Round Eight: Celice v TheRealRomanHeath (511 views)

[Steve]

This is Breakfast in D-sharp v SailorBlue 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.

Current Vote Count: 3

[SailorBlue]

Best Live: T-Pain. 0:00 to 3:46. An absolute classic of a song, a Mr. Pain does it wonderfully.



Best Studio: Hugh Laurie. The whole thing. Prolly one of, if not, is Billy Cobbs best vocal performances. Crooned D3s, powerful A4s and some D5s mixed in there. idk i like it.



Best Mental Breakdown (Free Choice): The One and Only. Timestamp to end. Yes, it's that time of the year again.

[Breakfast in D-sharp]

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{Best Live Performance}This performance by David Essex wipes the floor with his studio cover. It starts off gently and builds up to a passionate and impressive display of vocal stamina (I dare you to count how many B4s he sings here).
8:07-11:41

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{best Studio Performance}
Another slow starter which gets more dramatic, with soft, belty, heartachy, high, low and sustained bits.
Whole song (vocal starts about 0:14).

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{Free Choice}
I've used none of Michael Cavanaugh's actual discography yet, good though it is, and I'm not about to start, because this is just too much fun. Episode 69 of Live From Michael's House was on an anniversary of Freddie Mercury's death, and since Michael had previously performed Bohemian Rhapsody with his band, it's not too surprising that someone requested it. Of course he'd have to be crazy to attempt it live as a solo vocalist/pianist with no other accompaniment... so here it is. He invites his audience to select our vocal parts and sing along at home while he heroically does his bit and also some of his bandmates' bits.
1:01:47 to 1:06:45