kickingtone
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Curiosity got me searching and I found this video. I thought that I'd cherry-pick a couple of points that I agree with (there are many that I don't, and I was irritated by some of the trite interruptions from the host).
10:36+ "There is so much more to music than just pitch".
The amusic dude makes the point that I guessed at in another thread, that there are various attributes of sound, and different people may rank them differently. While most of us may place "pitch" at the top of the list, other people may relegate pitch in favour of rhythm, timbre or some other dynamic.
The amusic also claims that the audition piece by William Hung..
9:55+ (above)..was analyzed and is ON KEY. Yet, many people would casually observe that he is singing OFF KEY or FLAT. I find it quite interesting how they attempt to quantify what is wrong with Hung's singing (but I was not impressed by the HUGE cultural bias in their supposedly scientific testing regime.)
Well, I've never watched an episode of American Idol before, so I had to look up "William Hung" and I came across a talk he made 14 years later. He had since been complicit in putting himself out there for some ridicule (e.g, with an album, which seemed to deliberately showcase his limited singing skills), so I don't mind mentioning that his TEDx talk exhibits that same stilted, robotic, delivery that beset his American Idol audition.
From his talk, it appears that he was set up to fail. Instead of ditching him at the entry stage of American Idol, they waved him through, only to tear him down live. Not cool, and another reason for me not to watch these types of show.
10:36+ "There is so much more to music than just pitch".
The amusic dude makes the point that I guessed at in another thread, that there are various attributes of sound, and different people may rank them differently. While most of us may place "pitch" at the top of the list, other people may relegate pitch in favour of rhythm, timbre or some other dynamic.
The amusic also claims that the audition piece by William Hung..
9:55+ (above)..was analyzed and is ON KEY. Yet, many people would casually observe that he is singing OFF KEY or FLAT. I find it quite interesting how they attempt to quantify what is wrong with Hung's singing (but I was not impressed by the HUGE cultural bias in their supposedly scientific testing regime.)
Well, I've never watched an episode of American Idol before, so I had to look up "William Hung" and I came across a talk he made 14 years later. He had since been complicit in putting himself out there for some ridicule (e.g, with an album, which seemed to deliberately showcase his limited singing skills), so I don't mind mentioning that his TEDx talk exhibits that same stilted, robotic, delivery that beset his American Idol audition.
From his talk, it appears that he was set up to fail. Instead of ditching him at the entry stage of American Idol, they waved him through, only to tear him down live. Not cool, and another reason for me not to watch these types of show.
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