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What is it with the obligatory "long note"??
Can someone please explain why the audiences cream themselves when somebody holds a note (in tune, or otherwise) for upwards of 5 seconds ??? I'd be impressed if it was like "that" long note in Bill Withers "Lovely Day "
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Regardless of how good it is, it becomes boring and loses all impact when it's chucked willy-nilly into just about every song these days.
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Lol...Soooooo true.
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Simon seems to love them and actively encourages the overuse of them. Like anything you can have too much of a good thing.
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Even when it is held beautifully and displays wonderful technical skill I hate it. As the note drags out it really grates on me and I want to shout "enough"! But that's just my personal taste.
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People with low IQs love long notes.
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haha
I know as if exhaling for 5sec is impressive
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The X Factor spreads the idea that a 'big' voice is all that matters, and that singing in that certain style is the best you can get - and most people buy into it.
The problem is, it's utter rubbish. The show sticks to a formula of what it has decided a great singer should be . . . a formula that doesn't really seem interested in how the charts work, or the 'x factor' the show's named after. Louis hit the nail on the head when he told Danyl that he's trying too hard, but he should say the same to Stacey too. They've been packaged as big belting singers, and it's detrimental to them both. |
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It's so when they do the "Last night/week" bit at the start of the show, they can show a montage of "ooooooooooooooooh/haaaaaaaaaaaah/eeeeeaaaaaaaaah" like they do every night! Watch tonight, you'll see what I mean
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It's so when they do the "Last night/week" bit at the start of the show, they can show a montage of "ooooooooooooooooh/haaaaaaaaaaaah/eeeeeaaaaaaaaah" like they do every night! Watch tonight, you'll see what I mean
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The X Factor spreads the idea that a 'big' voice is all that matters, and that singing in that certain style is the best you can get - and most people buy into it.
The problem is, it's utter rubbish. The show sticks to a formula of what it has decided a great singer should be . . . a formula that doesn't really seem interested in how the charts work, or the 'x factor' the show's named after. Very few of the singers I listen to belt out the big notes like they do in X Factor. I suppose it's down to Mariah, Celine, Whitney and Leona being seen as the ideal style for female singers on the show (heck, three of them have actually appeared on it). |
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Totally agree. Nothing wrong with a big voice if that's what the contestant naturally has anyway, but it annoys me that contestants who have a different kind of voice are either dismissed as no good because their singing style's more subtle, or are forced to do the big notes even though their voices don't naturally lend themselves to it.
Very few of the singers I listen to belt out the big notes like they do in X Factor. I suppose it's down to Mariah, Celine, Whitney and Leona being seen as the ideal style for female singers on the show (heck, three of them have actually appeared on it). |
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People with low IQs love long notes.
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It's designed to grab atttentiiiiiiooooooooooooooooooon!
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I dont mind if the song has them in there, or perhaps at the end after you've built the performance towards it, but Danyl just stuck a long shout in the middle of a subdued track for no descernable reason last night, and I was still thinking 'what on earth...' when the judges were telling him how great he was.
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I dont mind if the song has them in there, or perhaps at the end after you've built the performance towards it, but Danyl just stuck a long shout in the middle of a subdued track for no descernable reason last night, and I was still thinking 'what on earth...' when the judges were telling him how great he was.
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...'tis cringe worthy.
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Do you remember the guy from last year who help that *really* long note in the 'rejects' performance of I Have A Dream?
![]() That is what all the contestants should be aiming for. *nods*
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Can someone please explain why the audiences cream themselves when somebody holds a note (in tune, or otherwise) for upwards of 5 seconds ??? I'd be impressed if it was like "that" long note in Bill Withers "Lovely Day "
![]() It is also one thing doing a song that has a long note written into it and quite another constantly adding long notes to show off in songs that don't have them. (Like one of them does every week) It's weak, pretentious and not very professional. Especially when you get known for it every week after week. |
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Stacey does it a lot, but to be fair, I thought her only two good notes last night were her two big ones, and I think she'll stay on the back of it, because its the bit you see in the clip!
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It's a bit of an American phenomena. I watched Mariah Carey on alan carrs chatty man show the other night. She did one of those long notes followed by a slight pause for the usual American audience to whoop and cheer....unfortunately the british alan carr audience were firmly sitting on their hands and silent...she did look slightly disappointed.
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Can someone please explain why the audiences cream themselves when somebody holds a note (in tune, or otherwise) for upwards of 5 seconds ??? I'd be impressed if it was like "that" long note in Bill Withers "Lovely Day "
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The X Factor spreads the idea that a 'big' voice is all that matters, and that singing in that certain style is the best you can get - and most people buy into it.
The problem is, it's utter rubbish. The show sticks to a formula of what it has decided a great singer should be . . . a formula that doesn't really seem interested in how the charts work, or the 'x factor' the show's named after. Louis hit the nail on the head when he told Danyl that he's trying too hard, but he should say the same to Stacey too. They've been packaged as big belting singers, and it's detrimental to them both. What the show is now doing is the moulding of artists into a 'formula' which is now old hat and stale!! We need a fresh approach and XF as it now is, is not it!!! |
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