Many of my songs that underscore that mood are them because of the underlying music and not necessarily the lyrics. Springsteen's "Because the Night" and "American Land" come to mind, as well as almost anything fast-paced and Irish.
OK, having grown up with a mom who ADORES Streisand, so I know every note of every song she's ever done, my thought when I heard Lea Michele sing it was: "Honey, you got a fantastic set of pipes. And give you another 20 or 30 years and you can belt that like Streisand." :>
Right, so I *never* heard the original. My thoughts were something like "ah yes, we are once again demonstrating why this young woman does well on the Broadway stage." They did it again this week with "What I Did for Love."
Also, I confess to not actually watching the show so much as watching the songs and fast-forwarding through the angst. My high school career was angsty enough, I'm not reliving it vicariously through TV.
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Date: 2010-09-27 08:42 pm (UTC)Many of my songs that underscore that mood are them because of the underlying music and not necessarily the lyrics. Springsteen's "Because the Night" and "American Land" come to mind, as well as almost anything fast-paced and Irish.
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Date: 2010-09-27 08:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2010-09-27 08:56 pm (UTC)Also, I confess to not actually watching the show so much as watching the songs and fast-forwarding through the angst. My high school career was angsty enough, I'm not reliving it vicariously through TV.
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Date: 2010-09-27 09:01 pm (UTC)I was more amused that I know that song SO WELL that I could tell where she wasn't quite hitting the emphasis that Streisand did.
Unfortunately for Michele, in the ep where she sang Come to the Cabaret up against Kristen Chenowith, the latter won.
But I see that more as a matter of Michele's voice needing time to mature rather than her being dreadful in the first place.