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Post by wiz on Jun 28, 2015 17:09:05 GMT -6
This should start at around 56secs if not jump there, and spare yourself the intro being played straight off the original recording.
Now this is a great example of what I don't like about the music business today.
Here is someone doing a live performance in front of a zillion people at the Glastonbury festival.
Not the local pub here in regional Australia, on a Saturday night full of ink. (Oz Slang for being drunk 8) )
This guy might be a songwriting genius, and a studio wiz, the best producer , fantastic band member unbelievably talented in a lot of areas, and have impeccable grammar...
But... .
this man has no right to walk the boards, even at your local bar joint where he pickups up a hundred for singing to 3 people.
Whatever part of the industry that has propelled someone with such obvious poor vocal talent, and whats worse, the inability to recognise his own short comings (in that everyone around him must tell him he is awesome) is so unbelievably broken that its beyond help.
That is unbelievably poor singing.
Wiz
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Post by b1 on Jun 28, 2015 17:13:11 GMT -6
What a hacked job...
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Post by M57 on Jun 28, 2015 17:19:37 GMT -6
Oh I don't know - He was savvy enough to let Mr. Mercury and the audience to sing about 95% of it. Besides, I've heard better from worse.
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Post by tonycamphd on Jun 28, 2015 17:59:19 GMT -6
This says it all
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Post by WKG on Jun 28, 2015 19:38:05 GMT -6
My first thought is that somebody should have played back the rehearsals for the show to him, less Autotune, before trying to pull it off live.
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Jun 28, 2015 19:54:29 GMT -6
i just hate that he's not using a single live musician while performing for all of those people. just him and a DJ
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Post by tasteliketape on Jun 28, 2015 19:59:48 GMT -6
All these years I just thought I couldn't sing
now I have hope lmao
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Post by mrholmes on Jun 28, 2015 20:52:02 GMT -6
To me the poor thing about it is, that he is not doing a real interpretation of the song.
Its just the song, bad performed......
Seems he found a way to speak to the generation 40+
To me the 80s have been jam packed with talented people, not so the 00 years.
In other words do not try to be someone else, he should concentrate on the things he is good at.
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Post by junior on Jun 28, 2015 21:47:01 GMT -6
Wow... o_0
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Post by gouge on Jun 29, 2015 1:38:22 GMT -6
it's a shocker.!
never been a fan but I wonder why he didn't pick a song he could sing.
however,
whilst I've never had the chance for it to happen in front of 20,000 people. it did happen to me in front of 20 people once. I agreed to sit in with some guys who were doing some covers and one of which was walk on the wild side. being a sax player it should have been a breeze.
until I hit the first note and realised I'd missed the key. I continued to play the entire solo as some strange alternative key jazz piece. I felt like a dick by the end of that.
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Post by mrholmes on Jun 29, 2015 3:24:40 GMT -6
it's a shocker.! never been a fan but I wonder why he didn't pick a song he could sing. however, whilst I've never had the chance for it to happen in front of 20,000 people. it did happen to me in front of 20 people once. I agreed to sit in with some guys who were doing some covers and one of which was walk on the wild side. being a sax player it should have been a breeze. until I hit the first note and realised I'd missed the key. I continued to play the entire solo as some strange alternative key jazz piece. I felt like a dick by the end of that. It can happen even on stage. Knowing a very talented singer myself, but one day he was nothing but stage-fright, and it happend... With those super stars, if you do not have good friends which stay very critical, you may start to believe you are good at everything. It even starts earlier, as soon a little success comes around some friends freak out. Remember Sting playing the Lute, and trying to sing traditional stuff over it. To my ears someone should have told him not to do it. You cant be good in everything, even Albert Einstein concentrated on a small field of physics. |
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Post by NoFilterChuck on Jun 29, 2015 8:03:53 GMT -6
it's a shocker.! never been a fan but I wonder why he didn't pick a song he could sing. however, whilst I've never had the chance for it to happen in front of 20,000 people. it did happen to me in front of 20 people once. I agreed to sit in with some guys who were doing some covers and one of which was walk on the wild side. being a sax player it should have been a breeze. until I hit the first note and realised I'd missed the key. I continued to play the entire solo as some strange alternative key jazz piece. I felt like a dick by the end of that. nice to see another sax player here!! |
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Post by cowboycoalminer on Jun 29, 2015 8:31:04 GMT -6
The video won't play. He must have seen how bad it was and made them take it down.
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Post by tonycamphd on Jun 29, 2015 8:50:19 GMT -6
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Post by ragan on Jun 29, 2015 11:09:41 GMT -6
Best part is at about 0:30 when he's trying to lip sync along with it and clearly has no idea WTF the words are. Hilarious.
I've always found him to be a tool.
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Post by ragan on Jun 29, 2015 11:11:35 GMT -6
To be fair though, his stock in trade isn't singing. Wonder how good of a rapper Freddie Mercury would be.
Edit: Nah. Mercury would be better at anything remotely musical than that tool.
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Post by henge on Jun 29, 2015 11:34:23 GMT -6
This is just fucking ridiculous. Why is this douchebag popular? I know squat about rap or whatever genre he's big in, but you'd figure he'd have some chops. Tonedeaf. He should start a band called Tonedef...lol
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Post by jayson on Jun 29, 2015 13:53:25 GMT -6
To be fair though, his stock in trade isn't singing. Wonder how good of a rapper Freddie Mercury would be. Edit: Nah. Mercury would be better at anything remotely musical than that tool. No doubt he wipes the floor with Kanye |
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Post by tonycamphd on Jun 29, 2015 14:05:10 GMT -6
The voice of a generation!... of day walking mouth breathers?
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Post by WKG on Jun 29, 2015 22:31:17 GMT -6
To be fair though, his stock in trade isn't singing. Wonder how good of a rapper Freddie Mercury would be. Edit: Nah. Mercury would be better at anything remotely musical than that tool. No doubt he wipes the floor with Kanye Ha!
We used to cover this song back in the day, at least we played the music.
Kanye who...?
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Post by jcoutu1 on Jun 30, 2015 7:08:36 GMT -6
Yep, bad singing here, no doubt. BAD.
That said, this was obviously the intro to his set. He wanted something playing that everyone there would know and be singing along to when he came out. Good idea from that point of view. Also, he obviously knew that he coulnd't sing it, so he tried to hit a couple lines to keep the crowd going and let the track/crowd handle the majority of it. He had enough sense to not keep it going either. Just a taste of a verse and boom, into his set. The people in the audience were probably singing along too loud to even realize how bad Kanye sounded. I imagine that those 135,000 people that bought tickets weren't pissed about the 5 lines of Queen that Kanye sang (horribly).
And just to further soil my reputation and hammer home the point that I obviously have no taste, I like Kanye's music.
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Post by Ward on Jun 30, 2015 7:27:35 GMT -6
Make. It. Go. Away.
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Post by ericn on Jun 30, 2015 7:30:45 GMT -6
I have never gotten the Kanye hype, I just don't get it and never will Kanye is all about Kanye !
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Post by M57 on Jun 30, 2015 7:37:17 GMT -6
Yep, bad singing here, no doubt. BAD. That said, this was obviously the intro to his set. He wanted something playing that everyone there would know and be singing along to when he came out. Good idea from that point of view. Also, he obviously knew that he coulnd't sing it, so he tried to hit a couple lines to keep the crowd going and let the track/crowd handle the majority of it. He had enough sense to not keep it going either. Just a taste of a verse and boom, into his set. The people in the audience were probably singing along too loud to even realize how bad Kanye sounded. I imagine that those 135,000 people that bought tickets weren't pissed about the 5 lines of Queen that Kanye sang (horribly). And just to further soil my reputation and hammer home the point that I obviously have no taste, I like Kanye's music. I said so much - albeit in backhanded fashion. A big part of the job is working the crowd. Damn - Now I can't decide whether to respect you more or less, j. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 30, 2015 12:17:37 GMT -6
"That awful moment, when you realize, that everyone in the audience is a better singer than you."
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