In a message dated 15/06/02 18:54:08 GMT Daylight Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< It seems to me that she's speaking the word 'outside' rather than singing it on that line. That's a technique that Joni uses occasionally, particularly in live performance. Rickie Lee Jones does this a lot as well. Listen to any of her recordings of 'We Belong Together.' She slips in & out between singing & speaking in several places on that song. >> Not for the first time, we have to look to German to supply the "mot juste" for this style - Spraechgesang, as I'm sure plenty of you will know. The technique is very effective in the right context, and of course is a godsend to people who couldn't hit a note with an elephant gun at 6 paces. Azeem in London NP: [to the tune of Amazing Grace] Three-Nil, Three-Nil, Three-Nil, Three-Nil...
