Now take this performance, add some years of this becoming a signature role in a major hit, then translate it into French, courtesy of Jaques Brel. And sing. it. slooooowly. Like, seriously, add almost 60 seconds to the same number of musical bars. And you get this. It is grotesque. There is nothing more I can say.
11 March 2010
Joan Diener is CRAZY
"Aldonza" from MAN OF LA MANCHA is always a bit much, if you ask me. Easily the most melodramatic lyric ever. Makes anything in CARRIE plausible at conception. And anything is a bit much if you ask Joan Diener to sing it. But on the original cast recording, her reckless chestheadmix soprano is bizzare, wonderful and thrilling.
Now take this performance, add some years of this becoming a signature role in a major hit, then translate it into French, courtesy of Jaques Brel. And sing. it. slooooowly. Like, seriously, add almost 60 seconds to the same number of musical bars. And you get this. It is grotesque. There is nothing more I can say.
Now take this performance, add some years of this becoming a signature role in a major hit, then translate it into French, courtesy of Jaques Brel. And sing. it. slooooowly. Like, seriously, add almost 60 seconds to the same number of musical bars. And you get this. It is grotesque. There is nothing more I can say.
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From the London album onward, Diener took all the songs at a pronounced, almost glacial pace. "It's All the Same" lost its key change, which makes it the best on the OBC - instead she sang the whole thing like an aria in head voice in that higher key for the whole song. I'm not above thinking it was her ploy to give herself more stage time.
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