For Your Eyes Only - Sheena Easton

[devogue]

I was unfortunate enough to hear this on the radio today and I was struck by how dreadful a singer Sheena Easton really is.

I mean, forget for a second that the song is complete pap and just focus on her performance. You can hear her straining to reach notes because her voice becomes nasal (like that donkey Kylie Minogue), and she completely loses the plot at this line:

The passions that collide in me

Her voice breaks and she is so obviously flat - I don't know why they didn't just transpose it lower, but the notes in that song shouldn't remotely stretch even a mediocre soprano. It's shocking that such a high profile song has been produced so badly and that no one seems to have pulled the talentless woman who sings it.

[charlou]

She had potential but didn't reach it. Her voice is too tight.

[colubridae]

I was unfortunate enough to hear this on the radio today and I was struck by how dreadful a singer Sheena Easton really is.

I mean, forget for a second that the song is complete pap and just focus on her performance. You can hear her straining to reach notes because her voice becomes nasal (like that donkey Kylie Minogue), and she completely loses the plot at this line:

The passions that collide in me

Her voice breaks and she is so obviously flat - I don't know why they didn't just transpose it lower, but the notes in that song shouldn't remotely stretch even a mediocre soprano. It's shocking that such a high profile song has been produced so badly and that no one seems to have pulled the talentless woman who sings it.

so that's null points, then.

[devogue]

She had potential but didn't reach it. Her voice is too tight.

Her vibrato ("shaking" voice) is pretty good and she is competent in the lower range, but that's about it. She must have been shagging someone.

btw - Diana Ross's voice is piss poor as well - she is by far the weakest of The Supremes.

[Bella Fortuna]

You should start a thread on famous/successful singers who are really shite.

[BlackBart]

Poor girl can't hold a high note at all. She has to sing 'only for yure'

[BlackBart]

Still, couldn't be much worse than this...

[devogue]

Still, couldn't be much worse than this...

Oh God the horror. I can't even play that again, knowing how terrible it is.

[devogue]

Poor girl can't hold a high note at all. She has to sing 'only for yure'

Exactly.

[BlackBart]

Still, couldn't be much worse than this...

Oh God the horror. I can't even play that again, knowing how terrible it is.

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[Posse Comitatus]

Duran Duran are still at times a bit amazing though. The Reflex anyone?

[Xamonas Chegwé]

Duran Duran are still at times a bit amazing though. The Reflex anyone?

You cannot possibly be such an 80s whore! I call poe! Are you Mandy?

[Posse Comitatus]

Duran Duran are still at times a bit amazing though. The Reflex anyone?

You cannot possibly be such an 80s whore! I call poe! Are you Mandy?

Probably not Mandy in the sense of whoever it is you're referring to.


If you're referring to Mandy as in Peter Mandelson (you probably aren't) I have been told I look like him quite often but I don't much see the resemblance. In fact recently a photo of me was uploaded to Facebook at a party with a clumsily tied bowtie and a collar all haphazard and sticking over my jacket with the caption 'Who invited Peter Mandelson?' in block capitals even though lovely Peter would never be seen dead in such a state of sartorial disarray.

I wish I was Mandelson though because he is a beautiful, beautiful human being.

[drl2]

There are worse Sheena Easton songs you could have chosen...