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OMG anyone else watching Shania Twain at Glasto?

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Ihaveahamster · 30/06/2024 16:16

She’s absolutely awful!

Her voice is harsh and rough, she’s out of tune and out of rhythm. Dreadful.

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ohmydays37 · 30/06/2024 17:14

Ihaveahamster · 30/06/2024 16:22

She’s reminiscent of a drunk old bird singing karaoke in my local. Actually feel sorry for her.

Thats hilliariousbut true

JenniferBooth · 30/06/2024 17:13

Oh i wanted to see this. Missed it cos my TV guide says 6.15pm if this or that changes re. football and i cant be arsed to work it out

Mitsky · 30/06/2024 17:10

A huge number of artists use playback (backing tracks / extra vocals / additional instruments that wouldn’t be played by those on stage). I used to know a band who played additional crowd noise at the end of a song to make it sound like the crowd were going wilder than they were.

Also the sound mix on the bbc broadcast is known for being appalling, what we’re hearing on tv will be different to what you hear in the audience. However I agree she’s not hitting the notes, I wouldn’t necessarily leap to blame her audio team though.

magnoliablooms · 30/06/2024 17:10

Samcro · 30/06/2024 16:59

I doubt if the poster is playing the legend spot

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There we go then

Anjo2011 · 30/06/2024 17:08

It wasn’t great was it, not sure if she had sound problems or her voice just wasn’t on top form today.

LlynTegid · 30/06/2024 17:08

Miming is a form of deception. There should be a law that you have to be told of miming before you buy any gig or festival ticket, if not you get a 100% refund. And tv companies should be obliged to tell you, just as they do about 'strong language'.

There would be almost none if that was the case.

MrsMonzo · 30/06/2024 17:07

She wasn't amazing, but as a big Shania Twain fan I went into full on mum-mode singing along wearing my cowboy hat. The kids actually left the room out of embarrassment for me.

FailBetter · 30/06/2024 17:06

Stevie Nicks - she could do the slot?

Shittification · 30/06/2024 17:06

She's 58 years old.

By MN standards that's teetering on the edge of dementia, drawers full of lavender bags and carers twice a day.

Saw some of her costumes at a museum in the US a couple of years ago. They were absolutely tiny. Like teeny-tiny, for a Barbie doll. Looks like they would still fit her!

Isittimeformynapyet · 30/06/2024 17:05

LDNtiliDie · 30/06/2024 16:51

Her voice isn’t great now, but she’s doing OK. I think she looks amazing! And like she’s having a great time.

Agree with pp about the legend slot often being a bit of a letdown because the artist’s voice has deteriorated. Or sometimes because it’s an artist who never had a great voice to begin with and who just cannot make a live acoustic act on that scale work, without all the bells and whistles (thinking in years gone by Janet Jackson, who was shocking and Kylie who was appalling, although it was a fun performance.

Elton John was brilliant, though. I’m not especially a fan, but he got a new level of respect from me for his performance last year.

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Are you sure Janet Jackson and Kylie did acoustic performances at Glastonbury?

Kitkat1523 · 30/06/2024 17:04

PurplePanda1 · 30/06/2024 16:18

I suppose at least we know she’s singing live 😂

🤣🤣🤣

JaneJeffer · 30/06/2024 17:03

Or maybe it's the fact she keeps fiddling with it

MartyFunkhouser · 30/06/2024 17:03

The comments on Twitter are hilarious.

FailBetter · 30/06/2024 17:03

They should have grabbed Girls Aloud for this slot.

SilverSimca · 30/06/2024 17:03

soupfiend · 30/06/2024 16:50

Is it? If thats what she sounds like? Sounds just like an off the cuff comparison to me, nothing significant.

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In public, yes, I do think it's not nice, quite apart from the misogyny. Do I think she is singing brilliantly? No, but I'm still entertained.Would I describe her on a public forum which she could read as being like a "drunk old bird"? No. "She is singing as if she is drunk", fine. "Old bird", rude.

Mykittensmittens · 30/06/2024 17:01

It’s her timing which is very slightly out - there is a problem with her earpiece it’s obvious to anyone who’s ever used one and sang with any background noise. She’s fractionally behind the music and that’s distorted everything. On the ballads the notes don’t move as quickly so it doesn’t pronounce as badly. That plus the alteration to her voice down to her illness and it’s a bad mix. She’s also singing some familiar bits in different key, presumably to accommodate the change to her voice.

(I’m not a fan, but I do come from a family with more that one person who does stage and concert singing and have spent a lot of my life around live music)

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 30/06/2024 17:01

Ihaveahamster · 30/06/2024 17:01

Just singing the same alto note and allowing the backing singers to carry the melody

Yes I noticed that.

LDNtiliDie · 30/06/2024 17:01

Right, enjoyed that last one but the football is on!

RaraRachael · 30/06/2024 17:01

@Lifeomars I had a totally different opinion of Dexy's performance .
Funny how people hear things differently isn't it?

WhiteWriting · 30/06/2024 17:01

Having sat through that man, I feel like a vodka. She's slower than the music.

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 30/06/2024 17:01

Yes her band are great

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Ihaveahamster · 30/06/2024 17:01

Just singing the same alto note and allowing the backing singers to carry the melody

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Appalonia · 30/06/2024 17:00

Fortunately the crowd is singing this for her!

Samcro · 30/06/2024 17:00

Her band are good

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