Kelly Rowland’s first solo record was so, so, so, so, so good. Honestly 2nd only to Diary in my heart from that period.
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Beyonce spent a long-ass time in love with her own VERY mediocre vocal fireworks. From jump, Kelly just got it. Instinctual awareness of how to improvise in a way that brought out everything good in a song rather than getting in the way of the song.
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I am going to do a compare and contrast between Every Time You Walk Out That Door and Dangerously In Love as a class in how vocal improvisation works.
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HOWEVER, it is nothing short of genius how post-Matthew Queen Bey disciplined her teenaged/young adult tendency towards extra for extra’s sake into a sense of being able to do EVERYTHING.
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For a long time Beyonce doing the most read as tacky, like 90% of outfits Tina designed (sorry not sorry). But she managed to discipline it into doing the most as like... superhuman.
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(Also whoever buried Beyoncé’s riffs behind the melody line in Dangerously In Love is the R E A L MVP. But they were also responsible for that awful delayed echo in the bridge, so...)
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Also I was kinda shading dangerously in love but I adore that song, lol. She’s still doing too much but actually it works for the song in a way it doesn’t for, say, Jumpin Jumpin. (And barely works for Say My Name. I want to hear Kelly’s riffs over that chorus, tbh.)
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Oh also Michelle can’t sing at all. Just. While I’m talking about Destiny’s Child. Her high notes are ALWAYS strained and thin. I can’t stand her, lol.
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