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Originally Posted by skcin
I agree with all of this. I thought about that last night - who am I to tell Stevie how she should sing a 30 year old song today? Maybe SHE wants it to be louder, more anguished. Of course, that doesn't mean I have to like it.  But instead of assuming she f*cked it up, I should be open to the possibility that this is how she wants it performed. |
Also, if you listen to the drum machine demo version of "Storms," she is definitely belting the vocal. So perhaps that is the way she intended it to be sung originally. And one could make the case that the official version is sung so softly because Stevie was having voice problems; in the Lindsey-and-Stevie demo of "Storms," a very hoarse-sounding Stevie was complaining about not having "a lot of voice" that day. For all we know, the final vocal for "Storms" could have been culled from the demo sessions recorded on that date- the hoarseness definitely added something to that song that probably could not be captured again. And I also seem to remember that "Dreams" was recorded while Stevie had a cold... sometimes these things just work out for the best!