| re: Bonnie Tyler Album: New Songs or Old? | |
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Bright_Eyes 07:38 pm UTC 10/23/07 |
| In reply to: | re: Bonnie Tyler Album: New Songs or Old? - John_Galt 06:47 pm UTC 10/23/07 |
| > Finally, I could care less whether Meat Loaf or Bonnie > Tyler are at their prime in terms of their vocals. > Britney Spears has a hit single! Reba McEntire has a hit > single! I'd just like to be able to go to the record > store and buy a new Steinman song. I think you underestimate the singing abilities of those two singers. I know a lot of people believe Britney Spears can't sing without studio editing, but I think she's become one of those celebrities that people are just out to get. People will make up and believe any insulting story they can get about her. I've heard live performances of hers that were not lip-synched, and tapes of her singing auditions when she was 13 or 14 years old that were on a TV show. She can definitely sing well, she just can't do it well and do her difficult dance routines at the same time. I know a lot of cynics who think that anybody can be edited and programmed into a singing star these days, but I don't think anything like that will happen with Steinman's music. Vocals still do matter, otherwise Meat Loaf wouldn't have switched to lip synching. > If the recording isn't > perfect, I won't feel too bad because I know it will be > covered ad naseum anyway. The number of covers doesn't matter at all, because covers of Steinman's songs tend to be much worse than his own productions. See for example Desmond Child's covers of Steinman's work. They are horribly lacking. Here's a video of what Bonnie Tyler sounds like this year, and I just don't see how she can be considered worthy of new Steinman songs, or as good as Britney Spears or Reba McIntyre. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9-vvNN1kJw For any new Steinman song, no matter what it is, I'd rather have Adrienne Warren record it than Bonnie Tyler. Just to give an example of another singer, there are plenty of other good singers. | |
| URL: | http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k9-vvNN1kJw |
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