Carpenters - Superstar (Live In Holland)

[slmacph]

It's a sad song. She's not going to be smiling and giggling through it. Of course she looks sad here. Melancholic.

Mind you, she'd performed this number so many times by now, maybe she was starting to get bored with it.

[hansipons]

She was sad she was fighting the cruelty from people about her weight and she was not over weight at all. What a great loss to the music world all because of people and their cruel coments. Loved all of her music and miss her still.

[rpsnet]

Wonderful! Applause from Brazil.

[TheDokaDoka]

Oh her eyes! They're drained without life... （ つ Д ｀）

Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ R.I.P Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ

[TheSienna29]

Of all the footage of Karen I hate this particular concert the most. She looks so sad.

[maudkramer]

Psychological diseases hold two ends of the coin, the person dealing with the disease and the people dealing with that person. Folks on either end of it are basically shit outta luck!!

Unless there's proper diagnosis/medication/ therapy available and taken!

My mother was an undiagnosed bi-polar patient...

I love Karen's singing, always have and always will! It's her legacy to us all and we should be thankful for her music!.

It always makes me sad though to see her in bad shape... :'-(

[DallasCityGurl]

I have a family member who was anorexic and my feeling about it is, it's a selfish kind of person disease, because it permanently damages other family members around the anorexic person for life. I've noticed other people who are anorexic also, like in my family, care little about what their disease does to other family members.

[michaeljester]

@DallasCityGurl

I'm sorry for your family and especially your cousin with anorexia who has as selfish a family member as you. Anorexia is a psychological disease that usually stems from deep depression or trauma and when people get so low in their heads it's hard for them to think of anything positive. Selfish persons disease? I can't believe you actually said that.

[olyguy2000]

@DallasCityGurl What an ignorant post. Anorexia is a serious medical condition with root causes beyond a person's control. Yes, there are external impacts - but this is not something that you get to vote on or label as selfish. Now ignorance, the failure to become educated about a subject before shooting one's mouth off about it and offending others - yeah that's pretty selfish.

[amiltenb]

I've met Richard and Karen after the show in the dressingroom. It was one of the greatest moment of my live, wich i will never forget.....

[Mamaluvsmambo]

she had ti sit down........where were the people who loved her????

[tiana1017]

yahoopl3 is so disrespectful.. poor family upbringing, anyways this is about the carpenters. Karen was a beautiful singer, may she rest in peace. She will never be forgotten.

[Jenot59]

The world lost one of the best singers in Karen Carpenter,

Thank you Richard and Karen Carpenter for leaving us such a legacy

of wonderful timeless excellent Music embrasing a one in a million Voice from the heart.

Thank you Carpenters

[desiderium81]

Poor poor Karen so tired and obviously sick... but (maybe because of that) she sounds so melancolic and dark and somehow honest. And that fits perfectly to the theme of "superstar"... R.I.P. my dearest Karen!

[ISLWYN2007]

The poor girl is crying herself to sleep.

[sponge2]

I love watching her prepare before she sings the ballads. It's like she's summoning something within herself that allows her to channel her soul and feelings into song. I know that Karen has been described as always up, even when she was down. However, I don't think that one is capable of singing the way she did unless one has something dark to draw from.

[paulobogea]

A classic. Thank you so much.

[LUISelGURU]

MAravillosa KAren

[yahoopl3]

if only i had been born back then...i would have fucked her so good she'd never have become anorexic

[MrElrods]

@yahoopl3 We can do without coments moron

[yahoopl3]

@MrElrods then stop commenting, and learn how to spell, you uneducated dipshit

[kuntcz]

Wow, I can really feel her soul. Thanks for posting.

[NostalgiaBob]

Here we go again....

I agree that Karen sang 'soft' in her later, less healthy years. It was a conscientous decision to sound 'sexier' and more like her best buddy, Olivia Newton-John.

Karen was obviously getting away from that sound when she cut her last few tunes just months before she passed.

Listen to "Now" and "You're Enough" from April, 1982....you will be pleasantly surprised to hear the deep, resonant Karen sounding just like she did in the old days.

[cstephenfoster]

I had always wondered about that myself. I noticed a shift in her voice in 76-77, but the xmas album sounds low and big. b

[Branner]

The tone in that last note! Wish they had done the whole thing.

[shinznay]

why do people say omg if u dont eat u will die. and karen didont hardly eat for 8 years! people only do that to scare others.. im only going to eat 65 cals for 7 weeks.. im really obese!

[gocksly4554whathavey]

Sick Carpenters who only care about themselves.

Lyon cries daily now.

"Help me?" The world doesn't know?  Do THEY RECARD?

[nygirl]

era la mas grande

[tsukasa103]

she had a wonderful voice...

i really love her...

but...sigh

[mcgm2406]

:::sigh::: if she had just eaten a sandwich...

[CORILIBER]

INOLVIDABLE KAREN

[MikeHudson65]

Karen looks so frail and ill here yet her wonderful voice faultless as always

[imalittlemidget]

I love her so much!

[worcesterwombat]

yeah she looks so tired - and very thin, but still very hot

[Ronnie7311]

No matter what she was going through, that small light still showed through for us all to see. She loved to sing, and I love to hear her.

[ScorseseKubrick]

God! She looks so tired!

[Jonathandreamer]

The comparison between the video of this song and the one made in Australia 1971 is sad. In this one, her voice sounds weaker and when she sits down and attempts to lean back to rest her head, it's difficult to watch. I believe she was happier sitting in the background playing her drums.

[steveatl40]

I agree. Her voice definitely suffered from this disease, why people deny that is beyond me.

She sounds pretty good here in 1976 but her voice suffered bigtime by 1979/1980.

[giannaluva65]

i think that could more easily be attributed to the constant touring and years of touring they did and the strain it put on her voice everynight performance after performance, eventually your vocal cords suffer from singing so much. There have been many studies done on anorxia nervosa since karens death and none of them say anything about interferring with the vocal cords. I mean, its common sense, it could be she got tired of singing it EXACTLY like the record

[mcsew2k]

That was the short version?

[science98]

Is it me or does she seem really tired? She even sounds tired. I remember in a documentary they said that when she got deeper in anorexia that she was tired alot and had to rest in between shows.

[CMCHRYSLERVALIANT]

she does look very tired here and way too thin, she looks like she wants to go to bed the poor thing, if she didn't worry about her weight she would have sounded and looked as good as she did in the early '70's, so sad what she done to herself poor girl

[drjackripper]

i think she was getting sick that only got worse and then she died a few years later

[LPsunshine]

Sometimes...we do know when an Angel is among us.

[rivergone]

don't you see??? she weighs 80 pounds!!!! you idiots are enablers!!!!!

[MidstreamHorse]

Yeah, they are enabling a dead person. She wasn't 80 pounds in this clip. This was well before that.

[mickster907]

Your a fool if you believe this is before "that."

[LACM2000]

KC FOREVER! HER SOUL IS WITH US!

[LACM2000]

KC forever!!!!

[dabebe39]

I actually like this vision (back up music) better than the recorded one mostly played.

[TRAVISJAMES03]

Believe it or not, KC didn't think that she could sing at all.

[no1cfielder]

That's an exaggeration, but it's true she was modest about it. She did love to perform....

[cobraspd]

that song was sang by someone else in an auditorium i was at,i carelessly thought it was 4 me.

[109acepilot]

TOMMY BOY!!!

[bethlo31]

the best voice

[gaspo218]

Sounds like she was singing that to her husband at the time. Sad.

[JP5466]

This was 1976. FYI... Karen didn't get married until the early 80's.

[seico67]

is the best!!!

[GoodWB]

This is a great video of this song...more intimate than the one used on the comercial videos. Beautiful.

[ROCKERBOY92]

She is one of the best female singers of all time