I just got the new album by Dame Shirley Bassey and am after repeated listening still a little ambivalent. Packed properly it has not let me down, I was not well. Positives: Shirley is wonderful in shape, your voice is still striking despite their age and well above what others produce ... Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaber: The voice you can hear the age, that's not bad when she sings ballads, as the voice when they again voiced "Goldfinger" because you seem on the original's a few false notes (which) are noticed to melting away, but the comparison is to the original clear: the new version has significantly less Pepp, pressure and momentum - and whether the new version would have been a worldwide hit, I venture to doubt. And this lack of pressure takes place somehow through the whole album, at least for the force stressed songs. I like them when she sings standards and redesigned after its Fasson, but in songs that are linked so closely with the original performers that every second interpreter hard hat (Englishman in New York, Diamonds are a girl's best friend), also holds Do not use the comparison. Stings version is unmatched, and "Diamonds ..." is just Marilyn and everything you associated with it, because the imperfect Marilyn voice is the song simply more conducive than the trained voice of Shirley Bassey (at least in my eyes), insofar has not quite convinced me the song selection. But I wonder all the time if my criticism ever really applies herself and her vocal power, or just the mix that somehow rarely conveys the feeling that there stood a singer and band together. As I said, somehow it does not grabs me, and I can not explain it. But my respect for voice, ability and (life) power does not diminish. A bad buy definitely looks different.
