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Post by talon on Feb 17, 2015 22:25:00 GMT -5
I don't think so. They've been slowly adding things from the defunct Rare Live for a few weeks now... Oh Come On Talon! We are going to get you to mindlessly flail with us yet! You never know........some day
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Post by bamafan on Feb 17, 2015 22:41:37 GMT -5
Adam just liked on Instagram....one pic of fashion by Skingraft, one text post by Django Stewart quoting Mark Twain on "Companions", and another fashion pic by ktx_official. I'm surprised I could see these still up on Instagram 50 minutes after he liked them. His likes usually vanish quicker than that.
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Post by lorraine on Feb 17, 2015 22:54:39 GMT -5
Maybe a stupid question, but i was wondering why Adam almost always wears sunglasses when he is outside, even if the sun is not shining. Of Course it can be a fashion thing, but do you think he also wears sunglasses when he didn't put make up on? Also with the hat/cap: he sure often wears a hat/cap (it is also very good against the cold in Europe, haha, I know), but maybe also because he didn;t style his hair and his hair is just flat without styling? Because......wherever Adam is, the sun is always shining!
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Post by thelambertluvva on Feb 17, 2015 23:11:05 GMT -5
Oh, I think I was a bit bad. But so was that review. ETA ALL of the men in my family for 3 generations are lawyers or tax accountants or both! And I love them but they do not write music reviews. They stick to legal and tax issues and golf! ETA 2: I just noticed where he lives! It is a real place in Denmark (I Googled it.) But perhaps he is just another Freddie fanatic. Bad??! You were very thorough, and I salute your research skills! Well that "review" was much easier to brush off knowing the backstory.. It's hard to know which reviews to take seriously when it comes to other countries and different languages. Sorry if this had already been posted somewhere. To balance out that bad review, I discovered this thread on IDF on Adam's voice. It was only made a week ago and it has posts from two singers who have had classical training, elsiebear and badassalterego. idolforums.com/index.php?showtopic=721576&st=0This is the post I enjoyed the most. It is from badassalterego, a Brit and Queen fan, who heard Adam sing for the first time during the NYE concert on TV and later went to a live show. Madamimadam has asked me to pop over here and post, as I'm another one of the peeps out there who has done classical singing training (it's my post from FB that was quoted here a few days ago). I did the full thing at music college, and have done opera, have sung with choirs and orchestras, straight recital stuff and a few bits of music theatre as well. Over the years, I have heard 000's of singers, both in classical music and rock music (so I've got a good sound library in my head!)
What do I think of Adam's voice? It's ****ing marvellous.
I'm a real newbie to Adam, as I only heard him sing for the first time on 31st December when he performed on the BBC (I'm a Brit, by the way). I'd already bought tickets to one of the January QAL gigs on the strength of the reviews, so was more than impressed with his sound on TV. I'm a long-time Queenie by the way, and saw them perform with Freddie and also with Paul Rodgers, so I'm used to the way Queen do things. Seeing Adam perform with them on TV was great - I thought he was a really good match for their style and he could certainly get round the notes (I think it took my husband about three days to get his eyes back in their sockets after watching it!).
The live show was something else - the range and versatility Adam has is fantastic, and I agree with elsiebear's comments about him. You haven't heard the best of his voice yet, and as long as he looks after himself, he probably won't truly peak until he's about 40 (although athletes peak much younger, it's a much slower burn with singers).
What makes him sound like that? That's a fairly complex answer, Physically it's a combination of what you've been given in terms of the anatomy in your throat and face, your lung capacity and how your vocal cords vibrate together. Your range is fairly set, but can be changed and enhanced to an extent. Most men are naturally baritones and most women are naturally mezzo-sopranos, so the rare voices are the people who can access very high or very low notes. Somehow it's the higher notes that are more attractive, which is why we get turned on by a soprano or a tenor's glory notes!
On top of the physical stuff and the natural range, there is then the work you do on top of it - and most importantly, how well you are coached and taught. Bad teaching can completely ruin a voice, so Adam's very fortunate that he's been well-taught throughout his life so far. Training a voice starts with the basics, like breathing and posture, and then moves on to stuff like extending the range and also making a voice "match" throughout, as this is what our ears find attractive.
Sometimes you'll hear someone sing and they sound as though they have two or three different voices - this is a physical thing caused by your larynx moving around. If you sing up a scale and watch your throat in a mirror, you'll see your larynx rise as your voice does, then it will drop back down and reset itself. These "gear changes" have to be smoothed out so that you make the same sound throughout. Some people have these in a more pronounced way than others (which means more work in the practice studio, unfortunately).
Adam's got a beautifully matched voice and this is a combination of the way he's been taught and also sheer hard work. He's also done a lot of work on his top range - he's got a naturally light speaking voice anyway, which usually determines the pitch of your singing voice, but (and this is where some of the mental attitude stuff comes in) I suspect he has worked up the top of his voice by sheer will, as huge amounts of singing are determined by what goes on between year ears - i.e. if you really want to do something, then you'll do it.
And on top of this, there is the X-factor stuff, which is about the light and shade you put in your voice (classical singers tend to call this "colour"). Adam has got an extraordinary range of colour in his voice, and he can mix the various parts of it very well. He uses bits of pure falsetto (like the first few notes of STL) and uses a lot of ringing high overtones when he's at the top of his voice (glory notes in Save Me). He can also fine his voice down to a pure tone that is a mixture of the two (last line of Save Me).
How much colour you get into your voice is pretty complex - some of it is the way your face is built - Adam has got a long jawbone and good cheekbones, which always helps. You also have to be able to listen to your own sound and feel where it's resonating. And... a lot of the X-factor is added by how you communicate the music. Really brilliant, riveting singers hardly ever shut their eyes for more than a couple of seconds, as you put across huge amounts of any song with your eyes. Adam's communication skills are fabulous and this will light up any song (you'll know this far better than me as you've listened to him for years!).
I was so utterly gobsmacked (Brit term for bowled over) by Adam's performance with Queen I'm going to the last show of the tour in Sheffield. This is the first time I've ever, ever gone to more than one show of ANYBODY's tour in my life.
Oh dear, that's a lot of words - I have a bit of a verbal diarrhoea problem, do forgive me. However, if anyone wants to pick my brains, or you want to chat, please feel free!
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Post by Q3 on Feb 17, 2015 23:23:22 GMT -5
Thanks for sharing that thelambertluvva. It is beautiful. I can tagging the post with cassie name so that she can read it.
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Post by Holst on Feb 17, 2015 23:55:34 GMT -5
Bad??! You were very thorough, and I salute your research skills! Well that "review" was much easier to brush off knowing the backstory.. It's hard to know which reviews to take seriously when it comes to other countries and different languages. Sorry if this had already been posted somewhere. To balance out that bad review, I discovered this thread on IDF on Adam's voice. It was only made a week ago and it has posts from two singers who have had classical training, elsiebear and badassalterego. idolforums.com/index.php?showtopic=721576&st=0This is the post I enjoyed the most. It is from badassalterego, a Brit and Queen fan, who heard Adam sing for the first time during the NYE concert on TV and later went to a live show. Madamimadam has asked me to pop over here and post, as I'm another one of the peeps out there who has done classical singing training (it's my post from FB that was quoted here a few days ago). I did the full thing at music college, and have done opera, have sung with choirs and orchestras, straight recital stuff and a few bits of music theatre as well. Over the years, I have heard 000's of singers, both in classical music and rock music (so I've got a good sound library in my head!)
What do I think of Adam's voice? It's ****ing marvellous.
I'm a real newbie to Adam, as I only heard him sing for the first time on 31st December when he performed on the BBC (I'm a Brit, by the way). I'd already bought tickets to one of the January QAL gigs on the strength of the reviews, so was more than impressed with his sound on TV. I'm a long-time Queenie by the way, and saw them perform with Freddie and also with Paul Rodgers, so I'm used to the way Queen do things. Seeing Adam perform with them on TV was great - I thought he was a really good match for their style and he could certainly get round the notes (I think it took my husband about three days to get his eyes back in their sockets after watching it!).
The live show was something else - the range and versatility Adam has is fantastic, and I agree with elsiebear's comments about him. You haven't heard the best of his voice yet, and as long as he looks after himself, he probably won't truly peak until he's about 40 (although athletes peak much younger, it's a much slower burn with singers).
What makes him sound like that? That's a fairly complex answer, Physically it's a combination of what you've been given in terms of the anatomy in your throat and face, your lung capacity and how your vocal cords vibrate together. Your range is fairly set, but can be changed and enhanced to an extent. Most men are naturally baritones and most women are naturally mezzo-sopranos, so the rare voices are the people who can access very high or very low notes. Somehow it's the higher notes that are more attractive, which is why we get turned on by a soprano or a tenor's glory notes!
On top of the physical stuff and the natural range, there is then the work you do on top of it - and most importantly, how well you are coached and taught. Bad teaching can completely ruin a voice, so Adam's very fortunate that he's been well-taught throughout his life so far. Training a voice starts with the basics, like breathing and posture, and then moves on to stuff like extending the range and also making a voice "match" throughout, as this is what our ears find attractive.
Sometimes you'll hear someone sing and they sound as though they have two or three different voices - this is a physical thing caused by your larynx moving around. If you sing up a scale and watch your throat in a mirror, you'll see your larynx rise as your voice does, then it will drop back down and reset itself. These "gear changes" have to be smoothed out so that you make the same sound throughout. Some people have these in a more pronounced way than others (which means more work in the practice studio, unfortunately).
Adam's got a beautifully matched voice and this is a combination of the way he's been taught and also sheer hard work. He's also done a lot of work on his top range - he's got a naturally light speaking voice anyway, which usually determines the pitch of your singing voice, but (and this is where some of the mental attitude stuff comes in) I suspect he has worked up the top of his voice by sheer will, as huge amounts of singing are determined by what goes on between year ears - i.e. if you really want to do something, then you'll do it.
And on top of this, there is the X-factor stuff, which is about the light and shade you put in your voice (classical singers tend to call this "colour"). Adam has got an extraordinary range of colour in his voice, and he can mix the various parts of it very well. He uses bits of pure falsetto (like the first few notes of STL) and uses a lot of ringing high overtones when he's at the top of his voice (glory notes in Save Me). He can also fine his voice down to a pure tone that is a mixture of the two (last line of Save Me).
How much colour you get into your voice is pretty complex - some of it is the way your face is built - Adam has got a long jawbone and good cheekbones, which always helps. You also have to be able to listen to your own sound and feel where it's resonating. And... a lot of the X-factor is added by how you communicate the music. Really brilliant, riveting singers hardly ever shut their eyes for more than a couple of seconds, as you put across huge amounts of any song with your eyes. Adam's communication skills are fabulous and this will light up any song (you'll know this far better than me as you've listened to him for years!).
I was so utterly gobsmacked (Brit term for bowled over) by Adam's performance with Queen I'm going to the last show of the tour in Sheffield. This is the first time I've ever, ever gone to more than one show of ANYBODY's tour in my life.
Oh dear, that's a lot of words - I have a bit of a verbal diarrhoea problem, do forgive me. However, if anyone wants to pick my brains, or you want to chat, please feel free!Isn't it nice to have yet another corroboration from a trained singer? Exactly what Cassie has been teaching us all. I love the reaction to hearing him for the first time. I'm so used to Adam that sometimes I forget how astonishing he is. After all these years, I just assume near perfection and am so used to it.
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