A man with a great voice should never use autotune to excess like this. Bon Iver pull your head out. You're not a robot version of Aaron Neville, you have a unique voice. Use it.
The Vultures of industry love a corpse they can market, but this is in bad taste to capitalize like this on an everyday object turned morbid by personal events. It's not an instrument and it's not in a period museum meant to honor Curtis, so what is it? An overpriced morbid curiosity item?
Probably "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" or "The Shining." Neither film's entirely true to their in-print antecedent, but Jack Nicholson's Randle McMurphy and Jack Torrance add vivid dimension to the characters. And, Milos Forman and Stanley Kubrick's masterful direction also raise the bar.
Who can play favorites. "One," "Mysterious Ways," "Who's Gonna Ride Your Wild Horses," "Acrobat," "Love Is Blindness" and "Until the End of the World."
I remember sitting in my friend Tony's car, when he slid "Nevermind" into his CD player. I was no newcomer to punk and indie rock, so initially I was underwhelmed as "Smells Like Teen Spirit" played. I said to Tony, "This is just another punk band." The second listen through it dawned on me... this is a punk band. I knew it wasn't a mail-order suburban skater and music head thing anymore. At that point in time, it felt legitimizing and vindicating because misfits of all stripes took such abuse all the time from dull unimaginative people. It was a musical watershed and a bonafide classic with all kinds of unintended consequences.
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