{"id":10367,"date":"2010-01-21T12:04:49","date_gmt":"2010-01-21T19:04:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/?p=10367"},"modified":"2010-01-21T12:04:49","modified_gmt":"2010-01-21T19:04:49","slug":"allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-rainy-days-and-thursdays-ultimate-karaoke-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-rainy-days-and-thursdays-ultimate-karaoke-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Allee Willis&#8217; Kitsch O&#8217; The Day \u2013 &#8220;Rainy Days And Thursdays&#8221;, Ultimate Karaoke Performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ojwVNGYqdXI\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10369\" title=\"rainy-days-mondays\" src=\"https:\/\/www.alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/rainy-days-mondays.jpg\" alt=\"rainy-days-mondays\" width=\"550\" height=\"332\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/rainy-days-mondays.jpg 550w, https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/01\/rainy-days-mondays-300x181.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a>\n<p>A more appropriate title for this ultimate kitsch rendition of The Carpenters legendary &#8220;Rainy Days And Mondays&#8221; is &#8220;Raining Or Not, I Can&#8217;t Find the Key&#8221;. The problem with the stupefyingly scale-jumping Leo isn&#8217;t his voice so much as his ears. He slips over and under keys faster than a greased cat, consistent in his own musical universe thousands of miles beneath the melody only to rise like a phoenix into an entirely different melodic universe drenched in its own never-before-heard key. To be fair, there are actually two bars where Leo sings in the right key. Unfortunately they don&#8217;t follow each other.<\/p>\n<p>I love when Leo gazes into the camera at 2:08 and then closes his eyes and FEELS the song even more. I love how his mouth gapes open at 2:07 and remains in a state of quivering preparedness waiting for the lyric to appear until 2:11 when he finally switches to spectacular nose wipe choreography during the instrumental. I love that all of this is performed in a &#8220;Jesus Loves You&#8221; t-shirt. Perhaps so, Leo, but I wish he loved you enough to include a check for vocal lessons.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A more appropriate title for this ultimate kitsch rendition of The Carpenters legendary &#8220;Rainy Days And Mondays&#8221; is &#8220;Raining Or Not, I Can&#8217;t Find the Key&#8221;. The problem with the stupefyingly scale-jumping Leo isn&#8217;t his voice so much as his ears. He slips over and under keys faster than a greased cat, consistent in his &hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/allee-willis-kitsch-o-the-day-%e2%80%93-rainy-days-and-thursdays-ultimate-karaoke-performance\/\">read more &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[207,87,193,13,249,37],"tags":[61,3232,3245,939],"class_list":["post-10367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bad-art","category-kitsch","category-kitsch-o-the-day","category-music","category-people","category-self-expression","tag-allee-willis","tag-kitsch","tag-kitsch-o-the-day","tag-rainy-days-and-mondays"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alleewillis.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}