought her Evita was lacking struggle. And even in a lower key - I prefer Madonna’ actual performance as well.
She sings it well but when I saw her in the show, didnt feel anything. The show was bland and dull imo and that didn't help, I actually felt it was so over hyped because of her casting and the show itself was not great
Would have happily saw the alternate. The shows the star and it is one of my favorites and didn't know what to expect. Nothing against Nicole Sherzinger, the show as a whole I didn't enjoy, seeing the alternate probably wouldn't have made a difference although Rachel Tucker is amazing.
To each his own am glad though that the majority of the audience loved her performance and were raving about her she can’t please everyone including yourself !
@@melbamaloney4572 You need to get off their payroll and off of Nicole's brastrap. People are ALLOWED to not like the show/Nicole. You are not the only one allowed an opinion. Grow up. It's a comment section. You're acting like somebody's talking about your mama...in every comment section I see you in. For some unhinged reason you feel the need to not allow people to feel opposite to you. Get off the internet and get yourself some therapy.
@@kevinwilson3609 Did the reviews say Nicole can sing and Glenn can’t and that’s why Nicole is better?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Don’t embarrass yourself. One is a legend. The other is the opposite of a legend.
Shes great and all but this is so pompous and pretentious and so slow to the point of being annoying. She should bring back the pcd they were sellin out arenas with a big show and not doinb karaoke in small theatres with a cheap production... Idk she still has time but the girls hate her at this point.
I’m a big fan of Nicole, but I’m not sure I like this one. She seems to chew some of her words. And pronouncing “be” and “me” as “beh” and “meh” isn’t a good idea
Don’t care if she supports Trump she’s so fantastic in this show literally if a Broadway star supports that man I don’t care I despise him too I hate maga supporters too but if they are from Broadway it should not matter
Well I gotta say judging by this performance by Nicole, she should’ve never been snubbed by Tom Hooper or ALW to that matter for the role of “Grizabella” in the movie version of “Cats” for J.Hud or more worrisome Beyoncé because although she, Hudson has the “vocal chops” as proved by her performance as Aretha Franklin in “RESPECT” Nicole would’ve made sure the movie may not have been the disastrous flop that it was
What are you talking about??? Cats had Judi Dench and Ian McKellen and some of the best masterful actors Britain has ever seen and it still was a disaster. You think Nicole can come and save the day??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
I’m obsessed with this beautiful song. It’s just perfect. Nicole stirs the soul the way Phantom did with Music of the Night. Brilliant music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and casting Scherzinger was beyond fantastic!! ❤
She is soo freaking talented. This song alone would want me to one day see the play and Nicole on the stage. She deserve all the success as a pop artist and also a Broadway actress ;)
From "Buttons" to this glorious piece. She can do it all. She's got it all.
Nicole has been that girl for decades!!! Been a fan since Popstars!!!
I’m only listening, but I got goosebumps. What a voice! Phenomenal and just A-M-A-Z-I-N-G! How I wish I could watch Nicole in person.👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻😊
Greatest Norma, ever and forever. In spite of the minimalistic on stage version, Nicole really make us believe she is Miss Desmond at her upmost level. Flawless and more!.
Beautiful. What a voice! Congrats on all your success, Nicole. Well deserved.
Nicole was mesmerizing live on stage. What a voice!
Flawless and l don't care what anyone else thinks...so there X
Obsessed. Already have my tickets to this show for a fourth time!
Nicole performance absolutely phenomenal
My favorite version.
Wonderful what a a voice xx
Waited so long for a up to date soundtrack this did not disappoint its AMAZING, BEAUTIFUL she makes a FABULOUS Norma. I only hope they make the movie one day!!
You deserve all the best our dear, Nicole 🥹🥹🥹
Incredible! Just beyond!
Please film this production for cinemas.
I just wish this would come back to the West End. I was so lucky to see it at the end of the run and was blown away. This song fills me with emotion. The whole show utterly brilliant.
Thank you Nicole and the rest of the cast, I wasn’t expecting to feel that way about a show. You were outstanding. ❤️
Pure talent! There is no one like her.
Finally, Nicole ! Ever since I’ve heard your vocals on PCD albums I’ve been waiting for your BiGBangExplosion ! And here it is. You are fully deserving all the flowers. This is how your gift should be presented right now. Who knows how you’ll showcase it next. But I’m excited to see it.
I love that this was recorded in front of an audience. ❤ Looking forward to hearing the whole thing!
this makes me tear up! Always has been a fan of Nicole, half-Filipino after all. Haha yes, we owned her lol😂. but honestly, she is so talented and for so long I don't understand why she was cast aside specially in the US. Now it's her time! It's been a long time coming!
Finally 11 months after seeing it in London, we get the album. I’m crying 🥹❤❤
You’re so lucky to have seen it!! Can’t touch tickets in NYC for less than $1k/seat!
Me too! 🥺❤️❤️❤️
@@mollyvanguilder5426 I've saw it in London 7 times and I paid £20 max (and I was mostly at the front row of the stalls). Broadway prices are crazy!
@@mollyvanguilder5426 The producers are offering prices as low as 45 bucks through different options you just have to google and find out
Oh my, just found this. Cannot wait to see/hear this live. ❤
WOW!!!
they need to get cameras in there and film this for home audiences, I would love to see it. i saw this years ago when it was with Betty Buckley.
Absolutely incredible!!
I can’t wait to see this in a few months
This is phenomenal!
I don't think I've heard a reaction like that and I really get it. I heard it for the first time on the album (in a way although there were bootlegs out I literally heard it was brilliant that I thought I'll hear it when I hear a proper recording) and WOW - No wonder it got the whooping and cheering on the night. THOROUGHLY DESERVED. BRAVO!!
Just saw her and she was amazing!!!
VOCALS ❤
Finally, a rendition that transcends the typical bombast of the Broadway singing sensibility into a more layered, textured and intimate style of cinema.
a masterpiece
If you get a chance, go see her in this show! You won't regret it!!!!
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ Wow!
Up there with Betty Buckley and Elaine Paige.
LONG OVERDUE. 😫
We should have got this when it opened in the West End.
Amazing performance. Astounding. Love this show.
Not since Betty Buckley took the role on b’way in the 90’s has this song been sung so perfectly. (Not discounting Ms LuPone, who was robbed)
Elaine Paige too.
They are the big 4. Imho😊
All of those version have a lower key to reach to the high notes at the end of the song
It was lowered for Glenn. Betty and Elaine kept the change because it added a certain tension, but I like the original Key to the end that Patti originated. Patti could sing the hell out of the role, but was too young to “get” Norma. Glenn acted the hell out of Norma, but her singing was just passable. Fun fact: they had to lower the railing on the grand staircase for Elaine Paige since she was so short, all you would see was her turbin floating down the stairs.
@@JB-td4eiNo, they lowered the key for every version except, for LuPone, Streisand and Schlesinger .
Talk about having paid your dues. This woman is ridiculously talented, a true triple threat, and because she hit her solo career just a little too late, she’s had to languish on bad contest shows
❤
Wait, THIS WAS LIVE!?!?!
Can we have the movie starring Nicole? ... Please?
"When I speak itch with my soul"?
This is the only version that is comparable with the original sung by the creator of the role, Patti LuPone. Still in LuPone’s version, “I’ll be me “ is sung all together in the same breath.
❤🎉
Interesting that it's 30 seconds longer than previous versions. Extremely well sung, of course, and the jazzy take is interesting for the first sections. Strange she takes a breath before the final note a la Close which she doesn't need to and pronounces it "I'll be may" which I'm sure she doesn't need to either.
Just what the world needed: a sleepy, plodding, emotionless version of Norma’s song of triumph.
I'm glad now that i saw rachel tucker. Her voice is more consistent.
It’s a matter of style anyway you are listening to Nicole not RT !
Does anyone else feel the tempo is way too slow, and somewhat drains the energy out of the song and diminishes the emotional impact? As much as I still love her version (this recording as well as the live performances I saw at the Savoy), I can’t help but wish she’d sing it just a tad faster.
Agree, I play it at 1.25 speed, which I prefer at certain moments
Noooo I love this tempo!! I always found the original a little too fast. The way Nicole sings it you can hear every little nuance she adds and every little artistic choice. I think the tempo fits her version.
No gurl
The one night production that the royal Albert hall in London. With mazz Murray was far superior. This is too slow this was too slow.. call look on RUclips
. The one night special of sunset boulevard from the royal Albert hall London. That was far superior all round.
Mazz Murray. One night special sunset boulevard from the royal Albert hall London. Find on RUclips brilliant.
OMG NO NO NO
Creepy, over-confident, defiantly slow. I like these choices. But I do prefer Paige both musically and psychologically. I mean, who couldnt? Hope Nicole is celebrated for her artistic contributions finally.
Still like Patti's better.....She doesnt have that psychotic edge in her voice.....sounds almost like a folk singer with a guitar in the 60s.....I'll be MAAAAAAAY" HATE that cheating vowel sound!
That’s interesting - because I’ve found Nicole’s Don’t Cry for Me Argentina the best that I’ve heard. And I don’t really care for Patti or Mandi’s version at all. Even though Patti’s a much more capable singer - I thought her Evita was lacking struggle. And even in a lower key - I prefer Madonna’ actual performance as well.
She sings it well but when I saw her in the show, didnt feel anything. The show was bland and dull imo and that didn't help, I actually felt it was so over hyped because of her casting and the show itself was not great
Why didn't you just see the alternate then
Would have happily saw the alternate. The shows the star and it is one of my favorites and didn't know what to expect. Nothing against Nicole Sherzinger, the show as a whole I didn't enjoy, seeing the alternate probably wouldn't have made a difference although Rachel Tucker is amazing.
To each his own am glad though that the majority of the audience loved her performance and were raving about her she can’t please everyone including yourself !
@@melbamaloney4572 very well said :)
@@melbamaloney4572
You need to get off their payroll and off of Nicole's brastrap.
People are ALLOWED to not like the show/Nicole.
You are not the only one allowed an opinion. Grow up. It's a comment section. You're acting like somebody's talking about your mama...in every comment section I see you in. For some unhinged reason you feel the need to not allow people to feel opposite to you.
Get off the internet and get yourself some therapy.
so. slow.
Similar a Glenn Close, qué innovador 🙄
How can it be similar when Nicole can sing and Glenn can't?
@@kevinwilson3609. Because Glenn can act and Nicole can’t.
@@DAN-lo7fz You've not read any of the reviews, have you?
@@kevinwilson3609 Did the reviews say Nicole can sing and Glenn can’t and that’s why Nicole is better?? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 Don’t embarrass yourself. One is a legend. The other is the opposite of a legend.
@@kevinwilson3609 Did the reviews say Nicole is better than Glenn??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣 One is a legend and the other is the opposite of a legend.
Shes great and all but this is so pompous and pretentious and so slow to the point of being annoying.
She should bring back the pcd they were sellin out arenas with a big show and not doinb karaoke in small theatres with a cheap production... Idk she still has time but the girls hate her at this point.
I’m a big fan of Nicole, but I’m not sure I like this one. She seems to chew some of her words. And pronouncing “be” and “me” as “beh” and “meh” isn’t a good idea
“Heil be May”.
She’s a maga supporter. BOYCOTT HER AND HER SHOW.
Ur funny
Don’t care if she supports Trump she’s so fantastic in this show literally if a Broadway star supports that man I don’t care I despise him too I hate maga supporters too but if they are from Broadway it should not matter
What an asinine comment. She liked a hat … relax. Republicans like broadway as well.
@@brendajean77359they may like Broadway but they could care less about many of the real people playing these parts.
Yikes! She should be arrested for crimes against music. Sounds like a Monty Python sketch.
Well I gotta say judging by this performance by Nicole, she should’ve never been snubbed by Tom Hooper or ALW to that matter for the role of “Grizabella” in the movie version of “Cats” for J.Hud or more worrisome Beyoncé because although she, Hudson has the “vocal chops” as proved by her performance as Aretha Franklin in “RESPECT” Nicole would’ve made sure the movie may not have been the disastrous flop that it was
What are you talking about??? Cats had Judi Dench and Ian McKellen and some of the best masterful actors Britain has ever seen and it still was a disaster. You think Nicole can come and save the day??? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣