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I don't know, I prefer Ordinary World over this. (If I were David Archuleta's handlers, I be salivating at the thought of OW as a hit single.)
David Foster is a big star in Japan, right? It seems odd that he's the headliner of this song.
http://www.jal.co.jp/newjal/boeing777_high.html
Thanks to wu weidong at IDF. Just open the site and she starts singing. I'll get the downloads, just wanted to put this up first. This is just audio but it's new music from Kat/Foster!
Being the curmudgeon I am, I just wish song writers would someday figure out the difference between "you and i" and "you and me" but I suppose sometimes they just have to go for the rhyme. It still makes me want to get out my red pencil.
You hear the gramatically-incorrect "You and I" from the mouths of news anchors and college-educated people all the time, so the whole world is worthy of a red pencil. But songwriting grammatical errors are a part of pop culture (add "ain't" to about a million classic song titles), if perhaps hurting English to some small degrees. Not to knock Hip-Hop and Rap...but, well, street language ain't gonna help for I and 'dem either.
Gee, Groucho, now you just gave me a possible idea for a new article...
Not to digress: I had to let Kat know on her MySpace recently that she's hit the bullseye with this song for JAL. Knowing what Kat generally thought about this kind of music back when doing her honest interviews last year, I'm still not sure she'll find artistic peace doing power ballads. Nevertheless, she's probably pleased in the sense that she finally hit on the genre she's best at and will likely sell millions, which she obviously needs. I still hope, though, that she'll be able to be creatively satisfied with this direction since it's not just about making money in having a satisfying music career.
Knowing DF's penchant for compromise when producing albums for his Foster Kids, I'm confident they'll balance things out so Kat can still show signs of her prior penchant for wanting to be contemporary.
What may be the most interesting with this song is that Kat could single-handedly bring back the power ballad to Top 40 again. It's been officially dead since Celine Dion went in a slightly different musical direction last year on her newest album. Personally, I think the power ballad isn't really dead, but just in need of a major artist who can inspire people with a power ballad. It's all in how you sell the song. This song has Kat's interpretive magic that was lost somewhere along the way by other singers. It also has the Foster chords in there that sound instantly familiar as if you've heard the song before (though hopefully haven't).
All I can say about those JAL ads is: Get that technology on the airlines here, please! It's at the point now where cost-cutting on all the American airlines will ultimately result in giving you a package of one peanut if you're lucky and probably no television screens, let alone a hi-def one on the back of every dang seat.
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