Heartland

The usually très respectable Rolling Stone bizarrely compares Ms Swift's live vocal on the intro to I knew you were trouble to Floodland-era in this review : http://www.rollingstone.com/music/live- ... m=referral.
I was intrigued so sought out a recent live video : http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2pef4n. Hardly Afterhours but I kind of see where they're coming from. After Nicks, Nunn, Haza, Minogue et al, perhaps could do worse and return the compliment by adding a bit of Ms Swift to the live show.

Uhhh... that's an extremely weird comparison if I've ever seen one. Maybe it's because I am not so familiar with Swift's music, but I have trouble comparing her in any way to Von--vocals or otherwise. Bizarre.

Can't really see any vocal similarity (except the intro's in her lower register and there are lots of sharp intakes of breath) but maybe the reviewer assumed she was channelling Von because the intro bass is so similar to Afterhours and the keyboards in the main song have a vague eastern feel that might remind some people of Flood I.

I just discovered that this tune is based on a Taylor Swift song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdhoDrSv7Q8

Now I feel up to date.

stufarq wrote:Can't really see any vocal similarity (except the intro's in her lower register and there are lots of sharp intakes of breath) but maybe the reviewer assumed she was channelling Von because the intro bass is so similar to Afterhours and the keyboards in the main song have a vague eastern feel that might remind some people of Flood I.

My thoughts exactly, @Stufarq, but if the review gets just a few readers googling TSOM, this kind of reference can only be a good thing. The American mainstream music media seem to have the band much higher in their consciousness than their UK counterparts, despite the greater chart success in the UK in the "active years". Perhaps that Public Enemy tour did some long-term good after all.

Nikolas Vitus Lagartija wrote:but if the review gets just a few readers googling TSOM, this kind of reference can only be a good thing.

This is how far we have come.