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Diamanda 1, Beyoncé 0

On Sunday night I saw Diamanda Galas singing selections from La Serpenta Canta, and last night I saw Beyoncé Knowles singing selections from Dangerously In Love.

I was really, truly hoping that the two gigs would match up, so that I could write something amusing (to me, at least) about the essential diva-ness of divas. I was planning to say that the mysterious combination of wondrous vocal talent, stroppiness and generally being really hot that sets a certain sort of female vocalist apart crosses all musical boundaries, so that a woman who sings operatic blues numbers about death, AIDS, Armenian genocide and more death (Galas) has much more in common with a woman who sings thumping great R & B numbers on fatuous topics (Knowles) than you might think. And I had a joke about shiny thighs too.

But Beyoncé let me down. By being totally shit.

Posted at 12pm on 05/11/03 by Jack Mottram to the music category.
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She is as you described and so are many others propped up by the ever present public relations types who revolve around every major star. In fact, though I am by no means a star, I might hire a PR person to build hype about me!

Posted by Jay at 12pm on 09.11.03

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