AineteEkaterini wrote:
I thought that at Brixton in the Autumn. When you reminded me of it I wondered whether the melodrama and transatlantic vocalising of TBYML doesn't fit the way PJ sings, and views her work, now, but then the current performances of 'TBYML' itself are as melodramatic as ever, and the vocal isn't very different. So it's an odd decision (it seems to me).
My guess is that because her vocal style changes for most albums, there may be a particular way she enunciates letters or vowels differently at times too as a part of that vocal adaptive process. Which maybe in turn can't help but impact the way she sings the older songs too. Not just pitch or volume, but the actual pronunciation of words. And it sounds weird or obviously different to us because we are used to hearing certain words from those songs being vocalized in a different way.
I had a similar recollection back in the Stories live-era, a couple times when she had performed Angeline. There too were a couple words which were pronounced differently and struck me as odd-sounding because that wasn't the way she sang them on the album nor during that albums live performances. I doubt these are conscious decisions on her part, just the influence of newer songs and their different word pronunciations bleeding over into the older material.