Synthesized
By Delrondu | Music18 Feb 2008
It can only get worse from here, I guess.
The new commercial music acts these days are purely created for commercial reasons. Seeing as how no one will ever need to sing live anymore, “singers” when recording records can even hide behind synthesizers because they don’t have to worry about singing live without them.
I just saw these two new music videos that has been dominating airplay recently. First one is Aly & Aj. Two considerably attractive (to some I’m sure) young females in shorts and straps, for obvious reasons, and they could pass as twins, ready to invade the fantasies of all fan-boys. Even with synthesizers they are singing in the same tone throughout the song, be it verses or choruses. There’s no range nor power.
Second is Emmy Rossum, who has provided for the Phantom of Opera movie soundtrack. Trying her hand at pop, she doesn’t sound comfortable at all as a lot of synthesizers were used to mix her vocals in her first single Slow Me Down. The song itself is also very weak and doesn’t have a lot of melody. But she’s having her go at making more money from the music industry, riding on her popularity as an actress.
I wouldn’t even bother with the rest on the album with that as an introduction.
As much as I think that Amy Winehouse is overrated, at least she produces a record that shows her worth as a singer.
Other up and comers into music scene are actress Scarlett Johansson and dancer Julianne Hough. Hopefully both will produce something respectable.
I disagree with you..remember all the sounds on the first track were her voice! There are other songs there that are better though. Inside Out, The Great Divide, Anymore are my favorites. And you know she wrote them all.
Actually “Slow Me Down” uses no synthisizers. It’s about 150 tracks of Emmy’s voice, singing all the harmonies, instrumentals, and singing the song at diffent tempos, in different tones and keyes, and then mixed.
The album as a whoie uses very few instruments (a synth here and there, some handbells on one track, some strings on another) with Emmy replicating the sound of the instruments with her voice and layering that over the regular vocal track. In terms of melody you’ll find more of it on several other tracks, and more “traditional” vocals on songs like “Lullaby” and “Anymore”
Very interesting. I would like to be proven wrong. We shall see. Thanks to the two posters above. I still reserve my doubts as the first song really does nothing to show off her vocals.