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  • Trios…

    Trios…

    What do you get when you have singing groups of three? Trios, of course!

    I am currently involved with a project on SingSnap.com that requires me to sing a song with two other women. We’re trying to decide what song we want to sing together. It’s not so easy, though, because I don’t really know these women too well. We all kind of have different tastes and styles. Because we need to pick a song soon and I want to be helpful, I figured today would be a good day to write a post about trios– specifically female trios.

    When I think of this topic, the first thing that comes to mind is the legendary trio consisting of Linda Ronstadt, Dolly Parton, and Emmylou Harris. Back in 1987, they came together on a project they called Trio and made gems like this…


    Oh, heavenly harmonies! “To Know Him Is To Love Him” is a great trio song.

    Then I started to think about newer trios… like Destiny’s Child.


    I must admit, I am more familiar with the version of “Emotion” Samantha Sang did in the 70s. But the tight harmonies on “Emotion” are very appealing, aren’t they?

    Unfortunately, the Bee Gees aren’t down with allowing their music on SingSnap.com, so that song is out. Back to the drawing board.

    What about the Dixie Chicks? They’re a trio and they are all over SingSnap.com! So let’s see…


    How about “Wide Open Spaces”? That song is a classic.

    Of course, if we wanted to do an 80s style trio, we could channel a little Bananarama.


    I always liked this song… It may be a little too pop, though it is a bonafide trio effort!

    Or we could go really old school and try an Andrews Sisters hit. Remember “Don’t Sit Under the Apple Tree”?


    This might be pretty hard to pull off… Gotta love those harmonies, though.

    The Maguire Sisters were a little more soulful…


    The 50s and 60s may be the best source for finding good trios!

    This could be a real project for me this weekend. Anyone have other suggestions for good songs for female trios? Feel free to leave me a comment!

  • The Daily Awesome – January 6, 2010: Kelly Rowland “Rose Colored Glasses”

    Kelly Rowland ”Rose Colored Glasses”
    You gotta root for Kelly Rowland, having grown up almost literally in Beyonce’s shadow, as the perennial #2 of Destiny’s Child. Though she’s already put out two solo albums, and scored a couple of minor hits, she hasn’t put out that definitive record yet, and you have to wonder just how much her career has been helped or hindered by her association with longtime manager (and Beyonce’s dad) Mathew Knowles – an association that finally ended in 2009.

    While Rowland, who turns 30 in February, is still readying her third album – her first for UniversalMotown – for release later this year, she put out a cluster of great singles in 2010, including “Commander”, with frequent collaborator David Guetta, and the sassy, Ne-Yo co-penned “Grown Woman”.

    But my favorite of the bunch so far is “Rose Colored Glasses”, a grand, heart-wounded ballad about a relationship that looks good on the outside, but is rotting from within. Co-written by Ester Dean and Swedish pop mastermind Dr. Luke – the man who gave us Taio Cruz’s “Dynamite” and virtually the entire Ke$ha oeuvre – it’s an uncharacteristically emotionally raw song that, both in terms of sound and subject matter, seems like it might have been intended for Rihanna. But, let there be no doubt, Rowland owns this song, delivering it with enviable strength, stunning elegance, and an honesty devoid of self-pity that she projects both outward and inward, telling herself as much as she’s telling the listener: Everything seems amazing when you’re looking through rose colored glasses – Take ’em off.

  • Is Beyonce’s “Sasha Fierce” Just Another Sasha Farce??

    I want to like Beyonce. Really I do. She’s fantastic looking. She has a fantastic voice. However, over the course of four Destiny’s Child albums and now three solo albums, she’s mostly struck me as the musical equivalent of a ton of pretty wrapping paper with no gift inside. All style and no substance. As a songwriter, she’s not especially insightful, and it doesn’t really seem like she inhabits the songs she sings the same way some less talented but more believable vocalists do. So, to make a long story short, just about every album Beyonce has been a part of has been a case of unfulfilled promise and ultimately a frustrating listening experience.

     

     

     

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