Friday, December 12, 2008
"Dreamin'," Vanessa Williams (2/18/89)
The voice is as fully-formed as you remember it from her later ballad (pop) smashes, even on her first album - and this midtempo-to-ballad is just as classy (and not as drippy) as those that would come later, too. Sure, she looked a bit tarty on the cover of The Right Stuff, but the voice (and tunes) sure as hell came through - and the imaging would come, as well. Who could've had any idea she'd become such a star, let alone as a television actress? Don't hold the ersatz smooth jazz sax against her, either; it was 1989, after all. Lovely stuff. A-
The voice is as fully-formed as you remember it from her later ballad (pop) smashes, even on her first album - and this midtempo-to-ballad is just as classy (and not as drippy) as those that would come later, too. Sure, she looked a bit tarty on the cover of The Right Stuff, but the voice (and tunes) sure as hell came through - and the imaging would come, as well. Who could've had any idea she'd become such a star, let alone as a television actress? Don't hold the ersatz smooth jazz sax against her, either; it was 1989, after all. Lovely stuff. A-
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