"Brenda" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I'm with Bob...I think it's mostly hype. I also don't think she would >have won any Grammies if Clive had not cranked up the PR machine. (Hiring the right >publicist to work the voters can get you a nomination and it can get you the award.) >Those Grammies are as much for him as they are for her. > >Brenda > >n.p.: Norah Jones live on KCRW - Now she's the real deal.....
I may be in the minority, but I don't really think Keys is all that, plus she's got melisma flatulence like crazy, just like almost every other latter-day nu-soul/R&B singer. Enough already. Listen to Mahalia Jackson, or Stevie Wonder, or Aretha, if you wanna hear some tasteful, proportioned melisma. I mean, it was bad enough when Mariah Carey came on the scene, but now every little Britney and Christina is obliged to stretch every syllable into a hundred notes of faux soul caricature. But Norah Jones ... I'm betting on her. Last night I read an email from a friend telling me I had to check her out (had never heard of her) and simultaneously flipping TV channels landing on Leno in the middle of Norah Jones' song. I only heard a little bit, but she's really got it. Fred
