Oh god.. The title of the next James Bond movie is "No Time to Die"

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pcgeek11

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I always loved the James Bond movies. I remember my first one. I paid 50 cents to get in the movie theater and stayed to watch it twice, Goldfinger.

Loved Sean Connery as Bond, my next favorite would be Craig.
 
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Torn Mind

Lifer
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the fuck, why though?

I have your same taste, pretty much...but can appreciate what a lot of these people can do with their instrument, even if it isn't my thing. Not that we're comparing these, but for me I would take Adele 98% of the day and 2% would be Mariah Carey, with those names being tossed about. Mariah Carey has range...but I've rarely heard her sing a song that I want to hear, being sung by her, despite her obvious talent.

Adele, I want to hear her sing. Period. I want to just sit there and listen and whatever's happening I want to hear it.

It isn't the same with someone like Lorde or Billie Ilish or whatever we're talking about, but I get it--certainly more than I do if I heard someone that was into the same thing with Mariah. I dunno, that makes sense to me, lol.
Just to be clear, it's Eilish that is revolting to me, not Adele. Rolling in the Deep is fire.


It's not the reaction I was expecting. I was curious about the music scene at the time of Spring 2019. I was recovering from a laceration and limited in what I could do during the day. So I searched out who was chart topping during that time. I come across Billie Eilish and Lil' Nas X's Old Town Road. Started "exploring" Eilish's discography, and the more I listened, the more my body starting rejecting the sound. Recently, she's had an ad on Youtube with "Happier than Ever" and I recognized her sound immediately and the feeling of revulsion kicked in. It's strange, in that others can sing in that style, like Tate McRae, and I only feel annoyance and not the virulent repulsion Eilish triggers in me.


The Cliffnotes version is that "Always Be My Baby" won me over in a matter of minutes, and is one of the songs I have binged listened into my psyche. The lyrical stringing by the soloist is out of this world.
 

deustroop

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Mariah Carey has range...but I've rarely heard her sing a song that I want to hear, being sung by her, despite her obvious talent.
Just a side note,
Have you seen MC's 1998 Japanese tour rendition of Dream Lover ? Perhaps not your favorite genre but I don't think a chanteuse has ever been a more commanding talent than in this particular production. Truth be told I also never get tired watching those background singers. My My.

 
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Torn Mind

Lifer
Nov 25, 2012
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Just a side note,
Have you seen MC's 1998 Japanese tour rendition of Dream Lover ? Perhaps not your favorite genre but I don't think a chanteuse has ever been a more commanding talent than in this particular production. Truth be told I also never get tired watching those background singers. My My.

Like Mozart himself, Mariah has a way of making the whole far greater than the sum of its parts. One note here, one note there, a scalar transition here and there, but they count big time in the macroscopic effect. Her ability to leap also reminds me of how Beethoven could do a lot on the piano (The final movement of the Waldstein is one such combination of beauty and technical terror).

Mozart's 2nd movement of his Piano Concerto 21 has a similar feature of the whole greater than its parts(it's the movement featured in the Elvira Madigan movie).

And whenever I hear the Mozart's Clarinet Concerto's first movement, I'm always getting Mariah-like vibes from it.
 

Zeze

Lifer
Mar 4, 2011
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the fuck, why though?

I have your same taste, pretty much...but can appreciate what a lot of these people can do with their instrument, even if it isn't my thing. Not that we're comparing these, but for me I would take Adele 98% of the day and 2% would be Mariah Carey, with those names being tossed about. Mariah Carey has range...but I've rarely heard her sing a song that I want to hear, being sung by her, despite her obvious talent.

Adele, I want to hear her sing. Period. I want to just sit there and listen and whatever's happening I want to hear it.

It isn't the same with someone like Lorde or Billie Ilish or whatever we're talking about, but I get it--certainly more than I do if I heard someone that was into the same thing with Mariah. I dunno, that makes sense to me, lol.

Lorde is already getting to 8 yrs past her peak prime (Royals came out in 2013 wtf). She won't come back like that again.

Y'all are old, talking about Lorde LOL as if she's like the today's hottest prime star.
 

jpiniero

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Oct 1, 2010
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Decided against seeing it so I read the plot synopsis on Wikipedia. Somewhat of a spoiler but it was definitely a good call delaying the film.