This makes perfect sense cause in the climax (final chorus) after the key change you can hear her a little strain on the F#5. You also pointed it out in part 2 of your Whitney vocal analysis

@torinderekspeaks5802

6 ай бұрын

FACTS!!! You definitely hear her pushing the limits on the song in the climax & EVEN the harmony on “don’t you dare” the soprano line is slightly flat & I often wondered why but NOW it makes sense

@Worme95

6 ай бұрын

I was thinking the same thing.

@TheRetroWoman80

6 ай бұрын

Isn't it amazing how the vocal strain of some singers, like Whitney, makes the song's meaning have that much more impact?

@gobabe2396

6 ай бұрын

Of course it gives it that. Ma Lawd!!! Push. You are thinking. Find in. Come on. Climb get up on top of it. ThrnnYASSSS. MY QUEEN YOU NAILED THAT. ! Feels good. Miss her so much. I haven’t kept loci b. Her music brings jr very low. I don’t think I’ll ever again in my lifetime be able to fully engage and enjoy. I simply cannot.

@daman0015

6 ай бұрын

@@arachnidlupus7625she struggled with F#5s way before she was pregnant. Look at “hold up the light” you need to just realize that she is not a high placed singer. She is best in the middle range and that’s what she liked the most.

Let’s not forget that Whitney did this song in chest belts, while pregnant, and AFTER filming 12 hr days on the bodyguard set. GOAT. 💜

@brandonjamal

6 ай бұрын

Thank you for saying this! Hearing these boys discuss this without CONTEXT is an issue

@HollyGolightly74

Ай бұрын

​@brandonjamal the boys? while 1 is a co writer & producer of the song😂😂😂 Since he was there um sure he knew she was pregnant & filming. Obviously she could hit it because she did.

That would explain why you can kinda hear a little bit of strain while she's singing, but she's so skilled at the craft of singing.

@Blueridge4000

6 ай бұрын

There wasn’t a strain at all love, nice try.

@jdd6958

6 ай бұрын

​@@Blueridge4000hes referring to her exhausted voice with touring and drugs.

@darkmercury_19

6 ай бұрын

Nice try Jan

@shellbellbutterfly

6 ай бұрын

​@@arachnidlupus7625 She may have avoided her pregnancy complications (not to mention, her parenting example), had she not abused herself with UNgodly, disobedient drug use, smoking & poor marriage/relationship choices, causing the building WRATH of our Creator & demonic influence. Tragic choices & waste to forfeit her eternal LIFE inheritance. Absolutely horrific that she ACTUALLY PROVED how her poor example was SO wicked, that her daughter copied her poor example & perished (exactly the same way) against our Creator (& as a poor example to fellow humanity), as well. Demons ARE powerful & WILL destroy a person when they keep playing with them. The example of disobedient error IS on record for The Judgement & for PROOF of evil & the lack of testimony of CHRIST'S REQUIRED Born Again Salvation transformation & what NOT to follow. Blessings in FOLLOWING CHRIST BEFORE it's too late. 🙏🏻👣👣

@kyleroper5379

Ай бұрын

She was pregnant during the all the recordings on the bodyguard too she also had a miscarriage before(while)

No matter what..nobody sounds as good as her...

@ronaldw548

6 ай бұрын

Whitney was great, but there are millions of singers around the world before Whitney and after, there's no such thing as the greatest singer that's a matter of taste. There are singer who could sing lower, some singer higher, some could do both and riffs, runs, growls and be pitch perfect. Madonna sold a lot of albums and her fans thought she was the greatest, same with Mariah and Celine fans.

@malou1563

6 ай бұрын

@@ronaldw548but madonna fans have never claimed her to be the greatest vocalist.

It might have been tough but Whitney had pitched "...one more door" on a live show than the recorded version in the studio. "I'm Your Baby Tonight" was tougher, but Whitney still nailed it. Much respect Nippy!

@daman0015

6 ай бұрын

Which live soo I can I watch?

@9F.O.H

2 ай бұрын

Thank you. I'm your baby. Tonight was way higher. And everything you stated was correct. The track I'm your baby. Tonight was too fast. But the note she hit every single one of them. I respect your facts what you stated. Because this is the only way that you can kill narratives like this. This is how it starts. They start picking apart everything about a person until there's nothing left. They didn't say whatever they may want to say about Whitney Houston, but everybody in the world knows every single note. She hit in every single breath she took was hers. She created it right on the spot. That's what made her so different. They never heard anything like that.

@9F.O.H

2 ай бұрын

​@@daman0015there are a couple of versions. Whitney Houston at the billboard awards. Whitney Houston's, Melody porgy, and Bess. She sings it in that too as well. Even better than the recorded version.

Whitney took her time too ❤

@Morning404

6 ай бұрын

Always ❤

That makes so much sense. I know it's hard for me to sing. Whitney had trouble too

David Foster tells the story of Whitney Houston had qualms recording "I Have Nothing" due to the key being too high. Source: Stevie Mackey Instagram.

I hate that David Foster pushed this crap. Ruining artist’s voices then getting audiences upset when either A the artist respected themselves enough not to do that in every performance, or B damaged their voice trying to do it in every performance and experienced vocal damage and subsequent voice changes

@iantuition

6 ай бұрын

AGREED. The only time I've ever ever seen Céline Dion look angry is when she was asked about recording "All By Myself". I say look angry because she was literally unspeakably angry and wouldn't talk about it. From what I understand, David actually used Whitney to shame her into singing it, saying he'd get her to do it if Céline wouldn't. And then he made her do the climax over and over. You can literally hear the stress, and I don't think it actually adds anything to the song.

@Life_of_A_Man

6 ай бұрын

A lot of the producers are like that. I remember Mariah said she was being pushed when she sang Emotions by a different producer. I was told they have them sing real high because it sounds better or adds a certain tension/drama to the song.

@antdiogaurdi8250

6 ай бұрын

He wasn't alone though. Narada M. Walden called Whitney to record "So Emotional" in the early hours of the morning without allowing her to warm up. So she had to sing the F5s and G5s in the main vocal and the backing vocals, despite the risk of harming her voice.

@JillCheese

6 ай бұрын

Unfortunately, there are very few old school producers who didn't use this approach. Vocal coaches who worked with producers couldn't even vouch for artists because producers had the "final say." One of the worst I can remember (other than David) is Quincy Jones.

@weslleyfrancisco8616

6 ай бұрын

She could simply lower the key in live performances, and she did. So did Celine and Mariah. The producer's job is to make great songs sound even greater, and David Foster does that perfectly.

She definitely could sing it. But Whitney didn't like singing outside of her actual range. She hated stressing her voice to go outside the top of her range..which is why she would have wanted the key lowered. That is why she always performed it in a lower key.

@ronaldw548

6 ай бұрын

You're right Whitney didn't like pushing her voice too much with songs that demanded great range and power. This is why when she performed "IEW" live she let a pre-recorded track sing and she lip synced or danced to the bridge of the song.

@rachybaby72

6 ай бұрын

Translaton; At first, she couldn't sing it. She had to get there, work up to it. There's nothing "sacrilegious" about saying that about the great Whiney Houston. She's still great.

@tremaine861

6 ай бұрын

Exactly 😂 ​@@rachybaby72

@jaypaidincash

6 ай бұрын

@rachybaby72 if she couldnt...she never would have been able to in the first place. "Cant" is the wrong word. Just like "I am every woman" she never liked singing the higher belt..but it was obvious she could sing it if she tried.

@sweetenercarey

6 ай бұрын

@@jaypaidincashJust because you can doesn’t mean you should, yes with some pushing she could get there but a skilled vocalist like her knew that it was too much for her voice and you can hear it literally in the song

I have always thought she hit the "stay in my arms" notes that way to add drama to the song. Maybe she didn't want to sing it in that note at first, but she killed it anyway!!!❤.

Foster is a sort of a vocal abuser. He made Celine Dion sing that F5, now Whitney...

@CASantos

6 ай бұрын

Interestingly Céline does sound quite scratchy in the high notes of even the studio version of All By Myself, and you can hear Whitney literally crack a bit in the climax of I Have Nothing. Guess he really did push too hard.

@RusLan2210

6 ай бұрын

@@CASantos agree

@arlington4508

6 ай бұрын

They should’ve told him to kiss their ass and said no and left. I would have. I would told HIM to sing it and see how successful it would’ve been.

@RusLan2210

6 ай бұрын

@@arlington4508 yeah, but that period of time both were not as stable at their music career as they became after his promotion. No matter what but that time DF was one of the most influential producers and both Celine and Whitney knowing risks took their chances.

@circuslife888

6 ай бұрын

@@RusLan2210 What are you saying? Do you even know what you're talking about? Learn more about the career of Whitney Houston before The Bodyguard before making such baseless statements.

Lol lets not forget that Whitney did these belts in chestvoice!

@Beytheevocalist.

6 ай бұрын

Chest-mix!

@kylesummers2462

6 ай бұрын

@@Beytheevocalist.naw. Full chest. Very rarely did she mix. She was a chest and head voice kinda girl

@Visioneyed

6 ай бұрын

@@kylesummers2462 I agree on this one. She barely used mix voice.

@ronaldw548

6 ай бұрын

​@@kylesummers2462 She definitely mixed.

@blah5528

6 ай бұрын

@@Beytheevocalist. it was chest

But then she proceeds to nail it live, better than the recording

@whitneyfan9019

6 ай бұрын

Exactly

@rezaariel8406

6 ай бұрын

But she never sang this song live in ori key how is it better than the recording?🤔

@whitneyfan9019

6 ай бұрын

@@rezaariel8406 doesn’t matter if she never sang it in the original key or note. It sounded better than the original. Radio city music hall 93 is a prime example of that.

@thenandnowfilmlocations9862

6 ай бұрын

@@whitneyfan9019 Yes that radio city hall performance was amazing. As is the performance from Atlantic City. Chills!

@GetWellSoonR.E.M.

6 ай бұрын

Part of it is because she sings in a way more reasonable range that suits her tessitura. She can still deliver the emotion of the song without making unsustainable sounds

She had been touring for years selling out stadiums and when she recorded this she was working 12 hour days on the bodyguard set and she was tired and pregnant and still delivered stop playing with Whitney.

Only Whitney could do it remember. Whitney was the best voice that we will never hear that voice again

@user-rm3wb5pk2v

6 ай бұрын

JUST SAY IT SAY IT AGAIN!

@brandonjamal

6 ай бұрын

Haha see what you did there

Black Music Archive's channel did an excellent job analyzing and doing his homework on Whitney's voice. He made the point that Whitney's range is actually Mezzo or half soprano, with a big chest voice. Alot of fans who are oblivious to vocal types and where Whitney's voice actually sat misinterpreted her as a higher voice in the full Soprano Range. Her greatest strength was in chest voice, which is why we see over and over again commentary pointing mostly to the chest.

@TheRetroWoman80

6 ай бұрын

Yeah, his technical knowledge mixed with personal lifestyles of the artist is superb.

@kylesummers2462

6 ай бұрын

She was a soprano when she started. Her voice settled as she got older, had a baby, and years of smoking

@markbihmsmusic

6 ай бұрын

@kylesummers2462 That's what I use to think as well but technically she has always been a Mezzo soprano. Whitney's Mom Cissy who trained her vocally would always put her with the Altos in the choir, never the Sopranos. Later on, as Whitney's voice matured, she still hit all the notes she hit at the start of her career. The drugs, stress, and cigarettes were the main culprit as to deterioration of her instrument. Check this video out for second part of the analysis dealing with her range. kzread.info/dash/bejne/fqiAmsxtqca4eqg.htmlsi=38ltDcOys1iLWgIQ

@rydercdaniels4475

6 ай бұрын

@@markbihmsmusicno she wasn’t Whitney was a soprano.

@alluringbliss4165

6 ай бұрын

always considered Mariah and Celine's voices to be higher than Whitney

It’s a very hard song to sing which is why I don’t like when people cover it!!

She's really pushing herself in that song and straining a bit, but it works for the emotion of the song! Listen to the lyric; it's supposed to be sung like that.

@TheRetroWoman80

6 ай бұрын

Precisely. Perfectly stated.

We have to also take into account that Whitney voice at that point had already been affected by drugs, smoking, pregnancy and touring. At the start of her career she would sing some songs in a higher key than recorded (ej. Saving all my love), and she would sing F5 like it was nothing.

@jaiyabyrd4177

6 ай бұрын

Untrue ‼️

@msdeshabangbang

6 ай бұрын

False!

@ON-ck9eo

6 ай бұрын

This is true because Ricky Minor said the changes started during the Im your baby tonight your. That she started lowering keys to songs she normally wouldn’t

Yes people, even Whitney Houston asked for a song to be lowered. Let’s not forget she never sang the full version of “I Will Always Love You” in the original key. That doesn’t mean she wasn’t an amazing singer.

Whitney was a gift

My voice naturally sits deep, like Toni Braxton deep. I have sung a lot of guy songs because of this (I'm a woman). I would like to sing more female girly pop songs, but I might be destined to be an R&B diva. 😂 Whitney's voice was so versatile.

@cocomo3141

6 ай бұрын

I'm not gunna lie......that sound amazing!!!

Whitney was a smart woman she did her own version by lowering the key she just made room for more of her own vocal style to come out of the song ❤ she owned it ❤

Whitney makes it sound so effortless and angelic

Reminds me of how Celine strained in that last “All by myself” note. Whitney in the 80s would have done that without any stress but 90s Whitney voice was different, grew darker and stronger.

I dont like to hear Steve sing. It is so grating to my ears.

@misterbee66

6 ай бұрын

Is Steve the guy behind the keyboards? Is he a musician? Who is he?

@KoldFiyure

6 ай бұрын

@misterbee66 yes. He is a 'celebrity vocal coach' so he teaches voice.

@misterbee66

6 ай бұрын

@@KoldFiyure Thanks.

@nielsenmakaba5777

6 ай бұрын

Then cover your ears

Whitney’s voice was so special that even the vocal strain near the climax of IHN just added to the drama and made the song better IMO. Whitney could sing anything but the most natural and comfortable range was definitely in the middle with those velvety golden notes with unmatched vibrato. ❤

When you are born with it. Can't no one can take it away.I don't know any one who can sing like her. Gone too soon. RIP .. A great Master Piece. we loved her but God loved her best. 💯💯💯💯🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏

I like it better slighty lower anyway. She started out as a soprano but her real strengh was mezzo anyway with that incredibly powerful mid register and operatic head voice. She did these incredible notes in chest voice. Nobody does that. It can't be emulated.

@girlbrittneygirl

Ай бұрын

She was always a mezzo soprano lol! David just explained in the video that I have nothing was too high for Whitney to sing.

She could definitely could sing it. Her live performance she did a radio city music hall was better then the studio version.

@tylermills4812

4 ай бұрын

@@diorrboyyyy Nah, it’s just stuff you don’t like and don’t wanna hear.

I've been talking about that pushed-ass peak note in the chorus for yearrrrrssssssss.

Even if the E5 cracked I still love it

I hate how producers like Foster constantly push singers to their physical limits like that. It does work on an emotional level bc audiences really resonate with a pushier sound in power ballads, but it’s so unsustainable and only leads to vocal damage in the long run. And you’ve gotta remember, these artists are professional singers. It’s not like they can go out of their comfort zone a little for a recording session, then rest for weeks or months. Many of them record their tracks, then do interviews and performances shortly afterwards with tired voices. Good voice technique does help them out, but constant overuse and overextending their vocal range like many of the big divas were made to is ultimately what burned many of their voices out completely. People should be able to keep their instruments preserved for a majority of their lives, voice changes and all. And the insane demands put on these divas is not conducive for a sustainable sound that will last well into their elderly years.

@ronaldw548

6 ай бұрын

You're exactly right! For example people expect Chaka to sound the way she did when she was young. As you know Chaka's song are difficult because of the range and power just like Whitney's and with age there's no one that can sing their most difficult songs.

My Sister Newarker could do anything vocally 🎤🎤🎤🙌🏿🙌🏿🙌🏿

Whitney could’ve done in any key! Remember she was pregnant like they said, and that does all sorts of things to your vocal cords and she knew that! Nobody could have sung this better than she, nobody!

If it was 1987 Whitney, she would’ve done it in the original key easy

You always hear that slight strain when she sung that song but she proved to be the best after that 3 song medley that would have destroyed anybody else's entire throat

An mezzo sop/ Alto who can sing is always powerful singing higher cause it takes so much effort 😊

My singing teacher told me to sing that high on my first lesson 😅 sometimes they just hear it

I think that a semitone lower would be perfect for Whitney.

I’ve heard and seen live concert of WH singing IHN in the original key and going above and beyond with . You have to also remember she was probably pregnant when she recorded The Bodyguard sound track remember she had a miscarriage before she got pregnant with Bobbie K. Being pregnant changes your voice

*Mariah’s supporting range until F#5 and Whitney’s Eb5 idk why David Foster pushed Whitney and Celine to do a high-key song. Yes, we give him a credit but the songs will be more amazing when they sing it in their comfort zone. smh 😩*

@kennethsoshi03

3 ай бұрын

@@diorrboyyyy I said supporting belt. Mariah can belt B5 but it was heady mix but her balance mix can up to F#5

I mean I thought it was obvious the note was a hit too high, because you can her strain a bit on the “stay in my arms” part, but overall she KILLED that song and we’ll never have another Nippy.

@bilalnasir2758

6 ай бұрын

Amazing that she still attacked it with such ferocity as she did. She was definitely straining to make sure she reached it but it also fit the tonality of the song, so as a listener you fully accept that "edge of the range" grittiness in her voice.

Yeah she did sing it magnificently

kind of unrelated but wish one day youtube vocal couches will get the idea of the constant demonizing of “chest voice” is simply rotted in white supremacism

Why give this away boo to both of them he's lucky she even worked with him

That makes PERFECT sense bcus she lowered the key when she performed it live and NEVER performed it by track

That's why this song was written for Patti LaBelle

@daman0015

6 ай бұрын

How Do you know

@andrese9805

6 ай бұрын

That's not true, it was written especially for the movie.

@bilalnasir2758

6 ай бұрын

@@andrese9805 sorry I was thinking of I will always love you but dolly wanted Patti to cover it

My first thought you can’t do it in that key

Not a flex to stress perfection...

The tones of the two r quite similar, however MC can never perform the techniques that WH does. MC isn’t trained that way. MC fans I’m just saying literal facts. WH had trained in Church for years plus was hanging out in da studio with Cissy for Aretha’s session and her great cousin Dionne’s for years. They r just not comparable. Simply taking the ‘breath control” factor alone. While WH is in the league of Aretha/ Dionne/ Gladys etc( and of course Cissy);MC isn’t. She looked like a child’s play @ Diva live sangin next to Aretha! I liked MC’s music when she’s on the leash of Toni in the 90s. But I’m in all da way for WH.

@qbennett7232

6 ай бұрын

Mariah isn’t in this video but you brought her up for no reason 🤔

@tremaine861

6 ай бұрын

No why is Mariah in it?

@kennyknight07

6 ай бұрын

@@tremaine861 I think it's utube algorithm put me "Who's your choice between MC and WH vid but brought me to this clip. Don't know why.

@tylermills4812

6 ай бұрын

Mariah doesn't need to "mimic the techniques" of Whitney (whatever that means lmao); Mariah had her own, more complex style anyway.

@alcostfo__5823

6 ай бұрын

@@tylermills4812Whitney’s definitely more complex, Mariah’s more like less sustainable

It’s hard to sing like that when your alto voice is now having to transfer to a hard soprano voice… she was up there!!

@girlbrittneygirl

Ай бұрын

She wasn’t an alto. There’s no such thing as an alto.

Let's not forget Whitney was heavily pregnant at the time of recording ;)

No one could sing it better, so its moot point.

But, who can sing it with the smooth angelic sound though? Bring the person and let us hear it. Even, the guy can sing, in general, but its not pleasing

Who is that girl?

She was also pregnant recording this soundtrack, smoking cigarettes and on drugs. There was a lot of reasons she had trouble, it wasn’t lack of talent for sure.

This is the first time I have seen your face.

Great singers aren't great singers without practice.....

I guess we really won’t know since Whitney isn’t here to confirm.

Lmao all of a sudden the experts in the comments knew and heard she was straining in the climax mannnnnnnn yalll be frontinnnnn yall ain’t hear shit

A disappointing response from Cedric for sure. He cuts a picture of a mean & wicked perdon. No qualms shankung you from behind, drain life out of you & yet act like it's all your fault. No horns, no fangs, no pitchfork, still the same dastardly results! Watch your fronts, backs & sides, for characters like this. Man even said he'd done the same joke 6-7years prior to that time! Rather more salt into your wounds than help with healing them. ☹

Whitney Houston has sung that song and every key that there was from beginning to end. Check the scales. David Foster don't do that. It wasn't tough for Whitney Houston to sing the song. That was our first time singing the song. If it wasn't for Whitney Houston you wouldn't have a. I have nothing to compare it to. Make sure that y'all remember that there's levels. Please do and will you speak Whitney Houston? Just know where she comes from and who she comes from. There's not a note that sissy Houston could not hit Or Dionne Warwick. Ijs

@girlbrittneygirl

Ай бұрын

The point is that she was not able to sing the song because it was out of her range the she felt most comfortable singing in . Yes she could have sung it in its original key if she developed voice to do so. Toni Braxton admitted that Let It Flow was to low for her range

David, if you want to be high, you might as well put I have nothing to be 11 semitones higher and people will sound like a freaking ghost even if they can hit it?

It was tough excuse me

@girlbrittneygirl

Ай бұрын

Yes it was tough, if the song was recorded outside of her singing range as a mezzo-soprano.

Hmmm m she isn’t here to agree or refute

A producer job is to arrange the song to be the best for the singer to express it. David's terrible. Whitney houston is so unlucky

David foster is such a fail, I think perhaps he's destined and hence his success. When whitney sings live, she lowered the key of that song and sounded way better than on the record.

Wasn’t she pregnant, too

Why does he always sound horrible To me. Lmao 😭

Btw this vocal coach sounds terrible, his mix has got poor diction and terrible tone

This vocal coach have got bad diction and terrible tone. I cannot imagine his screams in a ballad. He should sing some other genres

Literally got slapped with news 🗞️