Who do you prefer Daphne Rubin-Vega or Rosario Dawson singing the songs from RENT? — Page 4

I support Rosario not only because she's Hispanic but also beacuse she has much respect for this project. I honestly think she's given it a good try.

Here are my feelings on the soundtrak I posted a week ago on the "Initial opinions on the Rent soundtrack" thread:

I'm missing silly thing like Daphne's "Ooh whoah, ooh whoah, whoah, ooh yeah..." during "Out Tonight"...
but overall a great soundtrack.

Anthony sounds so much better on this recording than he did on the OBC. There's not so much whine in it, which is a good thing.
Adam sounds older. Smoking definitely had changed the tone and the quality of his voice. He doesn't sound bad just very different from the Adam who recorded this score ten years ago.
Jesse can do no wrong. He could have easily just sang these songs exactly as he did on the OBC and called it a day, but he went the extra mile and approached each song as if it were the first time and gave them all new touches that are amazing.
Tracie Thoms. The girl is amazing.
Idina's OTM is much funnier on the OBC. It wasn't bad on the soundtrack but it didn't really leave any big impression on me either. She's okay.
Taye handles what little he has to sing.
Wilson Jermaine holds his own and has a great voice on him. I love his harmonizing on ICY with Jesse. His TFY is better here than on the OBC.
Rosario - gives it the old college try, but I suspect she's been "tweaked" here and there. Her OT is good but her vocals are sometimes lost in the powerful new rock arrangement. Her vocals are mixed too low on OT. She does a nice LMC. She lacks alot of the pain and heartache "Mimi" should have during Goodbye Love and to be honest with you there were many times listening to this that I really missed Daphne. Maybe when I see the movie I'll feel differently.

...now you tell me, does that sound like I'm playing "favorites"?

you need to get a clue...
and why did you change your response Ghetto?
what's up with that?

Updated On: 10/3/05 at 04:45 PM

Bitch you're getting blocked. I was doing more important things.
And you don't know me to call me a phony. And my response was to Ghetto not you @sswipe.
And this thread was'n created to tout one over the other. It was created to start a discussion. You turned it into a bitch fest.

Updated On: 10/3/05 at 04:54 PM

Whether or not she can sing live is moot, and it's getting old. She sounds passable, decent, fine on the soundtrack, so just let it lie. Get yourself all twisted up when she gets the role on Broadway.

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Get yourself all twisted up when she gets the role on Broadway.

The girl wouldn't dare.

So then you've nothing about which to worry.

I'm not the one who would have to be worried.

I don't get this whole thread. Question posed is who do you prefer Daphne or Rosario? Seems there is a problem when anyone posts anything negative about Rosario.
If some are so thin skinned about her then why ask the question?
There are lots of threads with differing opinions, if we all felt the same this board would be pretty dull.

I like them both in different ways.

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If you don't mind then I guess free speech should rule here. We can all agree to disagree, my Mimi may not be your Mimi, there is no reason to take it personally.
On topic again, I prefer Daphne, she is a singer as well as an actor. IMO there is no comparison.

I purposely didn't answer the question to this thread becaus I ws interested in reading everyone's opinions. It was interesting reading everyone's educated opinions (some who chose to come on here to add their two cents are not included in this group).

Anyway, I would have to say that I prefer Daphne Rubin-Vega as "Mimi", their is a raw, real emotion she brought to the role.

So showbiz, "some" here are not thin-skinned as you claim. I don't mind a difference of opinion in anything. They're like noses, everyone has one. I'm not trying to force anyone here to like Rosario as some have claimed here.

As you can see, she's not my choice. So that point is moot. What I do have a problem with is someone beating a dead horse and someone generally being nasty just to "prove a point" and that got pretty annoying, that's why I got upset, because it was so unneccesary. As KelRel said: We get it. The poster in question doesn't care for Rosario. The poster in question thinks she can't sing. The poster doesn't need to continue to beat a dead horse.

I don't know what the hell went on in this thread, I haven't read the whole thread. But with this post, I am going to give my opinion on Rosario.




I've definietely been hard on Rosario before this.

But she really isn't bad on the soundtrack. You just can't help but thinking that her vocals sound a little TOO overproduced at times. And sometimes I feel she is singing with no emotion, like she is just singing random lyrics. But on the second disc, the emotion comes out a little more.

It's very obvious she dosen't have the vocal chops/experience/training of the performers she is working with. You will notice the other actors have really versatile voices, and when they hit a note they nail it with all this power, and end it off with the right amount of vibrato - with Rosario you don't get any of that, and at times I'm just saying to myself "Come on Rosario, a little more!!"

But honestly, she isn't bad by any means. Do I think her vocals had studio work done? Yes. Does she give a passable vocal performance? Yes. But is she Daphne? No.

I really have been to hard on her before getting the soundtrack, and I apologize.

Updated On: 10/3/05 at 10:29 PM

I definitely see what you're saying, Marquise.

I just felt bad, because I totally pre-judged her performance before listening to the soundtrack.

But I do agree with what you've said regarding her vocals, etc.