Originally Posted by
Albator
I have a passion for ROSS. I love this adult material and her singing. Now, I understand this is not her typical sound but in 1983, I din't know that. It was sophisticated and cold, distant, mysterious. I think she lost the album for many reasons and she lost an opportunity to find a new direction. "Swept away" was more a patchwork album whose aim something to please for everyone.
Overall, I also think she was a better singer in the eighties than before. She puts more of herself in the songs, even the weaker, and there were many many weak songs. Now being a better singer doesn't translate into a good album or even a good sound. As a producer she killed her voice and also, on many occasion she was lazy with her vocals.
I have a problem with Eaten Alive. She sings to high, or they ad speed in her voice, like on "swept away" and "telephone". I love those two, but she was not capable to perform them on stage as they were on her LP.
Even this silly boasting song "tell me again" was a winner.
She put the best of all that in her Motown albums, not in WO.
Unfortunatly, the nineties were formated by Houston and lattely by Carey, Celine Dion. A sophisticated singer like Diana Ross seemed anti climatic in those days, especialy at 45.
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