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oppositeview-digest      Monday, December 4 2000      Volume 02 : Number 178



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  OV: Re: oppositeview-digest V2 #176                  [klaic@net2000.com.au]

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Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2000 00:47:49 +0100
From: klaic@net2000.com.au
Subject: OV: Re: oppositeview-digest V2 #176

RE: Ronan Keating. 
the first time I saw Ronan Keating with Boyzone, quite a few years ago now I
said "this guy has got something" I knew he had much more to offer than the
group allowed and predicted a successful solo career. Ronan has that magic
ingedient that most singers would kill for.
Pop music has never been about brilliance in vocal technique or complexity
in the music or anything like that. It just has to connect.
I do know there are many frustrated singers and musicians out there who have
devoted their lives to reaching a level of musicianship hopig this will
secure them success and find it difficult to understand why people like
Ronan Keating make it. I understand perfectly.
It's no coinidence that the worlds greatest singers and songwriter are self
taught hacks who have never had a lesson in their lives. If you want to
measure talent by technique or method, then you could say thet John Lennon
was talentless. Not a very good singer, and a god awful guitarist. But so
what, he connected with people and thats all that counts.  This brings me to
a point I'd like to make about DelAmitri's music. They now sound too much
like musicians and not artists. A band for other musicians but not for the
general pop market out their.
I just bought U2's new album and I think it's great. They still sound like a
bunch of self taught guys jamming away in a garage somewhere, not concerned
at all about how many notes they play but rather which notes they playing.

Go Ronan!

Nick James
Melbourne Australia




>Ronan Keating's bemusing solo rise will no doubt continue with this
plodding
>rock ballad, part-penned by Bryan Adams.
>
>Sure he's a nice bloke with a decent voice but how many million of those
are
>there kicking cans around countless high streets of a Saturday afternoon?
>For when Ronan steps out from the comforting ranks of Boyzone every now and
>again, you realise just how ordinary he is. Hell, perhaps that's his
appeal.
>
>Whatever. But, while 'The Way You Make Me Feel' will do its utmost to top
>the charts, there's no escaping the fact that it really is plainly and
>simply ordinary. And that, despite its Canadian rock legend origins, it
>sounds like a Del Amitri B-side. Surely we expect more from our pop stars
>ladies and gentlemen!
>
>But there really is worse to come. Not in the shape of 'Song To...' which
is
>vague and shapeless and totally forgettable. But in the guise of a cover of
>The Pogues' 'Fairy Tale Of New York', recently covered during Keating's
live
>shows. This duet with Clannad's Maire Brennan is slick, soul-free and
>lacking any of the magical, drunken, snow-sprinkled romance of Shane
>MacGowan and Kirsty MacColl's original.
>
>In fact it gives ordinary a bad name.
>- --------------------------
>
>Kevin Cawthorne
>www.delamitri.co.uk
>
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