Rebecca St. James (reply to Luke)
Kurt Evans
>From: Luke Jackson <n189...@sparrow.qut.edu.au>
>Date: 1997/05/12
>Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
>
>Firstly I'm new to this newsgroup, and secondly, I don't really
>like Rebecca, but my cousin is her best friend and is going on
>tour with her in your summer ( I'm in Australia). Just some tips
>about rebeccas producer. He heard Alanis Morriset (sp?) and thought
>that 'bec should sound the same , so Rebecca was in a total bind
>of what to do. Her latest album is the output...
Luke,
Thanks for the info, but it raises questions.
In the August 1996 issue of CCM, Rebecca directly addressed
comparisons to Alanis by saying she and Tedd T. prayed before
everything to have "God's inspiration" and to have something
"absolutely brand new." She added that she was "totally happy"
with the record and "wouldn't change a thing."
This seemed to me to indicate that she hadn't tried to
imitate Alanis.
Rebecca says she doesn't listen to secular music, and she
told CCM, "We didn't listen to anyone else when we were working
on the record." So how could she possibly have been imitating
Alanis?
Wondering,
Kurt Evans
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Kurt Evans
>> In the August 1996 issue of CCM, Rebecca directly addressed
>>comparisons to Alanis by saying she and Tedd T. prayed before
>>everything to have "God's inspiration" and to have something
>>"absolutely brand new." She added that she was "totally happy"
>>with the record and "wouldn't change a thing"...
>>
>> Rebecca says she doesn't listen to secular music, and she
>>told CCM, "We didn't listen to anyone else when we were working
>>on the record." So how could she possibly have been imitating
>>Alanis?
In article <20000106030522...@ng-ca1.aol.com>,
Mike <shri...@aol.com> replied:
>and you believe that she or her producer hadn't heard alanis....
Well, I wasn't listening to secular music at the time, and
I'd never even heard *of* Alanis until December of 1996--and then
only in connection with Rebecca's music. Plus, Rebecca told CCM
straight out that being compared to Alanis "kinda saddens me"
because "I don't want to be like anyone else."
Whether Tedd Tjornhom had heard Alanis isn't really relevant,
unless you're suggesting he could have somehow coached Rebecca to
sound like Alanis without her knowledge.
Sincerely,
Kurt Evans
Tim Dunbar
Tim
(who never has heard an Alanis song, either)
Kurt Evans
>>>> In the August 1996 issue of CCM, Rebecca directly addressed
>>>>comparisons to Alanis by saying she and Tedd T. prayed before
>>>>everything to have "God's inspiration" and to have something
>>>>"absolutely brand new." She added that she was "totally happy"
>>>>with the record and "wouldn't change a thing"...
>>>>
>>>> Rebecca says she doesn't listen to secular music, and she
>>>>told CCM, "We didn't listen to anyone else when we were working
>>>>on the record." So how could she possibly have been imitating
>>>>Alanis?
Mike <shri...@aol.com> had written:
>>>and you believe that she or her producer hadn't heard alanis....
I'd replied:
>> Well, I wasn't listening to secular music at the time, and
>>I'd never even heard *of* Alanis until December of 1996--and then
>>only in connection with Rebecca's music. Plus, Rebecca told CCM
>>straight out that being compared to Alanis "kinda saddens me"
>>because "I don't want to be like anyone else."
>>
>> Whether Tedd Tjornhom had heard Alanis isn't really relevant,
>>unless you're suggesting he could have somehow coached Rebecca to
>>sound like Alanis without her knowledge.
And Tim Dunbar <tdu...@home.com> wrote:
>I wonder what Jerry would think of this thread...
Do you mean Jerry Ray?
snail
Kurt Evans <evan...@hotmail.com> wrote:
> And Tim Dunbar <tdu...@home.com> wrote:
>>I wonder what Jerry would think of this thread...
> Do you mean Jerry Ray?
That's Jerry B Ray Jnr to y'all :-)
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Kurt Evans
wasn't clear. In an interview for the August 1996 issue of CCM,
Rebecca commented directly on comparisons to Alanis Morissette.
She was quoted as follows:
"It kinda saddens me because I don't want to be like anyone
else. We didn't listen to anyone else when we were working on
the record. We prayed before everything to have God's inspiration
and to have something absolutely brand new. I am totally happy
with it. I wouldn't change a thing."
Taken at face value, these comments appear to be an implicit
denial that any effort was made to imitate Morissette. The problem
is how to reconcile these comments with the following:
>Subject: Rebecca St. James
>From: Luke Jackson <n189...@sparrow.qut.edu.au>
>Date: 1997/05/12
>Newsgroups: rec.music.christian
>
>Firstly I'm new to this newsgroup, and secondly, I don't really
>like Rebecca, but my cousin is her best friend and is going on
>tour with her in your summer ( I'm in Australia). Just some tips
>about rebeccas producer. He heard Alanis Morriset (sp?) and thought
>that 'bec should sound the same , so Rebecca was in a total bind
>of what to do. Her latest album is the output...
Either Rebecca was trying to sound like Morissette, or she
wasn't. In denying that she was, she went so far as to appeal to
prayers for "God's inspiration" and to have something "absolutely
brand new."
Unless the above message is a hoax, these appeals would seem
to have been made in vain.
Sincerely,