Look, y'all. He's not. The four girls take a car to a music studio called Platinum Sound, where they meet Wyclef, star of that one Fugees album we totally all had in college and a lot of other amorphous hip-hop projects he's not ever becoming as famous for, ever, ever again. We cut immediately to a windowless, airless sound booth in the studio, where he has each of the four sing a note and hold a chord. And, okay, I don't mean to go all solfege on your asses here, but, here's what he does. He has Katie hold out a note that he calls "do," which is fine. But then -- THEN -- he piles onto it with Nicole's "re," but has her sing it a full major third higher. Now, if you know your Sound of Music like I do (shut up), you'll agree, no doubt, that "re" always follows "do" in an ascending scale. However, the reason for that is because Julie Andrews knows everything, so when she sings the scale, "do" and "re" are one whole step apart. "Mi," the next note up, is two whole steps from "do" (which can be any note in the scale as the first note). So, technically, Nicole should be singing the major third (which she does with full-throated confidence, to her credit) on "mi." And Adrianne, who warbles but lands on the fifth, should not be singing "mi," but instead should be singing...anyone? Anyone? Sol! That's right! Giselle doesn't land on a note or a syllable I can understand because Giselle is fucking useless.













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