Oh, now when are you two gonna stop all this fighting? This is between Deena and me. I'm not feeling well I got pain. You've be late, you've been mean, giving all kinds of bullshit flack. Song Lyrics. With Beyoncé, Jamie Foxx, Eddie Murphy, Danny Glover. Video Examples. Just take the money and run, Cool it, Effie Effie White, a phenomenally talented singer, was on her way to the READ MORE - PRO MEMBERS ONLY Join the StageAgent community to read expert guidance for One Night Only and unlock other amazing theatre resources! Miscellaneous Album. A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine - Musical. Match These Taylor Swift Songs to Her Ex-Boyfriends, HOT SONG: 21 Savage x Metro Boomin - "My Dawg​" - LYRICS, NEW SONG: Rod Wave - POP SMOKE - "MOOD SWINGS" ft. Lil Tjay - LYRICS, NEW SONG: AC/DC - "Shot In The Dark" - LYRICS, NEW SONG: Shawn Mendes - "Wonder" - LYRICS, 23 Boy Band Slow Jams That Made You Believe In Love. Effie's brother, C.C. Jennifer Holliday originated the role on Broadway in 1981 and won a Tony Award for her performance as well as the Grammy for Best R&B Performance, Female for its re-release in 1982 for which it became a number-one R&B hit for Holliday. "Effie, Sing My Song" – C.C. I'm calling you When she belts out the chorus to "And I'm Going To Love You" during the film's dramatic climax, the line between artist and art is satisfactorily blurred, and Hudson is Dreamgirls' heroine Effie White. I'm not building this group to have you tear it apart Top Lyrics of 2011. Curtis presents himself as the Dreamettes' new manager and arranges for the Dreamettes to become backup singers for local R&B star Jimmy "Thunder" Early (Eddie Murphy). 55k Like. Effie, please. Youve got a such magnetic power That just keeps holding me down [Oooh] Breakdown; Join the StageAgent community Well, it's between me too Upgrade to PRO to read our character analysis for Effie White and unlock other amazing theatre resources! Effie was a member of the girl band called The Dreamettes and she was first seen at a club where she and the other Dreamettes were scheduled to perform. Effie, we all got pain! ... which she sang again as a pop song in 1982, topping the Billboard R&B charts and earning a 1983 Grammy Award for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance. Look at me 2009 - "If This Isn't Love" From Jennifer Hudson's 2008 self-titled debut album, "If This Isn't … Stay out of this, Lorrell! I'm just breaking into this business See, I've put up with you for much to long Lay off, Effie Yeah? There you are, Effie. Despite the Supremes' rise to fame, Florence was reportedly depressed. It was you always thinking of you I knew the music, but never the storyline or the character.” Hudson says that although she was unfamiliar with the … There's no money dirty enough to buy me out. I'm as much a part of this group as anybody else, and I'm tired Research Playwrights, Librettists, Composers and Lyricists, See more songs from This snow job is as much your sin, Advisory - the following lyrics contain explicit language: Effie, Curtis was supposed to-- I have put up with your bitching Backstage at an amateur talent show at the Detroit Theatre in 1962, Cadillac salesman Curtis Taylor, Jr. (Jamie Foxx) meets a girl group known as "The Dreamettes": lead singer Effie White (Jennifer Hudson) and back-up singers Deena Jones (Beyonce) and Lorrell Robinson (Anika Noni Rose) . "Sing It, White Effie" addresses how painful and misleading it can be when black women's voices are crowded out. I've put up with your nagging and all your screaming too. She also felt that Motown's role in making Diana a star was also having a negative impact on the g… Now you watch your mouth © 2021 METROLYRICS, A RED VENTURES COMPANY. It's just I haven't been feeling that well. And now you're telling me It's all over? I turn my back and find myself out on the line, Upgrade to PRO to read expert guidance for One Night Only and unlock other amazing theatre resources! Curtis was supposed to love me! Michell:Now you watch yo mouth watch your mouth miss Effie White cause I don't take that tone from no second rate diva who can't substane Effie:Im not fellin well I got pain all: Effie we all got pain effie: all those times i sung wit you i was yo sista all: you were our trouble Effie: and now u tellin me its all over As much as Deena Jones, Beyoncé Knowles' character in "Dreamgirls," was modeled on Diana Ross, the film's main character, Effie White, was based on Etta James, according to composer Henry Krieger. Using the talents of C.C., Curtis decides to change their style from R&B music to pop music and to go out on their own. to read expert guidance for One Night Only and unlock other amazing theatre resources!