(10-18-2014, 02:46 PM)airhigh Wrote: Yes John "Undone" such a conundrum, the obscure, yet hauntingly beautiful ballad tucked somewhere in the recesses of "Listen Up;" seldom brought to mind, let alone sung by the princess who created it. Yet, only Haley gives it the panache it so deserves. It must be heart broken, knowing it has 2,500,000 views on YouTube; that's not counting the views given to the artists who cover it, and it is almost as many as the Vevo video of "Free" with all its promotion. "Undone" knows it's Haley's most promising asset to date & there it sits at the end of the bench patiently waiting to take charge of the game. Oh well, sometimes when I think of it, I get a little, for lack of a better word, undone.
Airhigh, what an interesting approach to your very astute observations. Earlier this week I, too, wondered (yet again) what might have happened for Haley's career if she had been more willing to embrace and perform this song. Via the
Step Up movie, it found an audience and, thus, had momentum. It
does have a "hauntingly beautiful" melody, and, at this point, only Haley has captured and vocally translated that longing, aching message well.
It was the "Year of Adele" and
21. I've read that since Adele's life is happier now, -- marriage, a baby -- she expects that to be reflected in her next album. Will her new music resonate as
21 did? Only time will tell, but there may be something to audiences associating a performer with a "signature" sound or type or .... Perhaps it's unwise to have one's first hit be a ballad, if that's not what you want to be known for the rest of your career.
Speculate as we do, we may never
really know why Haley made the choices she made regarding this song -- and, thus, "what might have been."
"Undone" general discussion (split from interview thread)
