Posted on 06/19/2019 5:37:32 AM PDT by Cronos
Thank you. She certainly does not separate her politics (bandwagon jumping) from her performance. She cant get away with merely trading on overt, in-your-face sexuality anymore, so shes decided that the way to stay relevant is to become a slogan-spouting politicized performer. I mean, where was this political awareness when she was young and rolling around the floor singing Like A Virgin, and snagging Britney Spears (if a man had done that, hed be hounded out of the business by the MeToo types).
What a shame that Frampton and Marriott weren't able to reunite before Marriott's tragic death.
I recently heard some old Helen Reddy songs and realized, “Wow, you just don’t hear voices like that nowadays.” I mean, her voice was so clear and pure...
I have to laugh that McCain, who now is universally loved by the Left, was still called “Hitler” when he ran against Obama.
I think nickelback is probably the last real prolific talent. Train is pretty good too for softish rock. Both pretty original and not simplistic like Black Crows although “She talks to angels” was good.
Here’s something I stumbled across on youtube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eEmdOemsr_A
ELO live in 2001 for their come back tour though I had no idea they(Jeff Lynn really) made a comeback. He could still hit all the octaves/notes at his age, 54 at the time. The entire band has impeccable timing and they do a real good job considering the size of the band and how orchestrated his music was. It made me look him up on wikipedia. I didn’t realize he was a producer too. He produced solo albums for Paul, George and Ringo and was involved with the Traveling Wilburies. Also produced for Tom Petty, Roy Orbison, Bryan Adams.
Im afraid that I must agree with you. Also, the money is in touring now, not record sales, and touring means performance, not singing or playing an instrument live. The record labels now arent looking for fresh talent, theyre looking for pretty young people who can be molded to fit the formula. They would certainly never take on the groups like Little Feat or Steely Dan these days, and allow them one or two not-so-well-selling records, and nurture them along, like they used to. As The Who sing, Rock is dead they say, long live rock, and I think they mean that ironically.
ELO without the late Kelly Groucutt is basically just Jeff Lynne solo.
Not that it’s a bad thing, but it is what it is.
Probably because the majority of her fan base really wont care (the Dixie Chicks were in country back when it was still, just barely, a genre directed to a more conservative audience), at best they will shrug their shoulders and not care one way or the other. For the majority of non-sodomites, theyre still operating on live and let live and not realizing that the purple mafia is not going to allow any fence-sitting, theyre going to force people to declare themselves, and God help you if you declare the wrong way.
Same as Madonna. As soon as she got too old to prance around flaunting her sex, she had to jump on the political bandwagon to stay relevant.
We may want to live and let live, but as has been made plain by the sodomites suing small business owners, the purple mafia isnt going to have that. Youre either going to declare your approval, even celebration, of their perversion, or they will make your life hell in whatever way thy can. Perversion needs the support of society, normalization, to perpetuate itself and gain access to peoples children.
Agree. I think they had some plans, IIRC from an interview with Frampton, but then the fire happened. Always loved Thirty Days In The Hole, what a down-and-dirty song, and I mean the sound, not just the lyrics.
I remember that. I live in Los Angeles, and for a while they tried to blame it on the All Powerful Mormons, then they just kind of shut up about it.
So many. Im a hard rock (not metal though) gal when it comes to rock (though I have a fondness for the 70s singer-songwriters), but you dont hear voices such as Helen Reddys, Anne Murrays, or the wonderful Karen Carpenters anymore. The few who can actually sing now, seem obligated to do screaming scale runs in all their songs, no more warm, womanly voices.
Frampton left HP before they did that song.
And that trilling black thing women singers do, even the white ones, it’s annoying.
Yeah... either screams and growls, or they just sound horribly nasal.
Yeah, I remembered that after I posted. Oops!
Theres a great channel on YT, Rick Beatos, where he somehow has access to the actual separate tracks of a lot of classic rock songs (and a lot of newer ones), and he breaks the songs down, called What Makes This Song Good? (He has connections in the industry, and was involved for some years). He has a great interview with Frampton, and he just posted one with Larry Carlton, one of my favorite guitar players (ie, the solos on Steely Dans Dont Take Me Alive and Kid Charlemagne, amongst others). He also did a wonderful, very informational breakdown of YES Roundabout using the separate tracks from the actual song.
Theres a great channel on YT, Rick Beatos, where he somehow has access to the actual separate tracks of a lot of classic rock songs (and a lot of newer ones), and he breaks the songs down, called What Makes This Song Good? (He has connections in the industry, and was involved for some years). He has a great interview with Frampton, and he just posted one with Larry Carlton, one of my favorite guitar players (ie, the solos on Steely Dans Dont Take Me Alive and Kid Charlemagne, amongst others). He also did a wonderful, very informational breakdown of YES Roundabout using the separate tracks from the actual song.
Melisma-it was impressive when used judiciously, but ever since the heyday of Whitney Houston, Mariah Carey, Celine Dion and Co, its been done to death.
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