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Post by erik on Sept 25, 2015 19:24:20 GMT -5
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Post by Dianna on Sept 25, 2015 20:05:54 GMT -5
Thanks Erik... Question? Is the last paragraph or question How does your Parkinson’s influence your daily decisions? I don't see an option for another page to continue..
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Post by erik on Sept 25, 2015 20:10:50 GMT -5
I guess it's just this one page then.
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Post by Dianna on Sept 25, 2015 20:31:40 GMT -5
According to the headline"Sexism" was supposed to be discussed and I don't see it on that page so I figured there was more. oh well... Anxious to hear more of her thoughts on Tuesday. Hopefully the interview will be up!
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Post by sliderocker on Sept 25, 2015 21:00:31 GMT -5
Likewise, I thought the interview was too short and that there was more. I'd really like for Linda to come somewhere close to where I live so I could go see her. I just wish the Qs and As wouldn't be focused so much on what she wrote in her book. That's sort of like doing the same concert set list year in and year out, never changing the songs, never dropping or adding. I'd still be happy to see her, but if I had a chance to ask her a question, I'd want the question to be something out of left field. Something that would maybe touch her in a way she wasn't expecting.
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Post by muse on Sept 26, 2015 10:35:51 GMT -5
its a TEAser.....they have to sell tickets!!! Linda has to sell tickets!!!
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Post by erik on Sept 26, 2015 13:14:00 GMT -5
It was nice to hear her shout-outs to the late Amy Winehouse, and Adele, and Brittany Howard (of Alabama Shakes), though I'm pretty sure a few of us are bewildered about what she sees and hears in T-Swift that the rest of us don't.
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Post by JasonKlose on Sept 26, 2015 14:22:40 GMT -5
It was nice to hear her shout-outs to the late Amy Winehouse, and Adele, and Brittany Howard (of Alabama Shakes), though I'm pretty sure a few of us are bewildered about what she sees and hears in T-Swift that the rest of us don't. Yeah, I'm not sure either what she sees or hears in Taylor Swift. I thought I read somewhere that Linda said she didn't think Taylor was that great a vocalist. Not sure. But I admire Linda for recognizing talent in her own eyes. She's never been one to criticize other artists usually and put them down. Of course we know the view she has of her own voice and career. She's one of the most self-critical artists I've ever known. |
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Post by PoP80 on Sept 26, 2015 14:55:10 GMT -5
Well, notice she didn't say Taylor Swift is good singer. I think Linda's daughter likes Swift, so maybe that has something to do with it. Like it or not, TS has been very influential and "prolific" (if that word can be applied in this case), so this can be regarded as talent by some.
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Post by Dianna on Sept 26, 2015 15:30:58 GMT -5
True.. but she did say Taylor is a good song writer. I think I disagree with that even moreso than her singing. |
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Post by fabtastique on Sept 27, 2015 2:57:49 GMT -5
UGH .... big miss there from Linda - TS songwriting skills are very suspect
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Post by erik on Sept 27, 2015 12:56:25 GMT -5
I think there's a few things at play here regarding what Linda has said about T-Swift. One of the reasons that I feel she's not criticizing Swift's songwriting (which, admittedly, is a long way from being mature in any true sense of that term) is because it is likely to bring back up the snarky remarks often made about the lack of songwriting on Linda's part. Secondly, Swift's fans are exceptionally defensive about Their Girl around any and all comers, a defensiveness that I think exceeds anything that we've done vis-à-vis Linda herself. Third, as PoP80 points out, Linda's daughter is a fan and within Swift's age demographic; and maybe Linda doesn't want to sound like somebody who is less than ten months away from turning 70 (even though she is).
In terms of songwriting, maybe Linda hears something in Swift that the rest of us don't, but personally I'll be damned if I know what exactly it is. As a vocalist, yes, Linda says it out front that Swift isn't great, but she doesn't elaborate any further than that; and of course, Linda is self-deprecating about her own vocal talents perhaps to the point of irritation. But just from my point of view, "Different Drum", which Linda recorded in May 1967, when she was twenty years old going on 21, showed Linda to have an astounding degree of maturity, which, with the exception of "Begin Again" from a few years ago, I can't hear in anything Swift has recorded up to this point--and Swift is now on the verge of turning 26, nine years into her career, whereas Linda was already there at the dawn of her career. Linda also didn't have the safety net of Autotune that Swift does; even though it was a painfully public thing to improve as a vocalist in front of the world, Linda still came out of it having a vocal capacity and a focus that has been the envy of four generations of her fellow female singers. The other thing, of course, is that, like so many performers of her current generation, Swift makes her concerts into spectacles in a lot of ways, whereas Linda had to overcome her extreme stage fright and natural shyness, which was a hindrance in some ways, but she just went out there and knocked it way out of the park, no lasers, no smoke bombs, or any of that.
Linda probably is aware of those things, but is likely, and for some very good reasons, keeping those opinions close to the vest, so to speak. One can't really fault her for that (IMHO).
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Post by jay15206 on Oct 6, 2015 18:15:25 GMT -5
I like three of Taylor Swift's songs, "Love Story," "You Belong with Me," and "We Are Never, Ever Getting Back Together." They're good pop songs. Could I hear Linda singing them? Probably not, but I can definitely imagine them being sung by Lesley Gore, my first favorite girl singer. The first two, in particular.
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Post by erik on Oct 6, 2015 18:43:16 GMT -5
Quote by jay15206:
Well, I think one can argue that the trifecta of "It's My Party", "Judy's Turn To Cry", and "You Don't Own Me" that Lesley did record, are at the very least on par with those.
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Post by jay15206 on Oct 6, 2015 18:49:31 GMT -5
Quote by jay15206: Well, I think one can argue that the trifecta of "It's My Party", "Judy's Turn To Cry", and "You Don't Own Me" that Lesley did record, are at the very least on par with those. To say nothing of "Sometimes I Wish I Were a Boy," "Consolation Prize," and "Moving Away." Lots of specificity and storytelling from both of them. Lesley didn't write her own songs, AFAICR. |
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