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Originally Posted by lefty12357
By "almost live" I mean it is a studio recording, but the takes are usually live without doing punch-ins. Another words, it's not much different than recording a live show, but you have much better control over the acoustics and background noise.
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Lefty, until proven otherwise, the RV part is from his studio album. You can even hear the hissing imperfection near the end. If you suggest that they would reuse some voice track (and maybe some instrumental tracks) from a studio recording that was used for the production of a RV album but then would make sure that Alizée’s performance was done in an “almost” live condition in a studio, so that they could play the whole thing back in that fake setting, I am sorry to say that this makes little sense to me.
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Originally Posted by lefty12357
It is more difficult than you think. However many shows do it all the time because they are dedicated to doing live performances and are willing to put forth the effort to do it. And there are some shows that broadcast live performances and don't do such a great job. I'm not defending any TV show that chooses to go the easy route, I'm simply saying that one of the reasons these shows will prerecord performances is to avoid the effort and/or to avoid unfortunate incidents.
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So far, I checked 4 other performances from “Les Années bonheur” and they all looked pretty genuinely live, with voice breaking when pushed too far, and all. Again, until proven otherwise, RV and Alizée’s performance was not live, and my opinion is that it was clearly set up so that people would think it was live. People can conclude what they want, but I really don’t see how I am not supposed to feel deceived by this.
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Originally Posted by lefty12357
Actually, it pretty much sounds like Alizée to me. I wouldn't expect her to sound much different. It's too bad they did such a terrible job matching the vocal to the playback music. You get a lot of direct sound from the playback and a lot of bad room acoustics on the voice.
Here are a few more live vocal performances to compare:
http://youtu.be/2yMVGtnrTj0
http://youtu.be/WP9LYD_Am4A
And to no one in particular I would say that this is how Alizée sounds. This is how she has always sounded, sometimes better, sometimes worse. I would think that people who like her and have listened to her for years would be aware of this. As I said before, I think she should practice, practice, practice. But I wouldn't expect any major change in her voice at this point. |
So, what was the point of even discussing this, then?
I came here to praise Alizée’s “live” performance (and I also said in another thread that her live voice seemed to have gotten better, as of late), but then, I felt that I had been deceived by the “Les Années bonheur” performance. You don’t think this performance was deceiving and, respectfully, I beleive you are wrong. My other point is that Alizée has yet to show that she can consistently perform well (not extraordinarily well, just well) in her live performances. Here, I am sorry to say that I don’t know if you have been arguing this point, or you have simply tried to explain why this is the case. Well, unless you or I come up with something that hasn’t yet been said already, I suppose this won’t get much further.
