Luke M wrote:
i've heard various things by antony and the johnsons - i must say that when it comes to the overly emotional torch song stuff i prefer to hear KD Lang doing it.
I quite agree. I
almost like them...but there's something about them/him that seems fake. I feel the same about Rufus Wainwright, although with him it's his pomposity I don't like. But with A & the J it's the way his voice quavers like a plate of jelly with the DTs...it all seems a bit overdone. KD Lang, however,
delivers. The acid test is her version of 'Hallelujah'-for my money it's running level with Jeff Buckley's version. That's the kind of song that will show up the fakes of this world very clearly: see Sheryl Crow, Bon Jovi etc.
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