Interesting thoughts.
As someone who very much prefers Billie Holiday's earlier stuff,
the question of expression makes me think that no matter how
much expression you intend for a given performance, if you have
less of an instrument (voice) to work with, you have, well, you
have less to work with. There are places you cannot go. Sure you
can make up for it with inflection, etc, but that is compensation.
I wonder if she pulls half the hairs out of her paintbrush to intentionally
get more expression out of it. Somehow I doubt it. So I'm left with
the conclusion that her limited voice is something she has to work
around, and it is not so much intentional as the price of chain-smoking.
Not to dredge up the smoking issue again, but, as with any addiction,
not only the addict, but those around her also suffer.
RR
True but what I was pointing at was that at times she had no problems
sustaining notes effectively and in other area she would take a similar note
and just cut it off. Granted, their are vocal limitations on this project
that probably couldn't be helped, but in other areas I think she imposed the
vocal limits to see how much mileage she could get from just inflection. I
think in some twisted way Joni has wanted a voice like this for a long time
and I think smoking helped her get it. Correction, Joni probably wanted and
was very happy with a voice like she had on TI. On TI, the vocal
deterioration had affected her voice to the point where it was "just
right"-like sleeping in baby bear's bed. I loved her TI voice. On T'log she
crossed the fine line were many just consider the voice horrible. Still, I
think she likes her current voice, she appreciates it despite the fact that
others don't. I would like to think Joni would like to turn back the
deterioration to the level of TI but somehow I don't think she would trade
her T'log voice for her STAS or C&S voice. She's been there, done that.
Will
I thought paintbrushes already came in different sizes?? :)
NP Jane Oliver(First Night)-Vincent
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