Round 5: 'S vs Baronessa (324 views)

[Steve]

This is 'S v Baronessa in Round Three of the Clip-Off. You have five days exactly to submit your clips, and until 23:59 EST Thursday, January 5 to vote. January 6 is the Results Day.

The categories for Round Five are:

1. Best Vocal Cover: A performance of a song originally by another artist. The point here is not really to compare the two versions, but the cover itself to be impressive enough to stand on its own.
2. Best Late Career Performance: A performance during the last 20% of the singer's adult (18+) career.

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

Vote here.

Current Vote Count: 5

[Baronessa]

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{Best Vocal Cover: Alison Moyet - "Ne Me Quitte Pas"}

:57 - 2:56. Rather emotional cover of this Jacques Brel thing. Quiet singing and histrionic buildups galore. Oh yeah and she's singing French again.

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{Best Late Career Performance: Lee Aaron - "Metal Queen"}

:42 - 2:42. I guess this is the most emblematic of Lee's career, since it ostensibly put her on the map, and she's still doing the belts and the ornamentation quite well.

['S]

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{Best Vocal Cover - Judy Garland}2:22–4:22. Stormy Weather, first recorded by Ethel Waters (link to Ethel's original here), remade by Judy in August 1960. She's in fine form with some of her most emotive, mature and bold vocal moments. I especially like her legato and vibrato here.

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{Best Late Career Performance - Moon Joo-ran}0:20–2:16 (skip 1:41–1:51 if you want). Here's Moon Joo-ran at 70 years old singing "Does Anyone Know This Person? (North & South)", best known as the background music for the 1983 humanitarian broadcast "Finding Dispersed Families". You can find the English lyrics here. An impressive amount of vocal artistry here. Whether it be shifts from dark to bright tones, from crescendo ascents to the softer melisma-laden lines that follow, or from wide vibrato to straight tones in the sustains, it makes for a pretty captivating performance. As you can see from the audience's reactions (l o l)