Formations In Pop: Sweet-Voiced Lady / Gruff Dude

[freakytigger.livejournal.com]

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

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

Comments

[alexmacpherson.livejournal.com]

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?

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

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.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

And all those voices are Prince's apparently.

[lockedintheatti.livejournal.com]

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.

[sbp.livejournal.com]

Lisa is now doing the music for Heroes, along with her old mucker Wendy

[sbp.livejournal.com]

If duets count - Shane McGowan and Kirsty MacColl in "Fairytale of New York"?

[jauntyalan.livejournal.com]

this means we can't have nancy sinatra & lee hazelwood :-(