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Well, I really like Il Divo for their voices and style, but I have to say that the cookie cutter approach their producers are using is getting rather staid. If you own any of the previous 3 releases Il Divo has churned out in less...
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Well, I really like Il Divo for their voices and style, but I have to say that the cookie cutter approach their producers are using is getting rather staid. If you own any of the previous 3 releases Il Divo has churned out in less than 3 years of existence, then you have already heard this new album! Same musical approach, same vocal arrangements, and yes...same languishing musical selections. The only thing that is different of course are the actual songs....all of which are covers made famous by other major artists before them. My biggest problem with this CD is not the fact that it is only 41 minutes / 10 songs long...though that does seem odd in an age were 12-16 tracks is the norm. My real issue is in that they covered CARUSO, which is one of my favorite songs and totally butchered it...literally! Most of the people listening to this CD will not know the lyrics to this song by heart as I do, but they have chopped up the lyrics in a way where the song makes no sense at all anymore. They've cut entire sections out of the song and transposed it down so low that it lost it's dramatic effect...much like Josh Groban did...but at least he sang the WHOLE song...as written. Oddly there were also a number of linguistic errors with this song and other Italian songs on here. Seems their Italian pronunciation has fallen by the wayside since their initial release. Again, this will not keep the average Il Divo fan from loosing sleep, but it bothered me. The major saving grace on this CD is of course their voices....Carlos' deep and powerful bari/tenor sound seems to dominate over the other guys and really adds to each song they sing. I really hope that with the next release, which I imagine to be due in less than a year given the current production record, they will be allowed to take some risks and venture into more artistically challanging directions, perhaps following Bocelli into the Latin standard field, or embrace some mid-tempo groove type songs such as Luther Vandross was known for. I hope they get a chance to change their approach in the future, but as long as legions of middle aged house wives buy their products in droves, this may be nothing but a idle notion for the time being. Comment | Was this review helpful to you? (Report this)
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From CD & Concert... by adriannaa
Talk about gorgeous voices...the guys aren't bad either! ; )
From Music & Such.... by fashionlova
Love this CD!
From music by ram51663p
love there singing