I am intrigued by this rule, if only because if it were applied universally, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey, Beyonce and generations of blues belters would be ignored/ignorable ...
We should note that Chuck Eddy is a music critic not a physicist looking for universal laws of nature. If you listen to Aretha on “Respect” then the backing singers going “sock it to me” are playing a Pips-like role.
I don’t really have a lot of time for divas being overly serious but lots of people love them.
I am intrigued by this rule, if only because if it were applied universally, Whitney Houston, Aretha Franklin, Mariah Carey, Beyonce and generations of blues belters would be ignored/ignorable ...
We should note that Chuck Eddy is a music critic not a physicist looking for universal laws of nature. If you listen to Aretha on “Respect” then the backing singers going “sock it to me” are playing a Pips-like role.
I don’t really have a lot of time for divas being overly serious but lots of people love them.