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| From | Mike Bennett <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: What do you want to like? |
| Date | Mon, 24 Sep 2007 09:49:38 -0500 |
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Bryan --
I thought Stewart's point was well taken vis-a-vis some folks don't like stuff just because it's popular. That's generally reflected in criticisms that fail to specify and often focus on things other than the music (which is easy to do with Winehouse). If the criticisms were more like yours, and detailed what one didn't like about her, then that shifts the debate into a different arena.
I don't hear the Mariah/Xtina showboating from Winehouse. She may do a bit of that, but that's not the dominant characteristic of her singing. On some songs, here phrasing is very artful, in the tradition of old jazz and blues singers. My favorite performance by Winehouse is her singing on "Valerie" (a Zutons track) on the fab Mark Ronson album.
Mike Bennett
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> From: munki100@pacbell.net
> To: audities@smoe.org
> Subject: Re: What do you want to like?
> Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2007 07:16:20 -0700
>
>> However, you'll quickly learn that there's a small contingent of
>> Auditeers for whom anything that achieves any level of mainstream
>> commercial success is automatically beneath contempt. So there you
>> go.
>
> Gee, I hope I'm not included in your small contingent who dislike any
> band or artist that reaches commercial success. For the record, I have
> no problem with Ms. Winehouse's look or appearance, her drug or alcohol
> consumption/use, or her attitude. I just don't like the way she sings. I'm
> pretty sure I like the band/artists who have influenced her and show up
> pretty clearly in her music, so I guess that means I like the music, I just
> don't like her voice, that warbling affected thing she does (which reminds
> me of Christina Aguilera). I don't wish her bad luck in her success, and
> I have no contempt for her, it's just a subjective taste thing. She doesn't
> do it for me. Hopefully we can all get to the point where someone else's
> music tastes are accepted for being "someone else's" -- so there you go.
>
> Bryan
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