Hey guys welcome back again to Ken Tamplin Vocal Academy where the proof is in the singing!
You know, I’m continuing my series on songs and artists that have inspired me, in hopes
to be able to inspire you, and I’ve chosen the O’Jays For The Love Of Money. Wow! These
lyrics couldn’t be more prescient or relevant for today. We’ll do it first, we'll talk about
it after. Here we go.
Okay. Lots of good stuff here, you know. Several things again, we talk about phrasing, but
we talk also about the context of it’s not just about hitting notes. It’s not just
about belting. There’s some Soul and some swagger. In this case it’s about telling
the story with all of that. So there’s the soul of it, there’s belting and a lot of
energy and it, but it’s about telling the story of what’s going on. I could almost
guarantee that the O’Jays were more concerned about telling their story about for the love
of money, right, than just singing the tune. So, by the way, if you like what you heard,
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voice. How to take these kinds of things to sell your story, so you’re not just some
robot just standing there, you know, kind of parroting lyrics. But you’re able to
internalize this, and re-present this in a way that tells you your story, not just their
story, but your story. So, anyway guys, I appreciate you joining me, again like and
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I’m all over the place, so... Anyway, the other thing, too, but I want to mention before
I go is that a lot of this stuff from, in this case, the 70s, was very prescient, and
it was very foretelling of a lot of things that are kind of going on in the world today,
right? When we tell a story, and we have the conviction, and when we have the tools to
be able to present our art, which is super cool, we can actually present it in a way
where were not thinking so much about the technical side of it that we can just kind
of share our heart, so to speak, we’re just kind of sharing our heart, and in that comes
the soul and the swagger of all of this. So, and again, if you like what you heard, please
subscribe, and God bless you guys, and until next time…