This is the perfect argument against using autotune and pitch correction. It's all about the human voice with its imperfections and emotions.

@blah2blah65

Ай бұрын

But just imagine if it sounded robotic... that would have been awesome in context of the show!! Your argument rejected! (I'm kidding of course, my soul score just went down a few hundred points.)

@DeeTeaDee

Ай бұрын

Trust me. Kids would probably hear this and argue it needs “modernisation” without actually realising that they want it to sound more robotic Generations are now born into a world where the norm is autotune and the human voice sounding like a robot is their unquestionable reality THIS performance will sound wrong to them even though it is pure beauty .

@ceeemm1901

Ай бұрын

A.I. music avalanche is just around the next bend......

@DeeTeaDee

Ай бұрын

@@ceeemm1901 AI music can’t be any worse or soulless than current human created music anyway

@RonWesterbeek

Ай бұрын

@@DeeTeaDee well, they're born into the world we 'accepted' to lead them into by example, isn't it ? Love your concern. Bless you.

Quivering, unedited vocals best choice for the scene. Proves producers do have options.

@D1it4FN

Ай бұрын

Perhaps the producers are subscribers to this channel?

@yvonnevanwaegeningh-tiggel4577

Ай бұрын

I totally agree! Also very nice to hear Michelle sing, I only knew her from Downton Abbey, didn't know she could sing so well!

This is beautiful, as is, no caveats. The emotion of her acting performance just adds to the song. Great performance.

In the video clip this performance was taken from, the character Michelle is portraying is attending her mother's funeral, and she sings her mother's favorite song, "Somewhere Over the Rainbow," in tribute to her mother.

Live & unedited.. the only way to make, listen & enjoy a performance. 🎶 😊

@loriematthews6418

Ай бұрын

Agree!

She does the song justice, as the lyrics are so emotional in itself. And I am so happy that the producers did not edit this with pitch correction or autotune

She has a charming and natural voice. She sang in Downton Abbey as well and it was so touching She has the sort of voice I love to listen to.

I was very impressed by the performance, not only that clearly she's not singing to playback, but she filled the performance and the role with a dynamism that didn't involve a monotone upper class voice and was a pleasant reminder that she is a very talented actor

@reddragonready

Ай бұрын

playback hahahaha that is old school these days

The more love for real voices, the more gems like this will come.

@jeffreyfeinstein5525

Ай бұрын

@@Trassik @Truth!

@paulmackenzie1850

Ай бұрын

I agree 100%.

@jeffreyfeinstein5525

Ай бұрын

@@paulmackenzie1850 (("😼🥓🐁"!

@annatapl

Ай бұрын

Where do we protest? WE WANT REAL MUSIC MADE BY PEOPLE WITH VOCAL CHORDS!

@jeffreyfeinstein5525

Ай бұрын

@@annatapl (( North Sentinal Island or maybe Woodstock?

Oh my! The emotion is palpable in this performance and the inflections in her voice add so much to the feeling. This is a very accurate and complete analysis of a natural voice and what it brings to music and performances, as a whole. Great job!! Chills with this one.

@bowty_mcboatface

Ай бұрын

@DiamondGirl-1234 You took the words out of my mouth. Not just chills; my eyes welled up with tears.

@lorenrobertson8039

3 күн бұрын

I can't wait to watch this show!

Fil!!! That was brilliant. As you say she is singing to her tune in her head. The intervals are very very good. What a great performance. ❤❤❤ Loved it

I could listen to her all day! It’s just a beautiful voice!

So beautiful. Love no auto tune. She was acapella, and stayed on pitch the whole time. We used to drift off pitch when we sang acapella in my college choir.

Oh Fil! Talk about emotion. ❤ I was tearing up during the song. It was hitting hard. Thank you for the explanations and analysis. It was wonderful.

Granted she is acting so she's staying in character but do I hear a little Patsy Cline quality with just a touch of that husky raw sound in her natural singing voice? Love to listen to singers sing without any accompaniment. The ability to just stand there and sing (in key) without any accompaniment sets the good singers apart from the great ones. This singing ability is typically found in natural born singers with a voice easy on the ear. JMO Thanks Fil for your analysis of a very different and unique video clip and thanks to the viewer for suggesting this one.

Somewhere over the Rainbow is a personal favorite, and her unedited voice was quite the treat to hear! Another great video, Fil!!

Glad you explained the scene is during a funeral. The actress did very well. Snark time: A live, unedited vocal????!!!! How fresh and new! What a great innovation! Gee, wonder what they'll come up with next? (Sorry, I just had to get that out.😆)

@atreb56

Ай бұрын

Add: What a concept !😅

I like everything about this, including the seldom-heard intro to Rainbow.

I had to watch the clip of her singing. I bawled my eyes out because I had lost my mom less than a year ago. This really hit me. Her voice was incredible.

@Kat-I-am3333

Ай бұрын

Aww, sorry. RIP, mum 🌹

she has a pretty good voice

It was a great performance. In live. 😊 A beautiful flight. Thank you Fil..💎💌

Wow! what a beautiful voice & performance.

The late great baritone Jerome Hines described his wife (who retired from opera after they married) as a “singing actress” rather than an opera singer. Arguably a better description.

Michelle also played Mary in Downton Abbey. I love her. btw: another Downton Abbey movie is coming out September 12 th.

@Lilah1754

Ай бұрын

Oh, thanks for mentioning that! I loved the weekly Downton Abbey show on PBS and the first movie. Looking forward to it!

This is an emotional interpretation honestly sung. I enjoyed this and your analysis. Long live true music.

I love seeing how much you enjoy the experience of music. I'm told that I have that same smile when watching magic performed well.

Fil. Love your passion and love for performance. Great job by Michelle and another great perspective from you. Love it.

Beautiful, especially given the emotion of singing that song during a funeral. Loved this one. As a follow up, do yourselves a favor and watch the original performance in the link Fil provided. Tissues required.

Hi Fil, Michelle does a really fantastic job on SWOTR! Clear and concise diction, no short choppy phrases and beautifully sung intervals. So glad they did not decide to PC her voice. Great job on this analysis, You Are The Best! Debbie☮️

All the emotion, none removed!

She naturally comes back to her 'chosen ' inner reference point, consequently 🎉great performance. Thanks Fil, Rock !!❤

I don't know the part she played, the name of the show, and I didn't know she could sing.... without even seeing the scene or knowing the back story the high note right before "somewhere" hit me so hard I got chills and started crying.

Fil, I'm an amateur singer that sang through elementary, middle and high school and occassionally after that. I appreciate you putting this out and your explanation of note relationships is spot on. I have no idea how much vocal training Michelle has had but her sound is pleasingly natural, almost a style that doesn't follow convention. I'm recalling an instruction about it not being so much where you start but where you finish the note. (slides) I have performed the Star Spangled Banner (tough to sing) a cappella to crowds now and again and to me it's about singing the story or singing a poem. That works for me. I feel some of that here. Much gratitude to Lanny Doolittle and Jean Turrell, both excellent choral teachers from So. Cal.

Beautiful 🎶🎵🎵🎶🎵🎶👍👍

Wow, what a great voice!!!

Yeah!! The producers finally got this one right. Will wonders ever cease. love the acapella, it leaves the artist to feel and control what she's singing all on her own...

I love this actress! She sings alright too! Fantastic actress and great singer…who cares if she’s not perfect…❤

Love hearing a natural voice

Thanks for this informative analysis. Great to see undoctored vocals of singing while into character.

What a great example of how powerful a natural vocal performance can be.

It is a raw performance vocally and emotionally and conveys so much more feeling precisely for that.

Brilliant analysis. As far as I am concerned, her performance was beautiful and full of emotion. I really enjoyed her voice. Most Excellent...

Hallelujah! Maybe this will start a trend. People are quite fickle in my experience. Ricky Nelson was booed when he tried singing new songs at MadisonSquare Gardens. Hence his song about that. I saw a videoed clip of Whitney Houston,near the end of her life, singing at some venue having difficulty, and she was booed or heckled. Women vocalists after menopause have to make adjustments to changes in their range. This is one reason important for people just to get together, play music, sing, and dance.

I would so much rather hear this with all the emotions, and off key than autotune. It's hard to be engaged with the singer if it's not truly them

@barbaradownie3265

Ай бұрын

A M E N

@colino72

Ай бұрын

She’s not off key, though. She’s pitching relative to where she started just fine and with a really nice tone. I’m surprised - it’s a lovely voice with great intonation

Omg, can't tell you how happy I am that you featured this. After watching the tv show episode where she performed it (and picking my jaw up off the floor) I immediately thought it would be great if you did an episode featuring it/her. I didn't expected you actually would. I checked your channel at the time though and discovered/watched your episode on Judy Garland's version; thanks for that one as well. One thing I would add regarding Dockery's version is she performed it 'a cappello' - no music accompaniment to help her find the notes, or bail her out... astonishing. Both performances are amazing; both pull the listener in and cause them to lose all sense of time and space.

Michelle and a male actor from Downton Abbey formed a singing-songwriting duo a few years ago and have performed in clubs. She's so talented in so many ways. You should watch Downton!

Hi Fil, It's good to see a video that has not been pitch corrected. I think that Michelle Dockery has a nice voice and can sing well! Thank you for this awesome analysis, and wtg on getting another 1000 subscribers to your channel! Rock!🎸🤘😘

So good. and as pointed out well hit intervals in later part of the song intervals

As many have said, she was brilliant in the role and this scene was simply amazing. I couldn't detect any pitch correction whatsoever, so I'm glad you proved it. Thanks Fil!

She has a lovely, natural voice. This was a jaw dropping scene. She was a sort of derelict and most of the people at the funeral thought she was a massive screw up, so for her character to show up and then sing so heartfully and beautifully, was just so moving. Thanks for a great analysis of her vocal performance!

Fil, this is a very enjoyable analysis video! You did a great job pointing out all that a natural voice brings to a performance! The emotion in her voice is so pure that it touches those who are listening! This voice brought Chills! Truly amazing and informative analysis video! 💜

Wow! Thank You Fil!

This is great! I watched Michelle when she performed for the Finch Stage School back in the 90s. I particularly remember her having a solo slot singing The Girl From Ipanema at the Queens Theatre, Hornchurch, Essex. Such a talent and she's made Chadwell Heath very proud!

Let all of the subtleties shine through! Thanks Fil!🌷

She is such a great actor too.

..and finally the intro or verse is bACK! i'd be surprised if Ms. Dockery wasn't a deep "Judy" studier at some point. Skillful to vibrate on consonents like "n". i feel her. It's been too long.

I loved her singing in a few episodes of Downton Abbey; I think she has a very pure, sweet singing voice and I enjoy the warmth and honesty of unprocessed vocals like this. Thank you to the producers and thank you Michelle. AND Thank you for featuring vocals that few, if any, are analyzing.👍👍👍

Michelle is wonderful... nice to listen to your analysis

Hi, I was very pleasantly surprised by the quality and the emotion that Michelle put into the performance(I didn’t know that she could sing)especially with no music as a guide,your analysis explained how and why her voice is allowed to be so natural.Cheers Fil.Roly🇬🇧.

Enjoyed.

Keepin it real !

Great Performance. Great Subject. Great Analysis. The directors and producers would have been idiots to take this emotional, natural, human voice and 'scrub' the emotion and humanity from it using pitch correction. It was practically perfect for the context, and better than a polished "professional singer" might have created.👍👍 However, it's not a 'disposable', mass-produced song. It demands attention, and human connection, unlike much of the musical 'audio wallpaper' "pumped out" by most platforms. Best Wishes. ☮

Fil, I love the thorough approach you take in your analysis videos. You made a great point about Michelle's singing without having a musical reference point and still being able to remain accurate pitch-wise. The scene depicted Michelle's character being emotional due of her mother's death. So I'd be inclined to believe that a voice with emotions and imperfections would convince listeners--or because this is a TV show, viewers. Thanks for bringing your knowledge and objectivity to your music analyses, Fil!

I love unaccompanied singing; always so delightful. My husband says that I sing 1/4 tone sharp consistantly when I am unaccompanied since I don't have perfect pitch. It bugs him since he does! I respect that they left the performance organic because it was lovely and the environmental accoustics became part of the song. Beautiful.

Great update as always Fil

Oh my this immediately makes me cry without knowing the context

@reddragonready

Ай бұрын

@Te-leggramwingsofpegasus_yt Btw you scammer..Fil actually knows English..you obviously don't

Phil says maybe A 446Hz ("standard" tuning is A 440). I was guessing A448 but it doesnt matter. As he says, the intervals are what matters. Middle C 256Hz was once a common standard and that would put A at 430Hz! Doesn't matter for unaccompanied singing. Very few people have "perfect pitch" which only means something relative to a defined pitch standard anyway. Now I will go to the original clip and just sit back to enjoy the performance which I am sure I will.

The notes, slight pitchy or slightly flat doesn't matter... are all in context with each other when not pitch corrected.

Yeah!

Thanks for this Fil I don’t have access to terrestrial TV and wouldn’t want to even find a stream for it but you are showing the best stuff from it here without a doubt This was playing automatically on my recommended youtube algorithm just now as I’m waking up. Still half asleep Even though I dont show emotions and every woman I’ve ever dated has commented on me being “emotionally unavailable” 😆 (or words to that effect) This just made tears stream down my face. Great start to the weekend 😂 High quality performance. Great singer. Amazed this was allowed to be broadcast and especially by the BBC. Did they have some kind of AMNESTY from poisoning the public’s minds that day or somy?? Oh look it’s raining outside. Happy summer everyone ! 😆

It was a great show and this was a great scene.

My understanding is that's more common in English tv, that they keep it all more real. Less makeup, showing wrinkles, so I'm not too surprised they didn't edit her voice. It's so refreshing.

Great analysis

Oh my Fil you really need to watch Downton Abbey! How could you not? One of the best BBC shows ever done IMO. Brings back so many dear memories for me because while my mother was alive and living with us we always watched this each week. I'd make bobo tea and a snack to get her to eat...she was starving herself to death. And she so enjoyed as did I our time together watching D.A. Precious moments. I love this performance! I have got to watch this new show!

B E A U T I F U L 💜🙏💜

Fil, how about going through Elvis, Aloha From Hawaii, What Now My Love. He is so powerful! Your the best!

Her fiance died while they were making Downton Abby. He had cancer. Genuine emotion in her music.

I haven't seen the show or Downton Abbey either, but this woman has a really authentic and emotional thing going on with this rendition of Over the Rainbow. Wonderful!

Another beautiful performance, thanks! Just saw Kids Rock for Kids, Muse Hysteria cover. Really amazing talent, could use dome Fil love.

So good. Yeah Fil.

One of my youthful best loved songs is "The Outlaws" "Green Grass and Hight Tides" as is Chicago's "Oh Thank You Great Spirit".

Perfect, with all its flaws, just perfect. Is theater one of the last bastions of live unedited music? I mean, could you imagine Barbra Steisand in the Broadway version of Funny Girl using autotuning?!

Fil, thank so much for your great explanations and analysis. Could you please do an analysis of Eva Cassidy singing Autumn Leaves?

Thank you for this analysis! She really is stellar in so many ways. Singing off from the standard A440 frequencies but keeping relative pitches accurate while singing acapella is not unusual. In fact, only people with perfect pitch (a musician's nemesis, believe it or not) would hit those lines spot on. That's why acapella singers start with a pitch pipe or similar... to get everyone oriented to the same pitch.

Beautiful

This programme was brilliant, This Town was set in Birmingham in the 1970s, about characters with lots of problems trying to set up a band, Michelle's character was a recovering alcoholic which made the scene even more moving, great music throughout. on a completely different note Fil, have you listened to Stevie Nicks and Harry Styles duetting in Hyde park? Stevie 76 and Harry 30 singing live no auto tune just old and new singing brilliantly

I have to say that I enjoy your videos, particularly because I get the sense that when you point out technological manipulation, you're careful to say, in essence, "It isn't that these artists can't sing, it's just that their vocals have been so manipulated that we're not *allowed* to hear that they can sing..."

Mel Tormé, who sang with very precise pitch, would sometimes go into the audience and sing to a female audience member while looking her right in the eyes, and sing the last note of a well-known song off pitch on purpose to see her reaction.

Love this video Fil. Never knew MD could sing and great to hear her natural voice. How about looking at Stevie Ray Vaughan some time.

Perfect imperfection-

She did a really good job of putting that restrained-tears sound into her voice. I'm not familiar with her as an actress, but I'm curious if there are other unedited songs of hers out there where she's allowed to sing confidently, because I'm curious if *all* the waver is added for effect. I bet her normal voice is strong.

Fil you must do an analysis of the Band "Smith" featuring Gayle McCormick on vocal. Her rendition of "baby It's You" rivals Linda Ronstadt's vocals.

Michelle has a beautiful quality to her voice. Thankfully, all the emotion was left in (no pitch-correction). Now I'm curious to see "This Town" sometime. Thanks for another interesting video, Fil.

Nothing pulls you out of the story like a scene in which a character is supposed to be singing live and it’s pitch corrected and compressed.

Thumbs up to your message and your shirt❤

🌴🌴🌴 > > 🌴🌴🌴

Internally consistent 😊

Real deal.

It’s got to the point where I long for vocal imperfections in performances. They ground the performance and allow me to connect to the artist. I can’t relate to artificially corrected vocals in the same the way I can to a raw performance (warts and all). It’s those slight variations in pitch accuracy, and those slightly breathy or off key notes which now resonate the hardest.

FIL. Please do a vocal analysis episode of the brilliant singer/songwriter and musician called Norah Jones. I've asked this numerous times before, because you seem to like doing these analysis video's of older talents mostly from yesteryear and you often seem to reach the conclusion that we just don't "have" that kind of thing, anymore. But we DO is the thing. Norah Jones, 45, is one such talent as I'm sure you would agree if you just did an analysis of her vocal, and maybe she's not the "only" one, but she's a great example to show that GREAT modern music, is not dead. So check her out some point in the not too distant future. [please]