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Thread #94928   Message #1843568
Posted By: The Shambles
26-Sep-06 - 07:41 AM
Thread Name: Why reject the term 'source singer'?
Subject: RE: Why reject the term 'source singer'?
But I'm out of here now before we all start drowning in definitions.

Or drown in all those bloody rivers - metaphorical or real ones *Smiles*

But if we insist on using such terms - for good or bad - we do tend to be stuck with trying to define them. If we can avoid them - perhaps we should?

My view is that the use of words like 'traditional' and terms like 'source singers' will only ever cause us all problems and will only needlessly threaten to divide those who have musical interests in common.

My view is that the only singers who can in any true sense be claimed or described as 'source singers' and without argument, are those singing their own material.