In Reply to: "but her style seems rather canned and overly laconic to me" That discription sounds more like Diana Krall posted by gme109 on July 3, 2012 at 17:04:17:
...my original point. Barber seems more likely to draw either a strong positive or negative response than a neutral one.
And, in this case, by "canned", I find her rather formulaic in her style (though this comment applies to many artists). In this context, "canned" doesn't mean she sounds generic or like others, it is just that I don't find that she ranges very far from her base sound. However, I think that attribute stands out a bit more when one isn't taken with the performer.
(Think of all the Jack Nicholson -- he's certainly a draw and has played a wide range of parts, but they all tend to come out the same. Contrast him to Alex Guinness who once played 8 different parts in the same film. I'd call Nicholson "canned" in comparison to Guinness, and I like both actors.)
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