Round 8: BassSquared vs Baronessa (447 views)

[Steve]

This is BassSquared v Baronessa in Round Eight of the Clip-Off. You have five days to submit your clips, and until 23:59 EST Tuesday, February 7 to vote. February 8 is the Results Day.

Round Eight is the Second Chance round, in which categories that were voted down previously have come back into the competition

The categories for Round Eight are:

1. Best Distorted/Harsh/Heavy Singing: Singing that makes use of distortion, grit, screams, growls, or any other "heavy" technique.
2. Best Vocal Ending: A passage that ends the song's vocal part.

Vote here.

Current Vote Count: 5

[BassSquared]

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{Best Heavy Singing: Will Wood}
3:13 to 3:51, 4:16 to 4:35. Will busts out his best Tom Waits impression for a crazed, guttural performance that nonetheless has a clear melody to it and contrasts perfectly with the song's calmer moments.

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{Best Vocal Ending: Ninet Tayeb}
2:57 to 4:25. Okay first of all this isn't actually a live version, it's just a music video that got mislabeled for some reason, but regardless Ninet's "come hell or high water" ending to this song is pretty cool, ramping up in intensity to some of her highest notes ever recorded.

[Baronessa]

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{Best Heavy Singing: Lee Aaron - "Deceiver"}

:19 - 1:48. I told myself I wasn't going to use "Barely Holdin' On", and I'm not going to. I mean, this is a pretty versatile performance, too. Lee spans B♭3 - F♯5 and she applies that 'heavy' tonality pretty effortlessly throughout that whole range, from some 'tough' lower singing in the verses to some cool screams in the choruses. Quite agile navigation through these melodies, considering she's in that heavy mode pretty much all the time.

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{Best Vocal Ending: Alison Moyet - "Baby I Do"}

1:54 - 3:03. It's not one of those BAM ending passages, but I like how the ending works as this sort of 'relief' after Alison's head is done exploding through the buildup and the climax.