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... a couple of days ago someone posted a great video of a young woman covering Stevie Nicks Dreams. It was beautiful and I wanted to show my daughter, but I cant find it. Help me out DU
Delphinus
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(32,626 posts)Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)ZZenith
(4,133 posts)Sorry - cranky old man here.
Stevie didnt need it and it sounds SO MUCH BETTER without it.
hlthe2b
(102,496 posts)demmiblue
(36,911 posts)ZZenith
(4,133 posts)I really am getting old, arent I?
Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)... they were right in my tween/teen wheelhouse. Preferred harder rock generally, but kind of had a crush on Stevie, and they played endlessly on FM.
Probably not fair to hold this girl to Stevies standards, but shes actually very good. And she obviously loves to sing. That comes through the video for me.
Thats what I wanted to show my daughter. Find something you love to do like this girl has.
demmiblue
(36,911 posts)I appreciate the younger folks paying tribute to good music.
A couple of tributes I am reminded of:
Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)ZZenith
(4,133 posts)Shes certainly cute and she has good phrasing and a cool-looking microphone but the tuning of her vocals with software after the fact is so heavy-handed that I really have no idea how good her singing is.
I spend the majority of my life inside a recording studio, so I have done as you suggest - I love making music and helping singers sound better but would be embarrassed to release something as artificial as this. If she needed that much help to be in tune, she cant sing but if the engineer just lazily grabbed all the notes and slammed them into perfect pitch he did her no favors. I wish I could hear it prior to the mangling.
No offense intended, just an audible lament about the current state of affairs in the music world.
An analogy:
Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)... to make things sound better to a tone deaf avg Joe like me who doesnt have the fist clue what goes into a recording.
You have an interesting and expert take on it.
ZZenith
(4,133 posts)Theres no artificial enhancement of this performance and I think these ladies are truly enjoying what theyre doing. At least show her this one as well, just to placate a cranky old man in Oregon:
Whiskeytide
(4,463 posts)hlthe2b
(102,496 posts)Shermann
(7,475 posts)...but she needs to be on a skateboard drinking fruit juice for this song right now.
spanone
(135,921 posts)hlthe2b
(102,496 posts)She should take the attention she gets from this and perform some original music so that we can see she's not merely an imitator of others.
spanone
(135,921 posts)hlthe2b
(102,496 posts)But, most certainly not comparable to Nicks. A good imitator, nonetheless.