If music be the food of love
Dec. 29th, 2005 09:55 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
theatokosI have no idea why but I have been having a good voice week. I've actually been vocalizing and practicing a song. I've decided to start over, to try to get out of this big ol' block that I've been in the middle of for.... what feels like years. I've pulled out the first song I was ever given to sing - "Drink to me only" at age 14. I've pulled out the first vocal excersizes I was given from my first voice teacher at 16. It feels really good to sing operatically again. I don't think I want to sing opera, I'd really love to sing other stuff. I want to be a gospel singer! Something big and "black" like that. But for now I'll just settle on enjoying the sound of my own voice. It's an unfamiliar phenomenon.
I wonder if my hip hop/R&B kick has anything to do with it. Part of it is having use of a car and rocking out to the radio to and from work. Kanye West is getting me all kinds of inspired. There's a great new Mary J Blige song that has me wondering why I never paid attention to her before. She's got such a rich, straight forward R&B voice. I can hear the gospel background in it, it's not all ridiculous like Mariah Carey's. There's a silly little hit that also has me enamoured, "So Sick of Love Songs" by some guy unfortunately called Neo. I'm even enjoying Beyonce. And I make no appologies!
I wonder if my hip hop/R&B kick has anything to do with it. Part of it is having use of a car and rocking out to the radio to and from work. Kanye West is getting me all kinds of inspired. There's a great new Mary J Blige song that has me wondering why I never paid attention to her before. She's got such a rich, straight forward R&B voice. I can hear the gospel background in it, it's not all ridiculous like Mariah Carey's. There's a silly little hit that also has me enamoured, "So Sick of Love Songs" by some guy unfortunately called Neo. I'm even enjoying Beyonce. And I make no appologies!