Here we go again...sigh. It was not Fantasia's best performance by a long shot and I agree that her voice is overworked. Kelly sang and spoke with a rasp for two years after she won. The AI management take these young singers who have no experience in voice training and how to save their voices on long tours and recording sessions. What do they expect?
It's also a case of the continued fractionalization of pop music. People tend to "get" the singers who sound like their kind of people. When Ike met Tina, he was thrilled because he'd finally found "a woman who sings like a man." Fantasia does that too in the tradition of Tina Turner and Janis Joplin, the best known of that gravelly voiced genre.
As I said, Fantasia didn't do her best, but she wasn't "awful" either. She does, however, need to give her voice a rest and then invest in some serious voice training.
IMO, LaToya was the Carrie of last season. I really liked her at first and then week after week she never gave a molecule of true emotion to her performances. Great voice; no feeling.
I found Jennifer more interesting and was more bummed when she got voted off. But Fantasia says they all got record deals so I'll be on the look out for Jennifer's CD. Speaking of CDs, I bought Fantasia's and she sounds quite wonderful on it, thank you very much, though she still hasn't found a song equivalent to "Summertime."
I also heard Diana DeGarmo not long ago perform on a TV show. Still not my cup of tea.
Fantasia is going to have a lot of ups and downs, but so does every singer trying to "make it." It will be the measure of her mettle and intelligence how she does with it. But to write her off after one poor performance less than a year after her win and wonder why you ever voted for her, maybe you better worry about who you're voting for now, lol!
Seriously, most of last year's contestants were right off the bus. I say give them a chance to stumble and regain their footing. But then it's also everybody's right not to.
I loved Fantasia's advice to this year's contestants: "Get UGLY!" It's true! Too many of them are trying to be too pretty for their own good.
JMO.
Still a Big Fantasia Fan,
Rgirl
The worst part though was watching Paula uber gush all over her like she had just won a Grammy or something. This is why that show lost me last season, I can't deal with the uber gushing over mediocre to bad performances anymore. I actually haven't agreed with the last two winners and I really think that the voting is not working out with that show anymore, if it ever really did work. Yikes. :banging:
