Sanremo 2015, who is Lara Fabian? The international star that nobody has ever heard of

What is there to explain? An article written by someone who wants to talk about music but is totally ignorant of the subject.

Rather than writing musical criticism articles, they should go to "la sai l'ultima" [gossip shows] to tell jokes...

Some absurd passages:

"Because, let's be open about it, when compiling the list of participants Carlo Conti said there would be an international star, and then pulled the name of Lara Fabian out of his metaphorical hat, many, if not all, of us said: who the hell is Lara Fabian, rushing to Wikipedia to try to fill the void."

"Many, if not all"... Leaving aside punctuation and grammar, perhaps he doesn't know her because he is precisely an emeritus ignorant in the matter.

Wikipedia isn't needed; you just need to open YouTube to watch concerts all over the world, even with other big names like "Celine Dion"... Not many years ago she also performed a duet with Pausini in "La Solitudine", in my opinion, eclipsing her! I also emphasize the fact that I like some of Pausini's songs, but I have never appreciated her way of singing.

Rather than a journalistic article, it seems to me like the discussion of a Troll.

I leave you with the duet Lara Fabian - Laura Pausini, let me know if you also had the same thought as me (particularly from minute 2:45).

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...is that it felt like a joke to me ... but I didn't want to believe it. I must say we are in a bad way, I simply didn't expect it from a journalistic article.

Thank you

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Isn't it "All by myself"?

Piccinesco wrote:

Isn't it "All by myself"?

Yes, you are right.

I apologize for the inaccuracy; however, it is the one from the 2nd movement of Rachmaninoff's Piano Concerto No. 2.

Don't worry, it happens.

@rstrauss

Indeed! There are many successes, both Italian and international, covered by authors from the Baroque, Classical, and Romantic eras. One of the most recent and popular... Celentano - Cambia il mondo, with a harmonic structure taken verbatim from one of Chopin's preludes. The melodic line is merely an embellishment of the tenor's voice... Unfortunately, with certain people, it's not even worth wasting your breath... I am of the opinion that reinterpreting is different from copying. Taking a classical piece and revisiting it in a modern key can be very appreciable if done well. Lara Fabian's Adagio seems to me to fall into this category. The arrangement was created with the aim of enhancing her voice and, in my opinion, they hit the mark perfectly.

Speaking of revisiting, usually, or rather always, it is only the hits that are revisited years later to make other versions, but wouldn't it be a real gamble for those who decide to take them on, to try to revisit a song that, on the contrary, had a short life? I have been thinking this for several years, and I had expressed a certain inclination toward trying to do something.

It is true that if the starting point is not "up to par" it becomes difficult to remedy, but still...

Fabian gives me the impression of having a more mature, more adult and more versatile voice.

To give you an example, there is an Israeli singer if I'm not mistaken named Sagi Rei. He has revisited many 90s disco (commercial) songs in an acoustic pop style. He has sold more than 50,000 copies worldwide and was among the top 100 best-selling albums in Italy. A great idea, and his voice is also very well-suited to this concept.

The most famous one is "L'amour toujours" used in the Intimissimi advertisement.

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Yes, I remember this one.

It would be worth trying some reinterpretations.

I might just suggest a reverse workshop to Frank: let's take a famous modern piece, provided it is well-made, Come Saprei comes to mind for example, and we revisit it in a classical style.

rstrauss wrote:

I might just propose a reverse workshop to Frank: let's take a famous modern piece, provided it is well-made—Come Saprei comes to mind, for example—and revisit it in a classical style.

Without going too far, for example

http://www.pianoconcerto.it/forum/index.php?/topic/4363-piccolo-omaggio-a-pino-daniele/

Get one that is "badly made" and try to resuscitate it for the better?

How would I know it's not badly made, on...

Perhaps I explained myself poorly, but I don't think so: I mean that perhaps it would be more stimulating to try making a cover of a piece that turned out to be neither beautiful, nor successful, nor a masterpiece. Starting from a piece that had a certain success and is undoubtedly well-written is easier (as much as there is an inherent difficulty in improving something that is already good in itself). I understand that here we are talking about revisiting it in a different key, but it was right to clarify.