What Are You Listening To?

Side-eFeck wrote:

Starsky wrote:
Sia is one of the greatest voices of our time!

I somewhat agree, it was just such a weird duet
It was kinda of odd that we were even watching that, as my youngest really wanted to watch NYC, but by mistake we were watching the dolly one at all

trust me, my jaw hit the floor … 'is that david byrne?'
but then his vocals sounded nothing like the original and just made the song sound worse
that's my gripe

Kind of amazing how many here actually saw it live
Personally watch only a few hours of live TV a year

We had the closed captioning on and it said "David Burns." I said " Wait i think it's really David Byrne." And for a second my wife insisted it was David Burns, until she didn't.

Space wrote:

Side-eFeck wrote:

Starsky wrote:
Sia is one of the greatest voices of our time!

I somewhat agree, it was just such a weird duet
It was kinda of odd that we were even watching that, as my youngest really wanted to watch NYC, but by mistake we were watching the dolly one at all

trust me, my jaw hit the floor … 'is that david byrne?'
but then his vocals sounded nothing like the original and just made the song sound worse
that's my gripe

Kind of amazing how many here actually saw it live
Personally watch only a few hours of live TV a year

We had the closed captioning on and it said "David Burns." I said " Wait i think it's really David Byrne." And for a second my wife insisted it was David Burns, until she didn't.

You two have the most fascinating arguments.

I was not at home on NYE so I watched it last night.

I thought it was great for what it is….

I did not see this live and just watched the clips. The songs with Miley work because they trade vocals. The song with Sia was absolute garbage because they’re just singing over top of each other and it was very garbled.

This is a random ass lineup for a major broadcast network in 2022. Has Sia even done … anything … in five years?

Julian, wrote:
I did not see this live and just watched the clips. The songs with Miley work because they trade vocals. The song with Sia was absolute garbage because they’re just singing over top of each other and it was very garbled.

This is a random ass lineup for a major broadcast network in 2022. Has Sia even done … anything … in five years?

She became a mom and grandma both

A grandma? I am now realizing I have no idea of Sia’s age behind those wigs.

Julian, wrote:
A grandma? I am now realizing I have no idea of Sia’s age behind those wigs.

She's a big fan of Survivor

Yada wrote:

Julian, wrote:
A grandma? I am now realizing I have no idea of Sia’s age behind those wigs.

She's a big fan of Survivor

Shes within a few years of what I thought with her doing so much with Zero 7. The kids and grandkids are adopted.

You can adopt grandkids?

contradiction wrote:
You can adopt grandkids?

She adopted a teenage Nick Cannon, who quickly gave her two grandkids.

https://www.cnn.com/2020/07/01/entertainment/sia-grandmother-adopted-son-two-babies-intl-scli/index.html

Julian, wrote:
I did not see this live and just watched the clips. The songs with Miley work because they trade vocals. The song with Sia was absolute garbage because they’re just singing over top of each other and it was very garbled.

This is a random ass lineup for a major broadcast network in 2022. Has Sia even done … anything … in five years?

Sia rocks. I do not like to read these comments.

I believe she did some soundtrack a couple years ago. I think her Christmas album came out in 2017. Just an incredible Christmas record.

When artists break through they begin to do less stuff . I think the reason she was on the NYE show was to begin promoting a new song which she performed. Sort of coming out of hibernation moment.

BTW I just read on Wikipedia  she is on the autism spectrum (like Byrne)? I had no idea and not sure it’s true. The problem with the song she did with Byrne was that Byrne was clearly reading the lyrics off of a teleprompter but that’s going to happen on these types of shows. I thought it was real sweet when Sia blurted out at end of song “I love you David Byrne”and a touched Byrne went “Awwwh.”

The first and last rule is that you do not touch the Byrne.

Starsky wrote:

Julian, wrote:
I did not see this live and just watched the clips. The songs with Miley work because they trade vocals. The song with Sia was absolute garbage because they’re just singing over top of each other and it was very garbled.

This is a random ass lineup for a major broadcast network in 2022. Has Sia even done … anything … in five years?

Sia rocks. I do not like to read these comments.

I believe she did some soundtrack a couple years ago. I think her Christmas album came out in 2017. Just an incredible Christmas record.

When artists break through they begin to do less stuff . I think the reason she was on the NYE show was to begin promoting a new song which she performed. Sort of coming out of hibernation moment.

BTW I just read on Wikipedia  she is on the autism spectrum (like Byrne)? I had no idea and not sure it’s true. The problem with the song she did with Byrne was that Byrne was clearly reading the lyrics off of a teleprompter but that’s going to happen on these types of shows. I thought it was real sweet when Sia blurted out at end of song “I love you David Byrne”and a touched Byrne went “Awwwh.”

My comment is not about Sia not rocking I’m just saying he and Miley traded lyrics back and forth, each getting their chance to sing and be heard. On the Sia track, they’re both singing 100% of the lines and he’s like a quarter step behind her for much of it because he was either unfamiliar with the song or reading off a teleprompter. It just came out muddy as all. Both David Byrne and Sia are great I just don’t know why they moved off the trading-lines format of the other performances.

Yeah…who knows probably cause they weren’t confident Byrne could do it since he didn’t know the song. By both doing it in unison they covered for each other although at the beginning I thought Byrne did lines by himself and it was the most awkward part….

These things are always train wrecks (if you look closely)

When Sia sang that one song with Miley for which Paris came out at end (BTW she looks identical to 20 years ago! How?) and they finished the song Sia went to hug Miley but Miley was oblivious and busy hugging Paris…Sia was left hanging for an uncomfortable amount of time. Since Sia co-sung with Miley and Paris only came out at end of song was pretty wrong but show biz is a cruel biz. Then Sia tried to hug Paris whose body language also exuded “Who is this freak?”

^A super cool record but I find it doesn’t hold up for repeated listens. It’s a cool trick but gets old.

Starsky wrote:
^A super cool record but I find it doesn’t hold up for repeated listens. It’s a cool trick but gets old.

I can't say any gospel lends itself to repeated listens, but need a lil' pick me up today and this album did the trick.

Yeah….I guess I don’t listen to much gospel. I think it’s a sweet record…. But I like the idea of it more than the music itself. I want to like it more.

Glad it picked you up.

The National Anthem - Radiohead/Benji Vaughan and Youth (Remix)  (yes, that Youth)

(mixes of RH remixes: one, two)