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Originally posted by Patrick
You act though Leona walks into a recording booth and just sings songs line by line on a cold read without given them any thought, and without having considered the concept/meaning of the song in any way what-so-ever. It's so easy to hate on pop stars and say they'll sing "whatever is handed to them" simply because they are not always known for performing self-penned material, but the simple truth of the matter is that for most pop musicians there is a certain amount of personal preparation that is done in order to understand the emotions of the song and to connect with the material others have given them. In that way they become "interpretors" in their own right, putting their own "emotional insights" and "nuances" into their performances.
But it's obvious nothing I can say will change your opinion, and that's fine. You haven't changed mine either.
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Oh, I'm not talking about pop stars at all. I'm talking about the irrevocably bland
Leona Lewis, she who doesn't step into a recording booth without thinking about how Whitney/Mariah/Celine/Christina would sing a song, and therefore "emulate" it.
I'm the biggest pop music supporter/promoter on this board! Ask anyone who knows. And of course pop singers can be more than singers, even if they don't play instruments or write music notations. I think that Kylie, in particular is second to Donna Summer as the pop star most skilled at the art of intepretation - she gets the meaning of almost EVERY song she sings (although that's missing severely on X, and that's one of the reasons the album's her weakest.) I think that Britney, Madonna, etc and so on all have ranges of interpretative power - who else could've sold a
Gimme More or a
Borderline so effectively? Please don't take me as disrespecting pop music - I would never do that. I'm just disrespecting the utterly useless Leona Lewis.
Madonna, I agree with but Britney. 
... who cares about it?? Thanks for being in the ATRL admin team, but that does not help you in this discussion.