Seriously? OMG! WTF?

Josh Groban is on The Ellen DeGeneres Show today and he told her why he has the expression that he has on the cover of his latest CD, Stages. The actor looks scared, and that because he was. The record company arranged a photoshoot in Downtown LA late at night. One of the people near where they were shooting started cursing at them, so the singer was reacting to the guy’s vulgarity as the camera snapped away. The result was a cover that his label deemed edgy and masculine.
What Groban didn’t realize is that the host was setting him up. Once you talk about being scared on the daytime talk show, be prepared to be just that. She had a person raise up out of the cube that was in between them, but Josh was looking away and didn’t get the full effect. Even though he didn’t see his attacker, he still jumped up and hit a high note that is normally reserved for a few of his songs.
Talking about singing, not only did he sing a song on the show, he also sang the praises of his girlfriend, Kat Dennings. She is so lucky to have him as her boyfriend. Not only can she get him to sing to her whenever she wants, he also says the nicest things about her. They are just the cutest couple!

UPDATE: Here’s Josh Goban singing one of the songs from his album Stages, What I Did For Love from A Chorus Line on Ellen.

We have seen bloopers for television shows and movies, but I don’t ever remember seeing any for the making of an album. Josh Groban, who just released Stages this week, posted a video that shows that musicians also mess up when the record their music.
One of today’s greatest singers revealed at the beginning of his gag reel, “When I’m on camera, I sing like hell.” Then for the next 2 minutes, he shows us that he does the same even when he doesn’t know the camera is on him. Several times hitting notes, we didn’t know the Soprano could hit. All of the vocal changes are done in good fun to relieve of some the stress of recording.
Now that Stages is out, climbing the charts, he should prepare for his next hit record. Instead of singing show tunes and movie musical numbers, he should record one with all of the many different voices he can do. This video proves he can do it. In fact, it proves it needs to be done. Would you buy it if he did it? I would!

Josh Groban’s latest album Stages is out now and it is a must own. The record is full of him singing some of the biggest musical theater numbers and two of movies’ most iconic songs.
You know that feeling you get when you go to see a musical, and after you walk out you smile either humming or singing at least one song from it over and over? That is the feeling you get when you listen to Stages. You feel like you are listening to a timeless soundtrack, even though the songs are from a wide variety of them.
I will start off talking about the songs that came from movies. Pure Imagination from Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory is a haunting song but yet calming. Groban reworked the song to make it his own and there is a beauty to it which comes close to the Gene Wilder version. The other famous movie tune is Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz. The way he sings it, it can easily be a lullaby that you can use to put your child to sleep with and yet adults can feel hope as they listen to it.
Over the Rainbow isn’t the only song he sings that was originally sung by a woman. He also tackled What I Did for Love from A Chorus Line and You’ll Never Walk Alone from Carousel. Even though both songs are traditionally performed females, you wouldn’t know it by listening to his versions of it.
There are two women who duet with him on this record. Audra McDonald and him take a ride on the Carousel and ask If I Loved You, and it is pure love. He becomes the Phantom of the Opera for Kelly Clarkson and they tell each other All I Ask From You. I’ve never heard the first American Idol sing like this before and it is a genre she needs to explore. I’ve never heard her voice sound as beautiful as it does on this song and she’s one of the best female singers out there. While those duets are with wome, he does another one with a man. That man’s voice is not heard, but you hear Chris Botti playing his trumpet as Groban sings Old Devil Moon from Finian’s Rainbow. Then there are two songs that he flawlessly combines into one, Into the Woods’ Children Will Listen and Sweeny Todd’s Not While I Am Around.
The final five tracks are just him. Try to Remember from The Fantasticks and it is memorable and fantastic. Anthem from Chess is a checkmate. Bring Him Home from Les Miserables is sung with such emotion that it will bring a tear to your eye. When it comes to Finishing the Hat from Sunday in the Park with George, his voice sounds unlike anyway we’ve heard it before. There is a sweetness to his tone in this one that makes you fall in love with him. If you don’t love him by that song, hearing him sing Notre-Dame de Paris’ Le Temps Des Cathédrals in French will make you swoon.
Actually, the whole album will make you swoon. I don’t remember the last time, I listened to a whole record from beginning to end and loved every song it. It’s hard to press the pause or skip button when you listen to Stages because every song on it is incredible. His voice is powerful yet enticing and these songs were made for him even though they were not.
Because he has such a boisterous voice, you find yourself belting out the songs with him in the car, in the shower and anywhere else you can. Thankfully his is loud enough that it disguises your crappy one. I dare you to buy this album and not act out some of the tunes as you hear him sing it in his own special way.
It is rare these days to have an entire album be special, but that is exactly what Stages is. So buy it now because this an album you will be listening to from the moment you get it until the end of time because it truly is ageless. It is almost impossible to get sick of it because these songs have been around for decades and we are still singing them to this day. We just aren’t singing them as good as he is.
So I give Josh Groban and Stages a standing ovation! Bravo, bravo!
Finally, if this doesn’t land him a Broadway musical soon, there is something wrong on the Great White Way.

On Tuesday, Josh Groban is releasing Stages, a cover album full of movie and show tunes. One of the songs on the record is Over the Rainbow from The Wizard of Oz. Ever since I saw that track is on the album, I have been curious to hear what he was going to do with it. I have to say I am blown away like Dorothy was in the movie.
As we know the crooner has a very boisterous singing voice, yet he was able to soften it enough for the legendary ballad. I hate when most singers do this song because they change it up so much, it doesn’t sound like the tune that Judy Garland blew us all away with in 1939. Groban made the song his own and yet still kept it the way it was originally done. Because of that, I feel like I’ve followed the Yellow Brick Road all the way to tend and met the Wizard himself.
Are you over the rainbow with his version or do you want the Wicked Witch to send her monkeys after him?

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