• I recently saw Melanie perform and I think she has one of the most powerful and emotive voices ever. This song offers empirical evidence of that claim. Listening to this song raises the hairs on the back of my neck when Melanie’s voice kicks in on the chorus. I think her music is generally dismissed as people only remember her for her novelty hit “Brand New Key” (She clearly was annoyed/chagrinned performing this number in the concert I saw.). Her covers of “Lay Lady Lay”, “Mr. Tambourine Man” and “Ruby Tuesday” are eye and ear opening experiences. No one that I can think of uses the entire dynamic power of the voice like Melanie can. She can go from heart-felt whisper to brain-rattling blasts effortlessly. Melanie is an amazing vocal talent. While at the concert mentioned above, Melanie claims that the practice of raising one’s lighter in concert first happened while she performed “Beautiful People” (I think that is the song she mentioned) at Woodstock. She wrote this song, inspired by that event. This is an absolutely awesome tune.

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