I’m in Love with that Voice
<p>There I was reading at Barnes & Noble when a song came on that immediately grabbed my attention. It sounded like Nina Persson of <strong>The Cardigans</strong>, but not quite. The barrista said they had just put on Georgian-British singer-songwriter <strong>Katie Melua</strong>’s <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4DBCA-YL_0" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em>The House</em></a> (2010). I’ve since fallen for Katie Melua over and over, every time I’ve put on her music, in fact. She’s one of a small number of singers in popular music that I naturally respond to, against my will, as it were: Hayley Williams of <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G133kjKy91U" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><strong>Paramore</strong></a>, <strong>Aimee Man</strong>, <strong>Selena Gomez</strong> . . . They aren’t always the most powerful or technically proficient singers, but something in the timber, the character, of their voices grabs my heart. As Joey of <em>Friends </em>might say, they “do it” for me.</p>
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