Date sent: Tue, 25 Jan 2000 01:53:46 EST
Subject: Re: teenage pop singers posts
To: vocalist
Send reply to: VOCALIST <vocalist>

In a message dated 1/22/00 6:29:41 PM Eastern Standard Time,
VOCALIST-DIGEST-Owner writes:

<< Al wrote,

> criticize anyone's postings on their favourite pop entities, but maybe it
> would be best if comments relating to how great these people are
> be posted on
> another LISTSERV dedicated to them. It's just that multiple
> e-mails of I like
> the Back Street Boys and Mariah Carey is my favourite singer clogs up my
> e-mail and are getting redundant.

Hi Al,

I respect your opinion, like I do everyone else on this list. However, I
remember serveral postings a few months ago concerning opinions about opera
singers (Charlotte Church springs immediately to mind)and a few broadway
singers (ditto Bernadette Peters) and I didn't see any postings complaining
about those entries. Again, I didn't see any previous postings taking jibes
at listers young age. I hope you, and other listers remember that we are
all of different ages and musical backgrounds here and we all have different
musical tastes.

Yvette-at-IDGCPA.com
>>
..................
Yes, but Yvette, what we DID get with all the posts on Charlotte Church was a
discussion of vocal technique, which is one of the main aims of this
particular list. I don't see the teeny-boppers mentioning jaw tension,
pushing, evening out the register break, breath support, or any other
significant subject fit for discussion on Vocalist. That's what we have come
to expect from this list--isn't that the reason it was established? Age is
not the issue--content is. There are plenty of young people on this list who
ask thoughtful questions and have helpful comments to make, too. But it is
helpful to no one to say, over and over, "oohh, yeah, I just love __________
don't you?" Al is right in saying there are other places on the Internet
where people can and do make posts of that sort.

Elise Curran
ps apologies if this has been addressed previously--catching up on my mail!