With its dark stoner-rock feel, archly delivered vocals, and lyrics about insanity, serial killing, and having one's "dormant will" sucked away, The Man Who Sold the World isn't exactly the stuff of eulogies, but all of a sudden, the occasion was freighted with an entirely different meaning.
Madonna's "breathlessly" delivered vocals on the song are noted to be different to the ones featured in her singles before the 1996 film Evita".
Returning to Berkeley for her tenth concert on Cal Performances' stages, Bartoli concludes a three-stop tour with her trademark dynamism, delivering vocal acrobatics with nuanced emotion.
It is a chamber pop song that sees Rihanna deliver vocals in an "experimental" fashion.
You may know producer Max from his work with Ceschi in Anonymous Inc. Max handles production, the lovely Sedgie delivers vocals that sound like tears of joy in a time of sadness.
In his case it didn't matter because he delivered the vocal with such a huge amount of passion and aggression, as if he really meant it.
Mr. Bekbosunov delivered the vocal lines with characterful nuance, beginning with the assertive opening line: "My skin, except in dreams, is antiseptic".
The music is plush, cinematic and animated, with Minimalist stirrings and Impressionist-tinged harmonies in the orchestra, and text delivered in vocal lines that shift between stern chant and elegiac melody.
But these songs, along with "The Masquerade Is Over," "The Good Life" and "Hello, Young Lovers," are delivered with vocal posturing that, despite occasional echoes of Dinah Washington, does nothing for the songs or the singer.
As soon as you start using text phrases to characterize emotion that would normally be delivered with vocal intonation, subtle nuances, facial expressions and body language, your intended message can be completely misinterpreted.
