DIVA REWIND: Patti LaBelle sings "This Christmas" at The White House (1996)

[vespertine]

WHERE ARE MY BACKGROUND SINGERS!? Patti LaBelle was not having it on this night in 1996 at the White House tree lighting ceremony for President Clinton.

 

[SDF]

It is quite possibly my favourite thing about Christmas

 

[Alla]

OMG

 

[straightorbroken]

Couldn't have happened to a more dreadful woman

*looks up Trya segment*

 

[BoysForSeles]

Whilst Patti is busy attacking everyone around her verbally is it a bit of a stretch to wonder why a performer didn’t actually bother to learn the words to the song they were going to sing?

 

[KindaCool]

Now y'all know I love my Divas but I've never been a fan of Patti. Just shrieks everything.

 

[Art Decade]

 

[Cerro de Casa]

This Christmas

 

[Art Decade]

Next card, honey, next card!

 

[Jark]

WHERE ARE MY BACKGROUND SINGERS!? Patti LaBelle was not having it on this night in 1996 at the White House tree lighting ceremony for President Clinton.

she's fucking nutty but god her voice sounds great here even as she's adlibbing pure shade