I'm was never mad on KT Tunstall. We watched The Devil Wears Prada last night, which I got sent at work as a preview DVD, which is absolute toss by the way, except for the silently menacing Meryl Streep.
Anyway, the theme tune is Suddenly I See by KT, a song I've never really liked before. I don't like it much now to be honest, but I've often found that when a song becomes a film theme song I start to think of them differently, and it really hit me what a good voice she has, like her or not.
I often fantasise about songs I know and love being used over the opening credits of films.
Can you imagine a film about Liverpool with Liverpool Lullaby playing over the credits? It's dusk, lights twinkle across the Mersey as we pan across run-down rooftops and focus in on a shabby terraced house, with kids playing footy in the street, etc. It would be perfect. Everyone in Liverpool would hate it though.
But going back to KT Tunstall, Suddenly I See was perfect against the New York fashionista backdrop, funnily enough. Saying I don't have much time for her, I actually really like her song The Other Side Of The World, a true classic in the making. Quiet moving really. She has got a powerful voice. But female singers come and go, don't they.
Joan Osbourne, Rosie Vela, Suzanne Vega, Michelle Shocked, Gail Ann Dorsey, Helen Terry, Catherine Howe, all once the next big thing, one big album or single then disappear, if not forever, at least for a considerable period. I believe Joan has a new album out any day now. I liked One Of Us very much. But I couldn't name any other song.
I'm a big fan of the lone female voice. Sandy Denny, Linda Thompson, Maddy Prior, Karen Carpenter, Judie Tzuke, Sarah McClachlan, Shelagh McDonald, Jacquie McShee - pure voices, folky voices, voices of angels, it must be said.
Linda Thompson has possibly the most lovely voice ever. When I saw her a few years ago and she did Dimming Of The Day, it was as much as I could do not to fall to the floor in a sobbing heap, so beautiful it was.
KT has got a long way to go be even a sixth as good as Linda. But you never know.
Friday, January 05, 2007
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3 comments:
I saw The Devil Wears Prada. It's not so funny when you've worked in the world of the publishing nutcase, is it? And I hate the concept of 'ugly duckling, who never was ugly, anyway, turning into a swan' in movies.
I really don't understand KT either. For me, she seems to fit into that category of 'music for people who don't like music, but feel they ought to buy something'. It's hard for female artists, and I suppose I admire Ms T for being a singer/songwriter, which at least give you some power as an artist. I quite like Amy Winehouse as a performer, but as a person? What do you make of a girl who gobs on the studio floor of Never Mind The Buzzcocks and seems a most unlikeable young woman?
Give me Kathryn Williams any day. No bother, and with that Linda Thompson-esque ability to make you blub. Not that it takes much with me.
I first heard Tunsatll on the Mark Radcliffe show a couple of years ago. It was a few months before the album was released at any rate. It was just her, an acoustic guitar and something called an Akai Echobox. She gradually built all these vocal backing parts, hand claps and a bass line into this piece of kit but making it sound like part of the song as she was going along.
I was extremely impressed at the time, and the first single, Black Horse and the Cherry Tree sounded as though it'd been recorded using this method. I remembered her name, got her album and thought it had at least half a dozen really strong songs on it. Which is probably why so many singles got lifted off it. Although I'd say that it dips a bit in the middle.
Unlike a lot of the other female acts you mentioned there, she's had a massive selling album and some international success too. I think she could be in for the long haul, but Eye to the Telescope will be her biggest seller, I fancy.
I agree with Clair about the 'people who don't like music' thing, but I'd say Tunstall is a cut above that. Unlike Sandi sodding Thom............
Did you notice Suddenly I See over the end credits of Ugly Betty on Friday? I bet KT's raking it in...
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