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RE: Did Tony ever sing a duet with.....

Posted by RGA (R) on September 10, 2014 at 06:18:26

In Reply to: Did Tony ever sing a duet with..... posted by Bill the K on September 9, 2014 at 20:57:44:

I think plenty of people may like someone and want to do a song or two together. I think you see oddball match-ups all over the place. Aerosmith and RUN D.M.C. and that's not even to mention bands like Nightwish that took an opera singer and had her head a heavy metal band.

Here is a review of Bennett's last Duets album where the reviewer liked Bennett with Gaga the best. This may explain why he's doing an entire duet album with her.

But it may also be as simple as the crazy idea that they could actually LIKE each other. Unlike Madonna who always seems like a total bitch - Lady Gaga seems like a nice girl. Oddball creative type yes, but she seems good to her fanbase and in interviews comes off respectful. It was a small thing but in the interview with Bennett she corrected the interviewer that his name, not hers, should be mentioned first. And Bennett doesn't need the cash - he's not wasting an album on someone he dislikes or thinks is a talentless hack. Maybe a song or two but an entire album. Doubt it.

I think it's difficult to disassociate oneself from their personal feelings on the individual. If you think Gaga's a weirdo who is a pre-packaged, pre-sold gimmick and sell-out who is all spectacle and hype then it really doesn't matter what she does the bias against her will be there. Further to some, anything that is popular must be bad. Not that anything that is popular is always good but occasionally the stars do align and things that are popular are good (like Morphine and the Margarita).

If Gaga can bring younger people to Jazz then it's a benefit - I am so sick of seeing stores with wall to wall crap and 25 Jazz CDs on a shelf. Since school have all lost music programs (and besides who listens to fuddy duddy teachers anyway). If Gaga or anyone with idol star power gets onto something the followers follow it. They follow the fashion, the food, the charities of their heroes so why not also follow the music? When I was a kid every second girls had Madonna's fishnet gloves, cross medallions and many even put the pimple on their face. So if it's Gaga's love of jazz that gets them to listen to it it's good for jazz whether she is any good at it or not. And she'll be at least decent I am sure.

Lots of young people like 70s 80s rock and pop and metal. The kinder and gentler and soulful music of the 50s and 60s I want back (and it was before my time).

I talked to James Darren for a bit in August who is still performing in Vegas https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AQ1MI1zPJvY and we talked a bit about the staying power but a grayer audience. But we'll get 500,000,000+ hits for Gangnam Style and 20,000 for James Darren. The world has already ended in my view - we're all just zombies waiting for extinction.

If nothing else Gaga has good taste in music - she actually LIKES jazz and wants to sing it. So she's already about 10,000% better than most every other pop artist going.

• http://www.chicagonow.com/music-mom/2011/11/tony-bennett-due   (Open in New Window)

Edits: 09/10/14

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