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Last night when everyone was posting or talking about various versions of I Who have Nothing, I went to youtube and listened to quite a few versions. Bassey, Jones, Sparks, Elvis. That song, one would think would have been a Pia song type, but as hard as I try, I just can’t picture her singing it, because the song requires raw emotion and that’s why Pia was booted imo, she just couldn’t deliver the raw emotions.

Final Scotty dig from me: Youngblood is a “story”. Scotty did not tell a story. He just pranced around and I couldn’t even hear him. The song starts “I saw her standin’ on the corner...” Did anyone hear that? Probably not cuz Scotty didn’t listen to Gaga who as oddball as she is, she can sing.

OK, I just went to Youtube and watched a very sweaty live performance of Tom Jones from the 70s singing “I Who Have Nothing.” You know what blew me away? Two things.

1. Tom just had finished another song, obviously, and was fatigued, sweaty, and feeling proud, the way he was waving his arms as if to thank the crowd for their applause (which was not a part of the vid). So he was NOT in the persona of a humble, poor guy who loves this girl who is way out of his league. Yet then he wipes off his sweat and begins the song. He is immediately transformed into that heartsick, longing lad. Like all magical performers, he BROUGHT the lyrics to life, effortlessly.

Haley did not. Her attempt at emotion during the song was wholly fake.

2. Tom Jones did not scream. He enunciated. So I could actually hear the lyrics, of how he was not the one squiring the lady to fancy places, but that he was outside the window watching the rich guy wine and dine his love.

I heard NONE of those tender lyrics from Haley. Instead, I got a indepth view of the dentist’s work on her veneers. The elderly lyricist was in the audience last night, and she dissed him by not enunciating his heartfelt song at all.

Thanks for sending me to the research lab (YouTube), Netizen.