httpss://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrtvR0n1y60
This is another way of saying we’ve got an extremely straightforward lip-sync battle between singer-So You Think You Can Dance judge Jason Derulo and Smash alumna Katharine McPhee.
Katharine McPhee continues the grand tradition of waifish white girls appropriating the signature styles of black male rappers with Mystikal’s “Shake Ya Ass.” All told, she’s good.
She also adds the requisite ass-shaking as though she were schizophrenically issuing the commands to herself.
Anyway, it’s a better performance than Jason Derulo’s “Pony,” which feels just feels hackish at this point.
For one, Jenna Dewan Tatum has already done a much better performance of the Ginuwine classic in a callback to her husband’s performance in Magic Mike XXL. Derulo was neither magical nor XXL. Winner: Katharine McPhee by a shake of the rump.
Katharine McPhee chose Jason Derulo’s song, “Want to Want Me” and adds some clever drag queen affectations as she plays the girl tottering on Vicodin before doing some expert body rolls and flips.
The overall effect is one of Broooooooooadwaaaaaaaaay, and may make you wonder, Are we back on Smash? And as strange as it is to say, Jason Derulo’s Rick James felt strangely muted.