Crystal Premo wrote:
I'm in the opera world, and the opera snobs get all bent out of shape when Groban is marketed as "classical" or, worse, "operatic", which he surely isn't.
I think the fact that he is sort of out of place in time is interesting. The most popular male singers of this day are so far removed from what Groban does that it makes him seem to some a "classical" singer". However, in your world, he is a crooner. This makes me smile because in my world he is pretty far from being a real crooner, even like one of the square guys you referenced. Either way, it's like you've said: he's a throwback. It is his innate personality that is lifting him up to mainstream popularity, I think. I heard real estate brokers talking about him in the office, people mostly in their thirties who are so obsessed with their work that I've never heard them talk about anything else before.
What's lifting Josh Groban to his popularity is the fact that he is on PBS every begathon, which at least around my area seems to be happening every weekend.
Nobody would know about him with that -- he's a singer that the artsy folks who support PBS can feel comfortable with. And he also has a good agent who's managed to get his records played in Barnes&Noble stores and Borders Books&Music stores.
Rather than being a throwback to Sammy Davis Jr and Robert Goulet, he's more of a throwback to Andrea Bocelli, very similar in his rise to fame in the U.S. but with an American accent rather than Italian.
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