![]() ![]() Does Taylor Dayne even need a microphone when performing live? Gad, what lungs.ĭayne's latest album, "Can't Fight Fate," is a deft mix of gutsy rockers and power ballads that has already given us the hits "With Every Beat of My Heart" and "Love Will Lead You Back." The latter was written by Diane Warren, who has become a phenomenon of late, having penned such blockbusters as Cher's "If I Could Turn Back Time," "When I See You Smile" by Bad English, Milli Vanilli's "Blame It on the Rain" and Chicago's "Look Away." Two others are in this collection, the title tune and "I'll Be Your Shelter," and either one could take Dayne back to the top of the charts. The folks at Arista do indeed seem to have a knack for tracking down great voices. TAYLOR DAYNE "Can't Fight Fate" (Arista Records) Produced by Ric Wake. But that's not necessarily a damning observation: Stansfield stakes out her territory with her album's title, and successfully sticks to a musical concept throughout on delights like "Mighty Love," "This Is the Right Time" and the "Shaft"-syncopated "The Love in Me." The songs themselves aren't earthshakingly original or deep true to the form, the lyrics are rife with repetition and deal with familiar themes - romantic love, lost love, bad love, we've-got-to-love-one-another love. Then, with that versatility and the miracle of overdubbing, she becomes her own Supremes. Stansfield's range recalls a host of great soul stylists from the past quarter-century: She can be as becomingly acrobatic as Deneice Williams, as earthy and sensual as Patti LaBelle and Chaka Khan, as silky as Diana Ross. Her producers, Ian Devaney and Andy Morris, who also wrote the songs with Stansfield, show a fine-tuned sensibility in their use of graceful strings and synthesizers. "Affection" rejuvenates the danceable disco-soul of the '70s - music produced, and often performed, by the likes of Barry White, Van McCoy, Thom Bell and others. Her album "Affection" proves that performance was no fluke. You can almost picture the excitement of the honchos over at Arista Records when they first heard the sensational voice and soulful songs of Lisa Stansfield: "Clive! Clive, you're not going to believe this - we've found another Whitney Houston! And really, this is amazing: She's English!"Īs the hit "All Around the World" demonstrates, Stansfield has a wonderful voice. As have two other outstanding women artists who've produced albums so brimming with potential hits that we'll be hearing from them on the radio for months to come: Lisa Stansfield and Taylor Dayne.LISA STANSFIELD "Affection" (Arista Records) Produced by Ian Devaney and Andy Morris. All have been on the crest of the current wave. ![]() ![]() If, by chance, you've been paying any attention to the radio and the pop charts, you already know this: The women have taken over. ![]()
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