On 05/03/2013 03:38 PM, Victor A. Stoichita wrote:
Do you know Florence Foster Jenkins (1868-1944)<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Florence_Foster_Jenkins>? Hers is a weird career: the main reason for her success - and for her making it into posterity - was that she sang so badly with such a great confidence. Hear for example her rendition of the Queen of the Night: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V6ubiUIxbWE Someone pointed it to me while I was researching on musical humor. It certainly makes many people laugh. It is unclear however whether F. Jenkins realised*at all* her lack of talent. This could make things less funny, and even pathetic if her misjudgement was caused by some psychological trouble (however, nothing else stands for this hypothesis - she seems to have had a perfectly normal life otherwise). Some people also hold her as a model of perseverance. Perseverance characterizes unrecognized geniuses, but it could be even more heroic when you're no genious at all! Others still say that she had built up a deliberately parodic character, which she liked to take offstage, into her social life, etc. Anyway, if she had sung in the modern studio depicted in Bearcat's video, things would probably have turned out differently. Victor
That's just one vocalist! What about a complete band? The Shaggs - My Pal Foot Foot http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxG7HdTRaa4 Regards, Jeremy _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
