Taylor Through the Ages

Sometime between winning the Tony for YOU'RE A GOOD MAN CHARLIE BROWN and going off the deep end, Kristin Chenoweth sang this adorable song called "Taylor the Latte Boy." (I think there could be a drinking game with this wherein you drink every time the camera pans the fake flowers, and every time Kristin makes an overly broad musical theater gesture with her forearms.)

This was pre-YouTube, but during the heyday of Napster, so I had it in MP3 form (and listened to it...obsessively) for years. It was writers Zina Goldrich and Marcy Heisler's claim to fame for yawhile (and pretty much the reason DEAR EDWINA got an off-Broadway run or Junie B Jones got written, which in turn is the reason 25% of the city's waitstaff has their Equity card). Every girl with a belt and comedic timing put it in her book. College Cabarets were never the same.

Then some years passed, K. Chen was in WICKED, dated Aaron Sorkin, fancied herself a movie star, lost the big hair and hooker red lipstick, and released an album called "As I Am" featuring songs about Jesus...and "Taylor" (which she had never actually recorded before). But it is clear that the only person Chen-bot is worshipping is herself, and "Taylor" suddenly has a new bridge and an extra chorus.

For herself she made it triple, and she doesn't think I knew. (By the way, giving someone 50% more caffene than they are asking for is kinda dangerous...).

Here she is singing the new version on Craig Ferguson (in front of a grand piano, so no flowers, but just as many broad MT gestures and a lot more mugging). I really hate the bridge. HATE!

Sometime after that some guy who works at Disney World did this fairly funny parody (which, by the way, includes the new bridge and chorus).