james_nicoll ([info]james_nicoll) wrote,
@ 2008-12-01 15:10:00
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I don't know what to make of this
Jann Arden's voice in her cover of Son of a Preacher Man sounds like Dolly Parton's.

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[info]mjlayman
2008-12-02 04:38 am UTC (link)
I don't know who Jann Arden is, so why does it surprise you? She's Canadian and doesn't have the accent?

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[info]james_nicoll
2008-12-02 05:29 am UTC (link)
She's a fairly well-known singer up here. It's not just the accent. Her voice isn't anything like Parton's. Except I guess when it is.

Her songs tend to be sad and bittersweet or sad and angry but she's pretty funny in person (I saw her when she was in town a few years ago, when Bob Kemmis opened for her [1]). Her version of Jann Arden singing a Leonard Cohen song really has to be heard in person...

I see wikipedia has the Juno Awards thing:

the 2006 Juno Awards, to counter host Pamela Anderson's on-stage anti-seal hunting rant, Arden generated cheers when she jokingly told the audience that her bra was "made entirely of seal eyelids".

1: I knew I was going to pick up his CD during his first song, Freak Luck when he got to this line:

“Freak luck put a car in the way / I wasn’t looking for love but our eyes met/ As I bounced off your Chevrolet”.

His second song began "Well, I'm scarred [...]".

I also sometimes play his Stop Sucking as background music for certain books.

Stop sucking, stop sucking, I gave forty dollars to a scalper and you're sucking, I can't believe you'd be such a let down.

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[info]mjlayman
2008-12-02 05:51 am UTC (link)
LOL Okay, I can see why you'd like Kemmis! But do you really mean "Her version of Jann Arden singing..."?

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[info]james_nicoll
2008-12-02 05:53 am UTC (link)
She was making fun of her own stuff. It was like Eeyore Sings Sylvia Plath.

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[info]chuk_g
2008-12-02 09:27 pm UTC (link)
Yeah, that's the thing about her -- her songs tend to be moody-ish, kind of sad, but every time I hear her interviewed or see her on TV she is hilarious. I quite like her cover album but didn't see the Dolly Parton thing...maybe that's only obvious if you listen to more Dolly Parton?

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