Round 1: BassSquared vs. Tetra (352 views)

[Steve]

This is BassSquared v Tetra in Round One of the Clip-Off. You have five days exactly to submit your clips, and until midnight EST Sunday, November 20 to vote. November 21 is the Results Day.

The categories for Round One are:
1. Best Non-Native Singing - A passage sung in a language the speaker does not natively speak.
2. Best Emotional Singing - Affecting an emotional vocal delivery in order to tug at the listener's heartstrings in one way or another.

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

Vote here.

Current Vote Count: 4

[BassSquared]

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{Best Non-Native Singing - Ninet Tayeb}
2:06 to end. Ninet Tayeb is from Israel and her native language is Hebrew. This is a pretty cool cover of Joni Mitchell's "Woodstock", which is a song written in English. Those are two different languages. Uh, yeah, that's about it.

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{Best Emotional Singing - Georgia Train}
3:46 to 5:42. A deeply personal gut-punch of a song about miscarriage and the resulting feeling of loss and emptiness. She sells this song's emotionality across the dynamic spectrum from the powerful chorus to the vulnerable, broken-sounding outro where she literally becomes too choked up to lipsync properly in the video. Hard to find a clip that epitomizes this category more in my opinion.

[Tetra]

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{Best Non-Native Singing - Tom Cardy}
I don't know what you want from me (to be fair he's not a cop)
(0:23 - 0:45)

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{Best Emotional Singing - Dan Avidan}
It was either this or a Lemon Demon song so don't say I never did anything for you ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
(2:05 - 3:40)