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Originally Posted by octothorp
He never sounds like anything other than some professionally trained vocalist who's standing on stage at a charity event or in a booth with David Foster.
Entirely agree. That's what I couldn't listen to for more than 40 seconds; his voice sounds like how cardboard feels. Bland doesn't even begin to describe it.
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I, for one, love Josh Groban. I think he's an adorable, charismatic guy who has a great voice. I understand and agree that all the ballads can get boring, but that's what most people buy his CDs for. On his newest Awake album, he did less of that, and it sold significantly less than his Closer album, for example.
Some better examples of him, based on my opinion ("You Are Loved" is overplayed and IMO that vid didn't do him justice):
But then again, I AM a teenage girl.
And it would suck for alltherage to be submitted to listening to music he doesn't like the whole day, I know what that's like all too well.
Nothing infuriates me more than the following exchange:
Me: "Oh, so you listen to opera?"
Other person who I am about to lose all respect for: "Why yes, I listen to Andrea Bocelli/Sarah Brightman/Josh Groban."
Even Bocelli or Brightman I can almost allow. But Groban is not an opera singer. Yeah, he sings opera here and there (usually easy, impressive-sounding pieces), but if it was not for his celebrity status, no serious opera company would ever book him. He's got decent range, but none of the vocal depth or character or agility that professional opera singers have; actually, it has nothing to do with opera: the best blues singers, or folk, or country, or rock singers are all able to call up depth and character and emotion. He never sounds like anything other than some professionally trained vocalist who's standing on stage at a charity event or in a booth with David Foster. There's absolutely no subtext, no illusion to his singing. Maybe that's what some people really like.
Well Groban does not refer to himself as an opera singer. The ill informed might, but Groban makes no pretext of doing so.
Entirely agree. That's what I couldn't listen to for more than 40 seconds; his voice sounds like how cardboard feels. Bland doesn't even begin to describe it.
Problem is, the video imbedded is not a good choice for showing what Groban is capable of.
We all have different musical tastes. The problem here is someone is being forced to listen to music that is not of their taste and that has all to do with a co-worker being insensitive to those around her.
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Originally Posted by redforever
We all have different musical tastes.
Sure, some people have good taste like me, and others prefer to swim against the tide of common sense. I could be all nice and try throwing these poor, sad musical strugglers a life buoy, but I prefer cruising around underneath and pulling on their legs until they drown.
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Tell her to turn it down and stop being so inconsiderate.
Better yet find out what music she hates all pull the same crap on her and see how she likes it.
Well, if she has a thing for slightly effeminate smooth voiced men, try the opposite. Maybe Tom Waits' "Clap Hands" - his voice sounds like someone about to kill Josh Groban with a shovel and throw gravel on his body.
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