I knew of her as a dancer and didn't know much about her as a singer. Top hits highlighted her harsh tones, so I never knew her range. Her voice shows up in the Bluesy type songs ...she could sing! I will be searching more of her earlier material. Thanks for the videos, she really felt her potential as a front performer when we see her b…
I knew of her as a dancer and didn't know much about her as a singer. Top hits highlighted her harsh tones, so I never knew her range. Her voice shows up in the Bluesy type songs ...she could sing! I will be searching more of her earlier material. Thanks for the videos, she really felt her potential as a front performer when we see her break from Ik and the band and go out to the audience..loved that. Wanted comment on your Gordon Lightfoot tribute too, but phone wouldn't cooperate, so another great artist I didn't fully appreciate. I have been listening to his beautiful music a lot. I think my fav is Rainy Day People but still listening 😊
Great, thoughtful comment, De! Like most talented artists (and Tina was no different), the years, the trends, the perceptions, the press, and the musical material can and will be all dissected.....some people will naturally latch onto a particular Tina "era" (her '80s MTV era's an easy one, simply due to cable's vast reach and heavy rotation!), etc.
I think you'll find richer "gold" in her earlier recordings. In the '60s, she was a product of those times, in all the ways that may entail....raw-er music, tense racial decade, and her unfortunate physical and emotional abuse at the hands of the two important men in her life. It would be easy to argue that her '80s material was too "mechanically" commercialized, and MTV exploited the visuals at the expense of the aural (and her record company and producers pandered to that dynamic, as well).
As for Lightfoot, I don't think that was me....I didn't write about Gordon. I know some music writers have, but I can't recall who! His music? Wonderful, and he's another who will be greatly missed!
I knew of her as a dancer and didn't know much about her as a singer. Top hits highlighted her harsh tones, so I never knew her range. Her voice shows up in the Bluesy type songs ...she could sing! I will be searching more of her earlier material. Thanks for the videos, she really felt her potential as a front performer when we see her break from Ik and the band and go out to the audience..loved that. Wanted comment on your Gordon Lightfoot tribute too, but phone wouldn't cooperate, so another great artist I didn't fully appreciate. I have been listening to his beautiful music a lot. I think my fav is Rainy Day People but still listening 😊
Great, thoughtful comment, De! Like most talented artists (and Tina was no different), the years, the trends, the perceptions, the press, and the musical material can and will be all dissected.....some people will naturally latch onto a particular Tina "era" (her '80s MTV era's an easy one, simply due to cable's vast reach and heavy rotation!), etc.
I think you'll find richer "gold" in her earlier recordings. In the '60s, she was a product of those times, in all the ways that may entail....raw-er music, tense racial decade, and her unfortunate physical and emotional abuse at the hands of the two important men in her life. It would be easy to argue that her '80s material was too "mechanically" commercialized, and MTV exploited the visuals at the expense of the aural (and her record company and producers pandered to that dynamic, as well).
As for Lightfoot, I don't think that was me....I didn't write about Gordon. I know some music writers have, but I can't recall who! His music? Wonderful, and he's another who will be greatly missed!