In the past couple of weeks, Jennifer Lawrence has taken the full trajectory of the average X Factor contestant post-win. She’s gone from insisting that she really can’t sing, to displaying a pretty good voice, to getting to number 29 in the UK charts.
How did that come about? Certainly not through Simon Cowell – the whole point of The Hunger Games is that it’s a dystopian parody of The X Factor’s bear-baiting. Or, well, a rip off of Battle Royale. Anyway, we digress. It all started when Jennifer had to sing a song while playing Katniss in the latest Hunger Games instalment. She explained her fear of singing to David Letterman on his chat show, saying she sounds like a ‘tone-deaf Amy Winehouse’.
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But then, a whole bunch of people heard her singing in The Hunger Games – the film has well and truly smashed the box office, whatever that is, raking in $275million worldwide – and realised she wasn’t that bad at all.
Though she only sings for a tiny portion of the film, enough people have snapped it up (as part of Lorde’s much-appreciated curated soundtrack of the film) for it to get to number 29 in the UK charts, reports ITV.
That’s not absolutely incredible, but it’s pretty good going for a debut with little direct promotion. Plus, there are a few more days left until Sunday, when the top 40 comes in, so who knows who else might be snapping up the song.
Want to hear what it sounds like? Well it’s right here:
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If you can’t listen right now, it’s a bit of a medieval-chanty song. Jennifer’s voice is pretty sultry and deep, a bit like her fellow actress-turned-one-time-singer, Scarlett Johansson. And then a big choir comes in because, you know, why not?
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This article originally appeared on The Debrief.