Post by Alex61 on Apr 6, 2024 15:46:09 GMT
Melanie Jayne Chisholm
Vocal Range: C♯3 – C6
Significant High Notes:
C6 ("Tell Me It's Not True")
B5 ("I Wish" live Re:covered)
B♭5 ("Denying")
A5 ("I Want You, I Need You", "Self Love")
G5 ("I Want You, I Need You", "Move Over" live Istanbul 1997, "Never Be the Same Again")
F♯5 ("All About You", "Don't You Wanna Be", "Here I Am", "I Wish" live Re:covered, "Living without You", "Who Do You Think You Are")
F5 ("Beautiful Intentions", "Come What May" live The Bring Him Home Tour, "Denying", "Don't Break My Heart", "Enemy", "Forever Again", "Get Out of Here", "Holler", "I Turn to You", "If It's Lovin' on Your Mind", "Into You", "Is This Love", "Right Back at Ya", "Self Love", "Something's Gonna Happen")
E5 ("Around the World", "Christmas Medley" live Earl's Court 1999, "Come What May" live The Bring Him Home Tour, "Do It", "Fragile", "Goin' Down", "Here It Comes Again", "I Want You Back", "I Wonder What It Would Be Like", "Immune", "Naked", "Nowhere to Run", "Out of This World", "Out of Time", "Saturday Night Divas", "Say You'll Be There", "Sisters (Are Doing It For Themselves)" live Wembley Stadium 1998, "Something Kinda Funny", "Tell Me It's Not True", "Time Goes By", "Too Much", "Walk of Life" live Paris 1998, "We Are Family", "Weekend Love", "When You're Gone")
E♭5 ("All About You", "Baby Come Round", "Burn", "Carolyna", "Drown", "Escape", "Feel the Sun", "Firework" live Radio Hamburg Live Lounge 2017, "Get Down with Me", "Good Enough", "Holler", "I Know Him So Well", "I Turn to You", "Knocked Out", "The Lady Is a Vamp", "Let Love Lead the Way", "Little Piece of Me", "Living without You", "Loving You", "Mama", "Reason", "Rising Sun", "Rock Me", "Stop", "Stop This Train", "Strong Enough", "Suddenly Monday", "Take Me Home", "Tell Me Why", "Think About It", "This Time", "Walk of Life", "Weak", "Who I Am", "Why", "You Will See", "You'll Get Yours")
D5 ("Angel on My Shoulder", "Another Hundred People", "Anymore", "Be the One", "Beautiful Intentions", "Beautiful Mind", "Better Alone", "Can't Stay Tonight", "Closer", "Cruel Intentions", "A Day in Your Life", "Don't Need This", "End of Everything", "Enemy", "Escape", "Fragile", "Good Enough", "Here and Now", "I Want You, I Need You", "Independence Day", "The Lady Is a Vamp", "Last Night on Earth", "Leader of the Gang", "Let's Groove", "Lose Myself in You", "Maybe This Time", "Melt", "Move Over", "Never Be the Same Again", "Never Say Never", "Next Best Superstar", "Northern Star", "Numb", "Our History", "Pain Proof", "Protected", "Right Back at Ya", "Room for Love", "The Sea", "Sisters (Are Doing It For Themselves)" live Wembley Stadium 1998, "Something Kinda Funny", "Something's Gonna Happen", "Stupid Game", "Suddenly Monday", "Take Me Away", "Take Your Pleasure", "Voodoo", "Water", "We Love to Entertain You", "Weekend Love", "W.O.M.A.N.")
C♯5 ("Ain't Got No, I Got Life", "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now", "All About You", "Baby Come Round", "Better Alone", "Bumper to Bumper", "Burn", "Christmas Medley" live Earl's Court 1999, "Dear Life", "Do It", "Do You Think About Me", "Don't Talk Just Kiss", "Don't You Wanna Be", "Feel the Sun", "First Day of My Life", "Forever Again", "Ga Ga", "Get Down with Me", "Get Out of Here", "Go!", "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)", "Here I Am", "High Heels", "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself", "I Turn to You", "I Wonder What It Would Be Like", "If You Wanna Have Some Fun", "In and Out of Love", "Into You", "The Lady Is a Vamp", "Little Piece of Me", "Lose Myself in You", "Love to You", "Loving You", "May Your Heart", "Maybe This Time", "The Moment You Believe", "Naked", "Nowhere to Run", "On the Horizon", "One by One", "Rising Sun", "Say You'll Be There", "Set You Free", "Something Kinda Funny", "Soul Boy", "Sound Off", "Spice Up Your Life", "Stop This Train", "Strong Enough", "Take Me Away", "Take Me Home", "Too Soon", "Unravelling", "Viva Forever", "Walking on Air", "Wannabe", "We Are Family", "We're Gonna Make It Happen" backstage rehearsal, "Weak", "Weekend Love", "What If I Stay", "Who Do You Think You Are", "W.O.M.A.N.", "You'll Never Walk Alone", "You're All I Need to Get By" live The Bring Him Home Tour, "Your Mistake")
C5 ("Ain't Got No, I Got Life", "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now", "Anything Goes", "Baby, It's Cold Outside" live The Frank Skinner Show, "Beautiful Intentions", "Beautiful Mind", "Blame", "Both Sides Now", "Call Me a Lioness", "Closer", "Come What May" live The Bring Him Home Tour, "Cool as You", "Drown", "Enemy", "End of Everything", "Firework" live Radio Hamburg Live Lounge 2017, "Goin' Down", "Good Enough", "Everything Must Change", "Here It Comes Again", "Hold On", "Holler", "I Don't Know How to Love Him", "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself", "I Love You Without Trying", "I Want You Back", "I Want You, I Need You", "I'm So Excited" Spice Girls Audition, "Independence Day", "If It's Lovin' on Your Mind", "If You Wanna Have Some Fun", "Immune", "Is This Love", "Knocked Out", "Let There Be Love", "Like That", "Love Thing", "Mama", "My Strongest Suit", "Never Be the Same Again", "Never Give Up on the Good Times", "Next Best Superstar", "Northern Star", "Our History", "Out of Time", "Perfect Vision", "Reason", "Right Back at Ya", "Rock Me", "Self Love", "Sleigh Ride", "Something Wonderful", "Spice Up Your Life", "Stop", "Stop Crying Your Heart Out", "Stronger", "Tell Me It's Not True", "Tell Me Why", "Time Goes By", "This Time", "Too Much", "Understand", "Viva Life", "Walk of Life", "Wasting My Time", "We're on Our Way to Wembley" live Wembley Stadium 1998, "When You're Gone", "Who I Am", "Why", "Wonderland", "Yeh Yeh Yeh", "You Will See", "You'll Get Yours")
B4 ("Already Gone", "AM Gold" Tobtok Remix, "Angel on My Shoulder", "Another Hundred People", "Anything Goes", "Be the One", "Blame It on Me", "Both Sides Now", "Christmas Medley" live Earl's Court 1999, "Could We Start Again Please" live Jesus Christ Superstar, "A Day in Your Life", "Dear Life", "Do I", "Do You Think About Me", "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart" live An Audience with…, "Don't You Wanna Be", "Escalator", "Everything Must Change", "Everything's Alright" live The Jonathan Ross Show, "Fearless", "Feed Your Love", "Ga Ga", "Get Down with Me", "Good Girl", "Goodbye", "Here and Now", "High Heels", "(How Does It Feel to Be) On Top of the World", "I Don't Know How to Love Him", "I Know Him So Well", "I Only Have Eyes for You", "I Wonder What It Would Be Like", "If That Were Me", "In and Out of Love", "Last Time Lover", "Let Love Lead the Way", "Let's Love", "Living without You", "Loving You", "Melody of Life", "Melt", "My Funny Valentine", "Never Say Never", "On the Horizon", "Out of This World", "Overload", "Rising Sun", "Room for Love", "Saturday Night Divas", "Set You Free", "Sisters (Are Doing It For Themselves)" live Wembley Stadium 1998, "Something for the Fire", "Something's Gonna Happen", "Stupid Game", "Sugar and Spice", "Sunrise", "Take Me Away", "Take Me Home", "Think About It", "Time Goes By", "Too Much", "Too Soon", "Touch Me", "Understand", "Walking on Air", "Wannabe", "Water", "We Love to Entertain You", "What If I Stay", "Who Do You Think You Are", "W.O.M.A.N.")
B♭4 ("Another Hundred People", "Aren't You Kinda Glad We Did?", "Baby Come Round", "Baby, It's Cold Outside" live The Frank Skinner Show, "Better Alone", "Bumper to Bumper", "Call Me a Lioness", "Can't Stay Tonight", "Cruel Intentions", "Denying", "Don't Break My Heart", "Drown", "Enemy", "Get Out of Here", "First Day of My Life", "Headlines (Friendship Never Ends)", "High Heels", "I Want Candy", "I Wish" live Re:covered, "If It's Lovin' on Your Mind", "Knocked Out", "Like That", "Love to You", "Loving You Better", "Mama", "Maybe This Time", "Move Over", "My Funny Valentine", "Never Give Up on the Good Times", "Numb", "One of These Girls", "Outer Space Girls", "Oxygen", "Say You'll Be There", "The Sea", "Something Wonderful", "Song for Her" live 8 Out of 10 Cats, "Soul Boy", "Stop This Train", "Strong Enough", "Sunrise", "Tell Me Why", "Unravelling", "Version of Me", "Viva Forever", "Voodoo", "Walk Away", "Wasting My Time", "We Are Family", "You'll Get Yours", "You'll Never Walk Alone", "Your Mistake")
Significant Low Notes:
B3 ("Already Gone", "AM Gold" Tobtok Remix, "Another Hundred People", "Blame It on Me", "Dear Life", "Do You Think About Me", "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart" live An Audience with…, "Don't Talk Just Kiss", "Don't You Wanna Be", "Escalator", "I Wonder What It Would Be Like", "If That Were Me", "Little Piece of Me", "Melody of Life", "Melt", "On the Horizon", "Out of This World", "Overload", "Protected", "Saturday Night Divas", "Set You Free", "Sisters (Are Doing It For Themselves)" live Wembley Stadium 1998, "Something for the Fire", "Stop Crying Your Heart Out", "Stupid Game", "Suddenly Monday", "Take Me Away", "Take Me Home", "Too Soon", "Wannabe", "Warrior", "Water", "We Love to Entertain You", "We're Gonna Make It Happen" backstage rehearsal)
B♭3 ("Ain't Got No, I Got Life", "Another Hundred People", "Aren't You Kinda Glad We Did?", "Baby Come Round", "Better Alone", "Burn", "Carolyna", "Denying", "Escape", "Feel the Sun", "First Day of My Life", "Forever Again", "Ga Ga", "Here It Comes Again", "Home", "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself", "I Turn to You", "The Lady Is a Vamp", "Let Love Lead the Way", "Love to You", "Loving You Better", "My Funny Valentine", "Naked", "Never Be the Same Again", "Never Give Up on the Good Times", "Numb", "Runaway", "Say You'll Be There", "Stop This Train", "Take Me Away", "Tell Me Why", "Think About It", "This Time", "Unravelling", "Viva Forever", "Wasting My Time", "Yeh Yeh Yeh", "You Will See")
A3 ("Angel on My Shoulder", "Anymore", "Be the One", "Beautiful Intentions", "Beautiful Mind", "Better Alone", "Call Me a Lioness", "Can't Stay Tonight", "Christmas Medley" live Earl's Court 1999, "Christmas Wrapping", "Could We Start Again Please" live Jesus Christ Superstar, "A Day in Your Life", "Don't Go Breakin' My Heart" live An Audience with…, "Don't Let Me Go", "Easy Terms" live London 2012, "Everything Must Change", "Go!", "Here It Comes Again", "Hold On", "I Don't Know How to Love Him", "I Just Don't Know What to Do With Myself", "I Love You Without Trying", "I Want You Back", "If U Can't Dance", "Immune", "Independence Day", "Is This Love", "Last Night on Earth", "Leader of the Gang", "Let There Be Love", "Let's Love", "Like That", "Lose Myself in You", "Love Thing", "Maybe This Time", "My Strongest Suit", "Never Give Up on the Good Times", "Next Best Superstar", "Northern Star", "Our History", "Out of Time", "Pain Proof", "Positively Somewhere", "Protected", "Room for Love", "Saturday Night Divas", "Say You'll Be There", "Something for the Fire", "Step to Me", "Stronger", "Sunrise", "Tell Me It's Not True", "Touch Me", "Too Much" solo acoustic version, "Understand", "Warrior", "Water", "What If I Stay", "Who I Am", "Wonderland", "You're All I Need to Get By" live The Bring Him Home Tour)
G♯3 ("2 Become 1", "All About You", "Anything Goes", "Christmas Medley" live Earl's Court 1999, "Dear Life", "Denying", "Do You Think About Me", "Don't You Wanna Be", "Drown", "Everything's Alright" live The Jonathan Ross Show, "Fearless", "Firework" live Radio Hamburg Live Lounge 2017, "First Day of My Life", "Forever Again", "Ga Ga", "Get Out of Here", "Good Girl", "I Know Him So Well", "I Only Have Eyes for You", "I Wish" live Re:covered, "I Wonder What It Would Be Like", "Into You", "Let Love Lead the Way", "Little Piece of Me", "Living without You", "Mama", "The Moment You Believe", "My Funny Valentine", "One by One", "Our History", "Overload", "Oxygen", "Set You Free", "Soul Boy", "Take Me Home", "Take Your Pleasure", "Think About It", "Walking on Air", "Weak", "Weekend Love", "Your Mistake")
G3 ("Ain't Got No, I Got Life", "Anymore", "Aren't You Kinda Glad We Did?", "Beautiful Mind", "Blame", "Both Sides Now", "Burn", "Closer", "Cool as You", "A Day in Your Life", "Do I", "Don't Need This", "Easy Terms" live London 2012, "End of Everything", "Fragile", "Good Enough", "Here and Now", "Home", "If It's Lovin' on Your Mind", "If You Wanna Have Some Fun", "Immune", "Leader of the Gang", "Lose Myself in You", "Love Thing", "Move Over", "Never Be the Same Again", "Never Say Never", "Next Best Superstar", "Out of This World", "Reason", "Right Back at Ya", "Room for Love", "The Sea", "Sleigh Ride", "Something Wonderful", "Something's Gonna Happen", "Step to Me", "Stop", "Time Goes By", "Understand", "Viva Life", "Weak", "Who I Am", "You Will See", "You'll Get Yours")
F♯3 ("2 Become 1", "Blame It on Me", "Christmas Medley" live Earl's Court 1999, "Cosmic Shower (Lost Humanity)", "A Day in Your Life", "Don't Let Me Go", "Here I Am", "High Heels", "I Don't Know How to Love Him", "I Know Him So Well", "Little Piece of Me", "Loving You", "May Your Heart", "My Funny Valentine", "Nowhere to Run", "One by One", "Oxygen", "Stupid Game", "Suddenly Monday", "Viva Forever", "Who Do You Think You Are" live Wembley Stadium 1998, "You'll Never Walk Alone", "You're All I Need to Get By" live The Bring Him Home Tour)
F3 ("Can't Stay Tonight", "Get Out of Here", "Into You", "Let's Groove", "Lose Myself in You", "Love to You", "Loving You Better", "Numb", "Self Love", "Something's Gonna Happen", "Tell Me It's Not True", "Time Goes By", "Unravelling")
E3 ("Blame", "Blame It on Me", "End of Everything", "Everything Must Change", "May Your Heart", "Step to Me", "Viva Life", "Wonderland")
E♭3 ("High Heels", "Yeh Yeh Yeh")
D3 ("The Sea")
C♯3 ("Nowhere to Run")
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• Blue marks high falsetto or whistle register notes.
• Bold marks notes or passages that are particularly outstanding (relative to the singer).
• Italics mark non-melodic notes.
• Underlines mark notes that are obscured in the song mix.
The Spice Girls' leading lady vocally, Melanie C (a.k.a. Sporty Spice) was the member of the group who never shied away from the lead parts of the songs. It's perhaps unsurprising, then, that of the Spice Girls, Melanie was the one with the most successful solo career following the group's somewhat messy disbanding. Her vocal talents are evident; with her sharp, distinctive timbre and effortlessness belting out notes in the fifth octave, it's almost surprising that her voice has remained as consistently terrific as it has, with her live performances even in the last few years proving her chops have barely suffered some 30 years on from her debut. Though she emerged as part of the Spice Girls, Melanie's the one you'd most likely mistake as rising to success on her own talents.
{A Few Examples of Her Voice}
Probably her best example of being the dominant leading vocalist on a Spice Girls song - belts and sustained head voices notes throughout when the other girls were relegated to harmonies.
A duet with Mel B, but one that showcases how dominant her upper register is.
A somewhat more restrained performance showing her middle and lower registers.
Probably her best example of being the dominant leading vocalist on a Spice Girls song - belts and sustained head voices notes throughout when the other girls were relegated to harmonies.
A duet with Mel B, but one that showcases how dominant her upper register is.
A somewhat more restrained performance showing her middle and lower registers.
{Questionable Notes}
A6 ("Sisters (Are Doing It For Themselves)" live Wembley Stadium 1998[1][2][/sup)
E6 ("W.O.M.A.N."[1][2])
E♭6 ("Spice Up Your Life"[1][2])
C♯6 ("Who Do You Think You Are"[1][2])
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1. Questionable representativeness.
2. Questionable control.
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Questionable notes are any notes of questionable significance. In short, this spoiler acknowledges notes that I am aware exist, but do not want to contribute to the singer's range. These involve (but are not limited to) notes of questionable identity, notes of questionable legitimacy and notes of significantly poor quality.
A6 ("Sisters (Are Doing It For Themselves)" live Wembley Stadium 1998[1][2][/sup)
E6 ("W.O.M.A.N."[1][2])
E♭6 ("Spice Up Your Life"[1][2])
C♯6 ("Who Do You Think You Are"[1][2])
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1. Questionable representativeness.
2. Questionable control.
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Questionable notes are any notes of questionable significance. In short, this spoiler acknowledges notes that I am aware exist, but do not want to contribute to the singer's range. These involve (but are not limited to) notes of questionable identity, notes of questionable legitimacy and notes of significantly poor quality.
{Notewatching Credits & Other Info}
Alex61
Solo:
Northern Star (1999): F♯3 – G5
Reason (2003): E♭3 – E5
Beautiful Intentions (2005): F♯3 – F5
This Time (2007): E3 – F5
The Sea (2011): D3 – F♯5
Stages (2012): F3 – C6
Version of Me (2016): E3 – D5
Melanie C (2020): C♯3 – F♯5
Spice Girls:
Spice (1996): F♯3 – F♯5
Spiceworld (1997): E3 – B♭5
Forever (2000): F3 – F5
With Jodie Harsh:
The Night EP (2012): G♯3 – C♯5
Disclaimer: In the Spice Girls' harmonies, it was occasionally difficult to discern who was singing what. Mel B and Victoria often sang the lower notes whilst Emma and Mel C sang the higher ones, however this was not an absolute rule. To make it more complicated, the harmonies sung on the studio versions of the songs weren't necessarily the ones sung on live versions, there were some cases where one member was implied to be singing when they actually weren't, and there were times where one member was singing one of the harmony parts whilst also singing another part/ad-lib on top. I've listened to the group's albums and live performances several times and I think I have a pretty good knowledge of who sings which parts, but I am not infallible and appreciate any kinds of constructive criticism on these threads.
Notewatching of other performances not listed above done by Alex61
Alex61
Solo:
Northern Star (1999): F♯3 – G5
Reason (2003): E♭3 – E5
Beautiful Intentions (2005): F♯3 – F5
This Time (2007): E3 – F5
The Sea (2011): D3 – F♯5
Stages (2012): F3 – C6
Version of Me (2016): E3 – D5
Melanie C (2020): C♯3 – F♯5
Spice Girls:
Spice (1996): F♯3 – F♯5
Spiceworld (1997): E3 – B♭5
Forever (2000): F3 – F5
With Jodie Harsh:
The Night EP (2012): G♯3 – C♯5
Disclaimer: In the Spice Girls' harmonies, it was occasionally difficult to discern who was singing what. Mel B and Victoria often sang the lower notes whilst Emma and Mel C sang the higher ones, however this was not an absolute rule. To make it more complicated, the harmonies sung on the studio versions of the songs weren't necessarily the ones sung on live versions, there were some cases where one member was implied to be singing when they actually weren't, and there were times where one member was singing one of the harmony parts whilst also singing another part/ad-lib on top. I've listened to the group's albums and live performances several times and I think I have a pretty good knowledge of who sings which parts, but I am not infallible and appreciate any kinds of constructive criticism on these threads.
Notewatching of other performances not listed above done by Alex61