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Originally Posted by KarmaContestant
I think your position is more common than you might think. I have a lot of friends who don't like what they call 'slow songs'. Over the years I've come to realize that they don't listen to lyrics, and the music depresses them since it's 'slow'.
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Yeah I have had friends who are the same way... "slow songs" bore them to tears. But I find beauty in lots of "slow songs"... but my first music love as a child was classical music (particularly music from the romantic period). One of the only things I wanted to listen to as a toddler was Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker suite. The music that actually moves me the most (emotionally, not physically
) is probably instrumental... some orchestral pieces evoke incredible feelings of sadness, others excitement/wonder, others melancholy, etc.
But I'm curious to see with other Stevie fans if anyone else responds more to her music than lyrics like myself... I'm thinking I'm probably much more in the minority. It's funny because when I first heard her (my sister had the Fleetwood Mac Greatest Hits tape)... I didn't care for her voice at all. I remembered songs like "Little Lies" & "Everywhere" from the radio when I was really young... so Christine's voice I gravitated towards more so. But something changed soon after (I think "Gypsy" is largely responsible for it, since the music/production really drew me in), and I started to accept Stevie's voice. Then after loving "Silver Springs" from The Dance, I ended up buying The Wild Heart on cassette, then OSOTM on CD because I was curious about Stevie's solo work. Something just clicked and I ended up loving her voice... I think her voice is a big part of the "sound" that grabs me with Stevie's music.
Strangely enough, I guess a human voice is just another instrument to me... so the timbre , tone quality & tone color are what my ear picks up on to assess whether I like it or not. I find it interesting that people talk about what a talented singer Lady Gaga is (I realize that that's only one facet of her talent), and while I agree she can sing... to my ear, she sounds like 10 other singers I've already heard... nothing unique really to my ears. In the case of ABBA (my favorite pop group), I can ignore some of the ridiculously simple lyrics (hey, English wasn't their first language
) and enjoy the blend of Agnetha & Frida's voices... it's very compelling for me.