Round Eight: Baronessa v BassSquared (679 views)

[Steve]

This is Baronessa v BassSquared in Round Eight of the Clip-Off. You have five days to submit your clips, and until 23:00 BST Time December 18 to vote. December 19 is the Results Day.

You have three categories this time! You can use any of your singers in Free Choice regardless of whether they were used in the other two categories, but if you choose to use all three of your singers and sweep, you'll get a bonus point!

The categories for Round Eight are:
1. Best Live Performance: A live vocal take done during a live show, a stage show or live in studio, etc.
2. Best Studio Performance: A studio recording of a vocal performance, which may include backing and/or harmony singing.
3. Free Choice: A clip you thought was interesting in terms of its vocal that you just really want to show off; you can use a song here that you were perhaps saving for a category but didn't get to use.

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

Vote here.

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[Baronessa]

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{Best Live Performance: Lzzy Hale - "Better Sorry Than Safe"}

Lzzy does dynamics and a key change.

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{Best Studio Performance: Joe Lynn Turner - "Losing You"}

Those highs are pretty meme-tastic, no?

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{Free Choice: Andy Bell - "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'"}

You can't fathom the depths of the memes I could have unleashed upon this category, but in the end I supposed that I should actually have something relatively impressive to show for here considering it is the Clip-Off. So here's G2 - G5 at you; pretty versatile vocal overall and the G5 is pretty scrumptious considering it's Andy's highest note as far as I know.

[BassSquared]

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{Best Live Performance: Eva Noblezada}

Eva is a Broadway actress so sounding good live is kinda her job, but even by those standards this version of "Breathe" from In the Heights is pretty goddamn fire. It's literally filmed by some random dude in the audience, so it's about as raw as you can get, but even still the sheer power of her voice shines through. She really conveys the self-anger and restless energy of the song, especially with that absolutely fucking top-tier belting in the climax.

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{Best Studio Performance: Noa Gruman}

I guess this technically stretches the definition of the category a bit since it's a one-take recording, but she's clearly doing this to record the song instead of performing for an audience so it counts for the studio category, fuck it. Anyways Noa takes on the Whitney Houston classic here and slays it as expected, easily negotiating the key changes and pulling off some lovely dynamic variation from soft and breathy to big ol' belts.

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{Free Choice: Steven Page}

4:20 to 7:00. I could have put in one of the many amazing Noa Gruman clips I had sitting in my back pocket for Lyricless or Vocal Contrast or whatever, but seeing as literally everyone else is doing all three singers in this round, doing so would make me look like a total fucking weenie. Anyway I was thinking maybe Steven Page could pull a pretty decent score with this live orchestral rendition of Jane Siberry's "The Taxi Ride", maybe in Best Dynamics or Best Emotional Singing. Softer, foreboding lower stuff that builds to possibly his strongest Bb4s on record in the climax, ending with a sudden, vulnerable flip into falsetto.