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[bengraven]

Curly Sue got clean, got married, and has got pipes.

I don't watch music shows, but I'm a huge softie for the "underdog" stories that get posted on social media or news sources. The fat burrito guy or the chubby old dirty British woman who can sing opera. That stuff just makes me tear up. Then there's this.

This is the best (well, one of the only) covers of Blue Bayou I've ever heard.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NwAFxZmCqeU

Alison Porter, former child star, former addict turned wife and mom and I guarantee this will be her comeback.

I love how fast the three guys slammed their buzzer thingies.

Curly Sue can sing!

Former child star Alisan Porter starred in the title role of John Hughes' 1991 film, and now over a decade later she's letting her true passion shine on The Voice.

Porter, 34, wowed coaches Blake Shelton, Christina Aguilera, Pharrell Williams and Adam Levine with her cover of Roy Orbison's song "Blue Bayou."

After revealing to Aguilera that she's been singing since age 5, even making it onto Star Search, Porter surprised all the coaches by revealing that she starred in Curly Sue.

"I was an actress when I was very young. It’s not my passion. This is my passion," Porter said.

"In life you take risks, walk through fear, do the unthinkable. For what is life without living. I am a singer, that's what I am and what I have always been. I'm letting the world know, I am ready," she wrote on Instagram.

 

[disappeared]

I always wondered what happened to her.

 

[bengraven]

I always wondered what happened to her.

Same. I loved that movie to death as a kid. They played it on HBO every day for months. The fucking ending still gets me, when she thinks he's not coming back.

I blame that for me making a thread about a show I normally don't care about on NeoGAF.

 

[Stinkles]

I hate to be that guy, and she can sing, but that's a studio plant and completely scripted, including the button timing.

 

[jett]

Well that was amazing. I've seen that movie so many times when I was a kid, it's nice that she turned her life around.

 

[Amalthea]

25 years ago is quite a bit of "over a decade later"...

 

[Angry Grimace]

I hate to be that guy, and she can sing, but that's a studio plant and completely scripted, including the button timing.

Of course. All of these things are super fake and have been since that first season of American Idol when it became a money spinner.

 

[Newline]

I always wondered what happened to her.

It seems like the general rule is that if you haven't heard much about a childhood star, then they're struggling with a drug/alcohol problem.

 

[bengraven]

25 years ago is quite a bit of "over a decade later"...

Yeeeeah, I smirked at that.

Girl is just two years younger than me and when Curly Sue came out we were in the first Iraq war and I had just got my first-gen Gameboy.

I hate to be that guy, and she can sing, but that's a studio plant and completely scripted, including the button timing.

I know it's always a plant, but I'd be disappointed if the judges were aware of her from the beginning and the button timing was scripted. Maybe, but I try not to think of it I guess, much like if I were a WWE fan I guess.

 

[oti]

I hate to be that guy, and she can sing, but that's a studio plant and completely scripted, including the button timing.

Could you elaborate more on this please. I stopped watching TV like 7 years ago and I had no idea The Voice was a thing for a very long time. I'm completely out of the loop.

 

[Randam]

Could you elaborate more on this please. I stopped watching TV like 7 years ago and I had no idea The Voice was a thing for a very long time. I'm completely out of the loop.

think he means the judges knew that "little" Curly Sue was going to sing on the show that evening, and that they were told to give her a yes and maybe even when and who first.

 

[Tripolygon]

Basically every season has that one once famous or almost famous person who comes to the show as "anonymous" and wows the "unsuspecting" judges who go "ooooh I know you" and they go yes and tell their tragic tales, but they usually never win.

 

[CREMSteve]

That was a flawless performance.

 

[dreamcastmaster]

25 years ago is quite a bit of "over a decade later"...

That stood out to me too.

 

[mrklaw]

Basically every season has that one once famous or almost famous person who comes to the show as "anonymous" and wows the "unsuspecting" judges who go "ooooh I know you" and they go yes and tell their tragic tales, but they usually never win.

In the UK they have a few of those but this season I don't think they've picked any? You still get the preamble and the 'oh I know you'. It'd be sad to hear it was too scripted.

 

[Shepard]

Even if scripted, her voice was amazing.

 

[Garrett Hawke]

I hate to be that guy, and she can sing, but that's a studio plant and completely scripted, including the button timing.

Xtincta's acting kind of made it obvious tbh

 

[oti]

think he means the judges knew that "little" Curly Sue was going to sing on the show that evening, and that they were told to give her a yes and maybe even when and who first.

Ah, that makes sense.

 

[Cindi Mayweather]

I thought I was the only person who remembered what Curly Sue was.

 

[FTF]

So who'd she pick as a coach?

 

[bengraven]

I thought I was the only person who remembered what Curly Sue was.

I loved that movie.

 

[ferr]

Never heard of this movie- except that it's been suddenly popping up on Amazon Prime for the past couple of months.... CONSPIRACY

 

[CREMSteve]

So who'd she pick as a coach?

I think this is Monday's upcoming episode. Hasn't aired yet.

 

[bengraven]

Never heard of this movie- except that it's been suddenly popping up on Amazon Prime for the past couple of months.... CONSPIRACY

It's funny for a late 80s/early 90s style B-comedy. Has some good heart to it as well. Kind of like Annie if Annie had a sucker punch and was being adopted by one of the Wet Bandits from Home Alone.

 

[FTF]

I think this is Monday's upcoming episode. Hasn't aired yet.

Ahh, ok.

 

[Tripolygon]

In the UK they have a few of those but this season I don't think they've picked any? You still get the preamble and the 'oh I know you'. It'd be sad to hear it was too scripted.

I haven't watched the season yet, been too busy. But last season did have one and you could totally tell when they are going off script vs spontaneous genuine reaction.

 

[PHOENIXZERO]

Looked her up some time ago so, not a surprise.

 

[BananaPancake]

Wow so random, I remember her from Curly Sue. She sounded great, I wonder who she picked. Does anyone know? Has it aired yet?

 

[TheSadRanger]

So who'd she pick as a coach?

Xtina, the husband actually wanted her to pick Adam

the premiere was tonight I believe.