Edith Piaf 's tremendous voice surged from a stunted body.
Through the headset, a robust male voice surged forth, emptying into my body.
On Saturday "Trouble in Your Mind," sung by Mr. Robinson, drove hard and fast; in "Georgie Buck," with Mr. Flemons playing rude slides and melodic patterns on the jug, Ms. Giddens began to let her voice surge and shout.
After his fourth "Please," the rest of the group filled in softly behind him, crooning, "Please, please don't go," until the lead singer's colossal voice surged back over theirs: "Please, please, please".
"Got a long list of ex-lovers / They'll tell you I'm insane," she sings, her voice surging with newfound power, "But I've got a blank space, baby / And I'll write your name".
Its strings and voices surge and swell, recede only to rise once more, never suffocating moments of intimacy and perfectly accompanying set-piece style occasions – you'll swear that these blue whales are dancing just for you.
Jonathan Ross is shown congratulating her on being "common" and his identifying the elephant in the room is to the point, although the film doesn't press the point of how that voice just surged up.
It's music conscious of our states of constant distraction, the voice tracking the surges and flows that comprise life in digital spaces.
"Rape, murder, it's just a shot away," she sang, her voice seething and surging and then seeming to shred.
