I saw this video on Celebitchy today. Singer Jewel went under cover for “Funny or Die” and went to a karaoke bar as a demure business woman, dressed in a suit. “Funny or Die” wanted to see if she could sing and fool the audience! She showed up at the bar with some “friends” who called her Karen, and it was her friends who cheered her on and got the bar to cheer her on to the stage. In the video, you see this little awkward woman who looks timid and shy grab the microphone, unsure of herself.

But when Karen starts to sing, her timidness and shyness fall to the floor, and she becomes free as a bird, and soars. She plays with the audience, and really belts it out–which should have made people question her. Little Ms. Karen, if she had no experience, wouldn’t do this. It was a big clue to the truth! Her demeanor before singing and her actions on stage are at complete odds. I know that would have thrown me to the floor in disbelief. My antenna would have gone into active mode.

You’ve got to laugh at the guy who says when he saw Karen sitting with three people, “She’s kind of homely looking, then when she started singing, god, she’s so sexy how she’s dancing!” He later says he thought Karen sang better than Jewel, unaware the two were the same person.

At the end, I was shocked that the people didn’t put it together that Jewel and Karen were the same. Hello! What would the odds be that a woman named Karen would sing just like Jewel and Jewel happened to show up and Karen was gone? Didn’t people look for Karen to see her response? I sure would have. That would have been the most fascinating to me, if I was still in the dark. If I hadn’t figured it at first, I would have when I searched for Karen and couldn’t find her!

Would you have figured it out?

I think after I heard “Karen” belt out her tune with such confidence, I would have been at her friends feet saying, “Come on! Admit it, she isn’t Karen, she is Jewel” and I would have watched their faces try to conceal it and I would have known. I approach strangers when I have questions like this. I’m not shy to do so.

How about you? What would you have thought or done?

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I was once at the Miami airport and there were these guys standing around with tons of equipment outside the check-in doors. People started clamoring, maybe it was Spyro Gyra. I was like, “Who are they?” The chatter became intense and I said, “If you want to know, ask them” and people looked at me like no way, so I walked up and asked them and they said yes they were. I was like, ‘Thanks”. They looked at me funny, but at least it wasn’t a mystery anymore!