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Post by SmoothGangsta on Sept 25, 2017 18:35:38 GMT
I'm not really into his childhood stuff. Although you can't deny there's some hits in there. My attention is mainly focused on OTW onward. Although I'm not saying he wasn't great when he was younger, I'm just personally not that into stuff from that period in general. I like the general hits but have no desire to dive any deeper.
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Post by ggbbggbb4455445544 on Sept 30, 2017 11:15:32 GMT
As for me, personally, I love listening to Michael’s vocals all throughout his whole, entire career; There is no specific preference for any particular time-period of it, nor of him at any particular age, necessarily.
I have read other posters’ comments, that remind me a lot of what many people in the media have always had this frustrating and, at times, rather annoying, tendency* to do (*if or when anything involving his musical career and accomplishments is ever to have been discussed at all, instead of other completely irrelevant topics of little to no importance — as far as I’m concerned — such as, going into great detail about his personal, private life).
Such a tendency is, to over-praise Michael’s “pre-pubescent child” Soprano vocals — as if to say, ‘WOW!!! Look at this “cute” little boy, and listen to his voice, hear how amazing it sounds!!!’ — while almost completely ignoring his still-“young”-sounding adult voice altogether, in favor of other aspects of him as an entertainer, like his dancing, for example, as soon as he physically grew up and matured out of his “cute little boy” stage of life, on his way towards his becoming a MAN.
It’s not really about how high in pitch one’s voice can go up, and how loudly (or, how “powerfully,” if you will, as if showing off, obviously trying very hard to impress certain listeners/audiences, instead of genuinely, honestly expressing true feelings and emotions) one can “belt” his/her lungs out at the very top of the Chest Voice/Chest Register (as Michael once did quite a lot of, as a child/young teenager, way back in his and his brothers’ “Motown” days), it’s how the greatest vocalists can move the listener with their voices.
By the way, the pitch, timbre, Vocal Range, etc., of his voice didn’t change anywhere nearly as drastically as many of you want to believe it had (having lowered only slightly, from a Soprano to an extremely High Tenor, as an adult, who maintained much of his high Upper Register even as his Lower one had expanded, in his later years); He sounded “young,” even when he was well into his Early-/Late-40’s, also at the age of 50 years old when he rehearsed for the “This Is It” shows.
His style of singing would change and vary over the years (from one album to the next, even from one song to another, within the same album), depending on the genre/style of the music, the meaning of a particular song’s lyrics, what he wanted to express in that song, emotionally, and how he felt, very deeply in his heart/what was his mood at the time, when he recorded it — far more so, to a much greater degree, than his actual voice ever had.
His very best vocals were when he sang slower-paced, less “gritty,” less “percussive”-voiced songs and ballads (without all those extra sounds and noises — with the lyrics sung, basically, straight through and, pretty much, as written), because, I can really hear the quality and the stunning beauty of his vocals, on these songs. It’s not that I dislike the faster songs, I like them a lot, but to me, in my honest opinion, the slower ones were just sung a whole lot better and much more beautifully, that’s all.
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Post by ggbbggbb4455445544 on Oct 4, 2017 22:00:18 GMT
If I may add to these comments, here:
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Post by NatureCriminal7896 on Mar 8, 2021 11:39:00 GMT
adult Michael. BUT young Michael was good too. i gonna say both.
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