# Should the SPA \[dialogue\] be used for recordings with known performers?

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**Category:** Style\
**Tags:** special-purpose-artists\
**Created:** [November 22, 2019, 1:59pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/should-the-spa-dialogue-be-used-for-recordings-with-known-performers/452378 "2019-11-22T13:59:02Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 27, 2019, 4:19am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/should-the-spa-dialogue-be-used-for-recordings-with-known-performers/452378/8 "2019-11-27T04:19:55Z")

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> [@mfmeulenbelt](#):
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> the pure fact that it is a piece of dialogue and not music should be captured somewhere

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> [@mfmeulenbelt](#):
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> would be a more interesting discussion whether this should be credited to Jules and Vincent or Jackson and Travolta

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not to sidetrack, but this is a noteworthy point for genres like opera and musical theatre especially. many editors (including myself) have in recent times made use of (perhaps knowingly misused even) the “credited as” attribute space for opera voices to identify the roles/characters that opera singers in those particular recordings performed as. it’s perhaps best left for a separate discussion what a better solution for that is, but i’ll just leave this here.

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