"Meta Music Mondays 😉" - February's Femmes Fatales.

159 sats \ 30 comments \ @Public_N_M_E 19 Feb Music

Hello Stackers!

Happy February all!

This month's weekly theme is "Femmes Fatales". So hit me with those Ladies with Lungs, Our Maidens of Music, our Sirens of Sound, our Babes That Belt, our Princesses of Pitch. So let's hear those Angels of the Arias! The Valkyries of the Voice!

(I'm running out of these, so throw any others in the comments aswell 😜)

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This week's submission from me is double the Dames. Sharon Den Adel and Anneke van Giersbergen with their beautifully haunting rendition of "somewhere".

Enjoy.

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121 sats \ 2 replies \ @Bitman 19 Feb

Can't let Femmes Fatales month pass without mentioning Marlene Dietrich - the singer/actor who broke hearts across international, political & sexual barriers.

German born Dietrich was asked to star in Nazi propaganda films - to which she vehemently refused.

Instead, she made movies for Hollywood, visited U.S. troops to boost morale in France and recorded tracks in German to demoralize German troops.

https://1.bp.blogspot.com/-qoy5-9mP5PM/X-iDvqr2cTI/AAAAAAAD8jk/Tu2PFmDchjUiK3onLhyyBuJdLliQ9ZHDACLcBGAsYHQ/s16000/marlene-dietrich-morocco-10.jpg

The other bridge that she crossed was her cross-dressing flirtatious kiss with a female audience member whilst singing dressed in a top hat & tuxedo in the movie Morocco with Gary Cooper.

Emulated by Madonna. You can't beat the original Femmes Fatales megastar - Marlene Dietrich.

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/23100000/Marlene-Dietrich-marlene-dietrich-23183338-1178-1500.jpg

The blond bombshell was a megastar by 1937. Made famous by the movie The Blue Angel in 1930, Marlene Dietrich was Germany’s most revered actress, singer, and performer. She was independent and expressive, both in her openness in her bisexuality and in her bravery to set fashion standards not previously accepted or explored for the decade. When Joachim von Ribbentrop, Nazi Germany’s top diplomat, approached Dietrich to star in the Führer’s Nazi propaganda films, he didn’t expect the answer to be “no.”

Dietrich had a problem, and his name was Adolf Hitler. “Hitler is an idiot,” Dietrich said in a wartime interview broadcast from Britain to Germany. “Boys, don’t sacrifice yourselves. The war is crap.”

[...] recruited Dietrich to use her voice to record a series of anti-Nazi propaganda songs for the OSS Morale Branch. She recorded the songs “Time on My Hands,” “Mean to Me,” and “Taking a Chance on Love” in German to demoralize German and Italian troops. The US Strategic Bombing Survey said “the programs were just as devastating to German morale as an air raid.”

https://coffeeordie.com/marlene-dietrich

21 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E OP 19 Feb

You went in on that DD. Amazing write up. 🔥 And she sounds like such an incredible person.

The song sounds amazing, my German is severely lacking but its gorgeous. Don't need to speak the language to hear what the songs saying.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 19 Feb

She is timeless :)

37 sats \ 1 reply \ @0b1CoinObi 19 Feb

Catherine McGrath - Talk Of This Town

Hard to pick one from Catherine, so here's two

Catherine McGrath - Thought It Was Gonna Be Me

25 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E OP 19 Feb

Why choose one when you can have both ¯⁠\⁠_⁠(⁠ツ⁠)⁠_⁠/⁠¯. It's my thread and I'll allow it 😁.

Loved the sound of her vocals, really lovely. Got a great sorta country pop sound. And you know I do love some country rock/pop

66 sats \ 4 replies \ @justanumber 19 Feb

Big hair, big earrings, black leather, shoulder pads and the 1980's little red easter egg at 1:26. What's not to love? This iconic song seemed to be on almost every Rock or Soft Rock album mix 2-3 decades ago.

Where is she now, I wonder?

Here is here wiki page. She is 63 now. It says she attended Julliard and studied violin and piano but much preferred guitar.

15 sats \ 2 replies \ @Public_N_M_E OP 19 Feb

I've watched it back several times and I can't see what the Easter egg is :( is there something written on the cassette that I just can't read because tiny phone screen?

Also, this track goes up to 11 and I do my best to belt along with it even if it is several octaves lower 🤣

36 sats \ 1 reply \ @justanumber 19 Feb

Yes it's the red Grundig personal cassette player. I won't call it a Walkman. You were either a Sony Walkman person or "something/anything else" ;-) haha

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E OP 19 Feb

Ahhhh before my time sadly. Although I did own a Walkman in the mid 90s before CD players became more available... Man we moved fast through the 90s and early 2ks... Cassette then CD and then pretty rapidly MP3 players before iPods, and then by 2010 we were listening to music on phones via apps like Spotify... Rapid movement, although granted, that is 20 years.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E OP 19 Feb

Icon. Such an incredible song. And such a brilliant artist.

23 sats \ 1 reply \ @UCantDoThatDotRugged 19 Feb

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E OP 19 Feb

Florence and the machine! Great submission. Absolutely deserves a spot in the Femmes Fatales hall of fame.

57 sats \ 2 replies \ @justanumber 19 Feb

Aretha Franklin singing Beatles song, Let It Be

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 19 Feb

Always a pleasure to listen to her :)

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E OP 19 Feb

Oooooo very nice. I didn't realise that Aretha had covered this. Sounds great (because of course it does it's Aretha) she's got lungs that can carry a note for days.

56 sats \ 1 reply \ @Roll 19 Feb freebie

Siouxsie and the Banshees were a British rock band formed in London in 1976 by vocalist Siouxsie Sioux and bass guitarist Steven Severin. They have been widely influential, both over their contemporaries and with later acts. The Times called the group "one of the most audacious and uncompromising musical adventurers of the post-punk era". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Siouxsie_and_the_Banshees

5 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E OP 19 Feb

I haven't heard much of siouxsie and the banshee, but i have heard the name. Really interesting vocals, sorta similar to pat benetar (whom I'm surprised hasn't yet had an appearance in femmes fatales section). Definitely "musical adventurers" as the times described them. Great submission.

47 sats \ 4 replies \ @0b1CoinObi 19 Feb

1989 classic from Texas and Sharlene Spiteri

25 sats \ 2 replies \ @Public_N_M_E OP 19 Feb

One of Scotland's greatest exports! I always enjoyed her music. The white on blonde album was great. As was the hush. Great artist, and a brilliant submission for our femmes fatales

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @0b1CoinObi 19 Feb

Couldn't agree more with either statements, such a unique voice and great songs. Fun fact: Sharleen's cousin is Mark Rankin, the lead singer of Gun, and she appears on their first two albums as a backing singer. When you know, you can't not hear her. Made their albums even better.

10 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E OP 19 Feb

Really!!???!!?? Wow... The more you know 🤣 I'll be listening out for her now.

20 sats \ 0 replies \ @Roll 19 Feb

80ies... :)

46 sats \ 1 reply \ @ToksVen 19 Feb

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @Public_N_M_E OP 19 Feb

Such an incredible artist. She was a blessing to the music industry.

21 sats \ 4 replies \ @BTC_Bellzer 19 Feb

Straying from my normal path with The Crystal Method ft. Dia Frampton https://youtu.be/lBIqGsE5yg8?si=dKvafV3qO1-KPTja

21 sats \ 3 replies \ @Public_N_M_E OP 20 Feb

Solid submission. I remember ages back hearing the crystal method do a cover version of points of authority. It was excellent.

21 sats \ 2 replies \ @BTC_Bellzer 20 Feb

O yea off an old LPU release, I remember that track

21 sats \ 1 reply \ @Public_N_M_E OP 20 Feb

I really enjoyed it, it was simple adjustments, slight genre change but paid homage to the original nicely. Quality musicians.

0 sats \ 0 replies \ @BTC_Bellzer 20 Feb

Would you consider that a cover, a remix or a sample?

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