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I was "excited" because they didn't lip sing and there was no auto-tune.
You know Larry, your wife might not have wanted to watch it Taylor Swift and wanted you to change the channel, but something interesting happened at my house.
Let me preface the story by saying that my wife is a holds music degree from The University of North Texas. Her instrument is voice.
It is VERY rare that she will watch anyone (much less a female) sing ANYWHERE unless they are decent.
If they have any deficiencies and don't make the grade (her standard) she'll tell you.
She probably still harbors a degree of jealousy when she see's people who are B.S.ing their way through a performance because she knows how good she is herself.
She knows that she could have been a contender, but life didn't take her there.
Still, she knows her craft VERY well.
So... she watched Taylor Swift's NYE performance and said, "Pretty good considering the circumstances."
I was floored!
The only person I have heard her give any credit to recently was Mary J. Blige and that was a few years ago.
She gives credit to people like Cyndi Lauper and acknowledges that Madonna eventually improved quite a bit over the years.
Obviously there are people she recognizes as talented, but she is quite the litmus test.
She DEFINITELY isn't judging them on how "cool" they are or what the look like.
With her it is: CAN YOU SING OR NOT?
If my wife actually watches a performance from beginning to end it is a HUGE compliment.
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