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SecretMethod70, if that Britney clip is true, I am shocked. I imagined that she wouldn't be as good live as she is on a recording. But that is....appalling.
Which brings me to another interesting topic, which is that a lot of singers who sound great on a recording, just can't cut it live. There are many. Since playing live gigs myself and understanding just how hard it is to stay in tune and keep the balance of your voice just right over a loud crowd and the music blasting (because you can hardly hear yourself in these situations), I have come to appreciate excellent live performers all the more.
Whenever I go to a show these days I can't help but be disappointed if a band or musician I particularly like can't cut it live. It's a make or break thing for me most times.
Britney has no excuse. Whereas bands and musicians playing small gigs often don't have the benefit of monitors to hear what they sound like, Britney is sure to have one in her ear...I know I couldn't live with sucking that badly live...I'd surely quit.
/end threadjack
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Whether we write or speak or do but look
We are ever unapparent. What we are
Cannot be transfused into word or book.
Our soul from us is infinitely far.
However much we give our thoughts the will
To be our soul and gesture it abroad,
Our hearts are incommunicable still.
In what we show ourselves we are ignored.
The abyss from soul to soul cannot be bridged
By any skill of thought or trick of seeming.
Unto our very selves we are abridged
When we would utter to our thought our being.
We are our dreams of ourselves, souls by gleams,
And each to each other dreams of others' dreams.
Fernando Pessoa, 1918
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