Julie Fowlis - gaelic singer
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If you're sick of overrated female singers who undress at any available opportunity, I hope you will enjoy the beauty and mystery of the voice of Julie Fowlis from the Outer Hebrides. Listen with headphones for maximum effect:
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Great voice. The language takes some time getting used to, but not bad. I like Irish folk-songs, and this comes close to it (or maybe it is? ). Reminds me of The Corrs and Celtic Woman.
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Great voice. The language takes some time getting used to, but not bad. I like Irish folk-songs, and this comes close to it (or maybe it is? ). Reminds me of The Corrs and Celtic Woman.
even if you don't understand it, I think there is an expressiveness in the langauge itself. I see the mainstream western music as a sort of cutural imperialism - it tends to wipe out all native forms of expression; we have to make a special effort to preserve other musical traditions. more importantly- these are great musicians, not an auto-tune in sight.
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Did anybody else listen and enjoy or otherwise?
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Adrian A:
dance-tonight:
Great voice. The language takes some time getting used to, but not bad. I like Irish folk-songs, and this comes close to it (or maybe it is? ). Reminds me of The Corrs and Celtic Woman.
even if you don't understand it, I think there is an expressiveness in the langauge itself. I see the mainstream western music as a sort of cutural imperialism - it tends to wipe out all native forms of expression; we have to make a special effort to preserve other musical traditions. more importantly- these are great musicians, not an auto-tune in sight.
I don't think it's a bad thing, mainly because I like western music the most, as I'm someone who is grown up in Europe. Yes, she has a good voice, doesn't need auto-tune.
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Adrian A:
dance-tonight:
Great voice. The language takes some time getting used to, but not bad. I like Irish folk-songs, and this comes close to it (or maybe it is? ). Reminds me of The Corrs and Celtic Woman.
even if you don't understand it, I think there is an expressiveness in the langauge itself. I see the mainstream western music as a sort of cutural imperialism - it tends to wipe out all native forms of expression; we have to make a special effort to preserve other musical traditions. more importantly- these are great musicians, not an auto-tune in sight.
I don't think it's a bad thing, mainly because I like western music the most, as I'm someone who is grown up in Europe. Yes, she has a good voice, doesn't need auto-tune.
I don't deny that there is some great mainstream music, it's just that it's been allowed to steamroller its way through everything else. Partly it's due to our obsession with celebrity.
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Adrian A:
dance-tonight:
Adrian A:
dance-tonight:
Great voice. The language takes some time getting used to, but not bad. I like Irish folk-songs, and this comes close to it (or maybe it is? ). Reminds me of The Corrs and Celtic Woman.
even if you don't understand it, I think there is an expressiveness in the langauge itself. I see the mainstream western music as a sort of cutural imperialism - it tends to wipe out all native forms of expression; we have to make a special effort to preserve other musical traditions. more importantly- these are great musicians, not an auto-tune in sight.
I don't think it's a bad thing, mainly because I like western music the most, as I'm someone who is grown up in Europe. Yes, she has a good voice, doesn't need auto-tune.
I don't deny that there is some great mainstream music, it's just that it's been allowed to steamroller its way through everything else. Partly it's due to our obsession with celebrity.
At the end of the day, it all comes to a matter of taste. I also often think "how can some people listen to this crap", but then I think "Well, it's their taste, so why not? They can listen to what they want and I listen to what I want."
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That is based on the premise that people make rational judgements about music, and their tastes are not guided and directed by the mass media and its all-encompassing tentacles. If you market something ad infinitum, the masses will end up singing in chorus to their tune: Go Compare, Go Compare! etc etc Edit : for non-UK readers, "Go Compare" is the current brainwashing trend on our televisual screens
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But at least I have to like it. I don't care if it's mainstream or not, I just have to like it if I want to listen to it.
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But at least I have to like it. I don't care if it's mainstream or not, I just have to like it if I want to listen to it.
I agree, but what I'm saying that many people don't have any critical judgement skills and just like something because it is popular - just like they admire celebs just for their fame. I imagine the situation is better in Germany as our education system in the UK is dire. It's not just that critical thinking is dead, but thinking is dead, and it suits the media that this is so - we will willingly submit to their brainwashing and shite.
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Adrian A:
dance-tonight:
But at least I have to like it. I don't care if it's mainstream or not, I just have to like it if I want to listen to it.
I agree, but what I'm saying that many people don't have any critical judgement skills and just like something because it is popular - just like they admire celebs just for their fame. I imagine the situation is better in Germany as our education system in the UK is dire. It's not just that critical thinking is dead, but thinking is dead, and it suits the media that this is so - we will willingly submit to their brainwashing and shite.
Sadly it's not better in Germany. I agree with everything you said, people like Paris Hilton would never be famous in the 60s or so for doing nothing.
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Julie has a very pleasant voice, I wouldn't call it "great." It sounds very ethnic Irish and I like Irish folk music a lot. It's just that her singing voice doesn't blow me away, to tell the truth. But I'd listen to a whole cd by them. The Cranberries have a new album coming out after many years. Deloris O' Riordan has a stronger voice than Julie's, which I prefer, also featuring a plaintive Irish lilt. I don't know if you consider the Cranberries too commercial or not. I happened to see that about their new album just the other day.
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SusyLuvsPaul:
Julie has a very pleasant voice, I wouldn't call it "great." It sounds very ethnic Irish and I like Irish folk music a lot. It's just that her singing voice doesn't blow me away, to tell the truth. But I'd listen to a whole cd by them. The Cranberries have a new album coming out after many years. Deloris O' Riordan has a stronger voice than Julie's, which I prefer, also featuring a plaintive Irish lilt. I don't know if you consider the Cranberries too commercial or not. I happened to see that about their new album just the other day.
I think that this style is not supposed to blow you away, but gently life you up on the breeze. It is simple, understated and pure - unlike the plastic divas that dominate the airwaves and undress at every opportunitie. She is probably the most highly rated singer in her style right now. I will listen to the cranberries and let you know what I think.
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Ok, the Cranberries are an Irish Rock band, so it's not really the same style at all - listening to them, there may be hints of folk, but western pop/ rock seems to have stronger influence on their music than any indigenous culture. There's a lot of similarities between Irish and other gaelic music, but Julie Fowlis is specifically a Scottish gaelic singer who sings in her mother tongue - which is a skill and an art form in itself.
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Fowlis just sounds a bit ordinary to my ears, that's all. I've heard a lot of other female Irish and or Scottish singers who sound like her. Well, you asked. I did say I'd like to have a cd by her and that band.
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You had never heard the Cranberries before?
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SusyLuvsPaul:
Fowlis just sounds a bit ordinary to my ears, that's all. I've heard a lot of other female Irish and or Scottish singers who sound like her. Well, you asked. I did say I'd like to have a cd by her and that band.
To be honest, I'm not expert enough to say for sure - I like her voice, and it sounds pitch perfect, pure and clean and not too strong (which I see as a benefit for the style). However, I do rate the other musicians who I know are Scotland's finest.
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SusyLuvsPaul:
You had never heard the Cranberries before?
Sorry, I have been a geek and lived in a closet. Heard of them, but never actually heard them. I never listen to music on radio which doesn't help.
