[78-L] Oversouling

[David Lennick]

The fact that most popular music of the last thirty years has no freakin' 
melody doesn't help. Andrew Lloyd Webber and your cloven-hooved progeny, I mean 
you.

dl

On 2/9/2011 10:53 AM, Royal Pemberton wrote:
> PS--I was also most humbled a couple of evenings ago when Terry Gibbs
> basically echoed my agreement with you about her and others of her ilk.
>
> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:52 PM, Royal Pemberton<ampex354 at gmail.com>  wrote:
>
>> Just saw a link to this exact item on Gearslutz and put it on my Facebook
>> as well.  Bright minds....
>>
>>
>> On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 3:45 PM, Cary Ginell<soundthink at live.com>  wrote:
>>
>>>
>>> This writer put his finger on exactly what is wrong with today's singers.
>>> And this shouldn't be viewed as some old fart grumbling about "it ain't like
>>> the good ole days." Thanks to singers like Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston,
>>> and Aguilera, singing itself has changed. Bing Crosby's voice and Frank
>>> Sinatra's phrasing were enough, but singers today feel they have to put
>>> something "extra" into a song to sell it, and end up overselling. I even
>>> hear it in jazz singing, where interpretation has always been key - you can
>>> even oversell there.
>>>
>>>
>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/john-eskow/christina-aguilera-and-th_b_819979.html?ref=fb&src=sp
>>>
>>> Cary Ginell
>>>