This has been raised on a couple of other threads lately, so I thought I'd open the Ingrid can of worms again. What do people think of her contribution to David's work?
I'm kind of neutral to negative. I don't think it adds a great deal, but I don't find it actively offensive, either. In general I like spoken word in music, but I don't find Ingrid's particularly rhythmic, dramatic or innovative and I do find it a bit samey after a while. I'm not familiar with the work she did before she met David (apart from Madonna's "Justify My Love", which I've always liked), but there doesn't seem to me to be a lot of creative development over the course of the stuff she did with David.
However, when I slagged her off on davidsylvian.net once, calling her the Linda McCartney of David's work etc, one of the (many) people who told me off said something which really made me think and makes me much mroe reluctant to criticise her. They pointed out that before she married David, with the patronage of Prince and the contacts she had in the US music business, she actually seemed poised to have a much bigger career than David's. Like a lot of women in the music industry, she effectively sacrificed her own success to support the bloke's career and bring up his kids.
What do other people think? And can anyone who likes her input to David's work help me see what I'm missing?