Songs so difficult that they should only be done once

[turbo]

Forum secret: Evo loves accordion music - "Nothing gets your toe tapping like an accordion."

And chocolate-covered raisins. Send her a box today.

 

[Dembadon]

I know some fairly talented singers, and I think they'd all agree that this one is best left to Whitney.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HGC003Xz3CY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HGC003Xz3CY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

 

[rootX]

I know some fairly talented singers, and I think they'd all agree that this one is best left to Whitney.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/HGC003Xz3CY&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/HGC003Xz3CY&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

That's one of my favorite songs.

 

[Ben Niehoff]

A lot of synthesized sounds lose quality at very high pitches -- in the recording posted by mugaliens, you can hear the artifacts in the highest notes. There are some points after that in lower notes when it sounds like a synth too -- possibly because the slurs are done with pitch bend, and it doesn't sound like a natural voice.

edit: the original may have been actual voice digitally modified to sound artificial, rather than synthesized

I think the original used autotune in some places...particularly the places where it sounds like a lot of fast, random notes, and the large jumps between registers. But most of that piece is perfectly singable. If my sense of pitch is correct, then there were only three or four notes that were higher than anything in the Queen of the Night's aria (which, granted, few people can sing...but it is singable by unaided human voice, certainly).

 

[Hurkyl]

I think the original used autotune in some places...particularly the places where it sounds like a lot of fast, random notes, and the large jumps between registers. But most of that piece is perfectly singable. If my sense of pitch is correct, then there were only three or four notes that were higher than anything in the Queen of the Night's aria (which, granted, few people can sing...but it is singable by unaided human voice, certainly).

I don't doubt it's within human range -- especially after the other performance linked.

But that particular performance has artifacts and other unnatural aspects to it that make it sound more synthetic than real -- I've not heard those when others sing up there.

 

[Ivan Seeking]

Few of my favorites: fzaCOFlcErw, HPHfbZcNl6U, i-7NVnLLeRw and ePNUSmH3dMI.

I'm never going to get comfortable with the Polish language.

 

[rootX]

I cannot tell if this can done again and again but it does seem to be in that category:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7CbAjj80NIM

 

[rewebster]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/Thls_tMuFkc&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/Thls_tMuFkc&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

 

[Ivan Seeking]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZIFknAdVvNM

 

[leroyjenkens]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Y68m23x4Nc

 

[conway]

Melanie, absolutely! I would have listed it myself ten times over...EXCEPT...there's a girl I know here in Winnipeg who totally pulled it off a couple of years ago in a coffee house. I guess the exception proves the rule in this case.

 

[rewebster]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=<object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/IMIlP4zB0EM&hl=en_US&fs=1&"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/IMIlP4zB0EM&hl=en_US&fs=1&" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object>

 

[quinroxanne]

The song "Lovin' you" is one of the most difficult to sing song that I have heard, especially on the last part of the chorus..