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aging idols--who gets better with time, who makes you cringe when you see them perform now? better:
Prince, Patti Labelle, Nancy Wilson, Madonna (I'll admit), Tina Turner, Sting worse: Rick James (RIP), LIttle Richard, Mick Jagger, Earth Wind and Fire, George Clinton, James Brown, Whitney Houston, Micahel Jackson [Edited 9/17/04 15:01pm] you look better on your facebook page than you do in person | |
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Teena Marie is actually a better performer, I think. Like fine wine, she gets better with age.
Patti Labelle just screams more, and now that she's doing it with rappers in tow, I really have to say she makes me cringe. | |
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STIPE GOT BETTER IN NINETIES BUT STARTING TO SOUND OLD NOW GEORGE MICHAEL SOUND BETTER NOW BUT HE ALSO NOT DROWNING IN REVERB P o o |/, P o o |\ | |
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better: annie lennox, princey, sheila e., la bowie, sting (even though his music is crap anymore), bruce springsteen (remarkably so), iggy pop (uglier, yes - but still damn cool), the chili peppers
worse: KISS (paul stanley needs to consider a costume with a turtleneck), grace slick (see her lately? OH. MY. GOD.), madonna (she could never really sing, but remember when she had a sense of humor and she could at least kinda carry a tune?) | |
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Anxiety said: better: annie lennox, princey, sheila e., la bowie, sting (even though his music is crap anymore), bruce springsteen (remarkably so), iggy pop (uglier, yes - but still damn cool), the chili peppers
worse: KISS (paul stanley needs to consider a costume with a turtleneck), grace slick (see her lately? OH. MY. GOD.), madonna (she could never really sing, but remember when she had a sense of humor and she could at least kinda carry a tune?) Did you see Reinvention? She sounded very good - probably the best she ever has. The orgers who went felt she did an incredible job - even those who don't really like Madonna that much. | |
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i don't doubt you, though on the bits and pieces i've heard from TV, she still has that perpetually-out-of-breath/nervous-vibrato sound that has been making my ears bleed since, oh, around "evita". maybe that's the way to sound these days, i dunno. it just sounds like she can't sing from her gut to save her life anymore. | |
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Anxiety said: i don't doubt you, though on the bits and pieces i've heard from TV, she still has that perpetually-out-of-breath/nervous-vibrato sound that has been making my ears bleed since, oh, around "evita". maybe that's the way to sound these days, i dunno. it just sounds like she can't sing from her gut to save her life anymore.
Fair enough. | |
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DAVID Lee ROTH is just scary now.
But MEatloaf looks more respectable. | |
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better: Madonna (I remember her first show when she wasn't that great of a singer, but now she is actually pretty good), Cher, Shania, Avril (her voice is improving)
worse: Britney, MJ (sadly, he's so talented), Pink | |
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Good call on MJ. The surgery is out of control. He's still rockin' his 80s dance moves. The pseudo-military-look wardrobe...wait...is he still dressing that way? Does he even own a regular-looking suit?
He's super talented, I'll give him that. And he doesn't look 46 at all. Then again, he doesn't look like his old self at all, either. | |
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AsianBomb777 said: DAVID Lee ROTH is just scary now.
But MEatloaf looks more respectable. eww, david lee roth looks like the cryptkeeper anymore. | |
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The Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, David Lee Roth...I haven't seen Van Halen perform lately so I'll reserve judgement. This post not for the wimp contingent. All whiny wusses avert your eyes. | |
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