Round 1: BAZanine vs. Baronessa (426 views)

[Steve]

This is BAZanine v Baronessa 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: 5

[BAZanine]

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{Best Non-Native Singing}1:38 to 2:07 and 2:22 to the end. This relatively average clip has been YEARS in the making. I am so glad I can finally use it and, God forbid, maybe get a single 4. Lots of love.

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{Best Emotional Singing}0:20 to 1:23. Alan's Clip-Off debut. I wasn't really sure what to use for him but I think this is my best bet. Do me good, you Geordie bastard.

[Baronessa]

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{Non-Native Singing: Alison Moyet - "Je Crois Entendre Encore"}

1:40 - 2:57. Alison spans E♭3 - B♭4, but in French. I have no idea what she's singing about, although she manages to employ her voice in such a way that I still definitely sense drama of some kind.

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{Emotional Singing: Sade Adu - "Pearls" San Diego 1993}

1:56 - 3:37. There is a lot I could say about clips in this category and especially this performance. Simply put, first note Sade's complete loneliness on the stage. There is no one to hold her up and she must manage alone. Sprinkling fry at the starts of certain phrases to convey emotional and physical pain, building up to full-on belts of desperation and reflecting hoarsely in the breathier moments, Sade's whole performance - down to the setting - evokes an image as lonely as the woman she is singing about. She also spans G3 - C♯5.