One thing that Amazes me

~GoldDustWoman~ · #1 08-25-2009, 08:40 AM

When she joined the Mac she was 27 i believe, yet she sounded in my opinion so much younger when she sang. Same if you listened to her Bella Donna Album. Just figured i'd post this, cause it just suprised me at how young she sounded despite how old she really was.

trackaghost · #2 08-25-2009, 08:52 AM

How old do you think she sounds? Her voice has never been that girlish in Fleetwood Mac imo. I think she sounds her age, and 27 isn't exactly old. Also I think by the time Bella Donna came out all the touring and smoking were starting to show in her voice. She sounds very husky and sexy to me on that album.

~GoldDustWoman~ · #3 08-25-2009, 08:56 AM

In Rumours I think she sounds probably at least in her earlier 20's like 20 or 21 she just sounds girly imo!

GODDESS6 · #4 08-25-2009, 09:18 AM

now i have always thought the line in "Has Anyone Ever Written Anything For You", where she says "So, if not for me, then, Do it for yourself", the studio version, she sounds super young~ it's one of my favorite lyrics she sings, the way she sounds still gives me goose bumps when i hear it to this day~

David · #5 08-25-2009, 09:59 AM

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Originally Posted by trackaghost

How old do you think she sounds? Her voice has never been that girlish in Fleetwood Mac imo. I think she sounds her age, and 27 isn't exactly old. Also I think by the time Bella Donna came out all the touring and smoking were starting to show in her voice. She sounds very husky and sexy to me on that album.

In one of the best (& funniest) summaries of that album I ever read, Steve Simels (in Stereo Review) wrote that Stevie the singer was a "no-nonsense country belter like Brenda Lee."

louielouie2000 · #6 08-25-2009, 10:00 AM

I agree, I thought in the first 10 years of her career that Stevie looked and sounded way younger than she was. Just listen to Say You Love Me from the Live '80 album. But at the same time, the band has always seemed like parental figures to me. I had to realize the other day that I'm now as old as Stevie was during the White Album

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David · #7 08-25-2009, 10:02 AM

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Originally Posted by louielouie2000

I agree, I thought in the first 10 years of her career that Stevie looked and sounded way younger than she was. Just listen to Say You Love Me from the Live '80 album.

Remember, too, that Say You Love Me was from 1977.

bellagypsy79 · #8 08-25-2009, 01:48 PM

"Say You Love Me" was from the white album in 1975.

nailatixela · #9 08-25-2009, 01:49 PM

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Originally Posted by bellagypsy79

"Say You Love Me" was from the white album in 1975.

He means the one from the Live album. It was released in 1980 but not all the songs on the record were recorded during the Tusk tour.

liamtgallagher · #10 08-25-2009, 05:42 PM

When she sings the first line from "Outside the Rain" at Red Rocks she sounds so young.

gypsy4life · #11 08-25-2009, 08:40 PM

Call me crazy...I think her speaking voice sounded much younger than her singing voice...imo

michelej1 · #12 08-25-2009, 08:46 PM

I don't think her singing voice ever sounded that young. In fact, I'm amazed at how mature she sounded doing Landslide back then. Now, her voice certainly sounds, um, something on the BN album. But I don't know if "young" is the word I would use.

Michele

daniellaaarisen · #13 08-25-2009, 09:02 PM

I think the higher her voice is, the younger she sounds. To me, she sounds younger in her harmony vocals but more mature in her leading songs (like "Landslide", as someone mentioned).

goldustsongbird · #14 08-25-2009, 09:26 PM

She sounds really young here:

I know she was young, but her voice is more girlish here than on the album.

Also Landslide from The Dance, after the guitar solo where she sings, "I've been afraaaaid of changin'..."... she's almost doing a Cyndi Lauper/Elmer Fudd thing.

It sounds more like "afwaid."

daniellaaarisen · #15 08-25-2009, 10:09 PM

golddustsongbird, I love you a little more every time you find an excuse to post that YouTube video. SO. FREAKIN'. GOOD.