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It's all about the music, dude! Sit down, relax and listen to some tunes.

RE: *** Hip Pop Stop *** ?????? I had a listen today and don't see how

I am the one that made the Billie Holiday ref. and I stand by it.
Let me explain first where I come from. First I do not like pop music in general. My main interest is female jazz singers I have nearly 300 different ones in my cd collection.
The first time I heard Amy I dismissed her completely but having been exposed to her quite a lot lately I started too appreciate her much more and from all the pop singers I've heard she is the most original and
do sing with an emotion and a feel like very few are capable of.
This is not acted, or planned, she is genuine, she sings from the heart and from the gut.
I think she has fabulous time and rhythm. She's not laying down* the time with her singing, not *stating* it but she doesn't have to, and can let go of that function and let her band do it, which to my ear is a higher-order sense of time. She's creating counter-rhythms to what they're doing and, I think, swings like crazy.
This to my mind is very rare, very few singer have this sense of rythm.
As far as her voice Amy has "a sound" you cannot mistake her for anybody else, and sure sometime she is a little out, but this is what makes
her singing interesting.
Billie did not have a great voice, but like Amy had those very special qualities.
I won't buy her cd as this is not my type of music, but in her genre
she is something very special.



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