Originally Posted by thenetworkbabe:
“Edith does something very similar to what Alex did in the music room singing quietly . She did it more with Carrie - where there was a different mood going on too - but even with David she sings each word with its meaning reflected in her voice. Lots of subtle stuff goes on. The actresses had a go at emotion and Kim usually asks the right question how do I sing this, but Edith is the only one i have seen just do it. What she doesn't do is carry that so much into the show performance and she can't hit the wow button so often to underline what the emotion is she is conveying. To be fair Alex usually took a longer lesson to get it right, had a jazz singers voice in reserve and enormous lung capacity and often had her backing tracks altered to fit the new concept so its not surprising if we are short on wow.
I think its the same interpreting skill though. David seems to think so too - though apart from duets and one afternoon they kept Alex with Carrie . Lesley's point I thought is the other thing you notice about Edith and Lesley, David and Carrie have all told us about. Edith knows so much music that she knows the style these songs ought to be sung in - she knows how to sing Sinatra. That doesn't mean she sings it just ike Sinatra or without her own touches or can't steal ideas from multiple sources - it just means it sounds right for what it is. Ade did it for punk and Reggie for rap but Edith does it for all sorts of styles.
Thats all why I think we had several cases of the judges disagreeing about her too. The feeling the song thing turns up with Bridge Over Troubled Water which she says is her favourite as she feels the song more and which she sings quietly in the music room with lots of things going on that don't quite make it to the performance - Richard wants Alex like wow on stage. The musical knowlege turns up when he gets criticised by Richard for not adding wow to her swing song and David and Carrie point out that that is how you sing swing . Edith knows what swing singers wouldn't do so she doesn't do it - result Richard and public not so enthused. Its the FA 2 problem with Peter and Paris where you had Carrie and David pointing out they wre doing the right things for people in their genres even if Richard wanted something else and the public wouldn't vote for them..”
“Edith does something very similar to what Alex did in the music room singing quietly . She did it more with Carrie - where there was a different mood going on too - but even with David she sings each word with its meaning reflected in her voice. Lots of subtle stuff goes on. The actresses had a go at emotion and Kim usually asks the right question how do I sing this, but Edith is the only one i have seen just do it. What she doesn't do is carry that so much into the show performance and she can't hit the wow button so often to underline what the emotion is she is conveying. To be fair Alex usually took a longer lesson to get it right, had a jazz singers voice in reserve and enormous lung capacity and often had her backing tracks altered to fit the new concept so its not surprising if we are short on wow.
I think its the same interpreting skill though. David seems to think so too - though apart from duets and one afternoon they kept Alex with Carrie . Lesley's point I thought is the other thing you notice about Edith and Lesley, David and Carrie have all told us about. Edith knows so much music that she knows the style these songs ought to be sung in - she knows how to sing Sinatra. That doesn't mean she sings it just ike Sinatra or without her own touches or can't steal ideas from multiple sources - it just means it sounds right for what it is. Ade did it for punk and Reggie for rap but Edith does it for all sorts of styles.
Thats all why I think we had several cases of the judges disagreeing about her too. The feeling the song thing turns up with Bridge Over Troubled Water which she says is her favourite as she feels the song more and which she sings quietly in the music room with lots of things going on that don't quite make it to the performance - Richard wants Alex like wow on stage. The musical knowlege turns up when he gets criticised by Richard for not adding wow to her swing song and David and Carrie point out that that is how you sing swing . Edith knows what swing singers wouldn't do so she doesn't do it - result Richard and public not so enthused. Its the FA 2 problem with Peter and Paris where you had Carrie and David pointing out they wre doing the right things for people in their genres even if Richard wanted something else and the public wouldn't vote for them..”
I've said this before but will say it again for you.
the main difference between Edith and Kim is Edith feels the music which is only to be expected as she has music around her all the time, where as Kim is a method singer, put simply she needs a story to feel the song, it's a common thing with a lot of singers but mainly with a singer/songwriter as you've already mentioned her I'll use Carolynne as an example if she gets a song written by some one else she also requires a story, but if it's one of her own songs she has the feelings for the song as she writes from the heart ( her words not mine), the only one out of the finalists to improve is Kim when she first went in she didn't put any emotion in her singing now she is, fair enough she's not the finished article by a long way but she has improved and if she had the confidence in her singing and stopped being so intense about her technique feel she has a lot more power in her voice if she put a bit more of herself into the song,
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. However, do you remember all those vids of AP on FA covering that song, in front of an open air audience, way before it was performed on that first night before She entered the academy?
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