Cynthia Erivo names Sisqo’s ‘Thong Song’ to her top 7 vocal performances

Cynthia Erivo likes a song in the key to G (String).

The interpreter sits with Weekly entertainment To make us browse its seven main vocal performance of all time – and one of them really challenges expectations.

In the middle of a list that includes emblematic singers like Aretha Franklin and Whitney Houston, Erivo selects “Thong Song” from Sisqó. Especially for the pure audacity of her vocal prowess in a song on the buttocks of a woman who throws herself like a truck.

“Why do you need to sing like that by singing on a thong?” Erivo marvels from the 2000 hit. “The whole final section of this song is so useless. You have a key change. There is a panel of praise at some point. It’s ridiculous. You don’t need to sing like that and he does.”

Erivo cannot believe how sisqó efforts and precision puts in the song. “You sing a thong,” she adds. “You can’t tell me that it’s not a good voice because it’s a good voice. It’s a brilliant voice for a song on a thong. [The song] didn’t need him to do that and he did it. “”

THE Wicked The star’s favorite performance also includes a Porgy and Bess Medley by Whitney Houston, interpretation of Jennifer Holiday of “and I tell you …” Dreamgirls, The coverage of Luther Vandross of “A House is not a home”, and an 11 -year -old jazmine Sullivan singing “at home” in a school production of Wiz.

Erivo has won his place among the best singers of this generation (if not one of the best singers in history). She represented Franklin and covered some of the most emblematic songs of Houston.

Last year, she won raves and an Oscar appointment for her representation of Elphaba in the adaptation on the big screen of Wicked. The second film, Bad: for good, arrives in theaters in November.

This summer, Erivo will represent Jesus in a Hollywood Bol production of Jesus Christ superstar Faced with Adam Lambert as Judas.

Watch the video above to learn more about Erivo’s favorite voices.