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jingle_jangle wrote:There is a whole crop of auto-tuned schlock female vocalists, since Whit's heyday, whose hunt-and-peck style of singing I find to be really irritating.

Hunt-and-peck style of singing... I love it. A personal pet peeve of mine.

No more damning statement about our 'post modern' culture could be offered up than Simon Cowell's on-air admission that Aretha Franklin could not win on "American Idol" because she doesn't 'look like a star'. Well to me, Whitney Houston, although she would undoubtedly take first prize on Cowell's show, does not 'sound like a singer'.

wayang wrote:No more damning statement about our 'post modern' culture could be offered up than Simon Cowell's on-air admission that Aretha Franklin could not win on "American Idol" because she doesn't 'look like a star'. Well to me, Whitney Houston, although she would undoubtedly take first prize on Cowell's show, does not 'sound like a singer'.

I think it says more about Simon Cowell's agenda than post modern culture.