(09-15-2013, 12:38 AM)Tom22 Wrote: (09-13-2013, 08:32 PM)john Wrote: Love that slowed down Okinawa version of Free.
I've always liked this acoustic version of Free. Part of it may be that I think Haley looks great. 
There was a period Haley really had it going with John on accoustic.. up through the Stage it performance.. then it ended or stopped or went into hiding or ?
There is no question Keith has a distinct Jazz style.. to a degree he's creating his own sound that he brings to haley's songs and knows the jazz standards etc.
Haley might have been a niche playing live for indie bands with the John on accoustic guitar .. not likely to have landed any gigs in Las Vegas though!
Miguel ... I've been looking for that one at the restaurant on my own online.. ...... figured I'd find it soon enough and obviously didn't do a good enough job browsing the forums..
I also find that Wild Horses one of my favorites... so graceful.. the song is a beautiful song.. but the song itself is a bit too metered for my tastes.. such a great perfomance of it.
But past those great peformances but ones I'd grab ?
My favorites.....
How do they put it on the radio shows ? Desert Islands -- if you were stranded and had no way of getting any others etc (usually those are a list of 3)
3) Santeria at stageit? (... it always makes me so happy ! ... so very very happy and proud ... and by its sassy and playful making light of things and a hyperbolic expression of taking things in your own hands.. then the silly flight of fancy in her scat)
2) God Bless The Child With Irvin Mayfield. -- slur the words all she wants.. in the end for me.. a musical expression of marching to the beat of ones own drummer.... with a strut and a gusto, matching humilty and humor... overreaching and falling just short, then falling back to saftey in a wonderful cascade.
That song, as peformed.. by the two of them.. emphasizes those emotions and view of the world.. struggle to find ones own way in the muddle and put your chin up and head high and don't worry about the rules that are trying to be put on you.... yes .. that peformance says all that an more to me, in the play between them.. in the stretching beyond hopes at times.. but showing that the flight down from going a bit too high can be fun in itself... : )
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I'd say...
1) Idol Benny and the Jets... probably would have been the original one had I never heard of her as a performer. Knowing the whole story and her personality etc, I'd choose the "Victory Celebration" version. I have no bitterness about it.
That was a wonderful end to the season for me. The official end was irrelevant and I didn't even think about it. I did turn in the next week for the very fun variety show with all the contestants back together singing with stars (tony bennet et all)
(Song itself starts at 3:45 so cut to there)
Haley's was the best Victory Song I've ever seen on idol !
OOH But they're weird and they're wonderful ! what an anthem to personal pride of the individual!
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And yes... I think that some that see an "attitude" in Haley.. actually have evidence beyond the cheap Idol edits.
We can share what a warm and helping person she is .. how she is actually humble in the way I find humble to mean.. to admit ones short comings.. and poke fun at them
But... I do think , what I've expressed about the above songs.. and that I see, and that I LOVE, are things that many other people also see and dislike. They don't like people who are the own judge of themselves...even if they are fair judges in admitting short comings.. the very idea that people define their own sucess in ways that are indifferent to other's paths they choose for themselves(and not critical at all, just happy that others suceed by their own terms you don't seek to aspire to)... well .. that pisses many people off...
Now.. I don't think many of you see it like I do... or to the extreme.. but some people who speak badly see it as I do.. but they don't celebrate or laud it, but find it unsettling. Me... ? thats why I love her and pick those songs I find nurture me most that way.
WOW TOM:That's was a very long post and ¿You know what? These time I'm agree with you (may be you can read my mind? and in the other hand
after read your Paul Mc.Donald post I'agree too with that.
Only our big love for Haley(and her talent) give us patient and hopes about H.E.R.some day succes
