Video: The greatest pageant performance since Miss Teen South Carolina?
posted at 9:23 am on October 12, 2007 by Allahpundit
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Actually, this pre-dates Miss Teen South Carolina’s performance. In fact, it may pre-date Miss Teen South Carolina herself. Both moments are immortal, but Miss TSC has the excuse of freezing up at a pressure-packed moment. The abortion you’re about to see was planned.
Stick with it until at least halfway though. That’s when the virtuosic part comes.
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Even halfway was more than I could stomach!
pb5000 on October 12, 2007 at 9:29 AM
She is so hot
tomas on October 12, 2007 at 9:29 AM
Daddy rips up his check book, calls Sister Margaret and places a reservation.
Limerick on October 12, 2007 at 9:31 AM
Grueling to watch, it was.
fogw on October 12, 2007 at 9:33 AM
Thirty years ahead of her time.If she performed this today she’d win a Grammy, an Emmy, an Oscar, and a Nobel peace prize.
billy on October 12, 2007 at 9:33 AM
Not.a.single.clap at the end of that, er, whatever that was.
Awesomely Awesome silver ballet shoes, though.
common sensineer on October 12, 2007 at 9:36 AM
Maybe she is good at Whitehouse Interning…
1sttofight on October 12, 2007 at 9:37 AM
I needed that this morning.
nailinmyeye on October 12, 2007 at 9:39 AM
That was horrible.
elBarto on October 12, 2007 at 9:44 AM
I’ve known a lot of bad brass players in my lifetime, but none of ‘em dressed like that.
Attila (Pillage Idiot) on October 12, 2007 at 9:45 AM
That does it. I am entering a beauty pageant.
BillLalor on October 12, 2007 at 9:45 AM
uh, “the virtuosic part”, is that in part 2 ?
Sasnak on October 12, 2007 at 9:47 AM
Hey! This was labeled ‘Friday Stupid’. I was expecting a video of the Goracle receiving his
kick in the assnobel prize…Timothy S. Carlson on October 12, 2007 at 9:48 AM
What was she looking for and who in Star Wars walked like Chalie Chaplin?
heh, the early 80’s, I had a few girlfreinds with that same hair-doo.
Alden Pyle on October 12, 2007 at 9:49 AM
Just thank our lucky stars she didn’t take up the trombone…
I’d be tempted to say the horn sound was over-dubbed, but that choreography pretty much seals the deal…
JetBoy on October 12, 2007 at 9:51 AM
Man, I don’t know what you guys were watching… That was the most moving performance I’ve ever seen. The movement was of course in my bowels, and relates more to the 2 Big Macs I had last night.
Also, it’s oddly coincidental that I’m actually wearing that exact outfit right now!
RightWinged on October 12, 2007 at 9:53 AM
What was she looking for and who in Star Wars walked like Chalie Chaplin?
heh, the early 80’s, I had a few girlfreinds with that same hair-doo.
Hell, I parctically had that hair,too.
bbz123 on October 12, 2007 at 9:53 AM
She was consistantly off. I have to wonder if maybe the tape she was using was playing at the wrong speed. She may not have been as bad as that video makes her out to be.
Farmer_Joe on October 12, 2007 at 9:54 AM
Trumpet karaoke. Who knew?
Terri on October 12, 2007 at 9:57 AM
Tone deaf…. she’s nothing but Tone Deaf…
Nethicus on October 12, 2007 at 9:57 AM
After viewing her own performance, Stacy joined a cloistered order of nuns hoping to remain anonymous for the rest of her life. At least I hope she did.
Jeff on October 12, 2007 at 9:58 AM
Hmm.. Little tone problem there, eh?
matd on October 12, 2007 at 9:59 AM
How the hell do you go to a talent competition so out of tune? Good grief. I was in the marching band in high school and our director could pick the person out of tune out of a row of 15-20 instruments..and we were just playing outdoors on a football field. Did anyone ask her beforehand if she knew how to play a trumpet? I kept saying: It’s Petey!
Anyway, I always hated that pop song star wars version. Nothing comes close to the original Williams soundtrack.
austinnelly on October 12, 2007 at 10:02 AM
The interpretive dancing is what makes this video the Awesome.
Mindcrime on October 12, 2007 at 10:04 AM
Oooh, that was painful. At least with Miss Teen South Carolina you could turn the sound off and make it watchable, but there was no escape from that nerdy nightmare.
That being said, Al Gore winning a Nobel Prize for anything besides Greatest Consumption of Bacon-Wrapped Ho-Hos is the real Friday stupid.
ReubenJCogburn on October 12, 2007 at 10:04 AM
Today’s contestants are truly standing on the shoulders of giants.
tdau1997 on October 12, 2007 at 10:08 AM
That about sums up my overall feelings for the whole Star Wars thing. Yup.
robblefarian on October 12, 2007 at 10:10 AM
Did no one love her (besides herself, I mean)?! Did no one take one look at her choreography and bother to hand her a clue?? Poor gal.
This was back in the day when pageant contestants had to have a “talent”. (Today, no talent outside of the swimsuit competition – if that can be called a “talent”.) I don’t think she’s really a trumpet player, per se, but instead learned a few repetitive notes and slapped it onto a choreography in order to fulfill the “talent” requirement. She probably had all of a month or two to put that together. :D
Redhead Infidel on October 12, 2007 at 10:11 AM
This was the second best “Theme to Star Wars” interpretation. The first?
http://www.metacafe.com/watch/86527/bill_murray_sings_star_wars/
Matticus Finch on October 12, 2007 at 10:15 AM
That’s three minutes I’ll never have back.
Now all I can think about is Bill Murray as Nick the lounge singer.
JammieWearingFool on October 12, 2007 at 10:16 AM
Awesomely awful. That’s a choreography session I would love to have seen.
“Sweetie, during the part when there’s no trumpet? Yeah, pretend that the trumpet is a blaster! Oh, and you know how C-3P0 walks? DON’T DO THAT! Stand out from the crowd, kiddo, no note in tune! They’ll remember you forever.”
If that was her talent, one can only hope that she looked good in a swimsuit.
Krydor on October 12, 2007 at 10:22 AM
At :43 I yanked my earphones off. To save what’s left of both my hearing and my sanity.
Even without sound, that was still painful to watch.
Nice costume, at least, even though it could have done without the phony chainmail on the sleeves.
cheers
eon
eon on October 12, 2007 at 10:23 AM
Man! there for a second I thought I was actually on the death star. What emotion!
TheSitRep on October 12, 2007 at 10:34 AM
That was awesome. Thanks for the laugh AP!
hollygolightly on October 12, 2007 at 10:35 AM
OHNYGAWD! I just spit orange juice about 6 feet across the room. Hilarious!
MCPO Airdale on October 12, 2007 at 10:40 AM
In order to have peace in my home, once a decade I must go to the movies. The last one was Little Miss Sunshine. This is from that I think.
JiangxiDad on October 12, 2007 at 10:46 AM
Boy, we were really on the same wavelength there…
JammieWearingFool on October 12, 2007 at 10:47 AM
The Force was not with that one.
HA! Said it first! Neener neener neeee neeerrrr!!
Whas she poppin’-n-lockin’ there??
Mazztek on October 12, 2007 at 10:54 AM
Kill me with a BOULDARRRR!
ronsfi on October 12, 2007 at 11:03 AM
You’ve really got to stick with this one all the way through to get the most bang for your comic buck.
After the “Chaplin” break and the rest of the mid-section nonsense, she kicks back into the final bit in the exact same horrible pitch she started in. With gusto. Genius.
MikeZero on October 12, 2007 at 11:05 AM
How do you play a trumpet that badly out of tune??? Oh my gosh, that was painful to listen to. Hilarious, though!
acleaver on October 12, 2007 at 11:08 AM
This was all about camel toe, not music and dance.
csdeven on October 12, 2007 at 11:14 AM
That’s what really killed the Jedi.
BelchSpeak on October 12, 2007 at 11:28 AM
Maynard Ferguson just threw up.
RedWinged Blackbird on October 12, 2007 at 11:39 AM
Band Geek!
dm60462 on October 12, 2007 at 11:46 AM
I can’t remember the last time I sat at my desk and tried to stiffle my laughs this hard to keep my boss from hearing. This was high-larious.
And, NOBODY clapped. Awesome.
thomashton on October 12, 2007 at 11:48 AM
Luke, it’s halftime
Tinley Park band takes on Star Wars
September 20, 2007
BY CHRISTINA BIGGERSTAFF The Star
A death star is lurking at Tinley Park High School.
The school’s marching band is in full Star Wars mode for its final halftime performance of the season Friday, complete with Darth Vader, light sabers, smoke and a battle between good and evil.
Band director Vince Aiello wrote the drill and arrangement for the show that will be performed at halftime of the varsity football game Friday.
Brian Sumner, father of junior trumpet player Megan Sumner, built the main attraction for the show, a 9-foot-tall death star out of which Darth Vader appears. To enhance the ambiance, strobe lights and smoke were added.
Yielding a light saber, drum major Mindy Hamilton duels the black knight throughout the performance of familiar songs including the 20th Century Fox theme, Princess Leia theme and Imperial March. In the end, Hamilton “kills” Vader and raises her light saber in victory.
The show invoked an exciting reaction from the crowd when it was performed last week.
Band director Aiello assured, however, that the final performance Friday will include a few “secret” additions.
About 90 students participate in the school’s marching band.
dm60462 on October 12, 2007 at 11:53 AM
In all fairness, she was “Ms. Douglas” which I assume means she was a county winner in a state competition. Accordingly, this makes her more like one of the idiots in the tryout rounds for American Idol than if she actually won her state’s competition. That having been said, Douglas County wherever must be one sad place.
And yeah, I started singing “Star Wars, nothing but Star Wars . . . ” to myself about 30 seconds in to the clip too.
Dudley Smith on October 12, 2007 at 11:54 AM
BRAVO!!! BRAVO!!! Talent like that comes along once in a lifetime. Did someone say thank God for that?
RMR on October 12, 2007 at 11:58 AM
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Poor thing. Obviously couldn’t hear what she was playing.
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You Tube is a real curse for stuff like this. She’ll hear about this for the rest of her life.
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Keith_Z on October 12, 2007 at 12:00 PM
I got yer Bill Murray right here.
Karl on October 12, 2007 at 12:05 PM
The tape-it’s so old that I assume it was a tape- was playing
Star Wars in the key of B!! That’s the last freakin’ key a trumpet would ever play in. She was playing in C. I suspect the tape machine played it in the correct key at rehearsal (if there was one) and at the performance it didn’t. So her choices were,
a.)try and play the thing a half step up (which would’ve probably sounded even worse
b.) take a musical beating while the muses laugh
Yeah, I’m a band geek you gonna make something of it?!?
Little Boomer on October 12, 2007 at 12:15 PM
Exactly. They probably didn’t have any monitors near where she was standing. I guarantee you all she was hearing was the house mix coming back after having bounced all around the room–ie. musical mud.
smellthecoffee on October 12, 2007 at 12:16 PM
That was extremely funny, sad and painful all wrapped into one.
awake on October 12, 2007 at 12:17 PM
Little Boomer on October 12, 2007 at 12:15 PM
What about that one time.. at band camp…
Mazztek on October 12, 2007 at 12:25 PM
all i can say is “Thanks for the RedStateUpdate link yesterday.”
JazzBass on October 12, 2007 at 12:52 PM
AP, that could be deemed “cruel and unusual punishment.” Instead of “Friday Stupid,” call it “Friday Torture.”
Un-be-frickin’-leivable. She’s not even playing in the same key as the track.
Splashman on October 12, 2007 at 1:09 PM
When one has no talent, one does the best they can.
She sure could blow on that trumpet, though… there has to be a joke in this somewhere, right guys?
Lawrence on October 12, 2007 at 1:16 PM
That hurt.
A lot.
drjohn on October 12, 2007 at 1:30 PM
She should team-up with Tay Zonday… wow, what a show that would be ….
Maxx on October 12, 2007 at 1:53 PM
That’s HOT!
nottakingsides on October 12, 2007 at 2:04 PM
Great idea.Then video tape them fighting over who should get top billing. YouTube gold.
RMR on October 12, 2007 at 2:12 PM
You had me fooled. I’d guessed there was probably going to be a solo half way through that would be fantastic and would demonstrate that the first portion was intended to be situational humor. Nope, just that ridiculous dance routine.
FloatingRock on October 12, 2007 at 2:25 PM
Vanilla Rain
fogw on October 12, 2007 at 2:25 PM
Give the girl a break. She played the music passably well it’s just that she was playing an instrument tuned(?)to a different key.
Insert chauvinistic remark here. She’s a babe.
thegreatbeast on October 12, 2007 at 3:08 PM
If you’ve ever played an instrument to a tape, then you’d know how much tape players vary on play speed. This is why the ’sound check’ was invented.
deesine on October 12, 2007 at 3:31 PM
No need to. You are not the first man (or the last) whose brain immediately relocates below the waist at the sight of a good looking woman. Trust me.
RMR on October 12, 2007 at 3:46 PM
ehs saw yllaer doog!! Dna toh oot.
lib_not on October 12, 2007 at 4:01 PM
Tin ear?
No…it’s not that good…what’s 20 elements down the periodic table from tin??
landlines on October 12, 2007 at 4:55 PM
Somewhere a fanboy virgin just jump-started into puberty.
Black Adam on October 12, 2007 at 6:58 PM
Max Biallystock – “THAT’S OUR HITLER!!!”
Ye gods that was painful. Why on earth didn’t she just Milli Vanilli the trumpet? It did seem like she was playing in B while the entire sountrack was playing in D. Maybe some tech slipped her a tenor trumpet instead of an alto trumpet, if such things exists. And it looks like she was slipped something else as well.
Coronagold on October 12, 2007 at 7:54 PM
The pride of Douglas! If she won the title of “Miss Douglas,” imagine what the other contestants from Douglas did.
p40tiger on October 12, 2007 at 9:03 PM
Didn’t she birth the Star Wars Kid? I guess the father never admitted to the deed…I know I wouldn’t.
Tim Burton on October 13, 2007 at 12:39 AM
Dogs in the next apartment were wailing as I watched this (in admitted agony)… ugh.
MsUnderestimated on October 14, 2007 at 10:44 PM
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