movie, blah bla blah. However, at one point, girlfriend's sister pointed out how effortlessly powerful Whitney Houston's voice was. So maybe in the shot she is miming, but I have seen footage of her not miming, and it is not all that different. The point I am making is, Whitney can SING!Not just Whitney either, go back through all the great female singers, Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Aretha Franklin, Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Gladys Knight, Billie Holiday, Diana Ross, Dusty Springfield.... The list truly is endless, and this is just females, there are tonnes more male singers from times gone by who are rightly considered "the greats".
What do we have today? Pixie Lott, who sounds like she's having her bikini line waxed while singing... Justin Bieber? do not get me started!
Truth is, even those who stand out today among the crowd of awfulness, people like Alicia Keys, Michael Buble, NeYo... would they have made it among the greats like Sinatra? Could they have cut it with talent like Ray Charles? The odd one maybe, but most of them, probably not.
What has happened to make people so much worse at singing than we used to be? Is it that it is easier to make a living in a non-risky career than it used to be?
Or... are we, as a society, encouraging mediocraty on a scale never before seeen? If this is true, what on earth does the future hold for (loosely used as most of what I hear on the radio has a cheek to call itself...) "music"?
you are completely correct.
ReplyDeleteAs a music lover myself (and a singer) i find very little music out there now (new music) that inspires me, or makes me want to listen to it over and over, pouring over the lyrics and soaking up the multiple meanings and nuances of it all.
The business has been infiltrated by crap....like the BIEBER and the other scroats, who have some kind of media spectacle made about them and suddenly anything they release be it good or bad gets bought by lots of 12 year olds......
it annoys me more than I can write about