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but above all this, I wish you love.
Feb. 11th, 2012 08:24 pmAround 7, my dad yelled, "Whitney Houston died!" at me, and I shouted back, "WHAT?!"
I'm pretty much in agreement with what Maureen Johnson said. It's a shame. She more or less finished wrapping Sparkle a few weeks ago!
Since everyone's sharing their favorite songs, here's some of mine:
I Believe in You and Me The Preacher's Wife soundtrack is one of my favorites to listen to at Christmas. When I was about eleven, my mom tried to get me to sing "Who Would Imagine a King" at a church pageant, but I knew I wouldn't get it because my choir had a lot of older, more talented singers who could have handled the song a lot better than eleven year old me could. Anyway, this song's amazing, regardless of it being played to death with those Jennifer Hudson Jenny Craig ads.
Run to You I am willing to bet that there was a period in the early '90s when every aspiring singer tried to hit that high note near the end of "I Will Always Love You". Before I tried to hit Mariah Carey's many elusive high notes, I would try to do the same thing with IWALY. But "Run to You" is definitely my favorite song from The Bodyguard. It's also got a tricky note near the end--apparently, when Christina Aguilera did her demo to get signed, she sang this song and her ability to hit the note (I... think it's a high E above middle C or something? I used to be a major Christina fan but I can't remember the exact note) got her signed. Speaking of high notes and Mariah!
When You Believe I'm on the low end of soprano, and my singing voice has more or less been there since I was about nine or so. And during that time, Mariah and Whitney (and, okay, Celine Dion, but she had nowhere near the crossover appeal that Mariah and Whitney did) were the female voices. I wore out my copy of Mariah's #1s CD listening to that duet and "I Still Believe". I've become more or less resigned that I will never have that amount of power, range, or control to my voice, but part of me will always wish that I could sing like them.
I'm Every Woman When I was younger, I always thought she was singing "I ain't pregnant!" instead of "I ain't playin'".
I'm Your Baby Tonight Go-to karaoke song.
I Learned from the Best I'm pretty sure it's a universal experience for preteen girls to sing songs about heartbreak in the confines of their room like they've gone through serious heartbreak, right? Right? Well, I used to sing this song and "Can't Let Go" by Mariah Carey when I was about twelve or thirteen... yeah.
I'm pretty much in agreement with what Maureen Johnson said. It's a shame. She more or less finished wrapping Sparkle a few weeks ago!
Since everyone's sharing their favorite songs, here's some of mine:
I Believe in You and Me The Preacher's Wife soundtrack is one of my favorites to listen to at Christmas. When I was about eleven, my mom tried to get me to sing "Who Would Imagine a King" at a church pageant, but I knew I wouldn't get it because my choir had a lot of older, more talented singers who could have handled the song a lot better than eleven year old me could. Anyway, this song's amazing, regardless of it being played to death with those Jennifer Hudson Jenny Craig ads.
Run to You I am willing to bet that there was a period in the early '90s when every aspiring singer tried to hit that high note near the end of "I Will Always Love You". Before I tried to hit Mariah Carey's many elusive high notes, I would try to do the same thing with IWALY. But "Run to You" is definitely my favorite song from The Bodyguard. It's also got a tricky note near the end--apparently, when Christina Aguilera did her demo to get signed, she sang this song and her ability to hit the note (I... think it's a high E above middle C or something? I used to be a major Christina fan but I can't remember the exact note) got her signed. Speaking of high notes and Mariah!
When You Believe I'm on the low end of soprano, and my singing voice has more or less been there since I was about nine or so. And during that time, Mariah and Whitney (and, okay, Celine Dion, but she had nowhere near the crossover appeal that Mariah and Whitney did) were the female voices. I wore out my copy of Mariah's #1s CD listening to that duet and "I Still Believe". I've become more or less resigned that I will never have that amount of power, range, or control to my voice, but part of me will always wish that I could sing like them.
I'm Every Woman When I was younger, I always thought she was singing "I ain't pregnant!" instead of "I ain't playin'".
I'm Your Baby Tonight Go-to karaoke song.
I Learned from the Best I'm pretty sure it's a universal experience for preteen girls to sing songs about heartbreak in the confines of their room like they've gone through serious heartbreak, right? Right? Well, I used to sing this song and "Can't Let Go" by Mariah Carey when I was about twelve or thirteen... yeah.
