Vanessa Williams on “The Kelly Clarkson Show” on July 10, 2024. Weiss Eubanks/ NBCUniversal
Elton John tracks? For a musical?Groundbreaking Vanessa Williams is actually offering followers a peek right into the pop symbol’s brand-new songs for her brand-new music based uponThe Devil Wears Prada
During her appearance on the Wednesday (July 10) episode of The Kelly Clarkson Show, the “Save the Best for Last” vocalist shared some information concerning collaborating with the pop tale for the program, which started its off-West End run in Plymouth, England, on July 6.
“I am honored because I grew up listening to Elton John on my little transistor radio on my windowsill with my two antennae, listening to ‘Bennie and the Jets’ and [‘Goodbye Yellow Brick Road’],” she claimed. “That’s my childhood! So, to be able to work with him and have him write new songs that I get the chance to sing for him is pretty epic.”
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In the program, Williams plays the titular duty of Miranda Priestly, the icy, high-powered editor-in-chief at the style publicationRunway In reviewing her efficiency in the program, the starlet offered Clarkson and her target market a tease of among the program’s crucial numbers.
“The script is very much based on the movie, so you see all the aspects of that, but it’s amplified by the music. So, for instance, in the second act they’re doing their fashion show and everyone thinks [Miranda] is on the outs,” she discussed, prior to introducing right into an a capella performance of the track. “‘You think that I can’t see you/ Smugly sitting there with glee/ Eager for the ending you’ve been waiting years to see/ Today, she’s getting ousted/ Yet her final hour’s nigh/ ‘Miranda’s reign has run its course’/ That’s what you think? Oh my.’”
Williams additionally shared that many thanks to John’s music perceptiveness, the tracks right away provide themselves to wider social allure. “This music takes the transition from the words and brings it to musical theater — but it’s also pop, too, because that’s Elton’s background,” she claimed. “So, there’s going to be remixes on the radio from The Devil Wears Prada, because he know what works in both genres.”
Check out the clip of Williams’ meeting on The Kelly Clarkson Show listed below:
