# Anybody here NOT a Diana Krall uber-fan? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2006, 6:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-not-a-diana-krall-uber-fan/385255 "2006-12-22T18:03:53Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-not-a-diana-krall-uber-fan/385255/41 "2006-12-24T02:27:23Z")
“She” being Ella in case that wasn’t obvious. ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 4:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-not-a-diana-krall-uber-fan/385255/42 "2006-12-24T04:54:14Z")
I’ve never before heard anyone disparage a singer because of the facial expressions they speculate the singer might be making while he or she sings. In fact, it might be the most bizarre and irrational explanation I’ve read for liking or disliking something. ---
**Author:** ![Frank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/3d9bf3/32.png) [@Frank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frank)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 5:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-not-a-diana-krall-uber-fan/385255/43 "2006-12-24T05:02:10Z")
[QUOTE=Equipoise] How about Krall’s hubby, Elvis Costello? Someone show me a thread where his looks ended up being a big part of the thread. [/QUOTE] I shan’t bother to look for a thread, but I can certainly assure you that Elvis’ geek looks were played up for all they were worth in the early years of his career. Just look at his album covers. Same with Tom Waits’ degenerate appearance. Just because they weren’t “hot” doesn’t mean that their look was not taken advantage of. ---
**Author:** ![DrDeth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b487fb/32.png) [@DrDeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DrDeth)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 5:31am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-not-a-diana-krall-uber-fan/385255/44 "2006-12-24T05:31:03Z")
I have never even heard of her. ---
**Author:** ![AHunter3](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ahunter3/32/368_2.png) [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 5:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-not-a-diana-krall-uber-fan/385255/45 "2006-12-24T05:37:19Z")
[QUOTE=Walter Windchill] I’ve never before heard anyone disparage a singer because of the facial expressions they speculate the singer might be making while he or she sings. In fact, it might be the most bizarre and irrational explanation I’ve read for liking or disliking something. [/QUOTE] You misread. I could care less what facial expressions she was actually employing. When I say it _sounds_ as if she’s smiling broadly through every song, the verb employed there is _sounds_. Subjective, to be sure, but it’s not because of an imaginary picture conjured up that puts me off, the sound itself is cloying. One easy example because she starts off _not_ doing it and then transitions into it is her classic recording of “I Love Paris”. She starts off in the lower octave / minor key sounding good, but then reverts to that “smiling voice” thing she does from then on out. (And no, it’s not an artifact of her singing in a major key versus minor key). ---
**Author:** ![Walter\_Windchill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/eb8c5e/32.png) [@Walter\_Windchill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walter_Windchill)\ **Post date:** [December 24, 2006, 5:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-not-a-diana-krall-uber-fan/385255/46 "2006-12-24T05:49:00Z")
I myself always suspect when reading the poetry of Robert Frost that he was smoking a pipe while writing it, and the smell of the pipe smoke puts me right off of it. ---
**Author:** ![Lust4Life](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ecc23a/32.png) [@Lust4Life](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lust4Life)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-not-a-diana-krall-uber-fan/385255/47 "2007-01-01T16:27:08Z")
I would suspect I’m not seeing as I’ve never heard of her ,but then again Idont go out much. ---
**Author:** ![PunditLisa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/4af34b/32.png) [@PunditLisa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PunditLisa)\ **Post date:** [January 1, 2007, 4:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-not-a-diana-krall-uber-fan/385255/48 "2007-01-01T16:40:01Z")
What Sam Stone said. I listen but before too long, she fades into the background. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/anybody-here-not-a-diana-krall-uber-fan/385255.md?page=2)