Yes, Nia, and of course you did have plenty more to say, e.g., "the way she growls back into her throat a little on 'you don't know about my past.'" Dion's middle and lower registers are under-reported.
(You listen with much greater concentration than I do. I just sort of walk around with impressions of what's going on in a song, without usually knowing how the songmakers pulled it off. I remember when I was in bands, when it wasn't my own song, I often would never get to the point where I knew how many verses were in a song, I just could tell from various cues when we were going into the break and when the song was ending etc. I'm not so inattentive to other things, but music... maybe in my heart I was afraid of demystifying it.)
Celine's "hell to pay" doesn't have nearly enough hell in it, compared to Kara's.
But what I want to say to Mark, as this is his thread, is that CELINE DION IS THE REAL CLASH! The Clash sang, "No Elvis, Beatles, or the Rolling Stones," but Celine, unlike the Clash, really succeeded in singing as if Elvis, Beatles, and the Rolling Stones never happened, and she did so without even trying! (Well, it's remotely possible that she picked up some vocal thises and thats from Elvis, but certainly nothing of his sensibility.) I mean, she's not even setting herself in opposition to them or anything they represent. Just kind of... nada.
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Celine Dion is the real Clash
Date: 2007-10-20 02:47 am (UTC)(You listen with much greater concentration than I do. I just sort of walk around with impressions of what's going on in a song, without usually knowing how the songmakers pulled it off. I remember when I was in bands, when it wasn't my own song, I often would never get to the point where I knew how many verses were in a song, I just could tell from various cues when we were going into the break and when the song was ending etc. I'm not so inattentive to other things, but music... maybe in my heart I was afraid of demystifying it.)
Celine's "hell to pay" doesn't have nearly enough hell in it, compared to Kara's.
But what I want to say to Mark, as this is his thread, is that CELINE DION IS THE REAL CLASH! The Clash sang, "No Elvis, Beatles, or the Rolling Stones," but Celine, unlike the Clash, really succeeded in singing as if Elvis, Beatles, and the Rolling Stones never happened, and she did so without even trying! (Well, it's remotely possible that she picked up some vocal thises and thats from Elvis, but certainly nothing of his sensibility.) I mean, she's not even setting herself in opposition to them or anything they represent. Just kind of... nada.