Well, how did he do then in the final???
It should be underway right now. It’s approaching 8:30 PM in London.
Yep, the final is on now with the results programme starting at 10pm.
He won
Good on him.
Agreed, whatever the show’s producers made him out to be, he has got talent.
And anything is better than the six year old with the missing teeth :dubious:
Yikes, I saw him for the first time tonight. He seems to have a vibrato which mimics a boy’s voice breaking. Awful. But hey, he’ll make a fortune for himself and for his record company, and that’s the important thing, right?
Sing Nessun Dorma in drag and with an accent halfway between Borat and Bjork if you want, but with the right presentation (i.e. tug on the rags-to-riches heartstrings) people will still fall for it. The song isn’t the good thing. It’s not that hard to sing. Especially into a microphone. Verdi’s music is brilliant. That’s all…
(I’m getting ready for a rant now, must go and sit down.)
I just want to point out that this:
does not mean that he’s taken lessons with Pavarotti. A master class isn’t a lesson, and one can “take part” without even necessarily singing.
I think his amateur status is secure.
I’m glad he won, if only because he would be probably the only one to beat the little girl, who was awful.
I hate to think what your reaction is when a typical six-year-old decides to sing to you!
But would you have told her… to her face? She’s six for God’s sake.
That said, she was saccharine beyond belief, and whoever trained her to make “shaking the ribcage up and down” = “vibrato” needs shooting.
She was very good for a six year old. I’m certainly impressed by her voice at her age. But I wouldn’t buy a CD of it. And if she came on the radio i’d turn it off. And with normal six year olds it’s cute that they’re trying - they’re bad, but that’s cute. She was trying, and wasn’t that good anyway, and was being told she was superb. I guess that soured me to her too.
And no, I wouldn’t say it to her face, but then that’s the miracle of phone voting - you don’t need to face them!
I agree with you on these points. But her technique was as refined, and as versatile, as Mr Spots. The difference with the kid is that she had a truly remarkable sense of pitch, and for a six-year-old quite incredible breath control. There’s a potential singer there, provided she doesn’t have a money-grabbing family choosing to make the quick buck (aka Charlotte Church), because it’s physically impossible to combine the demands of the two.
Anyone have a link of his final performance?
The falling intervals were where the pitch rose, and think the range she’d need to get down to was physically beyond her. I didn’t say ‘perfect’, but ‘truly remarkable’.
Sure: Paul Potts winning the competition singing Nessun Dorma*.
(*I always thought a certain Japanese car company should bring out a motor home called a “Nissan Dormer”.)
Honda?
That’s right! The all-new Honda “Nissan Dormer”, made by Subaru.
GorillaMan - you seem to know a bit about singing and music and stuff. I was wondering if you had any opinion on the other little girl in the final, the one who was 12 and wanted to do musical theatre. I thought her first two performances (Flower Seller, Mary Poppins) were really surprisingly good and showed a lot of promise. Didn’t like her final performance, though. It seemed to me that she was having serious pitch problems. What I did like, however, was that she at least got a new performance ready for each appearance. Almost all the others stuck with the ‘tried and true’, even the guy with a monkey puppet. Anyway, even tho she didn’t win, I reckon she’s got a future in the business if she sticks at it.
Two links to the performances ianzin is talking about.
I really liked her and thought the first My Fair Lady one would have been perfect for The Royal Variety show.
As you say though she’s sure to pop up on the westend after a bit more stage school. She seems very serious about her dream and certainly has the talent.