Jojo Siwa Threatens To Release “Bette Davis Eyes” Cover

I hated the original. I would never imagine someone could make it worse. JoJo did that.

She's not a lesbian anymore, OP.

🎵 you should have come to my window

I thought this thing was dead?

R4 no she’s straight

Same thing.

Such talent, such elegance, such......

Is this it at the link? I've never heard of Siwa but this would be a huge hit. She sounds really good and the music has been well updated to retain the original charm but in a modern sound.

But is she trying to emulate Carnes' rough voice or is that how she (Siwa) usually sings? I think she has a very good voice.

MAKE. IT. STOP.

Her cookie-smelling BF wants to release "Cary Grant Butthole" instead.

OP, your thread title has me in STITCHES, and I don't even know who that ugly bitch is.

I take it she's not a singer, but an Internet personality?

I didn't realize it sang.

I loathe this song.

She’ll unease you.

I was sceptical because I love the original so much, but I agree with r8, what I heard in that clip sounds amazing. The best part is she's retained some of Carnes' vocal rasp as an homage. Release it, Jojo!

I found out recently that Kim Carnes' version wasn't the "original" original! That blew my little Gen X mind.

R8/R15 - I was expecting to hate it, but I loved that clip!

This is the Jackie DeShannon original from 1974.

What a racket R18! Terrible.

Jojo can't beat Gwyneth Paltrow's cover.

Don’t feed it after midnight.

Isn’t she a children’s entertainer? The only good cover of this song was done by Brandon Flowers

Brandon Flowers version is worse than the Jackie DeShannon original.

It’s not terrible. Surprisingly faithful to the Kim Carnes version.

Jojo Siwa doesn’t serve any purpose.

Does she work at Disneyland?

R20 She deserves to be viciously slapped for that.

She’s much more Amy Schumer than she is Kim Carnes. Kim was always wonderfully slender with good facial features.

How did this repulsive woman ever get famous? She's annoying in every single way. Annoying to listen to and look at. And the whole lesbian/oops, now I"m straight nonsense is beyond annoying

Why is she covering this song? Silly bitch

If we stop paying attention to it, it will wither and die and the spell will be broken!

Why won’t she just go away?

JoJo does a lesbionic dance on SYTYCD

Who can control the monster? Bring on Abby Lee:

It's the mother's fault for creating this lil monster.

She released it and it's awesome, in my opinion.

All her previous queer allies are shitting on her now that she's straight again. Can't cancel JKR, so Jojo Siwa will have to do, lol.

I enjoyed the 80s original. I see why they picked it but Jojo's version is awful. I was kind of amused by her for a while, like who cares, but the girl is kind of a moron. Still think she's too gym teacher to be with this guy forever but maybe they will tie the knot!

Honest question...

Why cover something to just make a version extremely similar to the previous one? Shouldn't you try to change it up up and make it unique?

It's just like that Cher album of ABBA covers. She might as well have recorded it in a karaoke booth.

It just seems lazy and uncreative. (Not that I am expecting art from JoJo Siwa)

"I'm gonna give gays everything they *don't* want!"

[quote] It just seems lazy and uncreative.

For sure. The best covers are transformative and shed new light. Maybe they thought the elapsed time was enough. The original song and video had a little mystery to it and some bite. The Jojo one is basically karaoke.

I had no idea this bitch was on dance moms. She is really annoying especially after changing her mind about being gay

Nobody’s asking for more Jojo Siwa.

Dance Moms was my very secret guilty pleasure show. I never told a soul I watched it except in the anonymity of DataLounge.

JoJo was always my favorite back then because she would sort of stand up to the cretin that was Abby Lee.

I also sort of liked that she was a perky looking little kid covered in those idiot bows, but when she opened her mouth, her voice sounded like a gas station attendant on her second pack of Marlboro Reds for the day.

Same r44 I still feel ashamed but I loved it. She’s evil but Abby always made me laugh

Who knows these days if that’s her or AI assisted, but if it’s all her she did an extremely faithful cover. Right down to the precise qualities in Kim Carnes’ voice.

I will not be fingering myself to this song!

The Oracle of Gay Omaha

Get out more, R46

The cloth-eared JoJo stans are marvelling at how she sounds “exactly like” Kim Carnes, someone who could actually interpret a song with some depth; atmosphere, nuance, intrigue etc etc. Pitch-corrected JoJo sounds as much like Kim as Florence Foster Jenkins sounded like Maria Callas.

I’m sure she’s not a bad person but she’s terminally suburban

So I had a suspicion and blocked R21 - half the thread disappeared.

What R50 said. Jojo's accomplishment here is dropping the spasmodic dance moves for once and trying to sing earnestly. Ok, visually: in the TikTok clip she's dressed and behaving like a moony eyed 50s housewife. In the original video Kim Carnes is leading a band and dressed in a white button down and jacket, giving a nod to 30s Marlene Dietrich or someone. Is Jojo getting the gestalt of the song? I was 8 when it came out, it looked like a puzzle.

The look on her face in the video for this is so punchable.

She needs Abby to yell at her some more

I have been extremely grossed out and turned off by JoJo Siwa since she "came out" and was doing rainbow Kiss drag. But I'm going with no snark here. This cover is not nearly as horrible as I anticipated.

She gets it, vocally. She can bend a note to get those bluesy inflections. She has the rasp. The worst aspect of the song is not Jojo's interpretation but rather the use of a vocoder, which was probably the producer's call. It's atrocious.

The other thing you could argue, is that this cover simply didn't ever need to happen at all. Kim Carnes' version is essentially perfect. But truly, this could have been so much worse, and I expected it to be, and I was surprised that it was much less awful than it could have and should have been.

Note how the autotune gets much more heavy-handed when there’s a slightly more challenging interval (eg around “a pro blush”.) It was clearly used to veil deficiencies in the singing. There’s a huge difference between a natural rasp in a voice and this bizarre, affected vocal fry.

Her voice sounds like Fat Albert singing.

Jojo it sucks.

Team Kim Carnes.

It just sounds like a pale imitation of the Kim Carnes version with some autotune added. I wouldn't even necessarily say it's horrible, but it is uninspired and absolutely banal, which is almost worse.

Does she get any credit for making fun of her own singing of this song? You tell me.. not sure.

Here's her vocals isolated