Round 9: Goober vs 'S (626 views)

[Steve]

This is Goober v 'S in Round Nine of the Clip-Off. You have five days to submit your clips, and until 23:59 EST Saturday, February 18 to vote. February 19 is the Results Day.

Round Nine is the Grand Finale round, in which clips may be up to five minutes long. There are three categories - for the Free Choice category, you can use any of your singers, regardless of if you've used them in the first two. However, as a bonus twist, if you use all of your singers across all three categories and sweep, you get a bonus +1.0.

The categories for Round Nine 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.

Vote here.

Current Vote Count: 6

['S]

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{Best Live Performance - Judy Garland}48:03–52:35. Judy kills it with a tip-top performance of the torch song to end all torch songs. We get all the vocal aplomb and Garland touches of the original recording combined with the kind of engaging stage presence that earned her the "World's Greatest Entertainer" moniker. She gets into it so much you can just feel the feels, if ya feel me.

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{Best Studio Performance - Paloma Faith}I was waiting to use this. Teehee! The song's melodrama more than pays off with the perfection that is this vocal. The sensual 'n soulful verses, the poppy breathy backgrounds, the iconic octave jump the second chorus repeat, the lo0ong sustains, the extra touches of slides and growls in the final chorus. Vocals ! I don't think Diane Warren power ballad performances get any more Diane Warren power ballad performance-y than this.

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{Free Choice - Moon Joo-ran}Here an 18-year-old Moon Joo-ran coos her way through this tune with a vocal maturity and melismatic splendour most teenagers can only dream of. I suppose in addition to Best Early Career Performance this could've worked for Best Melismatic, Best Soft Singing or Most Fluid Phrasing.

[Goober]

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{Best live performance} The whole thing. I STRUGGLED with this one, and yeah it's probably not the best live performance, however this is some WILD stuff. My favorite oingo boingo song.

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{Best Studio Performance} 2:12 - End
Controversial I KNOW, but I think this is the best song he has made since going solo. A mighty fine vocal performance.

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{Free choice}
Whole song. Makes you pass gas.