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Title: Where's a voice coach when you need one!
Review: A friend of mine made a tape of this CD for my birthday. At that point, I had heard only "Do Something." And Macy's voice to me was the equivalent of a really bad poison ivy rash. But my friend liked it (she compared her voice to Rickie Lee Jones) so I thought I'll have an open mind about the album. Musically, it's well-done. But my opinion on Macy Gray as a singer hasn't changed. As much as I liked the SONGS (especially "The Letter"), her voice drove me NUTS. She sounds like Kim Carnes on helium."On How Life Is" had the potential to be a GREAT album, if someone else had been the vocalist. It's one thing to have a scratchy voice and can actually sing and emote (Rickie Lee, Erykah Badu) and another to have Macy, who simply cannot sing (she has no stage presence, either). And it's really too bad--how many amazing singers are out there who don't have record deals?
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