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It’s it just me or there are others.

I was wondering if it is just me that I don’t like the later year works of most singers with amazing voices.

I find that I do not enjoy most of the singing of Aretha, Adele, Sara Vaughan, Whitney Houston…etc. that comes after their initial few album and get them established.

Many female vocalists with great chaps falls prey to their vocal ability and don’t try hard enough? or purchase the rights to good songs.

Feel the same about  great instrumentalists. I think many times when they do their solos they are just self satisfying or just lazy. If it is in the context of the rest of the song, “amazing”, greatly enjoy it but a lots of time they go off in a tangent that has nothing to do with rest of the song.

Just trying to see anybody else feels the same way or should I try to make a greater efforts to appreciate the works of this artists.

skc

 

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stuartk
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I suspect a bot. There's so much here that, from my perspective, simply doesn't add up. 

stuartk
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@tylermunns

Are these actual people or A.I.?

I guess we can’t really tell anymore.

It’s scary how increasingly fearful we’re becoming of individuals.
We’re terrified and insecure if we have an opinion that differs from the masses.
We seek validation, as though there’s “something wrong with us.”

Perhaps this is a reflection of the times. Thanks to disinformation, "truth" has become increasingly presented/regarded as relative. With facts so often disputed, what and who can be trusted/relied upon becomes increasingly unclear, a scenario that arouses high anxiety. One response is for individuals to seek refuge by subsuming themselves in movements that claim to possess some exclusive validity ("we alone are right and all others are wrong").

@larsman

...if a solo doesn't serve the song it's in, they don't have to show off their chops to me - not interested. But I know lots of other people still enjoy them. 

Yes, indeed. There are apparently legions of fans of players who are extremely "athletic" -- whose appeal seems to be based almost entirely upon flashy technique. I perceive very little musical content. They are babbling at light speed but, so far as I can discern, actually saying very little. This is very apparent on youtube where the "music-as-sport" paradigm is regrettably prevalent. Fans have an enormous (and enormously unconscious) ego investment regarding who is "the best guitarist" and if you suggest that music is not a competition, it simply doesn’t register with them.

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