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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