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Originally Posted by aleuzzi
About 20 years ago, I remember first hearing Christine sing Gypsy, courtesy of someone on this forum. At the time, I thought it was hilarious: Christine singing Stevie?! Now I hear it and marvel at how well she sang and navigated a song she didn’t write or regularly rehearse. She’s entirely at ease. The only strangeness is hearing her utter those lyrics, which are nothing like the simple, direct love songs I usually associate with her.
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100% the same. I heard it long ago but now I appreciate it more for the reasons you mention. I mean, I could understand being able to "karaoke" another member's song pretty well that had already been toured ad nauseum, but this was a song she hadn't already listened to Stevie sing night after night after night. Find it hard to imagine Stevie managing the same with a new and more straightforward Chris song without getting it all mixed up, let alone the fact that Chris was also playing an instrument while singing. Perhaps they had to listen to the song over and over again as part of the MTV music video recording process?