Who are your favourite Enya WANNABES?

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Though I don't find myself listening to Loreena McKennitt often (and as clarified in this video interview, she isn't really an Enya wannabe if she actually wanted to be a vet or nature conservationist ) I did rather like this track when it appeared on Spotify

 

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I do enjoy the inference that Loreena McKennitt might not belong in the Enya Wannabe thread, when Iyaz, Rihanna, Michelle Collins, and the Cheeky Girls have all been accepted without question

 

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I know there are many cats named Enya but
this is probably a favourite wannabe

https://odas.org/enya-ready-for-adoption/

Spoiler: This page 🐈‍⬛️

If I lived alone, near to the respective location, I would adopt.

 

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Also Natalie Imbruglia

Imbruglia's best is Shiver

I was listening to a couple of her lesser-talked about songs* from White Lillies Island (2001) and only recently I realised these album titles are similar:

Ironically, Natalie Imbruglia's was way more dark, at least lyrically, than Dark Sky Island gets.
And just now I found out it's named after this property Nat bought in 2000 (which was on sale in 2023).

Enya named Manderley (which she still resides in) after the fictional house in Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca, which somehow makes more sense. May not have been to Sark but Enya did see dark enough skies in her lifetime to see the stars like that.

*Anyway, for these two Natalie Imbruglia songs I've listened to in particular:




the themes are kind of similar to some Enya sings (especially the translation of these earlier Enya songs in Irish - 'S fagaim mo bhaile and Na Laetha Geal M'óige)

Anyway for That Day, a marvellous song and brilliant album opening track, I discovered it a few days ago from some TOTP compilation, she's really good at it live.
Never mind Pan's people, like with several Enya performances (though I'm not sure she's done live there) Japan performances are better.


And a bit from my Moopy pinnacle of interest, guessing my Spotify artists of the last 6 months at the time :-D

No but Natalie Imbruglia was at some point. I was listening to her moments before I discovered Enya

That fateful day

That day indeed

 

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I randomly revisited the song, and thought to look up some more Michelle Collins clips and lo and behold! Just found a random one I've never seen before, skipped forward to a random bit, and some of Enya's China Roses plays in the background


The programme's called Two-Thousand Acres of Sky, and seems fitting to feature some Enya (not sure if it's in the show or just this interview/behind-the-scenes) but this little connection with a non-single Enya song was nice to find.

 

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Another surprise Enya mention from a recent article

Spoiler: Towards the end of this screenshot

I don't consider Daniel Bedingfield a favourite (nor an Enya wannabe) but I like Gotta Get Thru This and If You're Not The One. His vocal range is quite good too (I though it was a woman singing )

At some point I mixed Echoes in Rain and Trains and Winter Rains with Gotta Get Thru This, but that's the only link I made (plus the latter Enya song was filmed around the same railway bit, DLR, and Canary Wharf).

I became more interested in UK garage shortly after discovering the song's name (in 2022, quite late!) This article was nice too

Daniel Bedingfield on the story behind ‘Gotta Get Thru This’

Daniel Bedingfield talks the making of UK garage’s ultimate anthem – from rollerblading over Tower Bridge to the GRAMMYs

discover.ticketmaster.co.uk

The new song snippets, especially considering his revelations, are a little too plain, even with the AI footage But his approach to making music and gathering inspiration is decent, stepping away for a bit, kind of like Enya.

It's not exactly comparable, and Enya's quality of music is more certain, but I hope her new music will be good4u instead.

 

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Aurora Aksnes, she is a bit of an Enya wannabe

I just got recommended her new song (I think) The Weight of Missing, which I figured kind of samples/interpolates Enya's song (Grammy-nominated instrumental ) Drifting


I like her voice in this ♡

and an extract of Enya's, of course


Also this interview was from 2019, definitely a fan of Enya:

Of course, she likes more than Enya though.


I've read some say she is "Enya with a personality" which is a bit harsh.
Aurora may be more quirky, but not exactly classy.

This is a clip from an interview from a couple of months ago:


I first heard her in that John Lewis advert with a cover nicer than the original:



Also the Frozen II voice was cool to hear her sing that

Aurora seems to be more about expression, closer to Björk or Kate Bush, often something more visceral and dark, whilst appearing/sounding soft and somewhat cutesy.
With Enya it's more subdued, more about the emotional content within, and different personalities all get something from her music.

I know she has done several songs since these, I'm neutral about them, but Aurora seems a sweet person, and like Enya, dedicated to her music and art.