Fancy

Hortense.

Why is she singing in a giant vagina?

It's the theme of the song--living through your vagina can save you from a life of poverty,

I have never in my life heard of this song "Fancy" until August of this year when someone said they hated this song and I said what song? So I watched the video and thought it was so stupid.

I preferred the original. Bobbie (not Bobbi nor Bobby) Gentry sold that Southern Gothic feel like no one else before or since.

Fancy could afford to push herself away from the buffet tables and dessert carts more often.

[quote] Hortense.

That's a funny name, Hortense!

Early on, Fancy got set for life once she got an MRS title. After that, it wouldn't matter what her first name was.

Song would be more touching sung by a man - -

Reba is such a ham. Gawd how does anyone listen to her screeching? Cunt-ry women were great about 25 years ago and boy have they regressed. Someone brilliant like Mary Chapin Carpenter left country and we're stuck with idiots like Miranda Lambert and Carrie Underwood.

I love the songs that glamorize being the whores.

Bobbie Gentry was at least believable as a high class hooker. Reba, not so much.

[quote]r11 I love the songs that glamorize being the whores.

[italic]Prostitution Whore!

The Slovenian version of this song is "Melanija"

I couldn't get through 30 seconds of that.

That’s Ethel to you.

BAD plastic surgery on Reba. She sounds good though.

While she was in Atlanta, did Fancy work for Monette?

I’d love hearing a guy sing that song. Maybe Rufus Wainwright?

^^ I think it would only work as a music video ... with Mama smearing some little twink's face with lipstick, etc.

Shitty Little Francie

I had no idea Bobbie Gentry sang this. And I love it. Thank you (r5). And she would have changed her name to Cinnamon Goodreau.

Why do so few people like prostitutes and sluts in real life when there are so many songs celebrating the dignity and courage of prostitutes and sluts?

Fancy

I've Never Been to Me

Private Dancer

Island Girl

Killer Queen

Hot Child in the City

Lady Marmalade

Dominique

Do they play this song at child pageants like those Mrs Patsy Ramsey made JonBenét perform at?

That was AWFUL! Reba just STOOD there --no dancing, nothing.

Did she think that three different outfits would make that number a success?

I felt embarrassed for her.

R2 The stage was in the shape of the CMA award.

In the Reba music video for the song, Fancy, she becomes a famous movie and singing star and goes by Fancy Rae Baker. I always figured she was analogous to Gypsy Rose Lee.

[quote] Do they play this song at child pageants like those Mrs Patsy Ramsey made JonBenét perform at?

No, but she had to perform another song glorifying prostitution: "I Want to Be a Cowboy's Sweetheart.'

Gone Too Soon - the next Fancy

Lackluster performance, stiff as a board, three matronly costumes. She's lip-synching as well.

Don't talk about JonBenet like that!

I can't wait for Chrissy Metz's version!

r31 is correct. There's a much more effective way of expressing displeasure at her performance.

At least Madonna gets out there and TRIES to shake her ass for fuck's sake.

Reba moved like she'd had a full hip replacement just before coming on stage.

[quote] At least Madonna gets out there and TRIES to shake her ass for fuck's sake.

...two hours after she is scheduled to appear, you mean.

Hell, I'd wait the two hours before subjecting myself to another Reba performance.

R30 Only to tired queens on here. Her peers, twitter and the wider media, all praised the performance as a triumph. She isn't lip-synching either, because it is a much different vocal performance of the song, especially the phrasing was different than she normally gives. I've seen numerous performances, by her, doing the song for close to thirty years. She did much more acting with her hands, the way she subtly carried her body, and the different phrasing in this performance, it was very theatrical. Even the costumes were more mature, not matronly, just mature. Gone was the trademark black fur coat, in its place a slightly tawdry dressing gown(the older Fancy looking back), then the red flapper style dress (symbolizing her wild youthful escapades), and then the red pants/jumper(showcasing Fancy's ascension to being a liberated woman). This wasn't the young brash Fancy, who just whored her way to the top, this was the Norma Desmond Fancy looking back at her life and showing she is still here and relevant. It is like the reprise in a Broadway musical where the character has grown and changed, this was her "Rose's Turn" interpretation of the song. The fact is, she doesn't need to dance, or shake he ass anymore, because from the moment she starts, she has the audience in the palm of her hand, she knows it, and she has earned it(both Reba and Fancy). I wouldn't be surprised if Reba has managed to get Gentry's permission to craft a musical around Fancy, with a similar storyline to what I described. Reba playing an older Fancy, looking back on her life and trying to make a comeback.

She sounded a little off last night, i'm guessing age is catching up with her but that's to be expected.

You've lost your mind, R37.

That was a TERRIBLE performance.

The only reason she wasn't ripped apart is that A) this was the CMAs and B) she's a country music legend.

She sounded fine; I didn't think she was lipynching . . . but, Dear God, she couldn't move for shit and had absolutely Z E R O stage presence. She looked arthritic.

[quote] it was very theatrical

What? She didn't do anything but walk, R37, and looked like she had trouble doing that. So.... it's "theatrical" b/c she moved her arms different? 🙄

Girls, [italic]girls, GIRLS!![/italic]

You're letting Reba McIntire's performance of Bobbi Gentry's ode to whorish realness [italic]tear you apart![/italic]

Fuck you all! I love this song!

R41 But Mrs Garrett, those are the facts of THE LIFE.

Did she have a hip or knee replacement? Because in the past she used to dance so much she had to wear a headset mic. It’s strange to see her stiff as a board for an upbeat song.

Just google Reba fancy CMA and you will see nothing but universal praise for the performance, billboard, vulture, & the NYT, among others singled it out as an amazing and powerful performance. There are numerous articles using the adjectives slaying and gives me life, which is the highest praise millennials can give. On YouTube the official video is second only to the opening medley in views, 710k at last count in 24 hours. Some of you might think it was a bad performance but you are definitely in the minority.

The stan has spoken!!

It was awful, Stan.

If I may say so, I think she's getting a bit up in years for that material.

Maude was married to Walter, r47. Dorothy was married to Stan.

She is pushing it.

This is the original studio version of "Fancy" by Bobbie Gentry.

Released: November 1969

WHET Fancy's younger sibling? The last we heard of him/her was: "The welfare people came and took the baby, Mama died, and I ain't been back."

"Bad Girls" - Donna Summer

One of the all-time biggest hits about streetwalking whores.

Course I done changed my name, OP. I'm JonFancét now.

Ain't it elegant?

I feel sorry for Fancy's twin sister, Plain.

[quote]WHET Fancy's younger sibling? The last we heard of him/her was: "The welfare people came and took the baby, Mama died, and I ain't been back."

The baby got tossed off the Tallahatchie Bridge.

Been there done that.

Wow r51, the song "Fancy" turns 50-years-old this month.

She’s stiff because she’s been having back issues.

The pantsuit is a tribute to Gentry

I was selling books door-to-door in Upstate New York mid-1990s (don't ask; I was very young and stupid). I was in the home of this one family and it was early evening time. They had just finished dinner and the television was on. Reba came on the TV and the father talked about how much he wanted to screw her, right in front of the mother and kids! I remember the look on the mother's face. She was silent and probably embarrassed. It didn't occur to me until years later that she was probably a victim of domestic abuse. Poor thing. I hope she's okay.

I think Fancy made out better than she did. Hell, Fancy made out better than I did. She has charmed a king and lives in a New York townhouse, thanks to her mama.

It's good enough for the cream of DC society and the Kennedy Center.

Fancy's Mom pimped out her daughter and turned her into a whore. Fancy's Mom was the original Kris Jenner.

Sweet Jesus, that was awful.

It was painful to watch because I always really liked Reba. She's only 64 but moved like she was 84. The costume changes were stupid.