Word: falsettos
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Lady Peace's live performance magnified their level of ostentatious posturing. Lead singer Raine Maida achieved neither the dreamy falsetto of Radiohead's Thom Yorke nor the endearing whininess of Smashing Pumpkin's Billy Corgan, but instead settled for a lesser euphony in between. Unlike tours associated with their previous albums Naveed and Clumsy, Maida spent much of the set without a guitar in his hands. Instead, he stumbled around the stage with a placid stare of indifference temporarily disturbed from time to time by unconvincing posture. New keyboardist Jamie Edwards followed Maida's scales precisely on the Moog...
...back. "Sexx Laws" and its driving horns might come straight from the James Brown songbook; other tunes could back up gangsta rap (though it's unlikely Method Man would tolerate this couplet, from "Hollywood Freaks": "We drop lobotomy beats/Evaporated meats"). The fantastically mellow "Debra" even features an impassioned falsetto vocal delivered to the world's most sensuous J.C. Penney clerk. "I wanna get with you," Beck says. "And your sister. I think her name's Debra...
...first single, "I Knew I Loved You," is a good ballad and shows off Hayes' falsetto nicely, but it's only a mild reflection of how poetic the rest of the album is. Affirmation deals not only with romance, but also with the real-life consequences of love and the pain that follows it. As their titles indicate, "I Don't Know You Anymore" and "The Lover After Me" aspire to this more reality-based love song, even though the soft beats and harmony make the melody very pretty. But it's "Two Beds and a Coffee Machine" that truly...
...doubt "The Woman in You." With sparse riffs suggestive of Hendrix's "Castles Made of Sand," the song is both a musical and lyrical delight. Here the brilliant Hendrix lyrics "and so castles made of sand fall into the sea...eventually" become equally brilliant as Harper sings in perpetual falsetto--"the woman in you is the worry in me." The night ended with consummate tribute: Hendrix's "Manic Depression...
Daniels has always been comfortable with falsetto--the son of two South Carolina voice teachers, he warbled soprano arias as a party trick in college--but it was not until his last year at the University of Michigan that it occurred to him to start using it in earnest. After a string of bad performances in 1992 threw him into "a pretty horrible depression," he told a psychotherapist about what he called his "other voice." She replied that both voices came from the same person. Within days he realized his true identity as a singer; just five years later...