Jennifer Hudson looks AWESOME! Check this out!

According to Mark Malkin, this photo has not been retouched a la Mariah Carey. That’s her waist! Can you believe it? Jennifer Hudson is HOT.

Listen to Jennifer Hudson’s Spotlight again, okay? It’s SWEEEET.

Oh, here’s a Jennifer Hudson Spotlight remix, featuring a Canadian rapper named Mint. I think it’s pretty good.

Here are the latest Billboard positions for Jennifer Hudson’s Spotlight:

R&B/Hip Hop Songs: 22 (up 11 notches)
Adult R&B Airplay: 14(up one notch)

Jennifer Hudson’s Spotlight may be crawling - yeah, crawling, c’mon, J Records, put some muscle into it! - up the Billboard charts, but the Spotlight video from Jennifer Hudson is fierce. I LOVE IT. The song is growing on me - sometimes you force yourself to like a song, haha - and Miz Hudson is lookin’ fine!

Jennifer Hudson’s Spotlight video is off tha hook!

Here’s a Spotlight video interview from ET.

Here’s one of many Jennifer Hudson Spotlight remixes now cropping up on YouTube.

Here is Jennifer Hudson’s Spotlight Billboard chart performance so far:
Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs - 33 with a bullet
Billboard Hot Adult R&B Airplay - 15 with a bullet

Academy Award winner Jennifer Hudson was given the Herculean task of interpreting Somewhere from West Side Story for Movies Rock!, a television special featuring fresh performances of some of the more well-loved songs from cinema. Prior to J-Hud’s version, the versions of Somewhere I’ve heard include Barbra’s version sung at the end of her 1994 concert tour, and the Natalie Wood version in the film.

I think you’ll find this version a significantly satisfactory version. Woods’ version was a poignant one, given that the just-shot Richard Beymer was dying in her arms; her version was a wistful soliloquy on star-crossed lovers doomed to a tragic end. Streisand reinvented the song to become a celebration of the diversity of man; the lyrics are sufficient to be open to interpretation both ways. I imagine Hudson’s take on Somewhere was closer to Streisand’s, and with her bombastic voice ripping into the song with gusto, there was no doubt she would pull Somewhere off with a spine-tingling, hairs-on-the-back-of-your-neck-standing finale that merited a standing ovation from the live audience.

Watch the video and tell me what you think.

After reading MSN’s Top 10 American Idol performances of all time, Cathy and I got to talking about our Top 10 favorite American Idol performances.

She’s making her list, and I’ve made mine. See how different my choices are from MSN’s.

Oh, and feel free to post some of your favorite AI moments directly in the Comments, or leave a link to your blog where you posted it.

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