Round Seven: BassSqaured v BiDS (422 views)

[Steve]

This is BassSquared v Breakfast in D-sharp in Round Seven of the Clip-Off. You have five days to submit your clips, and until 23:00 BST Time December 8 to vote. December 9 is the Results Day.

The categories for Round Seven are:
1. Best Distorted/Harsh/Heavy Singing: Singing that uses vocal distortion, a harsh tone and/or is generally heavy-sounding.
2. Best Emotional Singing: Affecting an emotional vocal delivery in order to tug at the listener's heartstrings in one way or another..

The contestants are free to post their clips, voting commences as soon as they have.

Vote here.

Current Vote Count: 4

[Breakfast in D-sharp]

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{Best Distorted/Harsh/Heavy Singing}
David Essex - Run with the Pack. A mixture of cleaner vocals (with a slightly heavier tone than usual) and some grittier stuff with occasional screamy bits.
6:26-7:52

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{Best Emotional Singing (CW: this is a song about someones dad dying)}
The last couple of minutes of Michael Cavanaugh's heart-wrenching rendition of The Living Years.
56:03-58:03

[BassSquared]

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{Best Distorted Singing: Noa Gruman}

Timestamp to 4:30, instrumental from 3:21 to 3:33. This category's got a pretty big range of possible approaches, ranging from gritty yet melodic belting to full on screams, and Noa demonstrates pretty much all of them over the course of this clip. Starting off with an absolutely monstrous sustained scream, she goes on to layer gutturals, screams, and wonderfully rough belting all together. Also she hits a pretty cool E6 at the end, which isn't particularly relevant but I think it's neat.

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{Best Emotional Singing: Eva Noblezada}

Timestamp to end. Look, I don't know how the hell people score this category, but this clip gives me chills at a couple points and I've never even seen the musical it's from. She really sells the character's lovesickness and desperate determination here, all while being as powerful and technically impeccable as ever.