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- From: gt0179a@prism.gatech.EDU (Mike Chu)
- Newsgroups: rec.music.misc
- Subject: Re: I Will Always (Sell Records)....
- Message-ID: <78769@hydra.gatech.EDU>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 18:33:01 GMT
- References: <1983@heurikon.heurikon.com>
- Organization: Georgia Institute of Technology
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- in article <1983@heurikon.heurikon.com>, gtaylor@vme.heurikon.com (Gregory Taylor) says:
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- > tune, having only barely been able to raise myself to listen to the
- > application of the soaring gospel voice to the treacly love ballad
- > back in the days when Lady Soul herself drifted into those waters. Now,
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- Whitney Houston... Lady Soul? I think not.
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- > having said that, Ms. Houston's voice is, in my opinion, absolutely
- > transfixing, navigating the shoals of the whispery/whiny/hiccupping lil'
- > bits of choke-up to this positively gorgeous and effortless full-throated
- > roar with more ease than a human should manage - all in a couple of
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- Transfixing? Gorgeous? Effortless? Try, Screaming. Shrieking. Irritating.
- Thin. Over embellished. Uneuphonic.
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- > minutes. While the day is coming when I may come to hate this piece of
- > work due to my overexposure to it, let me here say that I did love it
- > once, and not without cause (to misquote Antony). NOTE: the only Whitney
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- Overexposure to Houston's fluffy music would surely make me ill.
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