Someone insisted on playing an albumload of Christmas songs by Christina Agu...Aga...Agui...oh, whatshername! Pukeworthy drivel. Overstyled ear pain. Wretched 'I am IT' excess. This is what some generation (not mine, certainly) believes passes for holiday spirit? After putting up with that crap, 12/26 couldn't come fast enough.
And here I thought Mariah whatshername was the pinnacle of how low hanging Christmas music was.
December 20, 2017, 11:15 AM
Sgt Neutron
Diva, Diva, Diva.....
These two ladies have more talent in their pinkie fingers than these Gagas, Agularias, Mariahs...
December 20, 2017, 10:32 PM
Rey HRH
quote:
Originally posted by Sgt Neutron: Diva, Diva, Diva.....
These two ladies have more talent in their pinkie fingers than these Gagas, Agularias, Mariahs...
Great auto tune programs especially the first one.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
December 21, 2017, 07:03 AM
Opus Dei
Yeah, auto-tuning and over-souling ruins Christmas songs..any songs. Frankly, today's Christmas music is reduced to a list of ~12 songs performed by ~30 current musicians and ~5 past musicians. And really, I don't want to hear some of those amoral people singing religious carols, either.
December 21, 2017, 08:11 AM
Perception
The sad thing is, Christina Aguilera actually has a pretty amazing voice. It's just ruined in almost every song she puts out due to massive overproduction.
"The people hate the lizards and the lizards rule the people." "Odd," said Arthur, "I thought you said it was a democracy." "I did," said Ford, "it is." "So," said Arthur, hoping he wasn't sounding ridiculously obtuse, "why don't the people get rid of the lizards?" "It honestly doesn't occur to them. They've all got the vote, so they all pretty much assume that the government they've voted in more or less approximates the government they want." "You mean they actually vote for the lizards." "Oh yes," said Ford with a shrug, "of course." "But," said Arthur, going for the big one again, "why?" "Because if they didn't vote for a lizard, then the wrong lizard might get in."
December 21, 2017, 08:45 AM
ArtieS
That Ella Fitz cut is gorgeous.
I have the two volume masterworks of her singing Cole Porter. She is probably my favorite female jazz vocalist.
"I vowed to myself to fight against evil more completely and more wholeheartedly than I ever did before. . . . That’s the only way to pay back part of that vast debt, to live up to and try to fulfill that tremendous obligation."
Alfred Hornik, Sunday, December 2, 1945 to his family, on his continuing duty to others for surviving WW II.