“I always knew how determined you were, and you were funny and you took it with grace,” Simon Cowell said of Jennifer Hudson’s time on ‘American Idol.’
Hudson mentioned that she sang Manilow’s “Weekend in New England” that week. Cowell then replied, “I remember thinking, ‘This is not a great song.’ It wasn’t your fault. And then, of course, what happened, happened.”judge went on to asked Hudson if she would have changed her song choice if she could go back in time. “No, but it’s other songs before that I would’ve changed,” the multi-hyphenate replied. “Because that song led me to getting, honey.
She continued, “When you’re on a show like that, you want to have the song that you feel represents you best and it was a few songs in the beginning that I was like, ‘I don’t feel like that represents my artistry.’ ‘Circle of Life’ felt like represented my artistry. By the time I was eliminated, I felt like I got an opportunity to display who I was as an artist, so I was OK with being eliminated. Then, once I was, I was like, ‘You know what? You’re walking away with your talent.
“Too often people give up and think that’s the end of the road and I said, ‘No, I’ll be back. I don’t know when and I don’t know how but I’ll sing my way to it,'” Hudson concluded.
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