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The first time I ever heard a snippet of one of her songs years ago, I didn't like her voice, even though I didn't know who it was. Now a movie I just saw, which I otherwise like very much, features one of her songs in one scene. I have to fast forward the DVD; her voice just grates on my nerves.
Although the only exposure I've had to her is from watching The Trip to Italy where they're playing it on the car stereo. Her voice sounds shapeless and paper thin to me, but then most modern pop sounds that way to me.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)Can't make out a word she screeches.
intaglio
(8,170 posts)Isn't it ironic?
Enrique
(27,461 posts)it's either her or Sheryl Crow, I forget.
Aristus
(66,081 posts)n/t
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)I enjoyed her performance as God in Dogma.
I think she's really pretty and her voice doesn't bother me but she doesn't make music I would buy even though I didn't mind You Oughtta Know.
My kids liked her on that Nickelodeon show and I tend to be in favor of people that make my kids happy.
And that's about all I know of her.
Brigid
(17,621 posts)I just really don't like her voice.
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)so I may not be the very best judge of voices.
My cats were both beside me on the couch, but when this started, they jumped up and ran into the other room! They're still glaring at me from the doorway!
sorry kitties!
Mine is used to it - although she is 17 so may just not give a crap any more.
sharp_stick
(14,400 posts)I mean just go with Zamfir and call it a day man!
OriginalGeek
(12,132 posts)lol
mackerel
(4,412 posts)cemaphonic
(4,138 posts)She did this though, so at least she has a good sense of humor:
WhiteAndNerdy
(365 posts)It's mostly the voice for me, too. I actually like the melody and arrangement of "One Hand in My Pocket" or whatever it's called, but the lyrics are awful and her voice even worse.
Jenoch
(7,720 posts)NaturalHigh
(12,778 posts)I was just watching some of it on youtube the other night. She's not for everyone, though. My wife won't let me play it with her in the car.
Feral Child
(2,086 posts)She does a couple of numbers where the lyrics are insipid, one I can think of is a bit self-absorbed, but generally I really like her.
She's the theme of one of my Pandora stations.
Number9Dream
(1,558 posts)bigwillq
(72,790 posts)always have. went to one of her concerts during her peak and it was great.
The Velveteen Ocelot
(115,270 posts)I've heard the name but I don't think I'd recognize any of her songs.
nolabear
(41,915 posts)I like The Pogues and Sid Vicious, for Chrissake! She just hits those drawn out flat notes and I want to crawl under something.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)Me? I have no problems with her voice
geardaddy
(24,924 posts)I loves me some Lucinda.
Tom Ripley
(4,945 posts)closeupready
(29,503 posts)with emoting, or maybe she just was never very vocally talented, but no, I don't like her.
Don't cry for her though - she apparently made beaucoups de bucks on tech investments from the proceeds of her 90's success, and could just coast along through the rest of her life. That may be what she's actually doing since I haven't really heard much about her in the last ten years or so.
frogmarch
(12,145 posts)I'd never heard of her till I read your post, so I listened to some of her songs on You Tube. Her voice isn't unpleasant, but her ornamentation, if that's what it is, does sound yodelish, as another posted pointed out.
KamaAina
(78,249 posts)Don't you think?
tabbycat31
(6,336 posts)I will admit I had the JLP CD and it was one of the albums I bought in high school. However, it's probably THE MOST OVERPLAYED album there ever is, and to this day I can't stand a single song off that album.
Arugula Latte
(50,566 posts)We actually have that CD. I liked it for a few listens, and then every time after that her voice started grating on me a little more and more, to the point where I can't hear those songs, especially that stupid "one hand in my pocket" thing.
geardaddy
(24,924 posts)I thought she was good in "Weeds"
aikoaiko
(34,127 posts)...blaring that song while pounding her hands on the steering wheel and shaking her head.
The new GF didn't like it so much.
AM was a fun act in the 1990s. Kind of the pop end of 1990s women rocker era.