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Her voice sounds like, well, little more than air, and not in a good way, and there's not an ounce of enthusiasm to it, as I hear it
In what way? Do you mean that it's not audible enough? She's not hollering like, say, Amerie on '1 Thing' - not conveying wild, pull-your-own-hair crazed enthusiasm in that sense, but I think there's room for more than one approach. I said of 'Goodies' (which, I need to correct myself by saying, was produced by Lil Jon) in another thread "there's very little in the way of release, and this is as true of the vocals as anything else. There's maybe one moment where Ciara cuts loose with her lungs, the rest of the time it's just this kind of tight-lipped mutter..." - I think that holds true for '1, 2 Step' as well.
Everything's sublimated into this strict insistence on dancing. The title is describing quite a small movement, and when I hear that song, it makes me think of a very precise, disciplined sort of dancing. The human body voluntarily converted into as accurate a time-keeping machine as possible, tightly regimented, under the control of the beat. I find it almost teutonic, actually. Certainly not bland. |
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