taffimai | (no subject)

OW.

And I can't even say I disagree with most of it.

I can't either, alas. Well, I might not plunge to my death to escape it, but ....

*sigh* If Sony decides to do the other two albums in the deal, I really hope they'll either clean house on the production team or make them live albums. I can't imagine John wouldn't put more soul into the performance in front of an audience.

It has been post-productioned to hell and back, really. Even in snatched sessions between filming and appearances and working on the book, I can't believe that John didn't put more emotion into those recordings.

I don't know, it feels a lot like his Reflections from Broadway album to me. I'm just not sure that John's a studio artist.

That's almost exactly my response.

I know. I wish I could disagree, but .... *sighs and hopes for a live album next time*

I don't dislike it, honestly. I have it. It's mixed in with my other forty-something John songs. And I really, really. It's not bad. It's just. John's got a whole lot of heart and soul that aren't in this and more than annoying me, i think it makes me sad.

You know, my mix of John songs ia almost all live recordings. I have to say, none of his studio stuff is all that good. Swings Cole Porter is okay, but compared to the songs from live performances? No comparison.

That's very, very, true. Hell, even his Dancing performance of Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic is better than the recorded one.

And I don't usually LIKE live.

As was his lottery performance of You're So Vain. Yeah, I'm usually not a live fan either, but it seems to be only time John sparks, when he's got people to play to.

Dammit, I missed the lottery preformance. But yeah. I think he needs the energy or something. Which is supposition, but reasonable seeming.

Well, we can't have that. Here, have John.

I JUST FOUND IT AND HOMG that wink and grin.

*fans you* Nice, huh?

I'll be outside cooling off.

...I don't normally respond like that to much of anything, but WOW.

How do you think I feel? I'm gay and I respond to him!

REALLY CONFUSED? HE's just. It's gotta be the charisma. Also what I'm missing in the album.

*flails* Damn the confusing charismatic boy.

Well, *he's* gay, too. That makes it really interesting . . . XD (Not that I should talk, since I also find him teh hawt, utterly hopeless as that is.)

RE: live vs. studio, I've known several musicians, and they all affirm that they're *very* different types of performances. Some folks are good at one, some at another. I know one of my fave regional bands, the Clumsy Lovers are vastly better live (though their new "Smart Kid" album finally starts to approach the quality of their live work).

Does him being gay really matter?

Naaah, not for squeeage. I just get friends teasing me sometimes for being such a fan, commenting on the hotness levels, etc. ("You know he's gay, right?") Well, duh. He's also *married* (or at least civil-partnered), which is equally noteworthy.

I mean, it's not like anyone ever thinks about *seriously* hooking up with the object of celebrity squeeage. Well, not anyone remotely sane, anyway. (Why am I suddenly thinking about that creepy Brent Spiner stalker lady from "Trekkies"? o_O)

Yeah, very much so.

Sorry to butt in here, but I was just watching that performance you linked, and I realized that yeah, it matters, in that the way that I hear the songs changes. When he's singing and is alone, I imagine him singing to and about a man.

And also, it makes some songs change. Like his performance of "Anything You Can Do" with Ruthie Henshall, which he performs such that the song deconstructs masculinity as much as femininity...

Anyway--gah--nobody should be that pretty. He's just... Superman.

Oh, no, I get that. And agree. But we were talking about people teasing her for being attracted to a gay man, and I was wondering why his being gay mattered since it's not like celebrity crushes are ever expected to come to anything.