Page 7 | OMG anyone else watching Shania Twain at Glasto?

Ihaveahamster · 2024-06-30T15:16:55+00:00

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

tothelefttotheleft · 30/06/2024 16:53

Karmakamelion · 30/06/2024 16:28

Saw here recently and she's amazing. Some of the stuff written on here is just awful

Why? It's true.

It's like watching Katie Price doing Shania Twain.

Isobel201 · 30/06/2024 16:53

Concerts make all singers sound worse than they really are, partly why I don't bother with them. But as mentioned above, she has had lyme disease which has affected her voice.

WhiteWriting · 30/06/2024 16:53

Surely that ballad was mimed? A complete voice uplift from before.

Willmafrockfit · 30/06/2024 16:53

keane sounded brilliant, what a voice! perhaps not a legend slot,

TwigletsAndRadishes · 30/06/2024 16:52

Summerhillsquare · 30/06/2024 16:46

Not as bad as Dexys Midnight Runners yesterday, oh god.

She really doesn't look or sound like Shania Twain though.

Didn't watch it, but I was just listening to a beautiful, slow Dexys track on my headphones yesterday and thinking how fantastic KR's voice was. That confirms my view that almost no-one sounds any good when watching Glasto on the telly.

MartyFunkhouser · 30/06/2024 16:52

😱 we had to switch off, mostly through embarrassment.

I’ve never heard anything worse!

Flairswoo · 30/06/2024 16:52

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Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 30/06/2024 16:52

It seems a lot better now

Willmafrockfit · 30/06/2024 16:51

she is ok, not brilliant, i never was a fan, i only know one tune i think, and that;s That dont impress me much, ironic!

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.

DannyLovesFanny · 30/06/2024 16:51

FailBetter · 30/06/2024 16:27

Vote to have Rick Astley back doing Morrissey <3 <3 <3

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WHAT??!!

GeorgeOrwellsTurningGrave · 30/06/2024 16:51

Bizarre choice for the Legends slot. I appreciate she's had some health issues hence the rather poor vocals but
she's hardly shouts "Sunday afternoon singalong". Although that might be more entertaining...

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soupfiend · 30/06/2024 16:50

SilverSimca · 30/06/2024 16:46

I don't think it is awful to say someone isn't performing well. I thought Dolly did not perform well because she was miming her face off. I do think it's is awful to describe someone as a "drunk old bird"

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

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OonaStubbs · 30/06/2024 16:50

I don't understand all the hype about Glastonbury at all.

soupfiend · 30/06/2024 16:49

FeelingHotHotHotFeelingHotHotHot · 30/06/2024 16:46

It's a shame how these once amazing singers lose it. Same happened to Whitney Houston. If they have a few years of not performing they do lose the ability to sing well.

Shania does have quite a harsh voice, but the recording studio toned it down/softened it. I have always liked her, and some of her songs are good. Come On Over is one of my favourite albums ever. But her live singing has never been massively enjoyable to hear. And it's worse than ever now.

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Your voice does change as you get older though, mine certainly has, its wobbly and weak in parts.

FeelingHotHotHotFeelingHotHotHot · 30/06/2024 16:49

Iloveyoubut · 30/06/2024 16:43

shes been very ill, Lyme disease and her vocal chords are badly damaged, her speaking voice is damaged. I think she’s been weighing a lot of songs. I watched her do an interview on her health atruggles, it was upsetting hearing her talk about the loss she felt not being able to sing and use her on voice anymore, never saw the performance, I think she talked about maybe being able to get surgery but I’m sure it was risky or experimental. Such a shame, felt so sad for her. X

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If this is the case, as bad as it is, and as bad as I feel for her, she should NOT be paid for any performances. As a pp said, no-one would pay anyone else - like a mechanic, or a painter and decorator, or an electrician etc if they lost the ability to do their job, and made a pig's ear out of it. Why should 'famous singers' be any different? They are paid a lot too, and don't deserve it if they can't deliver!

BeeCucumber · 30/06/2024 16:49

I’ve turned off. I think she may have had a sherry or two before coming on the stage. She appears to be slurring and forgetting the words and the name of the songs. Oh dear.

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 30/06/2024 16:47

This seems like it was a backing track. Did anyone else hear the difference there?

Appalonia · 30/06/2024 16:47

FeelingHotHotHotFeelingHotHotHot · 30/06/2024 16:46

It's a shame how these once amazing singers lose it. Same happened to Whitney Houston. If they have a few years of not performing they do lose the ability to sing well.

Shania does have quite a harsh voice, but the recording studio toned it down/softened it. I have always liked her, and some of her songs are good. Come On Over is one of my favourite albums ever. But her live singing has never been massively enjoyable to hear. And it's worse than ever now.

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Whitney lost her voice because of drugs, sadly.

Hayliebells · 30/06/2024 16:47

AstonMartha · 30/06/2024 16:37

I don’t understand why she is there as the ‘legend’. She’s shit. She always has been.

I agree. I guess if you're massively into country music you might think she's a legend, but in the mainstream she really only had a few poppy chart fillers in the 90s, with nothing much since. When you think of the other "legends" they've managed to book in previous years, she is a disappointment. She's certainly no Dolly, Kylie, Elton, or Beyonce. Was there really noone better available?

Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 30/06/2024 16:47

NonPlayerCharacter · 30/06/2024 16:46

I can't be bothered to look up whether it applies to her, but a lot of singers (maybe most) can't read music and their pitch isn't good enough to remember the key without the intro even if they've sung the song for years. A lot of singers aren't actually very musical (although of course many are).

I've never thought she was particularly brilliant. She seems a nice person but I think her looks have carried her a lot of the way.

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Yes it seems so. She is gorgeous

arinya · 30/06/2024 16:47

She has fought the effects of Lyme Disease for 20 years and had vocal surgery. It’s sad. But, she’s also sold over 100m records and is the best selling female country music artist ever. She’s had an amazing ride. Nothing lasts forever.

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Hungrycaterpillarsmummy · 30/06/2024 16:39

So what does the ear piece actually do?! Why can't she take it out and just sing her songs that she knows and has been singing for 27 years?

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I can't be bothered to look up whether it applies to her, but a lot of singers (maybe most) can't read music and their pitch isn't good enough to remember the key without the intro even if they've sung the song for years. A lot of singers aren't actually very musical (although of course many are).

I've never thought she was particularly brilliant. She seems a nice person but I think her looks have carried her a lot of the way.