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Post by Treecat on Jun 30, 2008 7:37:01 GMT -5
You can get a telephone for $10.00 at Bestbuy. Is that the best signing bonus she could get from Nicky Ryan? ;D That is really funny!
Her voice has changed over the years, and I've wondered if it's not extensive traveling that's done it. If you're in a place long enough, you tend to pick up speech mannerisms. Perhaps Enya travels so much, and is away from Ireland so much, that her accent has been neutralized to the point that you can pinpoint a geographical location for it.
As for the hesitancy when she spoke at Galway, perhaps you're right. It was an exciting occasion, and she may have been a mixture of excited by the events, and nervous to be interviewed about them. OTOH, she's been interviewed for nearly 30 years, and I've seen tv interviews of her where she's very relaxed and composed.
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Post by draoicht on Jun 30, 2008 12:49:55 GMT -5
Since Enya became famous back in the 1980´s her accent has not been a Gweedore or Donegal accent. There is some sort of ´twang´ there, as we would say at home. This is something that annoys the local people a little when she appears on television.
In Gaelic it is different, she is very much from Gweedore. Her speech is very measured, it does not flow as Maire´s does but i think it is just Enya´s nature to take her time.
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Post by Moe on Jun 30, 2008 14:45:45 GMT -5
Her voice has changed over the years, and I've wondered if it's not extensive traveling that's done it. If you're in a place long enough, you tend to pick up speech mannerisms. Perhaps Enya travels so much, and is away from Ireland so much, that her accent has been neutralized to the point that you can pinpoint a geographical location for it. I think it's not unusual to lose or adopt an accent when travelling. When I'm on PEI, I suddenly speak Islandese - after a few days, it just happens. There is also what I'll call the "CBC Factor." Those who announce for our national TV/Radio system are all encouraged to use a "neutral" accent - free from regional influences. That's considered "proper." Think of "My Fair Lady"..... Given how much time she spends in OZ, maybe Enya will acquire an Ozzie accent! ;D
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Post by skyscape on Jun 30, 2008 15:36:30 GMT -5
I think that when Enya speaks in Gaelic you hear less of the affectation that can be heard in her English. I do believe Enya has had elocution lessons. I remember an interview circa SM and she sounded like a well-spoken Donegal girl, yet now she sounds like a hybrid of Irish/English received pronunciation.
I hear quite a few news reporters in Northern Ireland who sound like Enya after spending time in the UK...mmmm, accents are funny old things, they are as individual as our thumbprints.
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Post by Treecat on Jul 2, 2008 7:25:57 GMT -5
I think that when Enya speaks in Gaelic you hear less of the affectation that can be heard in her English. I do believe Enya has had elocution lessons. I remember an interview circa SM and she sounded like a well-spoken Donegal girl, yet now she sounds like a hybrid of Irish/English received pronunciation. I hear quite a few news reporters in Northern Ireland who sound like Enya after spending time in the UK...mmmm, accents are funny old things, they are as individual as our thumbprints. Elocution lessons? <sigh> Grief, Enya left Donegal, moved to Dublin and the Ryans sent her to charm school. (The Aigle School for Young Ladies Who Wish to Become International Megastars..... ) Now *Moya* sounds Irish! No guessing games as to where that woman's from!
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Post by skyscape on Jul 2, 2008 15:01:33 GMT -5
As well as elocution lessons, am I correct in recalling that she also had singing lessons?
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Post by Treecat on Jul 2, 2008 16:54:23 GMT -5
As well as elocution lessons, am I correct in recalling that she also had singing lessons? She had some singing lessons, and she also took some more classical piano lessons. There's no solid information about these lessons (when, for how long, etc.), just brief comments she's made. I wonder if the piano lessons were to refresh her on classical technique after two years of performing Clannad's music?
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Post by eternity on Apr 24, 2009 20:25:04 GMT -5
Well, since I heard it for the first time (in 1996) is one of the songs that I really most like. The voice is brilliant, the music is soft, and the flaw... well, can be heard along the track many times. (Has anyone noticed that is meanly on Enya's voice? Maybe this was one of the tracks recorded in just one take, and the feeling was so strong that can't be repeated anymore...) Is one of my favourites, now only trying to be replaced by Last Time by Moonlight. Is just a theory, but as it came to light in TMOT times, maybe it would be an earlier recording (some tracks on TMOT came from The Celts series time, like Pax Deorum, repacked). But I try to not believe in this theory as well, the song seems to be from 1995 or 1996. I don't like to think this song is so "low", so "depressing". Anyone can understand "the night ends all" as death, or maybe trying to remember what I heard that Shakespeare has written, something like: "There's not so long night that will not find the day." - in my poor speech. Good times goes by, bad times will too. Maybe this is all about the song: some kind of purety that feels so sad that finds there some kind of power to go on. Some Celtic legends (of dead people becoming stars) may be the light to understand this in a different perspective. Maybe that night was when the light can be seen, and create the sensation of not lost those people. There's why one may not awaken. But, yes, I play it very carefully, even being one of my favourites.
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Post by alrik on May 11, 2009 5:45:07 GMT -5
It just occurred to me that IMNA is the direct opposite in mood and lyrics to OMWH.
OMWH:
I have been given One moment from heaven As I am walking Surrounded by night, Stars high above me Make a wish under moonlight.
IMNA:
When the warmth of the day becomes the night Who could sleep beneath a strange moonlight? No guiding star So far from home
The themes are similar.
- wish - moonlight - dream - stars - snow
OMWH :
Snow falling round me
IMNA :
Walked the way o' promise to find but snow
I think it's like day and night, light and darkness, two points of view.
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Post by Moe on May 11, 2009 11:13:58 GMT -5
An interesting correlation - I'd never thought about this! It just occurred to me that IMNA is the direct opposite in mood and lyrics to OMWH. OMWH: I have been given One moment from heaven As I am walking Surrounded by night, Stars high above me Make a wish under moonlight. IMNA: When the warmth of the day becomes the night Who could sleep beneath a strange moonlight? No guiding star So far from home The themes are similar. - wish - moonlight - dream - stars - snow OMWH : Snow falling round me IMNA : Walked the way o' promise to find but snow I think it's like day and night, light and darkness, two points of view.
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Post by Castiel on May 13, 2009 4:24:37 GMT -5
I always skip this song. Every time I hear it, something dies inside. Roma is pretty cruel...
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Post by Moe on May 13, 2009 10:41:43 GMT -5
I always skip this song. Every time I hear it, something dies inside. Roma is pretty cruel... I don't play it much. I don't think it's "cruel" just depressing.
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Post by Castiel on May 14, 2009 3:24:22 GMT -5
I always skip this song. Every time I hear it, something dies inside. Roma is pretty cruel... I don't play it much. I don't think it's "cruel" just depressing. I meant it's pretty cruel for Roma to unleash upon this world such a depressing score. A little tongue in cheek. I love Roma for all the thoughtful things she wrote.
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Post by alrik on May 14, 2009 6:28:18 GMT -5
Today I just thought of this song a kind of a "mirror". And OMWH is of course the "mirror" of IMNA, then.
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Post by alrik on May 15, 2009 5:11:35 GMT -5
I just found another clue to my "mirror theory": It's the sequence of the titles on the CD itself.
On my way home Morning Glory - the sun ! I May Not Awaken Eclipse - the opposite to the sun !
My theory is just that the term "morning glory" is something I'd intuitively combine with the sun, as it goes up beyond the hills ... just as a mental painting.
The eclipse is the direct opposite to the "glory of the sun".
So, if I'd add the themes:
awakening - sun (glory) not awakening - eclipse (decline)
I have kind of a circle, because after for example a full moon comes the eclipse of the moon (the new moon, I mean), and after that the full moon again ...
We have a circle.
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