What is all the hype about Freddie Mercury's voice?

Typhoon859 wrote:

thomasquinn 32989 wrote:

Judging an artist on the basis of a single performance, choosing said performance on the basis of what comes up first on YouTube, conducting poor/no research on the context of said performance, no comparing/contrasting, dismissing studio recordings offhand and having the gall to say that everyone else should too...

I do hope when he says "vocal student" he means he does so in his spare time after school. Because if this constitutes his "research", he'd be chucked out from the conservatory I attended within the first semester.

To be fair, he never said he did or was particularly doing research himself, hence why he probably came here to ask. He simply said he "studied" the songs/performances he mentioned. I don't see how the appropriate reaction is condescension rather than trying to educate with what you know (or at least think you know). Sorry, but someone had to come in his defense, as you're not the first one to dish out this kind of remark. It's kind of unpleasant to see or read just sitting on the sidelines.

It is also unpleasant to be told, by someone who did not do any research beforehand, that "I only evaluate a singer by his live singing and so should anybody else". I don't like being told how to do something when the person telling me doesn't know what they're talking about.

I am annoyed, not so much by the inaccuracies, but by the unjustified tone of authority assumed and the frank condescension in the original post.

thomasquinn 32989 wrote:

Typhoon859 wrote:

thomasquinn 32989 wrote:

Judging an artist on the basis of a single performance, choosing said performance on the basis of what comes up first on YouTube, conducting poor/no research on the context of said performance, no comparing/contrasting, dismissing studio recordings offhand and having the gall to say that everyone else should too...

I do hope when he says "vocal student" he means he does so in his spare time after school. Because if this constitutes his "research", he'd be chucked out from the conservatory I attended within the first semester.

To be fair, he never said he did or was particularly doing research himself, hence why he probably came here to ask. He simply said he "studied" the songs/performances he mentioned. I don't see how the appropriate reaction is condescension rather than trying to educate with what you know (or at least think you know). Sorry, but someone had to come in his defense, as you're not the first one to dish out this kind of remark. It's kind of unpleasant to see or read just sitting on the sidelines.

It is also unpleasant to be told, by someone who did not do any research beforehand, that "I only evaluate a singer by his live singing and so should anybody else". I don't like being told how to do something when the person telling me doesn't know what they're talking about.

I am annoyed, not so much by the inaccuracies, but by the unjustified tone of authority assumed and the frank condescension in the original post.

I guess that's fair enough. I just got the impression that it's a young kid and furthermore didn't take it so much to heart what he mentioned. I think that's just the way he ended up choosing to express his understanding rather than something he purposely said with some high level of conceit and condescension in mind. Anyway, this is off topic and not really worth further analysis >.<

Imo, it was a small enough offense to have just simply ignored.

It's not that hard to find stuff about Freddie's vocal capabilities on Youtube rather than getting one of his weakest performances like Wembley to be analysed as the "definitive" sample of his live skills (does it really comes first all the time?), this one for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R5vTjdOTMGE.

As others have mentioned, there were no gimmicks in the 70's (let alone autotune) to pretend you are something you aren't. Perhaps the author was a bit impressed with the studio choirs and all that, but these are, more than a "gimmick", the demonstration of how Freddie could have "multiple vocal personas" so to speak. And for obvious reasons, these things couldn't be reproduced live, like some of Brian's orchestrations.

I wonder what the author would think of the "lipsynching" of the opera section of BoRhap... they did it every time!

[offtopic]Up to page 2 I was wondering when someone would start to add A.L.'s voice into the discussion... BANG.[/offtopic]