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Artistry (!?!?!) at the Keyboard
On Jun 3, 5:58 am, "L. Credit Where Due T."
wrote: On Jun 3, 6:48 am, Dan Tritter wrote: Mickey wrote: HiC wrote: With countless conservatories, colleges, armies of talented theatrical singers, there have to be many excellent singers out there. Why do so many second-raters like Josh Groban, Andrea Bocelli, Hayley Westenra, Charlotte Church, etc. get promoted? Surely there are good singers who are photogenic. Wouldn't it be just as easy to promote a true talent? The short answer is that some very important singing and performer skills are almost never taught in conservatories or colleges. (If you are wondering what they might be, listen to the 3 tenors butcher songs from American musical theater. It ain't just the accents.) As for singers in musical theater, many of them don't sing all that well. So if you're David Foster or Simon Cowell looking for something you can readily peddle to an ignorant public, you don't go hunting for talent, you go looking for the hunk of meat most like what you know you can sell... And you look for a gimmick. The whole Celtic women thing is just more River Dance muck dressed up in a new package, senza Michael Flatley. Sarah Brightman is a prepackaged nightmare courtesy of ALW and POTO. Find some cute with baby fat teenager whose chin wobbles like a 70 year old while mumbling her way through Puccini and you've got your next PBS fund drive superstar. I'm bet there's even some enterprising smuck out there trying to find a blind tenor with 2 wooden legs to form up a song and danceteam with Heather Mills. In short, it's a lot easier to sell novelty than it is to sell quality. If I'm reading the trends correctly, next year's Idol winner will be a 500 lb. beat boxing, transexual former sumo wrestler with Tourette's Syndrome who'll yell "holy crap" every 30 seconds. The Other Mickey bring back alvin and the chipmonks. Any and all of whom could sing some 567 Decillion times better than Simian Slaturde (aka, Merdie) can 'play' its three useless, atonal keyboards. Richard Garmise - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - |
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