Baffled Anne Hathaway fans were all saying the same thing about the star’s bizarre singing election day post urging the public to vote.
Hathaway, 42, who belted out Somebody To Love at a Kamala Harris rally last month, launched into a rendition of Sabrina Carpenter’s hit Please, Please, Please on Instagram on Tuesday – but doctored the lyrics for the election.
The post was captioned: ‘Whoa… hearing there are massively long lines at colleges and universities everywhere but especially in Pennsylvania.
‘Please stay in line! Please let &know where you’re at and they’ll try to get you some pizza and music- democracy must be fed (and needs a beat).
‘MOST IMPORTANTLY if you are in line before the polls close, stay in line, even after closing time. Polls will stay open until everyone in that line has voted! These are your rights! Thank you voters!
Baffled Anne Hathaway fans were all saying the same thing about the star’s bizarre singing election day post urging the public to vote
She then sang: ‘Please, please, please stay on the line, please, please, please especially at UPenn and Temple, you just wait out your time.
‘Voting is magic, but also annoying, you waited out this long, let’s make it not boring, please, please, please hold the line.’
Fans quickly took to the comment section to brand the star ‘cringe’ and ‘self involved’ for the video.
One wrote: ‘That was absolutely one of the cringiest things I think I’ve ever had the unpleasure of watching’ while a second typed: ‘This is cringe.’
A third penned: ‘Too many videos of her being extremely rude and self involved in interviews. Get some perspective about who you are and your actual place in this world.. so insecure and pretentious’
Others wrote: ‘Once again another actress with a highly inflated view of their opinion, ‘Poor Anna did all this for nothing’ after Trump’s victory and ‘Ugh shut up! You’re insufferable!’
Others praised the Oscar winner’s vocals, saying: ‘THAT’S OUR QUEEN OF GENOVIA’ and ‘You are such a Queen for using your voice and platform.’
The singing video evoked memories of 2020 when Gal Gadot and celebrity friends were branded ‘out of touch’ by social media users after joining forces while self-isolating to sing a version of John Lennon’s Imagine to share online.
Hathaway, 42, who belted out Somebody To Love at a Kamala Harris rally last month, launched into a rendition of Sabrina Carpenter’s hit Please, Please, Please on Instagram on Tuesday – but doctored the lyrics for the election
The post was captioned: ‘Whoa… hearing there are massively long lines at colleges and universities everywhere but especially in Pennsylvania’
She then sang: ‘Please, please, please stay on the line, please, please, please especially at UPenn and Temple, you just wait out your time
Fans quickly took to the comment section to brand the star ‘cringe’ and ‘self involved’ for the video
Others praised the star’s performance
Anne’s post was in vain as Donald Trump beat Harris to the US presidency
The singing video evoked memories of 2020 when Gal Gadot and celebrity friends were branded ‘out of touch’ by social media users after joining forces while self-isolating to sing a version of John Lennon’s Imagine to share online
Hard pass: While the A-listers were aiming for heartfelt feelings, the people of the internet were not having it, quickly taking to social media to slam the stars for their cringeworthy display
While the A-listers were aiming for heartfelt feelings, the people of the internet were not having it, quickly taking to social media to slam the stars for their cringeworthy display.
‘I don’t know how millionaires singing about “no possessions” from their mansions is supposed to ease my anxiety,’ one user wrote.
‘How out of touch it is this?’ wondered one Twitter user about the video montage, which features the likes of Natalie Portman, Amy Adams, Zoe Kravitz, among others.
Asking the stars to put their money where their mouths are, someone else shared: ‘Cheesy and embarrassing, until they donate money I [couldn’t] care less about this video.’
‘Just seen the celeb Imagine video and now coronavirus no longer scares me,’ joked another.
‘The video of celebrities singing Imagine to us from their comfortable homes is exactly what Jenna Maroney would’ve done if there was a pandemic in 30 Rock,’ someone else wrote, referencing the fictional sketch show diva played by Jane Krakowski.
‘This is so cursed how did this even come to happen do they have a gc [group chat] and gal gadot was like hey u know what would lift everyone’s spirits? An awkward rendition of Imagine,’ someone else posted.
Many were disappointed in who they thought were their favorite celebs.
‘Me seeing some my my face celebrities singing in the gal gadot video,’ one person tweeted with a reaction image of two people grimacing.
Hathaway was recently part of a star-studded event called Broadway for Harris, which included Whoopi Goldberg, Billy Porter, Rosie Perez and more.
She took to the stage – following her appearance at The Apprentice premiere – and insisted that she was voting for Kamala Harris, and adding she was going to ‘make a little space tonight’ for the undecided voter (via Yay Show Vids).
She wanted the undecided voter to ‘contemplate a question they might be struggling with,’ before singing the first line to the 1976 hit: ‘Can anybody find me/Somebody to love?’
Anne took to the stage last month for Kamala Harris , and adding she was going to ‘make a little space tonight’ for the undecided voter (via Yay Show Vids)
The actress took to the stage in a shimmering black blazer/skirt with thigh-high black boots on stage.
Towards the end of the performance, she went on to make a brief impassioned plea for everybody to vote on November 5.
‘America, the day we have to be free is November 5. We’ve got a big choice to make, America, and you do have to make a choice, you do have to vote,’ she said to applause.
‘And maybe in this election… maybe the somebody you love, is you. You’ve got to vote for yourself, America,’ Hathaway said.
She finished the song to raucous applause from the crowd, blowing kisses to the audience and starting a Kamala chant before heading off the stage.
The actress was just 21 when she first sang the song on screen, in a scene from Ella Enchanted.
Ella – under a spell to obey any command – is asked to sing, which she sheepishly does at first before breaking into a rousing performance in the film.
The jukebox musical – released two years before her breakthrough role in 2006’s The Devil Wears Prada – took in just $27.4 million at the box office from a $31 million budget.
The performance comes just after Hathaway has signed on to reprise two of her earlier roles in recent months.
