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When listening to new music, some musicians simply just have the right sound and/or showcase of abilities that just sells you on their prowess.
Sometimes these moments are in mere seconds.
These whirlwind moments for me include:
Mariah Carey. One listen to "Always Be My Baby" and then I'm suddenly looping it on repeat for days. I go and quickly buy the album with the single on it. Also, I learned that she sang "Fantasy" and I had heard her first on Rush Hour and never knew it. HAHAHA.
Amy Grant: This is simply just timbre alone providing the appeal. I have been, intermittently for the past two years, been trying to listening to all the Billboard Hot 100 #1 singles and hearing her voice on "Baby, Baby". The song itself has some annoying tendencies but the voice was enough to mentally note "must listen to more for future considerations"
Jojo(Joanna Levesque) - here is one a modern high skilled prodigy. A Mendelssohn for R&B. While youtubing Old Town Road during its height of success, I came across derivative content from Conor Maynard's channel, a "Sing-off"(not actually live). Near the end, she does four measures of musical acrobatics that is also musically effective. First rapid scales and then a batch of slower notes, indicating an understanding of using short notes and long notes to achieve musical effectiveness and not just technical effectiveness.
Beethoven - 5th symphony. Opening bars. I was 13. It was a piano arrangement I wanted to play. The 4-bar standard, which by the way, JoJo passed with flying color and hence I makes similes with her and old masters.
Sometimes these moments are in mere seconds.
These whirlwind moments for me include:
Mariah Carey. One listen to "Always Be My Baby" and then I'm suddenly looping it on repeat for days. I go and quickly buy the album with the single on it. Also, I learned that she sang "Fantasy" and I had heard her first on Rush Hour and never knew it. HAHAHA.
Amy Grant: This is simply just timbre alone providing the appeal. I have been, intermittently for the past two years, been trying to listening to all the Billboard Hot 100 #1 singles and hearing her voice on "Baby, Baby". The song itself has some annoying tendencies but the voice was enough to mentally note "must listen to more for future considerations"
Jojo(Joanna Levesque) - here is one a modern high skilled prodigy. A Mendelssohn for R&B. While youtubing Old Town Road during its height of success, I came across derivative content from Conor Maynard's channel, a "Sing-off"(not actually live). Near the end, she does four measures of musical acrobatics that is also musically effective. First rapid scales and then a batch of slower notes, indicating an understanding of using short notes and long notes to achieve musical effectiveness and not just technical effectiveness.
Beethoven - 5th symphony. Opening bars. I was 13. It was a piano arrangement I wanted to play. The 4-bar standard, which by the way, JoJo passed with flying color and hence I makes similes with her and old masters.