What do you think of Enya?

Rich bitch

I like her, but I don't understand what she's doing on a daily basis in that castle of hers these days. Counting your millions must get tiresome eventually, no?

Love her.

Ughhh the 90s. When singers used to be popular yet you couldn’t name not nay so they made. Them albums sells tho.

[quote] I like her, but I don't understand what she's doing on a daily basis in that castle of hers these days.

That's what I like about her. She managed to sustain a long, pretty successful career while making her private persona a complete mystery. She tells us what we need to know about her through her music and that's it.

[quote]What do you think of Enya?

What does Enya think of me?

r5 I get that, I'm just genuinely curious as to what a daily routine looks like for someone like her. I know you could say the same about most celebs, but she's not in L.A. and we can't really see her work like we can with actors and whatnot.

I loved her two big albums Watermark and Shepherd Moons when they were current bsck around ‘89-92. lush, layered, soft and obsessively crafted.

Then she seemed kind of repetitive after a few more albums. And one day there was a promo video Amarantine for her new album and it just seemed like self-parody:

[quote] She tells us what we need to know about her through her music and that's it.

Her lyrics do seem to have a lot of thought and meaning put behind them. I like her music videos. The visuals match the songs.

I like her but her sound is created entirely in the studio. I'm not really sure how she performs anything live, since her recordings have multi-layered vocals that can't be replicated in a live, solo performance. Not that there is anything wrong with that. From what I know of her, she has never pretended to be more than a "studio" artist.

[quote] I'm not really sure how she performs anything live, since her recordings have multi-layered vocals that can't be replicated in a live, solo performance.

She's performed live a handful of times. She doesn't appear to be a touring artist, but she's from a time when albums really sold. She's made a lot of money, I'm sure.

[quote] Rich bitch

No lies told.

She’s great.

I really only know her 9-11 song . Or was it a song that later became associated with 9-11?

Beautiful calming music

All I know is she gave The Fugees their first big hit.

R13 the song Only Time came out at the end of 2000 and became a Top 10 US hit late that winter. Then in late 2001 it became a mourning/healing/support song for the 9/11 victims’ families.

My bull dyke school nurse would play her cds and the celtic woman albums from the infomercials

Enya's music being used as a big part of the soundtrack for "LA Story" was a stroke of genius. There were a couple of scenes where her songs resonated so strongly with what was happening on the screen: the scene when Steve Martin and Victoria Tennant go into an arcade ("On Your Shore") and a particularly poignant scene when she's about to fly away but he manages to stop it ("Exile".) I loved those songs on "Watermark" but, watching the movie, they hit me so hard emotionally.

Love her. 💗🎼👍

R1 & R11, is there any dish on her actually behaving badly? I’ve never heard it so I’m curious. I’d hate it if it were true, since I have such a positive perception of her.

She’s richer than Croesus. Of course she’s a bitch

I would love to hear her cover of Rag Mop.

[quote]Enya's music being used as a big part of the soundtrack for "LA Story" was a stroke of genius. There were a couple of scenes where her songs resonated so strongly with what was happening on the screen: the scene when Steve Martin and Victoria Tennant go into an arcade ("On Your Shore") and a particularly poignant scene when she's about to fly away but he manages to stop it ("Exile".) I loved those songs on "Watermark" but, watching the movie, they hit me so hard emotionally.

Same here. I can’t hear those songs without vividly picturing the scenes in the movie. It was brilliant.

Doesn’t Enya like eating pussy? Not that there’s anything wrong with that.

I like her. Also, Dido.

R25 Dido was so boring. Boring voice. Boring style. Eminem basically made her a name before his own 15 minutes ran out.

I just listened to the entire Watermark album this evening.

I find her very interesting.

She’s a peach.

She hangs around a castle with her cats all day. Basically she and I have the same life.

A couple years ago I did ketamime for depression where you have like 8 treatments over two weeks where they pump you full of it. During my treatments I'd usually find myself in a marble palace somewhere in the Greek isles and Enya would appear and over that time we bonded.

How did your ketamine depression treatments work out, r30? Genuinely curious

I am a medium and her song Caribbean blue is very similar to the one I heard spirits singing on my living room while I was in my bedroom in bed listening to the ethereal melodies.

R31 I think it did me a lot of good. I mean the treatments itself look kind of fun in that pills a really nice trip and coming down from it was really cool. It definitely still helps stabilize my mood swings and gave me a ton of energy I actually got into the best shape of my life shortly after because I just felt so good. I've kind of slipped back into depression because I never did any of the maintenance treatments they suggest that you do so I'm thinking of restarting next month seeing how it goes but for me it it was definitely an improvement and absolutely worth it.

R26? 15 minutes. Eminem is one of the top selling artists of the 21 century. The mafucker came out in 99 and has been selling albums and hit songs since. Where the fuck do you live at. One of the biggest songs of all time, Monster, came out in 2014. And then you sign this spin by Jewel who made one of my favorite songs of all time.

Her sister, Maire Brennan, is also very talented. I'm not a huge fan of that 90's European trance sound but her singing on this Chicane track was beautiful.

R2, I imagine that she wakes up and plays the piano all day, with breaks here and there for food.

She has a beautiful voice, is a multimillionaire, and lives in a castle with a dozen cats. She's basically living my dream life.

R34 Go to hell, Teacunt. Eminem is overrated just like the bizarre internet blackface persona you use on Datalounge. Why am I not surprised that your taste in music is just as indecorous as the mindless drivel you inundate the rest of us with on a daily basis? You have the worst case of internet MPD I have ever seen.

R38 Ok and? Being overrated is one thing but he isn’t a 15 minute famous only artist. That’s a demonstrable lie. Carry on.

Am my beautiful black caramel brown face is not a mother fucking persona bitch. It’s my motherfucking life.

Enya is wonderful for an hour or so but too much Enya can induce a psychotic rage.

I loved the Shep Pettibone remix of Storms In Africa. It retained the spirit of Enya after being transformed into a poppers sniffing hand waving gay anthem.

R39 All responses from you should come with a translator. Someone who specializes in composition idiocy.

[quote] not a mother fucking persona bitch. It’s my motherfucking life.

R40 What life, you sad sack of shit? You spend most of your time online performing a very poor caricature of a stereotypical African American. Your mask slips quickly because you try too hard. Too on the nose. You're actually the worst kind of racist. You have so many sock puppets there's no way you have time for anything else. You're the personification of waste of space. As useless as a chocolate teapot.

I thought her cover of "How Can I Keep From Singing" on Shepherd Moons was the most beautiful cover of that song. But beyond her early albums, she became very repetitive and even her Christmas songs are nothing memorable.

I recall in some Harry & Wills/Diana Retrospective, one of their happy memories of her was driving around in her convertible while she was blasting Enya.

R42 I’m not racist bitch. I’m black. Get a life.

R44 Get another persona. This one is boring me.

She did tremendous work saving the whales.

I like Harry’s Game from Clannad. That’s her, right? Or just her siblings?

She's been making music since the 80s. I don't think she needs to put out new music all the time. She's like Sade or Kate Bush...a bit elusive and mysterious. Reading her Wiki page, I wouldn't mind having her life - it sounds great.

(quote) I like her but her sound is created entirely in the studio. I'm not really sure how she performs anything live, since her recordings have multi-layered vocals that can't be replicated in a live, solo performance. Not that there is anything wrong with that. From what I know of her, she has never pretended to be more than a "studio" artist.

She's well aware. I got to meet her at a record signing in NY for her "Paint the Sky with Stars" Greatest Hits album. I asked her why she doesn't tour and she told me she doesn't think she can recreate the sound. She plays all the instruments and does all the vocals herself. She was sweet, didn't hesitate to answer and was really pretty.

She's no Jojo Siwa!

I love Celt-ronica when I'm on the moors..

She's of a line of Celtic fairie music that started in the 1970s with new synthesizers that suggested the music described in accounts of encounters with the Fey.

See also "Clannad" and related bands.

I loved her first two albums, and still listen to them, but they're curiously conclusive.

Nominated for an Oscar for "May It Be" from "The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring". She lost to Randy Newman for "If I Didn't Have You", from "Monsters, Inc." Two years later Annie Lennox would win for the sequel.

She should have won that Oscar, for who even remembers that Randy Newman song anymore? She only lost because Goodman performed it and we all love Goodman.

r47, she's only on a couple of Clannad albums from the 70's. That's her sister Moira Brennan on "Harry's Game" or the remixed dance version on "Saltwater".

We've talked about it before, but she handles her fame very well out of necessity. She lives reclusively in a very tight compound after being stalked by fans.

So you're telling me she just stalks the halls of her castle all day long, over and over again, tripping over one of her dozen cats occasionally? I feel like there's a French&Saunders skit in there somewhere.

I wonder if she pops out to the parapet for a nice warm cuppa now and then. I know I would, lording my millions over Dublin in the process.