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Queens of Soul on BBC4
Just watched this and it struck me how down the years the female soul voices got thinner and harsher with the tipping point seeming to be Whitney Houston in the early nineties. Why would this be? Change of taste of the music listeners at large? The move to mass consumption of music on poor fidelity portable devices? An effect of the now seemingly ubiquitious auto-tune?
Enjoyed the first half of the programme up until Whitney but it went steadily downhill after that ending with the nadir that is Beyoncé (even ignoring that whatever the hell it was she was "singing" it sure wasn't soul music), |
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Just watched this and it struck me how down the years the female soul voices got thinner and harsher with the tipping point seeming to be Whitney Houston in the early nineties. Why would this be? Change of taste of the music listeners at large? The move to mass consumption of music on poor fidelity portable devices? An effect of the now seemingly ubiquitious auto-tune?
Enjoyed the first half of the programme up until Whitney but it went steadily downhill after that ending with the nadir that is Beyoncé (even ignoring that whatever the hell it was she was "singing" it sure wasn't soul music), You've got to start with the tune. "The've written all the best tunes." If it's a crap tune anyone is likely to sound poor. We can't blame it all on the way the music is produced as some "back in the day" was with small groups and others with a full orchestra, as was Etta James's "At Last." With a lot of contemporary singers the voices seem very strident and the recordings, over-produced, to my ear. Maybe for me it's more about nostalgia |
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You've got to start with the tune.
"The've written all the best tunes." If it's a crap tune anyone is likely to sound poor. We can't blame it all on the way the music is produced as some "back in the day" was with small groups and others with a full orchestra, as was Etta James's "At Last." With a lot of contemporary singers the voices seem very strident and the recordings, over-produced, to my ear. Maybe for me it's more about nostalgia But I would suggest that Mary J Blige, Leela James and Joss Stone have the voices if not the songs. |
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