In a message dated 04/12/2002 01:00:27 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
<< I think what Joni meant by "unambitious" is that it's not trying to be something it's not, intentionally trying to rouse a reaction by infusing the voice with mock emotion or pretty trills. Celine and Streisand really put on a huge vocal show, a sound that is quite different from their speaking voices. There is a bit of pretense to it, I guess - at least in Joni's view. > > I don't know if that's what Joni meant Andrew, but it makes perfect sense now! That would be an interesting question: which singer's singing voices are least like their speaking voices? Anyone remember Jennifer Rush, who had a monster hit in the mid 80s with The Power Of Lurve? She had this big, plummy singing style, and I almost choked on my cornflakes when I heard her interviewed on the radio - she sounded like Minnie Mouse! Then there's Sandy Dillon, who has a perfectly normal speaking voice, yet, when she sings, sounds like Tom Waits's long-lost sister with a bad case of tonsilitis. I kinda like her, but the few people I know who've heard her stuff find her voice unbearably affected, which it may indeed be. Azeem in London
