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Post by Pinkline Jones on Jun 22, 2005 15:48:39 GMT 10
I met Bettina Welch "Maggie" from Number 96 once.
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Post by slackmac on Jun 22, 2005 15:58:47 GMT 10
Yes - very attractive was Bettina Welch and an undoubted popular culture icon, but no Chanel.
I bowled to Michael Slater in the nets for an hour once, but he was only 13 at the time.
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Post by darthbrooks on Jun 23, 2005 1:07:18 GMT 10
Chanel Cole - now there's a one trick pony!!
What she does is interesting for the first five minutes because it's not done often, then you realise she's not that good at it and get bored very quickly.
Callea is a toy-sized Talent School reject. Stars are born, not made. Yet Callea is so pre-manufactured that he's as edgy as a ball-bearing.
The most hilarious thing is when he tries to do 'urban' material. Urban music is built on edginess, danger and sex. It just doesn't work when performed by an effeminate midget who would have been bullied and beaten up by the wannabe divas at Johnny Young's talent school.
He's best suited to singing whimpy opera-lite and cheesy 80s power ballads to audiences who don't know better in singing competitions at the likes of Marrickville RSL.
Similar can be said of Sebastian. Despite having terrific pipes (technically), the style of music he wants to perform is built around sex and danger. It simply doesn't work when the artist is a die-hard Christian and a virgin. The lack of edge in his life affects the character of his voice and renders it impotent -- as a content virgin singing urban music may as well be.
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Post by camel56 on Jun 23, 2005 7:42:56 GMT 10
darthbrooks - I agree re Callea. This bloke may be in the limelight now but that is only due to the Idol hype cause by the teeny boppers that watch the show. These clowns wouldnt know a good singer from a rectal wart. Its only a matter of time until Callea come back down to earth with a thud and is sentenced to a life on the RSL circuit or worse. He's a plodder of the highest order and will be exposed as such soon enough.
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Post by Pinkline Jones on Jun 23, 2005 9:43:41 GMT 10
LOL Darthbrooks - brilliant
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Post by slackmac on Jun 23, 2005 10:04:43 GMT 10
Darthbrooks - perhaps you can explain how having a whispery little voice that can't be heard in the front row without being piped through a stack of speakers 12 foot high equates to having "technically" good pipes.
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Post by darthbrooks on Jun 23, 2005 10:50:48 GMT 10
Welcome to the wonderful world of amplification, Slackmack. It's been going on for years, apparently, and used by many artists.
... but far be it from me to defend someone who thinks that winning a karaoke contest gives him the right to advocate that women don't have the right to choose.
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Post by slackmac on Jun 23, 2005 11:03:15 GMT 10
Thanks - I think I've got a handle on amplification, but my point was that Sebastian's voice is very small.
Most times on the show he could barely be heard above the band, and that is with amplification, so I'm wondering how that translates into technical perfection.
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Post by darthbrooks on Jun 23, 2005 11:19:16 GMT 10
As I'm sure you've been advised, it's not the size of the instrument that matters, its how you use it.
A voice doesn't always have to be big or loud to be good. Sebastian doesn't use his voice that effectively -- there's no grit to it whatsoever -- but he does hit the notes and have tremendous control.
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Post by slackmac on Jun 23, 2005 11:28:12 GMT 10
LOL about the size of the instrument, but I would have thought the ability to be heard above the band would be pretty much a pre-requisite for a professional singer.
And I don't rate all the vocal gymnastics myself - if your material is any good, it's best delivered straight.
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Post by darthbrooks on Jun 23, 2005 11:38:39 GMT 10
There's no doubt he overuses the gymnastics - when there's no grit or substance to the vocal, all you have to use is the window dressing - but the control on display has to be admired.
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Post by slackmac on Jun 23, 2005 11:47:55 GMT 10
If you can hear it.
As for his brilliance as a musical arranger - do me a friggin' favour.
Starting off "When Doves Cry" slow and then making it faster doesn't make you the new Nelson Riddle.
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Post by darthbrooks on Jun 23, 2005 12:06:53 GMT 10
Not to mention it had already been arranged as such in 'Romeo & Juliet'.
Sebastian's arrangement style has a distinct reduced fat Kraft singles flavour to it.
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Post by slackmac on Jun 23, 2005 12:52:00 GMT 10
Correctamundo.
The idea the judges were trying to promulgate that he was some sort of super-talented Prince-style musical all-rounder was a floater of the most abject kind.
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