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Is there a point to Norah Jones?

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Anybody here who has listened to Holly Cole in the past do you like Norah Jones? I've just DLed a few of her songs and I wonder if somebody put her name instead of holly by mistake. Her voice is almost the exact same. Her musical style is the exact same. So what's the point? The last time I heard a copy cat situation like this was the tea party to the doors, except the tea party does kick ass!
 
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Originally posted by: Skoorb
Anybody here who has listened to Holly Cole in the past do you like Norah Jones? I've just DLed a few of her songs and I wonder if somebody put her name instead of holly by mistake. Her voice is almost the exact same. Her musical style is the exact same. So what's the point? The last time I heard a copy cat situation like this was the tea party to the doors, except the tea party does kick ass!
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Miss Jones, the illegitimate daughter of Ravi Shankar. is trying very hard to disassociate herself from her Father. She has a pleasant voice and the other tracks I've heard, I like.
We'll see what she releases next.
 
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Sarah McLachlan ownz Norah Jones 10 times over. Norah Jones is a fad that will pass over the next year or so.
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: Lonyo
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Sarah McLachlan ownz Norah Jones 10 times over. Norah Jones is a fad that will pass over the next year or so.
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Unless I'm missing something with Norah I agree totally. The two artists are uncomparable.
 
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: Lonyo
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Sarah McLachlan ownz Norah Jones 10 times over. Norah Jones is a fad that will pass over the next year or so.
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Unless I'm missing something with Norah I agree totally. The two artists are uncomparable.
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I think Sarah has a better voice (and uses it moreso) than Norah. The thing that makes me listen to Norah Jones alot and Sarah McLachlan just a little bit is a more "natural" sound. I think it is the producer/engineer that Sarah has, because her music is way too loud and horribly compressed. Any gains she has by having a better voice are negated by the compression done to her music. A new mix and master of her songs would tremendously boost it. Her vocals are buried way underneath the music with her songs that it makes it difficult to really focus on it. I dont want to hear her crappy session drummer, I want to hear her!

Norah Jones is a "fad", because her music isnt commercial. Its not the type designed to sell 10 million copies. I hope she doesnt pull a "Jewel" and start doing pop, but instead continues to make that classic bar room jazz/blues that she excels at.
 
When I first listened to Norah Jones, I thought she was this fat 40 year old black lady. But when I saw her picture, damn she's hot! :Q😀😀😀😀😀😀😀
 
Originally posted by: HendrixFan
I think Sarah has a better voice (and uses it moreso) than Norah. The thing that makes me listen to Norah Jones alot and Sarah McLachlan just a little bit is a more "natural" sound. I think it is the producer/engineer that Sarah has, because her music is way too loud and horribly compressed. Any gains she has by having a better voice are negated by the compression done to her music. A new mix and master of her songs would tremendously boost it. Her vocals are buried way underneath the music with her songs that it makes it difficult to really focus on it. I dont want to hear her crappy session drummer, I want to hear her!
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That's a great point. Mastering has reached an all-time low. This idiotic race to get the loudest CD has squeezed all the life out of the music. There's no clarity, no separation, no dynamics, it's just a wall of white noise. You can't stand to listen to it more than 20 minutes before you start fatiguing. Modern music is being RUINED, RUINED, RUINED by overcompression. It's almost like they've decided it's all garbage, disposable music now, that people are only listening to mp3/radio and don't care about sound quality, so why not just give it disposable-quality mastering too by squeezing the life out of it and pumping it to full volume. It's really unbelievable to me. If people knew what was going on and were able to do an A/B comparison of typical 90's/00's mastering vs. what they used to do, they would be SHOCKED. That's the reason that vinyl sounds better in many cases. It was mastered better. CD is technically superior, but the butchering that digitial allows has resulted in horrible sounding CD's in virtually all modern pop/rock and recently remastered classic rock.

Just look at the pictures of ripped waveforms on this website. If you know anything at all about wav/audio files, you can just look at the waveforms and know that the tracks probably sound like ASS. And they do.

Apparently 99% of the listeners don't care or don't realize. I'm not even an audiophile, most of my listening is done on cheap headphones, and I can still tell. It's pretty hard to ignore blatant digital clipping, like on the Californication album for example. If you're able to compare differently mastered versions of the same song, it's just PAINFULLY obvious that they're butchering music now. :|
 
Does anyone else agree with me when I say that all the tracks on her album sounds exactly the same!!! Maybe it is just her monotone voice, or the selection of the songs, but after you listen to one or two tracks, every track that comes afterward sounds the same!!!


Heifetz
 
Originally posted by: Heifetz
Does anyone else agree with me when I say that all the tracks on her album sounds exactly the same!!! Maybe it is just her monotone voice, or the selection of the songs, but after you listen to one or two tracks, every track that comes afterward sounds the same!!!


Heifetz
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Ive found VERY few artists that dont sound the same from one track to the next, and to take it even further, from one album to the next.
 
Originally posted by: Heifetz
Does anyone else agree with me when I say that all the tracks on her album sounds exactly the same!!! Maybe it is just her monotone voice, or the selection of the songs, but after you listen to one or two tracks, every track that comes afterward sounds the same!!!


Heifetz
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I agree.
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: Heifetz
Does anyone else agree with me when I say that all the tracks on her album sounds exactly the same!!! Maybe it is just her monotone voice, or the selection of the songs, but after you listen to one or two tracks, every track that comes afterward sounds the same!!!


Heifetz
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I agree.
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Talk about TRAVIS reborn
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too much hype kills😛 raises expectations very high😛

i blind bought it when it first came out, i thought it was good. it is a tad mellow so u can't just listen to it anytime.

 
Originally posted by: SilverThief
who cares if her music sucks...she's sexy.
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Umm, no? She's pretty ugly dud
Originally posted by: Heifetz
Does anyone else agree with me when I say that all the tracks on her album sounds exactly the same!!! Maybe it is just her monotone voice, or the selection of the songs, but after you listen to one or two tracks, every track that comes afterward sounds the same!!!


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I agree! She's not even singing, IMO. I can sing a hundred times better than her but ya dun see me getting any record deals. :disgust:

~Aunix
 
Yet another pointless rant. You can make that point about any new singer that's come out lately. Any singer can be compared to someone else, or be a clone/copy of someone else. If you don't like it don't listen to her.
 
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