Who Should Sing “Lady Marmalade” Now?
EW.com makes a suggestion: ‘Perfection was achieved in 2001 when Christina Aguilera, Pink, Lil’ Kim, Mya, and Missy Elliot united to cover the 1975 Labelle bop for Baz Luhrmann’s “Moulin Rouge!” Their decidedly naughtier version spent five weeks at No. 1; since then, the closest we’ve even remotely come to that collaborative brand of riffing magnitude is “Bang Bang†or that time Mariah Carey sneezed through two octaves. “Lady Marmalade†is the albatross, the unattainable lightning-in-a-boudoir that taught millions of kids how to say sexy things in French and became the mega-hit earworm you could never quite turn off (or sing on-key). Should a new quartet of singers unite to re-record it? No. But if they did…who would it be?’
