Ado value I'm 100% sure this is going to be a highly valuable experience for me and my vocal
Pursuits and just My overall fascination with Ado's approach this marks the very first video
I will have done of hers where I am turning on the subtitles I have said in the past that
I I've really appreciated not knowing exactly what's being said so I can just dig into the
emotion of the voice but I'm going to take a little bit of a different approach on this
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woo okay I want to go back and talk about her her vocal posture here her
approach is again different than I have heard her do before I'm sure she's done
it before but it's really standing out to me here listen to the way she comes
in here and she she kind of takes the same character throughout that whole first section
oh oh this is a wonderful use of rasp lots of people think that breathiness or rasp has to
be a function of dumping air like and then they wonder why they can't hold a note out for more
than a few not even a second sometimes what she's doing here is she's using compression
to get rasp oh solid cord closure oh oh oh and then compressing over it so constricting
the area above her vocal folds and adding good cord closure from the primary cords to it oh oh
oh this is how it's a it's a bit more of an aggressive rasp although she's doing a
really good job of moderating it so it doesn't sound too aggressive but that's how she's able
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description all the ways that she goes in and out of notes by sighing now I
want to talk about these words here just a second because they're just
keep pretending to swim in this sea of superiority and how unfulfilling it is
to pretend you're Superior to others right I think in making myself appear
better than others I will feel better than others but it actually makes me feel lower
cuz it's fake talk about impostor syndrome right we do it to ourselves
I love the octave up Arrangement decision [Music]
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listen to how she shapes those phrases
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back very different postures and neat transitions in how she walks
up in pitch and changes her intensity and placement there's no more rasp on that
note nice nice rasping in [Music] [Applause] [Music] there you hear how she's going back
and forth from that darker posture to The Brighter posture that is so [Music] [Applause]
cool when I do it out of context and I think when anybody does it out of context
it sounds ridiculous but it's exactly what makes her voice so compelling is that she's
not afraid of being ridiculous it's bravery and humility that she Dem demonstrates when
she's going in and out of these different vocal postures because in and of themselves
they are strange and if we're afraid of being strange because we want to be superior because
we don't want people to see that we are weak then we will never have the freedom
of self-expression that Ado has as she sings it's so cool tying it in with the lyrics if
we try to be superior we miss out on on genuine vulnerable connection which then allows us to
learn things to be truly self-expressive and then [Music] [Applause] [Music]
good it's like she's having a conversation with herself there's
this call and answer happening with her tonality and her melodic
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phrasing try that with your own voice long long
long long long long wide wide wide long long long longde wide wide
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there [Music] Val head voice Val really leans into the resonance in her chest
voice but doesn't shy away from creating an experience in her head voice as [Music] well
the size like I usually point out those little squeaks at the beginnings and ends
of notes keeps her free and playful and not locked into any one vocal
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there's this huge sense of peret ual motion there that the way that she's pulling back the
Rhythm as she hits those down beats she gets more on top of the beat with her voice so there's this
push and pull that she's creating with her voice and the track singing is so much more than just
hitting notes and this right here this segment is an example of how Rhythm and playing with the
pocketing of and placement of those notes within the beat can help you feel a certain [Music]
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way so percussive and how she brings out those consonant there this song has a a
bit more subtlety to it in her approach but sometimes it's the subtle ones that
are the most wait for it valuable because there are the things we don't overtly hear
but there're the things that we sense that really connects us to what's being
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all those little uh calls and answers back there in background [Music]
vocals
she's [Music]
Resolute I can't get over that transition it's so [Music] cool
ah this might be the grooviest Ado song I've reviewed it is so groovy such a wonderful
rhythmic relationship between her voice and the [Music] instrument I like the the the
playfulness with their voice there listen to that [Music] again I'm not even trying
to sound like her I'm just I'm getting that in my own voice to appreciate that
that movement so [Music] cool the the fact that she lightens up in the middle of that
run makes it easier for her to to punch that last note right on the beat and again she she
has this sense that she's backing off the tempo and and in Dynamics there as well and
then hitting right on the beat it's why it's so incredibly rhythmic [Music] [Applause] [Music]
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weepiness at the end of the [Music]
power wow cool the whole thing was made on an iPad that's impressive every single song that
I've reviewed from this artist blows me away in a different way this one was the incredible
connection I had to the rhythm of the song and I really enjoyed being able to internalize the
meaning of at least the meaning for me of the song by having the lyrics on in my language
the resolution and the Perpetual forward motion that the music communicated while her voice and
the track were coming alongside her goals for herself having victory over the struggle in the
midst of the struggle keep moving forward not being satisfied with where you are and I'm sure
there's contexts and connotations that I'm not understanding but that's really what it meant
to me and that's what I got out of it which what I love about music be sure to check out
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