{"id":3378,"date":"2013-09-26T11:48:00","date_gmt":"2013-09-26T15:48:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/?p=3378"},"modified":"2015-06-09T12:44:58","modified_gmt":"2015-06-09T16:44:58","slug":"i-have-a-crush-on-shirley-bassey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/09\/26\/i-have-a-crush-on-shirley-bassey\/","title":{"rendered":"I have a crush on Shirley Bassey."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>She has such a strong voice, relishing every word she hurls forth. I love that rich underlining that her voice gets when she draws out words. She has such a strong, solid, expressive body, made for propelling out song. I love her self-consciously hammy, dramatic little gestures when she sings, as in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=EnseiOJ2jGQ\">this 1974 rendition of Goldfinger<\/a> [&quot;Goooooooooooooooooldfingaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah!&quot;]. She also has a marvelous sense of humor; look at her glee as she combines sex appeal and playfulness when singing <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=yLAK-clPtHg\">Big Spender in 2001!<\/a> Like Leslie Gore, she enjoys herself so much when she sings. You can  tell that she&#8217;s working hard, but loving every minute of it.<\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t think I could stand it if Lesley Gore and Shirley Bassey did a duet. I think my ears would explode from the combined power and sexiness of their voices.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: smaller;\">This entry was originally posted at <a href = \"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1581563.html\">http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1581563.html<\/a>. You can comment here, but I&#8217;d prefer it if you&#8217;d <a href=\"http:\/\/modernwizard.dreamwidth.org\/1581563.html?mode=reply\">comment on my DW<\/a> using OpenID.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>She has such a strong voice, relishing every word she hurls forth. I love that rich underlining that her voice gets when she draws out words. She has such a strong, solid, expressive body, made for propelling out song. I love her self-consciously hammy, dramatic little gestures when she sings, as in this 1974 rendition&#8230; <a href=\"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/2013\/09\/26\/i-have-a-crush-on-shirley-bassey\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I have a crush on Shirley Bassey.<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[711,653,640],"class_list":["post-3378","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-lust","tag-music","tag-queer-yay"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3378"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4297,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3378\/revisions\/4297"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3378"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3378"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/oddpla.net\/modernwizard\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3378"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}