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Post by xline06 on May 8, 2024 16:36:16 GMT -5
It seems that she sounds clear after losing weight and makes it easy to sing. Love the way she performs these days.
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Post by Joe1240 on May 8, 2024 20:29:28 GMT -5
So glad she finally performed this. My favorite song from Breakaway. Nice to see Kelly recognize her older hits these days and she looks more confident than ever with the NYC move etc.
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Post by eyeofthestorm on May 8, 2024 23:34:19 GMT -5
Finally. Good performance. BTHE will never get old for me.
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Post by ecstasythrumusic on May 9, 2024 3:37:12 GMT -5
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Post by PGriffin on May 9, 2024 7:06:44 GMT -5
ugh....She sounded good on Hazel eyes but I felt let down. Sounds like she lowered the key and didn't give that classic belt on "ANYMOOOORREE" of the song. I have no idea if the arrangement was changed before this performance, but Kelly's voice hasn't deteriorated much so I was disappointed. but she'll hit similar or higher notes on other songs the same night THIS! This is why I thought she'd go for it BUT she still sounded good. I'm still looking forward to the Banks cover.
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Post by Mike on May 9, 2024 16:01:29 GMT -5
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Post by ecstasythrumusic on May 10, 2024 4:26:13 GMT -5
I was at the taping for this. It was cool to see her and the band warm up. They were talking about how kelly did Cry and that’s a hard song to sing.
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Post by Ace on May 10, 2024 11:09:42 GMT -5
I'm doing something fun tonight...in Atlantic City.
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Post by Mike on May 10, 2024 16:01:01 GMT -5
That G5 run at the end of the bridge. SINGGGG!
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Post by Eloqueen™ on May 10, 2024 18:12:03 GMT -5
Kelly is looking amazing! Another album cycle would be great! Don't wanna have to wait several years again Kelly!
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Post by Ace on May 10, 2024 19:51:18 GMT -5
OMFG SHE JUST SANG DARK SIDE 😭😭😭 RIP me 😫
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Post by Mike on May 10, 2024 23:13:08 GMT -5
OMFG SHE JUST SANG DARK SIDE 😭😭😭 RIP me 😫 This guy usually covers all the Vegas shows for various acts, but seems to have come to the east coast for this one! You can check out the rest of the videos from night 1 here: www.youtube.com/@themrkingalex
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Post by Ryan on May 11, 2024 8:04:21 GMT -5
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Post by ecstasythrumusic on May 11, 2024 9:36:38 GMT -5
Such an awesome show last night ending my nine year Kelly drought. Hazel Eyes sounded better to me than on the show. Kelly was extremely talkative last night. She swear she wasn’t drinking. Dark Side was unexpected. Disappointed no Down to You but Magic and Lighthouse wow. After over a decade I hit to hear Sober.
Can’t wait to do it again tonight.
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Post by Mike on May 11, 2024 19:53:12 GMT -5
This was so sweet!
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Post by ecstasythrumusic on May 11, 2024 21:29:16 GMT -5
Another incredible show. Same set as last night but with Walk Away and whole lot of woman. reversed. Sober is going to be one of the upcoming Kellyoke.,Her mom gave her the advice to play more of her songs. Kelly joked it was going to be Tool’s Sober, love her for the joke. Let the withdrawal begin.
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Post by Repent Yourself Away on May 12, 2024 18:01:33 GMT -5
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Post by Jack on May 13, 2024 15:47:24 GMT -5
Reports from the show airing today suggest there was some quite honest/revealing bits from Kelly during her chat with Whoopi. Not least, in relation to her weight, that she "didn't recoginse" the person performing in the Belasco footage (which we can only assume is the reason the release of any further footage was killed after the initial YouTube drops). She also apparently divulged (I have not seen the show today) that she's taken an Ozempic 'like' shot, but not that drug itself because of her medical complications.
More candid than usual for daytime, but interesting nonetheless. Like I say, I know the small amount of people at the Belasco show enjoyed it, but it was such a weird time looking back, and such misjudged album launch vehicle, that I'm not all that mad the footage will remain unreleased. A live album would have been nice though. :/
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Post by Mike on May 13, 2024 16:01:18 GMT -5
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Post by Jack on May 13, 2024 16:47:02 GMT -5
Reports from the show airing today suggest there was some quite honest/revealing bits from Kelly during her chat with Whoopi. Not least, in relation to her weight, that she "didn't recoginse" the person performing in the Belasco footage (which we can only assume is the reason the release of any further footage was killed after the initial YouTube drops). She also apparently divulged (I have not seen the show today) that she's taken an Ozempic 'like' shot, but not that drug itself because of her medical complications. More candid than usual for daytime, but interesting nonetheless. Like I say, I know the small amount of people at the Belasco show enjoyed it, but it was such a weird time looking back, and such misjudged album launch vehicle, that I'm not all that mad the footage will remain unreleased. A live album would have been nice though. :/ Yeah the whole first four minutes of the video is the discussion. Super interesting.
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Post by ampersand on May 13, 2024 17:15:00 GMT -5
I appreciate Kelly being honest. That really resonated with me. I was always skinny most of my life, but I gained a lot of weight during the pandemic years and am slowing burning it off (can't afford anything like Ozempic, just going to the gym), but it wasn't until I saw pictures of myself at a friend's bridal shower that I also had a moment of just being like, "Who is that? I don't recognize that person at all." It can be really shocking when that happens to you.
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Post by clsvltn on May 13, 2024 17:15:31 GMT -5
Oh, wow...well, at least we know what actually happened now. It is a bummer but it is what it is
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Post by jessayli on May 13, 2024 18:49:20 GMT -5
This is such a complicated topic. I assumed that Kelly was taking some type of GLP-1 agonist (of which ozempic is one of). GLP-1s are an incredible new drug, that can help lower blood pressure, cholesterol, and diabetes in dramatic ways. It’s so frustrating, and inherently fat-phobic, for there to be any kind of shame directed toward people for using GLP-1s (e.g., people who say that someone taking a GLP-1 is “losing weight the easy way,” which ignores the fact that the vast majority of people fail to lose and maintain weight, in part because our bodies have been adapted to prevent weight loss for survival). I think it’s great for Kelly and others to be open about using these types of medications, which will hopefully decrease stigma around them.
And, at the same time, Kelly’s comments are (unintentionally) fat-phobic. She equates being heavier with being unhealthy. It wasn’t her doctor chasing after her that sparked her decision to start the GLP-1, it was seeing herself in a larger body. I cringed when she looked at the audience and talked about her “shocking” high weight of 203 lbs, and I immediately felt bad for anyone else above that weight at around Kelly’s height. What are they supposed to think about themselves, and their bodies? That they look like they are about to die of a heart attack?
I know this is Kelly’s way of being self-deprecating, and she in no way means to speak negatively of anybody else, but it still conveys the message that being “fat” or “above 200 lbs” is unhealthy, shocking, unattractive, and bad.
It’ll be interesting to see if the media picks this up. I think they will. If so, it might add to the growing and complicated debate about GLP-1s/ozempic and body positivity.
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Post by Mike on May 13, 2024 19:43:58 GMT -5
To be fair, being over 200 pounds at 5'3" IS literal obesity and IS unhealthy if you are not pure muscle or taking care of yourself regularly. I'm 5'10" and weigh a little under that amount and still feel enormous some days.
The problem being as that the media is touting Ozempic, Wegovy and Semaglutide (I'm assuming she's on one of the latter products since she ruled out Ozempic) as these "cure-all" fixes that are entirely out of reach for the general public who cannot afford them even with decent insurance. That may have been a bit of a blind-spot, but we have to remember at the end of the day she typically does not talk about these things and was just speaking from the heart without the intention of alienation.
Kelly has had so few faux-pas during her time at this show and her career that I can't imagine this blowing up to be me more than "I didn't mean it like that" and the story being over in a day or two.
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Post by dbhmr on May 13, 2024 21:19:31 GMT -5
People projecting their own issues about their bodies isn’t really Kelly’s problem though, even though I know we’re conditioned to hold people with a platform to that standard. If her doctor told her she was unhealthy, she was; if she felt shock and dismay, she did.
I am surprised that’s the reason for withholding the footage, but given what we know about how her marriage ended, it makes sense that she felt a different kind of insecurity than maybe she has previously.
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Post by Peterawr on May 14, 2024 8:17:27 GMT -5
I don’t blame her in the least for getting extra help for her weight, especially after a conversation with a doctor about health and the end of a marriage. Seeing herself with more weight while in a marriage probably didn’t hit at ALL like after her marriage ended. She also has kids to think about, and her health affects more than just her.
In the past she’s done things for weight that weren’t accessible to “regular” people and I remember her mentioning it in an interview years ago that she was on a SUPER strict diet and it was expensive and probably not realistic for most people.
As these medications become more widely used I’m guessing they’ll become more accessible.
I’ve loved Kelly at every weight, and I hope she loves herself too. I’m also happy she can speak up about it, because rather than all the rumors of how she lost the weight, I think it’s best to just be straight up.
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Post by bee on May 14, 2024 8:57:48 GMT -5
People projecting their own issues about their bodies isn’t really Kelly’s problem though, even though I know we’re conditioned to hold people with a platform to that standard. If her doctor told her she was unhealthy, she was; if she felt shock and dismay, she did. I am surprised that’s the reason for withholding the footage, but given what we know about how her marriage ended, it makes sense that she felt a different kind of insecurity than maybe she has previously. I agree with all of this. I've seen a few comments saying, "how was she in denial? How did she not see it?" Because she did and even Whoopi said she experienced the same thing. I was surprised too. She seems so confident but maybe the divorce ended that high level of confidence. I think it was the timing of her realization too. At the time of Belasco she said she had moved on from the divorce and all of a sudden she's seeing herself the way others see her. I'm assuming it was going to air on NBC or Paramount or Peacock so having a large audience see it wouldn't be the most comforting thing when she thought she was doing ok but she clearly wasn't.
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Post by Jack on May 14, 2024 13:26:32 GMT -5
I also think it important to point out, whatever she thinks of the way she looks, the Belasco footage is dreadful. It is shot, graded and edited in such an amateur way, that if it was intended for broadcast, I don’t think there’s a broadcaster or streamer that would have aired it.
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Post by dbhmr on May 14, 2024 13:41:49 GMT -5
I also think it important to point out, whatever she thinks of the way she looks, the Belasco footage is dreadful. It is shot, graded and edited in such an amateur way, that if it was intended for broadcast, I don’t think there’s a broadcaster or streamer that would have aired it. I don’t think we saw anything like what would have come out. Jason said he and their internal team had like a day to put out the videos we saw—probably once she scrapped everything she agreed to put out stand-alone videos for the promoted song releases and they just whipped them out without the professional touch of a “real” editor/producer. I do remember thinking there were fewer cameras than I expected so I don’t know that it would have been amazing, but yeah. Anyway, she seems to be so happy right now, I hope she “redoes” the approach for a new era but in more of a way Adele or even Miley did.
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Post by Mike on May 14, 2024 14:06:19 GMT -5
Absolutely DECIMATED "Cry" on today's show. Apparently they were having issues with sound / new mics and had to do it a few times. The version they aired was done on the fly!
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