Duffy, she's like Amy Winehouse...

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: moshquerade
but without all the drugs, and fail.

100 points for making me 😀

Duffy is hardly sweet and innocent, her life reads like a trainwreck too.

Stick to Perry Como if you want family music. No one was so hard on the Rolling Stones, Van Halen and the like.

Follow many people around 24/7 and you will see some crazy shit.

what's she done in her life for you to classify it a "trainwreck" ?

 

[1prophet]

Originally posted by: CrimsonChaos
Her voice is terrible. What is it with these modern pop-stars who aren't "artists" and who can't even sing?

Antares Autotune to the rescue.

And it's not just the English speaking world that can't sing anymore.

Uses of Auto-Tune
At the January 2001 International Music Products Association show in Anaheim, California, Antares performed a demonstration of Auto-Tune in which they fed the output of a Theremin into Auto-Tune. The effect was described as "like putting adjustable frets into thin air".

The harmonization is intended to increase the musical quality of a vocal track without revealing the singing as processed. Still, with extreme parameter values, the Auto-Tune has also become popular as a distinctively electronic voice effect, similar to a vocoder. The most familiar example of Auto-Tune is the Cher effect, named for Cher, whose producers originated the effect in her 1998 hit song "Believe". Cher's "Believe" was in fact the first commercial song which used Auto-Tune as a deliberate, creative sound effect instead of the equipment's main purpose. When first interviewed about this, the sound engineers claimed they had used a vocoder in an attempt to preserve this as a trade secret.

The Singer T-Pain has also used a different version of the effect in his music and that of other artists, to great success.

Use of Auto-Tune is not confined to Western pop music -- the product comes with Arabic scales, and has become very common in Arabic music. In 2007 Saudi singer Muhammed Abduh told journalists that today is the era of 'Auto Tune', where singers rely on machines to fix their voices.

According to the Boston Herald, "Country stars Reba McEntire, Faith Hill and Tim McGraw have all confessed to using Auto-Tune in performance, claiming it is a safety net that guarantees ticket buyers a spot-on show."

 

[Excelsior]

I dig Duffy. I mostly like her voice...and it sounds practically the same on live recordings as it does on the studio tracks.

And I love the welsh accent.

 

[PlasmaBomb]

+

 

[0roo0roo]

retro...
but songs don't hold up

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: moshquerade
but without all the drugs, and fail.

100 points for making me 😀

Duffy is hardly sweet and innocent, her life reads like a trainwreck too.

Stick to Perry Como if you want family music. No one was so hard on the Rolling Stones, Van Halen and the like.

Follow many people around 24/7 and you will see some crazy shit.

what's she done in her life for you to classify it a "trainwreck" ?

I don't know having hitmen involved would have most people shunning her.

I get this shit though, I get Amy Winehouse too.

I like her music. I like Duffy's too. What they do in their lives outside that is up to them.

It's the petty people that make a big deal about it.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: George P Burdell

Originally posted by: moshquerade
but without all the drugs, and fail.

100 points for making me 😀

Duffy is hardly sweet and innocent, her life reads like a trainwreck too.

Stick to Perry Como if you want family music. No one was so hard on the Rolling Stones, Van Halen and the like.

Follow many people around 24/7 and you will see some crazy shit.

what's she done in her life for you to classify it a "trainwreck" ?

I don't know having hitmen involved would have most people shunning her.

I get this shit though, I get Amy Winehouse too.

I like her music. I like Duffy's too. What they do in their lives outside that is up to them.

It's the petty people that make a big deal about it.

you must be intoxicated again.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: 0roo0roo
retro...
but songs don't hold up

Please, this has staying power ABC Vanity Kills!

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: moshquerade
you must be intoxicated again.

so you don't think Duffy had any hitmen in her life or drugs?

I'd look up her biography fool.

 

[zeruty]

hot accents are hot

 

[RaistlinZ]

More vintage Amy Winehouse.

Her natural given talen is/was simply astounding. It's really too bad she's let drugs get the best of her life.

 

[RbSX]

maybe without the drugs, but definately still with the fail

 

[dawp]

I think Thea puts both Duffy and Amy to shame

and another one by Thea.

would like to see her live but I'm on the wrong side of the Pond.

 

[1prophet]

Baby, you're no good




and the original

 

[dawp]

I know this has nothing to do with Duffy or Amy but check out this cover of Warren Zevon's Keep me in your heart. she sounds good.

 

[moshquerade]

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: moshquerade
you must be intoxicated again.

so you don't think Duffy had any hitmen in her life or drugs?

I'd look up her biography fool.

i already read it. you'd better read it again. she isn't a drug user like Winehouse, and she didn't have hitmen in her life either (her stepfather may have).

to clear up your confusion:

Duffy was put in a safe house in 1998 when police uncovered a plot by her stepfather's ex-wife to pay a hitman £3000 to kill her stepfather identified as Philip Smith. Subsequently her stepfather's ex-wife served a 3 1/2 year jail term for the incident. A 1998 article in another British tabloid quotes a man identified as Philip Smith describing similar circumstances. The tabloid quoted Duffy as saying about the alleged incident "I was so terrified. I felt so ill.". She cites the effects of her stepfather's ex-wife's alcoholism as the reason for her not being a user of alcohol or drugs.

maybe this time you'll be sober enough to have some reading comprehension.

 

[alkemyst]

Originally posted by: moshquerade

Originally posted by: alkemyst

Originally posted by: moshquerade
you must be intoxicated again.

so you don't think Duffy had any hitmen in her life or drugs?

I'd look up her biography fool.

i already read it. you'd better read it again. she isn't a drug user like Winehouse, and she didn't have hitmen in her life either (her stepfather may have).

to clear up your confusion:

Duffy was put in a safe house in 1998 when police uncovered a plot by her stepfather's ex-wife to pay a hitman £3000 to kill her stepfather identified as Philip Smith. Subsequently her stepfather's ex-wife served a 3 1/2 year jail term for the incident. A 1998 article in another British tabloid quotes a man identified as Philip Smith describing similar circumstances. The tabloid quoted Duffy as saying about the alleged incident "I was so terrified. I felt so ill.". She cites the effects of her stepfather's ex-wife's alcoholism as the reason for her not being a user of alcohol or drugs.

maybe this time you'll be sober enough to have some reading comprehension.

it's still drama in her life which people like you love to attack. I am well aware of Duffy's bio. I like her stuff. I like Amy's stuff too. Thea I didn't know about but checking out now.

So since I proved to you I am FAR more educated, now you are attacking me on the alcoholic angle?

nice.