Why the worst singer of all time sold out every concert
Florence Foster Jenkins was widely considered to be the worst singer of all time, yet she experienced a very successful career including selling out New York’s prestigious Carnegie Hall.
@sylvain_10beringer29
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
She is the great exemple of decadence in the artistic world wich today became a rule.
Her sentence “People may say that I can’t sing, but no one can ever say that I didn’t sing.” is completely meaningless of course everybody can sing as everybody can try to do masonry or improvise as a plumber but the result is a disaster.
The difference is that before in the art world the composer who made shit didn't last long while she had the right to an audience to pay her, it's quite sad.
There is nothing glorious in this person, she deserves only the contempt of the dustbins of history
@Tokolos
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
It’s that Bucket woman
@denvance9608
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Anna Russel was a hit! Hysterically funny and couldn't sing a note.
@pamelastainton7272
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Good movie made about her with Meryl Streep and Hugh Grant.
@Vicius_IASL
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Ohhh man I could have been millionaire have lived at this epoque.
@amaquonsippi
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
The height of sociopathy. Enabling it is worse
@davidmusicmaker
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Her story would make an excellent biopic—poignant AND humorous.
@MooglePower
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
And here we are, almost 100 years later, still celebrating her achievements, something that most of us will likely never see ourselves. Bravo!
@Gertyutz
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
She couldn't have been born in 1968.
@allanmarsh1
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Check out the singer Wing. There's a number of videos of her here on YouTube. Right up there with Florence I think.
@donmc1950
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
She reminds me of Mrs Miller a popular bad singer from the 1960s who sang popular songs
@mathijs1987j
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
"She lived in near poverty" until she inherited vast wealth from her father. The American dream.
@bonniemoerdyk9809
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
This is FARRRR better than many people!! Even me some days🤣 This reminds me of an Andy Griffith episode where they were trying to get Barney to think his microphone and his voice was so wonderful and powerful, that he should barely whisper-sing his song for the Church Choir, and they secretly had Jim Nabors in back row singing fabulously, and they let Barney think that was his voice with his fancy microphone!!😂😂
@Jwellsuhhuh
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Another reminder that relationships and connections is EVERYTHING when you work in the music industry
@federicoguzman3929
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
😂😂😂She was a thousand times better singer than Jennifer Lopez and Paola Abdul and yet this lady who had a privileged voice compared to these two was still very famous and rich 😂😂😂😂😅
@FromG2eminor
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
My roommate had her album. I loved it so much 😂😂❤❤😊😊
@pertwee9376
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
You've never heard Hilda Ogden.
@jasondraper2829
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
The snippets played here are illustrative, but may not be comprehensive evidence. From the little that was heard, I honestly think her issue may have been she was just trying to sing outside her register. Any competent vocal coach should have been able to teach her the appropriate breath control and formation techniques to at least make her pleasant to listen to, if not necessarily with scads of range.
@brucebrierly8497
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Your explanation was far better than the movie. The movie was cruel to her. Thank you.
@madelianides
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
I don’t think Florence was necessarily terrible. Sure, she was off key, but the kind of music that was playing in the background of her voice kind of made it sound comical but interesting. To me, the songs with her voice sound like something out of The Three Stooges.
@robfriedrich2822
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
She needed autotune
@Juwon5Jimvon
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
How sad that Florence died shortly after selling out Carnegie Hall.
@angelo1962
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Did you say she was born in 1968?
@vendelius
August 21, 2025 at 5:13 pm
Thanks for this David… Fascinating
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