how great, unique, amazIng, and insightful of a singer he is
Oh, my friend, a post like this is like the Horn of Gondor for me. I hear it, I come running, and ardently accept the call to arms.
I was just watching Score last night and admiring his golden, lyrical sound. That's the James who exists forever in my mind and ears, and I can never help thinking wistfully that
that's the James I want back. That's my Angel of Music.
I have endlessly defended his honor, running out onto the battlefield like Eowyn, or jumping in front of bullets for him like Eponine in
Les Mis. My earlier posts here are full of this, even up to the point where people were saying I defended him "to a fault", and if I'm honest here I can't disagree. I won't ever stop, but I grew tired being quite that fervent, especially when I would be disappointed by my hero in the current days again and again.
My more recent post history is more realistic, less charging with a sword and more analysis of what may be going on. I've explained myself out and I don't need to repeat myself yet again. But I will say this:
I
know he's still got it.
The voice is still
his. It needs TLC, it needs therapeutic treatment, it needs rebalancing technique, it needs to be
honored as the lyrical instrument of beauty that it is. Older? Of course, but that only means more of that special care. Nobody would argue that an antique violin can sound gorgeous in the right hands or that it should be put on a shelf in a museum forever, or only played sparingly and not to its fullest capacity.
That's my long, perhaps embarrassingly poetic (forgive me, it's too early, but not sorry and not editing
) way of saying that I
know he can do it, I have the
utmost faith in him, my Angel of Music, my OG favorite singer of all time. And I can't wait to hear what he has in store for us in the coming months ahead.
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