hey Chris Liepe here Daughtry just dropped a new track and having done an interview with
Chris Daughtry a little bit ago I was highly anticipating this new single I'm so excited
it's out I haven't heard it yet maybe you'll be experiencing it for the first time along
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voice Daughtry artificial brand new official lyric video Let's listen hmm [Music] [Applause]
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I gotta hear the intro again this is heavy the first couple seconds screamed Linkin Park
and then when the guitars came in I heard red love red great band
oh I don't know it doesn't sound so Lincoln Parky to me now
you read or sort of Bring Me The Horizon
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oh
[Music] it's almost impossible I think for Chris Daughtry to write a bad Melody this
song so far is continuing the trend of his last album but his voice is edgier as well
when we listen to this chorus again he's pushing himself to that Breaking Point introducing
more abandon at the ends of his phrases if you go listen to separate ways that he did
with Lizzy Hale a little while back fantastic song He's abandoning using that sort of Psy
method
stuff like that now listen to how he abandons here it's much more aggressive there is a
sigh in there I'm gonna take it though from where the words start because I feel like
we should pay attention to the call and response nature of this melody a bit more I think that's
one reason that Daughtry's Melodies are always so good
[Music] call
response the response is more grounded definitive three Wide Awake different response same call
so conversational [Music] Perfection I love that Vision like grounding and Fry [Music]
just another lethal in here the octave above in the background vocals and then he's got
this very chill
he's brighter and more open up top there's almost a different character not just a different
resonance
[Music] mankind
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oh
yeah [Music] right here I'm gonna exaggerate this of course to make the point but instead
of warfare like that we've got
ah versus Warfare unless you're really listening for this stuff in the evolution of how singers
react to the music they write you never get to enjoy it that's why I love doing stuff
like this especially for guys that have been around for a while
[Music] let's go
never gonna stop
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love the slidey scent
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do you hear how on no sickness and he did this in in I think into the first chorus too
he started the word before the downbeat started the No before the downbeat this is huge because
he's able to deliver more resonance he's ahead of the band from from a phonation standpoint
but not a timing standpoint hardly any vocalist thinks about this you can be early as long
as you're using anticipatory resonances
no versus no it gives you more of a chance to lean into it the tonality of your voice
that's one of the reasons we get uh so much richness out of his voices because he's doing
that he's embracing those closed resonances um Maynard James Keenan is another guy who
does this so well and so naturally listen to this again [Applause] [Music] not just
no sickness it's no sickness listen again no no
sickness
[Music] there was one of his size
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is [Applause] right here
the topic of the song the lyrics are are just hitting me sometimes I get so into being excited
about the voice that the message takes a minute to sink in that's why I liked reviewing the
lyric videos though I don't think I can overstate how lonely I feel when I get most of my interaction
through my phone whether that's social media checking YouTube comments point of vulnerability
here plug into the new you and and then we're dying so we're we're plugging in and then
we're dying we're we're engaging in something that we think is bringing us life artificial
interaction I'm not saying that all online interaction is artificial a lot of it is great
but I think when we when we put too much weight on it it does it's like we're plugging into
something that zaps our energy instead of gives us what we actually want out of it and
a lot of that is our perspective but I like this reminder and I like the I like the juxtaposition
there lyrically
no sickness no doubting no disease
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yes
yes [Music] that so excites me [Applause]
welcome to your worst nightmare let's unpack those Daughtry screams These Are Pitch screams
this is not fry screaming this is not a voiceless scream his voice is very much in them listen
again
those are the pitches but he's pushing his voice it's it's the same sort of thing he
was doing earlier where he's abandoning
it's not a sigh as much as it is a an abandon as you push your voice past the limits and
here letting your voice break and then immediately leaning into it is going to get you this result
it's so where I've expected Chris Daughtry to go for so long and it's fun to hear this
kind of aggression in his voice
foreign
[Music] also notice how he long elongates that vowel it's not belief it's now life no
and then there's more pitch on no and then on [Applause] he's really juicing that if
you want to try this start with a pitch no and then on belief on right on lay see if
you can make your voice crack
nobody and then right as you feel your voice doing that lean into it [Applause]
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I want to listen to that other chorus again here I've always enjoyed how he subtly augments
his Melodies on his his tag courses or end choruses and there's some ornamentations in
here that are just there's just really tasteful
[Music] I gotta point out the welcome oh welcome to your list welcome it's not welcome to your
first welcome to that's maybe even a better example of what I was talking about earlier
he opens every chorus like that uh the woo that resonance is happening before the actual
word is happening [Applause] [Music]
no you
love the background vocals too [Music]
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like the messy guitar between those last few lines
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are the Rhythm guitars like going down in pitch um it might be a synth that's that's
with those guitars that's causing that sort of uneasy pitch slide pitch bend down that's
what it sounds like almost in some cases it's really cool sounding thanks for diving into
the weeds with me on this new Daughtry track excited to hear more from this era of Daughtry
and we'll see you for more soon