Lady - Page 21

WildHearted · #**301** 09-04-2014, 12:30 PM

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Originally Posted by mitzo

I like the song overall. I find the lack of background besides a piano, and the lack of any backup vocals gets a bit tiresome, though, and it makes Stevie sound like she is shouting as the song progresses. The drama cannot sustain itself with just the loud vocals. I wish someone had been there to coach her to nuance and soften the vocals a bit rather than relying on volume alone.

I am the only creature in the universe who feels this way.

No, I agree.

But then I think it's honestly more of a range issue than anything - I don't think Stevie has much of a head voice anymore [ or she's not very comfortable using/controlling it ] so she has to power through her chest to hit the high notes. You can't sing those high notes in your chest without a bit of a push. If she wanted to float them, they'd have to be head-y...and she's very seldom gone that route in the past 15+ years.

mitzo · #**302** 09-04-2014, 03:29 PM

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Originally Posted by markolas

I kinda hope it's the only song on the album that's this spare. Perhaps Blue Water will be more lush.

Agreed fully. Stripped down Stevie only works under very limited circumstances.

MikeInNV · #**303** 09-05-2014, 04:24 PM

In this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly (September 12), "Lady" is No. 5 on their Must List: "Nearly four decades after Landslide, Nicks gets back to the big questions on this striking bare-bones piano ballad. 'And the time keeps going on by/And I wonder/What is to become of me' she sings, her voice now a perfectly ruined rasp. Stay gold, Stevie, stay gold."

SuiteShangriLa · #**304** 09-05-2014, 05:11 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeInNV

In this week's issue of Entertainment Weekly (September 12), "Lady" is No. 5 on their Must List: "Nearly four decades after Landslide, Nicks gets back to the big questions on this striking bare-bones piano ballad. 'And the time keeps going on by/And I wonder/What is to become of me' she sings, her voice now a perfectly ruined rasp. Stay gold, Stevie, stay gold."

shackin'up · #**305** 09-05-2014, 05:47 PM

I think Lady is the most beautiful recording of Stevie since 1984. Even the production couldn't ruin this. It's beautiful.

Who could be the 'he' in this lyric?

MikeInNV · #**306** 09-05-2014, 06:01 PM

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Originally Posted by SuiteShangriLa

Thank you for doing that. Now people can see the cool pic too.

michelej1 · #**307** 09-05-2014, 06:32 PM

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Originally Posted by MikeInNV

Thank you for doing that. Now people can see the cool pic too.

Yes thank you Suite Shangrila.

It is a cool picture. The hair mussing is sexy.

Michele

mitzo · #**308** 09-06-2014, 09:37 AM

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Originally Posted by WildHearted

No, I agree.

But then I think it's honestly more of a range issue than anything - I don't think Stevie has much of a head voice anymore [ or she's not very comfortable using/controlling it ] so she has to power through her chest to hit the high notes. You can't sing those high notes in your chest without a bit of a push. If she wanted to float them, they'd have to be head-y...and she's very seldom gone that route in the past 15+ years.

Yes the vocals have changed since the vocal coach came along. She now enunciates clearly, and tries to sing from the chest. But it takes away from the songs sometimes. I remember how horrified at what happened to "Storms" on the Unleashed tour, for example. Instead of the melancholy whisper it became a monotone blare. I find the current voice is hard sometimes to take, especially in mid and uptempo numbers, unless embellished in some way by clever arrangements or richer production. On ballads it mostly still works.

Lady is just too long. Most of the shouting occurs in the final minutes of the song.