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Originally Posted by sailormoon
Do u think this marks the end of Kylie's performances?
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Oh dear,
Not a Kylie fan here, Sailor, I would like to see her vanish utterly. To have to bear the singing budgie as an example of the best we have, it just makes me cringe. I think she is a sort of amalgam of Paris Hilton and Olivia Newton-John
, the beneficiary of a terrific publicity machine and very very good studio processing. They could even make ME sound like Pavarotti these days
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Every time I open the Sunday paper inserts, there is Kylie. Argh.
Now I realise this is not a viewpoint shared by everyone, maybe even the majority, but I just pine for a bit of international success for our REAL pop divas, of which we have many (IMHO of course)
. Why can't we point more to Colleen Hewitt (Colleen where DID you go?) and Kate Cerberano? I don't know.
The one fantastic exception I can point to is the matchless voice of Judith Durham. Now she will never be found singing "Let's get physical" or "Locomotion", but what a voice. Check out "Just a closer walk with thee" on Youtube. She sings jazz too.
I hasten to add I'm not at all a gospel fan, I think the greatest rock tune ever is "Substitute", and the greatest rock guitar solo is "Hippy hippy shake". So I am a bear of little brain, and don't know great art, but I know who I like
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Cheers
Geoff