That is the only way to put it.
I'm not talking Hudson's performance itself, although that has been ripped to the point that CBS actually put out a press release addressing it. I didn't think she did all that bad.
No, what I hated what the editing job done by, well, whoever puts it together.
According to Deadspin, only once in the previous 23 One Shining Moments was any screen time given to the singer, eight seconds to Luther Vandross in 2003. Hudson got 12 seconds, which in and of itself wouldn't be a problem.
But what about the snubs?
Where is Ohio's win over Georgetown? Where is the game-winner from Quincy Pondexter? Where is anything -- seriously, anything -- from the best game of the tournament, the two overtime thriller between Xavier and Kansas State? Jordan Crawford's 35 footer to force the second overtime was the best shot, and the best call, of the entire tournament.
And what happened to "the ball is tipped" line? Give me a close up shot of a jump ball, not a close up of Hudson flicking her fingers.
Was a seventh place finisher on American Idol really worthy of that much TV time? This is One Shining Moment, not a remake of Dreamgirls. The Final Four isn't the Grammy's. Give me some basketball highlights.
Anyway, here is the video, watch at your own risk.
Tuesday, April 6, 2010
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That was just badly cut together.
Before they always managed to show every team at least once, sometimes just briefly of course. (I notice b/c my team didn't make it into One Shining Moment this year. At. All. But I saw Tennessee in there 3 times.)
Before they always managed to show fully the 2 or 3 most memorable shots or plays. Then they started to wind down by showing the disappointed players, before building up again to a highlight of the 4 teams of the finals, and then how it ended, and then the nets being cut down. It used to tell a story.
I don't know if this song was shorter, but I agree that the worst offense was that they edited it all wrong.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thought so. The omission of the ball being tipped during "the ball is tipped" line was the most egregious, but the use of some many clips of Hudson waggling her hands or whatever was right there with it.
The singer should serve the song, not the other way around, and the point of that song is to provide a platform for a montage of highlights from the previous three weeks, not highlights of some overrated pop diva pretending she is an "artiste"...
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