i always liked the bodyform vocals! surely they are only "godawful" in the "mariah/whitney = talentless" sense!
there is another "protestant" dimension to this (if baptist is part of protestant) -- soul and R&B technique derives from gospel, an aspect of black music rarely well understood or warmed to by rock (perhaps because it's somewhat socially in tension with blues): in gospel, to use yr awesome technique to its amazing limits is to praise your maker for the gifts he gave you; the skill IS the expression
(this is a bit of a huge over-simplification but the idea is SO at odds with rock orthodoxy's veneration of the rawly untrained and the self-taught, at least till you get to metal guitar soloing)
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Date: 2008-01-07 11:18 am (UTC)there is another "protestant" dimension to this (if baptist is part of protestant) -- soul and R&B technique derives from gospel, an aspect of black music rarely well understood or warmed to by rock (perhaps because it's somewhat socially in tension with blues): in gospel, to use yr awesome technique to its amazing limits is to praise your maker for the gifts he gave you; the skill IS the expression
(this is a bit of a huge over-simplification but the idea is SO at odds with rock orthodoxy's veneration of the rawly untrained and the self-taught, at least till you get to metal guitar soloing)