ext_281244 ([identity profile] freakytigger.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] poptimists2007-09-12 10:19 am

Formations In Pop: Sweet-Voiced Lady / Gruff Dude

Lee and Nancy
The Sugarcubes
Aqua (these two are the same band)
Evanescence

WHO ELSE? Which bands would be improved by a GRUFF DUDE?

[identity profile] katstevens.livejournal.com 2007-09-12 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
Er... Nick Cave & Kylie?

[identity profile] alexmacpherson.livejournal.com 2007-09-12 09:43 am (UTC)(link)
I don't think duets should count b/c this is the basis of COUNTLESS duets over the years! But if they do let's go with ODB/Kelis, and J-Lo/Ja Rule as well. God 'Ain't It Funny (remix)' is good. Have we had a J-Lo canon yet incidentally?

[identity profile] lockedintheatti.livejournal.com 2007-09-12 09:51 am (UTC)(link)
1999 by Prince manages to combine Gruff Bloke / Sweet-voiced Lady and Prince, who fits somewhere between the two. But closer to the lady, obv.

[identity profile] sbp.livejournal.com 2007-09-12 09:56 am (UTC)(link)
And all those voices are Prince's apparently.

[identity profile] lockedintheatti.livejournal.com 2007-09-12 10:01 am (UTC)(link)
Nope, as far as I know that's just a rumour - Gruff bloke is Dez Dickerson (bass player in the revolution) and lady is Lisa Coleman (keyboard player). Allegedly the song was orginally recorded with Prince's lead vocal throughout with Lisa & Dez's lines as harmonies, but late in the recording process Prince decided to split them out.

[identity profile] sbp.livejournal.com 2007-09-12 11:47 am (UTC)(link)
Lisa is now doing the music for Heroes, along with her old mucker Wendy

[identity profile] sbp.livejournal.com 2007-09-12 10:22 am (UTC)(link)
If duets count - Shane McGowan and Kirsty MacColl in "Fairytale of New York"?

[identity profile] jauntyalan.livejournal.com 2007-09-12 12:23 pm (UTC)(link)
this means we can't have nancy sinatra & lee hazelwood :-(

[identity profile] infov0re.livejournal.com 2007-09-12 09:57 am (UTC)(link)
I WAS GOING TO SAY THAT.