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Thank you Adam for this wonderful pic from M&G in Warsaw - one of the best TOHT concerts ever!
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Post by shimoli710 on Dec 10, 2016 4:16:33 GMT -5
Sent me down the rabbit hole here! Rewatched the songs featuring Adam...and was AGAIN amazed at what he can do with his voice, how different he can sound! He took a totally different approach to these songs he sang on Glee or is that just me?^^ As we're in the AA club here (Anonymus Adamholics) I feel free to express this...I just wish it was just Adam on the songs  #neverenoughadam btw. was that Terrance seen in the video for "I believe in a thing called love"? Yes it was Terrance. He tweeted about it and posted a photo on his IG twitter.com/LoveMrS*&@^#r/status/408712937919246338www.instagram.com/p/hjig2IoMvH/ |
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Post by talon on Dec 10, 2016 6:20:14 GMT -5
About Adam providing the singing voice for Freddie..... I don't know how the die-hard Queen fans would react. They would probably hate it. I don't know how the rest of the audience would react. They would probably think he sounds amazing, but not like Freddie. Yes, Adam can vocally handle the Queen repertoire, and then some. We know he can also handle the theatricality and frontman duties in concert, which makes him a perfect match for Queen in live performances. But, to me, Adam's voice is very different from Freddie's. Adam is a singers' singer. He is polished, technically amazing, and his voice has a richness and fullness found in musical theater and classical music, but not often in rock. Freddie's voice is more piercing, raw, risky, and unpredictable. I can hear Freddie work and push for the notes and phrases, whereas Adam sounds effortless. Adam's voice just wouldn't fit Freddie's story or his musical journey. IMHO, YMMV FOr the record - I think even the pro QAL Queen fans would hate that. I would hate that myself tbh. Pure out and out hate which is something I don't do very often lol.... He sounds nothing like Freddie so it wouldn't make sense. Mimicking ability or not... I wouldn't be surprised if he plays himself during an epilogue of sorts showing what happened to the band post Freddie...or possibly it is about getting together with Queen to write a closing credits type of song....Or it could be a cameo of sorts. I'm pushing my sources to find out more but they are more on the music side of things so I'm not sure what they can find out... Personally I don't have a problem with Adam being in it per se - my only concern would be that it would be more of a distraction - a Hey look it's Adam that takes me out of the actual story...but I wouldn't melt down like some Queen purists obviously would... |
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Post by talon on Dec 10, 2016 6:22:04 GMT -5
It would be very, very unusual for a biopic of a singer of Freddie's vintage not to use a new vocalist to rerecord missing or poor quality vocals. For most major motion picture biopics they either have it entirely resung or use some new and some original vocals. For example, a recording studio scene will often require new vocals, or early performances. In Queen's case, there are very few quality live performance recordings for 1968-1970 (proto-Queen Freddie) and 1971-1978. I don't think it will be Adam but it would be cool -- and fun to watch the Freddie worshipers meltdown.  I think there may be more higher quality stuff than you would think. Queen recorded everything so especially in the later portion...i'd say 74-78. Maybe a bit less in 68-71. High enough for a film? That I'm not sure of.. |
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Post by Craazyforadam on Dec 10, 2016 12:35:13 GMT -5
About Adam providing the singing voice for Freddie..... I don't know how the die-hard Queen fans would react. They would probably hate it. I don't know how the rest of the audience would react. They would probably think he sounds amazing, but not like Freddie. Yes, Adam can vocally handle the Queen repertoire, and then some. We know he can also handle the theatricality and frontman duties in concert, which makes him a perfect match for Queen in live performances. But, to me, Adam's voice is very different from Freddie's. Adam is a singers' singer. He is polished, technically amazing, and his voice has a richness and fullness found in musical theater and classical music, but not often in rock. Freddie's voice is more piercing, raw, risky, and unpredictable. I can hear Freddie work and push for the notes and phrases, whereas Adam sounds effortless. Adam's voice just wouldn't fit Freddie's story or his musical journey. IMHO, YMMV FOr the record - I think even the pro QAL Queen fans would hate that. I would hate that myself tbh. Pure out and out hate which is something I don't do very often lol.... He sounds nothing like Freddie so it wouldn't make sense. Mimicking ability or not... I wouldn't be surprised if he plays himself during an epilogue of sorts showing what happened to the band post Freddie...or possibly it is about getting together with Queen to write a closing credits type of song....Or it could be a cameo of sorts. I'm pushing my sources to find out more but they are more on the music side of things so I'm not sure what they can find out... Personally I don't have a problem with Adam being in it per se - my only concern would be that it would be more of a distraction - a Hey look it's Adam that takes me out of the actual story...but I wouldn't melt down like some Queen purists obviously would... For the record, I would hate that too, and I am coming from the Adam side of things, lol. As far as Queen is concerned, Adam has made himself known for sounding differently than Freddie, but offering a legitimate interpretation that makes you rethink/relive the music, not as somebody who 'is like Freddie'. He has proven to be able to hold his own on that 'throne' of Freddie, and that is something that presently nobody else seems to be able to do to that extent, Marc Martel included. That fact does not mean that I for even one minute would like to see him pretend to 'be Freddie'. Pissing off some purists, which in general would be fun to some extent, is one thing, but I don't want to see it done at Adam's expense. It would mock things, or muck things up, depending how you want to see it, and that would be not good for Adam. People would be perceiving it as more mud being thrown at their Saint Freddie, and for once, I think they actually would be right. I don't want to give them that satisfaction. When it comes to accents, sorry, to all Americans who say here that he does a great job. But I have never heard Adam do a British accent that was not utterly cringe-worthy. As others said, most people cannot do that and neither can Adam. Adam does have an exceptionally good ear, and a very normal memory. If you say a sentence to him, i.e. I would say something in German to him and he repeats it, then his mimicking of my sentence would be closer than most people can get it. There are multiple examples where he repeats after a radio broadcaster on German radio, and he does get close, articulates clearly and sounds definitely better than the average American saying a typical German sentence. But in no way, would I ever not hear the underlying American accent. And if I asked him 5 minutes later to say the same sentence again from memory, out would come the typical American phrasings for vowels and diphthongs, not the sentence from earlier. It is an imitation skill, nothing more. In English, I have to say, I have never heard Adam come even close, on his own accord. In the few recordings we have of him trying, he imitates a British intonation (the ups and downs in how high the voice is during speaking), but beyond that intonation, I would not even have recognized it as an attempt to speak British English, that is how far off it was. He never came close, except if he was immediately parroting back something he had just heard. But even in that case, you could still hear the foreign intonation underneath it. If he just tries on his own to clown around, it is a mess, tbh. Now seeing Adam playing one of Freddie's love interests in the movie, I am all for. Because that would be delightful and probably entertaining, and I love seeing Adam all flirty and sexy. And that scene could be given some depth by showing it before, in all its glory days of unhinged partying, and then meet the same person at a later point, after aids had hit, free sex life gone and replaced by a sense of death sentence hanging over a whole community. Just a question of when the execution will happen for each individual in the group. In the end, Freddie stood at this pivotal point in time and was part of that community. And because he was publicly private about his orientation, there is not much authentic material where Freddie speaks about any of this. This needs to be placed into the movie by way of Freddie's interaction with other characters. In fact, if this bio-pic is supposed to have any viability beyond the existing biographical documentaries, some of which are very well done, btw, then this is in my view a topic that needs to be fleshed out, to make it a historic documentary of time and events surrounding Freddie's life. This is where a movie is free to expand a bit, in ways the documentary cannot, and I hope they are making use of the occasion, and give it emotional depth, rather than just focusing on the party action. |
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