I dunno if this has been said or not but. . .

LG is DEFINITELY a solid alto singer. Heard her on Ellen and in Because I Said So. I think IWALY was just a little too high for her and it worked out well, if only because she was supposed to be drunk/tipsy when she sang it.

It was definitely her singing, just not quite in her comfort zone.

(Says the former university vocal major)

I disagree -- I think if you asked LG to sing that song in real life, it would be a solid, great performance. You can hear the solid alto, as you said, in her voice. But what she delivered was a "Lorelai" performance...

Oh, I'm not debating any of that. It's just that, at least personally, I find it REALLY hard to sing 'improperly' now that I've had all this formal training and I have to assume that she's had some kind of training, formal or not, if she was in an A Capella group. It was a very Lorelai performance, but it was all LG.

Re: the solid performance. Depending on how well she knew the song before hand. . . I mean, I'm a solid singer, but I did You're So Vain recently at Karaoke and it was sounding a lot like LG's IWALY because I didn't know it as well as I should have.

Another WOW!!!! It was one of the best LL scenes ever, and I love the way Rory and the town were there to witness it. We need that 8th season of LL if this is what we'll get!

I don't want the denial, but I understand it if it happens the way I imagine. I think Lorelai is embarrassed about letting the town in on her feelings and failed relationships again. She's regretting the public setting for her seranade and certainly isn't going to admit to anyone else, even Rory, how she really feels for him until after/if something happens with him. I think Miss Patty confronts her in the diner or someplace public, and in that situation I can understand the denial. I think they can make the denial/hurt aspect work, but I wish they could work it out in the same ep. Since I can't see them doing that but not kissing, I guess it'll be in 7.22. Fingers crossed that won't be the last GG ever.

Thanks for the new thread genki.

When Lorelai invited Luke to the bar and he turned her down leaving her to go into the kitchen, her reaction and expression showed how uncomfortable and foolish she felt trying to get him to do something with her she obviously felt he didn’t want to do.

When he walked into the bar, her tone changed instantly as she focused on him and sang to him from her heart. That along with the lyrics she was singing at that moment (“bittersweet memories that all I’m taking with me, so goodbye”) seem to indicate that she had given up any hope of him wanting her back in his life and was actually saying goodbye to him.

At the point when Lorelai sings, “we both know I’m not what you need” notice Rory’s reaction. She turns around to look at Lorelai in realization and sadness that her mother still loves Luke and believes that he does not want or love her anymore.

I felt so uncomfortable watching Lorelai pour her heart out to Luke in that song and was doing all kinds of crazy stretching or shifting to take some of my focus off the scene.

The morning after, Rory acted as if nothing happened the night before and told Lorelai that “some times you just have to let your feelings out”. Lorelai’s response “yeah, some times you do” and her sadness showed that she really meant everything she said to Luke in song but had no hope that anything would come of it.

Reading your post glo from the previous thread, it seems like we are both thinking along similar lines.

What did you think of the karaoke scene, gossipcom?
And thanks for the mp3.