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« Reply #3 on: November 26, 2017, 10:42AM » |
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I think this is a lot of "back in my days, everything was better" and simply applied to Celtic Woman, just as any other sorts of things. While in most things (just think of life in general) some things were better in the past, and some worse. It doesn't work that way with Celtic Woman. The group was different in the past, not better, not worse, and there have always been people who said mean things against the newer member, but they could usually be calmed by the constant golden trio that was Lisa K, Chloe and Máiréad N. When finally every single original member left and new members came (I won't say replaced them, because in my opinion they are not replacements), the complaints about "the group not being the same" went worse. The thing is, the group isn't the same. Sure. But the group is great the way it is. They couldn't force the old members to stay, and if they'd have done so (by contract, etc.) it would have destroyed the chemistry and atmosphere, because people perform and act in a much different manner when they want something than when they don't. Each Celtic Woman member doing exactly what they want and enjoy is incredibly significant to the results heard and seen in the music and shows, and I suppose their social and private life behind the scenes. The only alternative to close the group, was to change it. If there weren't new members, the old ones would still have left, the old recordings would have stayed just as they did now, and no new ones would have been made.
That aside, we don't need artistical stagnation. Celtic Woman exists for more than a decade now, and if they don't develop and evolve, they will go down. The important aspect is staying true to yourself - not selling what makes you you for some sort of reward, but keep being you doing new things. This is also what I have to say to people complainong about CW doing different genres: no artist - or person in general - and no group of people has to sign a contract that says "only do one thing" and one can do authentic Celtic music and contemporary at the same time.
The thing is, most people don't hate or dislike the new members at all. In fact, they probably would have loved them, if they had been with CW from the beginning. What they do is fear the change, and miss the old ones, but they can't articulate it. And they don't realise that they would still miss the old ones if the new ones never came, and that the end of the group would have been the most fatal change of all.
Personally, I love listening to all of them, and to the old and the new albums. I usually prefer the old ones, and I am so very happy that they are still there, forever (or at least a very long time) in fact, to be replayed again. But they have been done, and there is no way to keep doing something that has been done already, not even re-doing it would be the same. Even if now, in 2017, CW would still consist of the original line up, they would have done new songs since then, and some people would have complained about the music being not was it was, and if they had still been doing the programm of ANJ (my favourite, mind you) people would have been tired of them, and said they should make changes, in style and staff.
So Celtic Woman did all right, all of them do what they love, we can enjoy anything they do, and simply pick what we're in a mood for. That what does "haters" don't realise. If the band stopped "existing for them" when Lisa K (as a random example) left, than instead of hating on Susan (whom they've liked if she came an addition instead of a replacement) they should simply listen to or watch recordings featuring Lisa K, or follow her solo career, etc. This applies to every former member. The new members never pushed them out of the group, and without them there would not be the old group, there would be nothing.
That aside, in my opinion, there are no new or old members, there are active members, and those who are currently doing other things. Once a Kin-, no wait, Once a Celtic Woman, always a Celtic Woman.
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