Some like it hot! How about you Janis?

[illinoisbill]

Hello All
I was reading an article about Madonna's current tour. It said that she keeps the theater so hot that many people in the audiance complained about the sweltering heat. When asked why she keeps it so hot she replied that hot humid air keeps her from losing her voice. I guess she requires her audiance to be in good voice too. I also heard that when Celine Dion started her stint in Las Vegas, she too kept the theater so hot that audiance members were complaining. Is this common practice? When I saw Janis in Springfield, IL last November the temp was perfectly comfortable.

[Melba]

Um...I don't know about Janis, but maybe these other gals like being hot and sweaty.....something sexy about that idea, at least in my warped little world...LOL :o

[GodSistah]

LOL @ Melba! You so crazy, girl! ;)

~Andrea~

[Dee]

When asked why she keeps it so hot she replied that hot humid air keeps her from losing her voice. I guess she requires her audiance to be in good voice too.

LOL

To lip-sync or not to lip-sync (http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20041017/news_1a17varga.html)? That is the question.

But how does this relate to next month's long-anticipated DVD release of 1985's Live Aid benefit concert, let alone to Elton John's recent attack on Madonna?

Glad you asked.

Sir Elton, as he is known in his homeland, was quick to blast Madonna earlier this month at the annual Q Awards show in London.

"Madonna – best (expletive) live act?" he sputtered. "(Expletive) off. Since when has lip-syncing been live? Anyone who lip-syncs in public on stage when you pay (about $169 per ticket) to see them should be shot."

John, who was apparently unaware that some tickets for Madonna's recent tour cost up to $800 each, then quipped that he would be booted off her Christmas card list: "But do I give a toss? No."

Madonna's publicist, Liz Rosenberg, responded: "Madonna does not lip-sync, nor does she spend her time trashing other artists. She sang every note of her Re-Invention tour live and is not ashamed that she was paid well for her hard work."

Eager to help out, Madonna's actor friend, Rupert Everett, came to her defense, in a manner. "Madonna sings everything she can sing," Rupert told reporters in England. "But, if she goes into a dance routine, she's got to dance; you can't breathe and dance and sing at the same time."

Since Madonna danced through the majority of songs on her Re-Invention tour, which bypassed San Diego, Everett's comments don't exactly bolster the case for her singing live. (For the record, James Brown, Tina Turner and many other gifted artists are living proof that you can simultaneously sing and dance – if you're talented enough).

It's no secret that Madonna has lip-synced for years, most notoriously on her Blonde Ambition tour of 1990, which found her talented six-man band miming at least some of its parts as well....

(October 17, 2004)

[ponytail]

Yet another aspect of Madonna's act stolen from drag queens.:rolleyes:

[DaveM]

Ah....I am spared the necessity of asking: "WHAT voice?"

"I thought that girl knew how to croon/but she sounds just like two donkeys screwin'" --Bob Rivers.

[hoops]

Oh Madonna!... I've never heard her interviewed, I've never seen her live. I've never heard a live recording of her or seen live footage. But I know whenever she is releasing a book, album, tour, movie, baby... you name it, the woman is all over the place. I don't much care for her music tho she is better than celine dion by far, But i have to give her props because she has done it all, and she has done it all her way and it has worked for her quite well. she seems to have no regrets or battles to fight. People talk about Oprah as a self made woman, but Oprah never had the "rep" that Madonna has and if Oprah were to take one wrong move, she'd pay big time. Madonna has broken all the rules and yet is still winning the game! There is practically NOTHING she could do wrong. I'm not gonna say i admire that, but i respect her personal intergrity.

[Charlie]

As a matter of interest does anybody like Celine Dion on this website? I accept she has a powerful voice but for me there is no feeling as there is with my favourite singers. Whilst I concede Dylan can't be described as a good singer his emotions ring through for me.

[Melba]

As a matter of interest does anybody like Celine Dion on this website? I accept she has a powerful voice but for me there is no feeling as there is with my favourite singers. Whilst I concede Dylan can't be described as a good singer his emotions ring through for me.
I love Celine Dion's voice and there is feeling for me, but personally I can't stand to watch her...interviewd or preforming. I have 2 of her CD's and I especially enjoy her version of Roberta Flack's "The First Time Ever I Saw Your Face"......:)

[ponytail]

Celine Dion has the pipes but from what I've seen/heard she sings every song the same way -- bellowing as if for no other reason than to prove she can. I confess, though, that I really don't know much about her -- I haven't been moved to find out more. I get the same sense as Charlie, that there's no sincerity there.

As for Madonna, I have actually liked some of her songs -- notably "Papa Don't Preach," which is at least saying something. I saw one of her tours on HBO, and she does work her ass off dancing. But for some reason I can't resist making jokes about her at every opportunity -- she takes herself so seriously that it's just irressistible. :D

[DaveM]

I think most "pop music" is meant to be heard, while the true gems are meant to be listened to.

[Dee]

As a matter of interest does anybody like Celine Dion on this website? I accept she has a powerful voice but for me there is no feeling as there is with my favourite singers.

If you ever heard her 1991 French album of Luc Plamondon songs, Dion chante Plamondon (http://www.celinedion.com/celinedion/english/music.cgi?album_id=3), it might change your mind. Some very emotionally stirring songs there. Such as Un garçon pas comme les autres (A Boy Not Like the Others), Le monde est stone (The World Is Stone), and L'amour existe encore (the Love Still Exists).

Celine was born in Charlemagne, a small town 30 miles east of Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

As a person I think she’s flaky, and some of her English songs are drivel, but as a singer I find she has an amazing instrument and the talent to use it.

[Melba]

LOL @ Melba! You so crazy, girl! ;)

~Andrea~
Well, I certainly wouldn't mind hearing "Ride Me Like a Wave" in a hot theater.....;)

[KarenSews2]

-- bellowing as if for no other reason than to prove she can.:D

Amen, ponytail! It grates on my nerves to hear her screaming everything!

Madonna? I love La Isla Bonita.

[hoops]

celine dion, i don't really dislike her all that much, yes she is flky and yes she belts where she needs to pull back and just be sometimes... but the thing that irks me the most is that there are those who put her on the same level as Barbra Striesand and THAT i cannot agree with or understand, it's just not there...even with Barbra's increase in age and slight very slight loss of some of all that makes her her she is far and away better than celine could every dream of being. and barbra knows her gift, and she embraces it, but she does not put herself on a pedestal ( not the right words) like celine does

[Dee]

I find that most people who don't like Barbra don't like Celine either.

I do wish they had chosen a better song than Tell Him for the duet they did together a few years back. So much pablum.

:p

[DaveM]

I can think of several singers whose technical ability is breathtaking, but whose delivery is so mechanical that it's difficult to hear the potential talent there. Celine Dion strikes me as one such person, as does Sarah Brightman, as does Mariah Carey, as does Bjork. As did Basia, if anyone can remember her.

Mind, I say this as someone who cannot carry a tune in a dump truck, so I am not sure if I am qualified to comment.

[GodSistah]

I remember Basia! :)

Her first cd was excellent and the rest there after were all oatmeal!

~Andrea~