ANGELINA JORDAN - I'M A FOOL TO WANT YOU - REACTION 

I'm guessing: Jan 2024. New Performer of the Year. Song of the Year. Maybe even Album of the Year. And this all without hearing anything off her first album yet! This is based on: The combination of her musicality, vocal artistry, emotional connection, arranging ability, with the Republic Records publicity and marketing machine and their apparent willingness to grant her significant creative license in song selection, PLUS working with one or more great producers and songwriters.

11 years old! Amazing!

Im glad the head shakes come across correctly 😂 hope youre doing well

@@Beldvlmnt Hi Dear BEL. check, never enough, performed by Morissette on Wish 107.5 FM Radio. this performance is a practical example of how he does not need to breathe to sing, two diaphragms and 4 lungs.🤭

Every now and then I run across a different version of a song. This is one of them. Very nice.! Thank you for this reaction.

@@Beldvlmnt Hey Jess, it's a year later and I listen to her and I think, how can an 11 year old sing like she's been through this?!! I mean between Angelina, Daneliya Tuleshova and Diana Ankudinova, who is only a couple years older, the bases for the next gen singers are pretty much covered. They all are able to sing with such emotional honesty that you believe the story they are telling. Thanks for the best nerd outs going. Where others lose me after a couple sentences, you have me listening learning and sometimes laughing with your explanations. They call that poly-phonic, it is like Diana Ankudinova 'special voice'.

Hi! Are you aware of Mery Zamani's RU-vid channel "Angelina Jordan Fanclub Mosarz"? There are many rehearsals and more personal videos on there for your enjoyment. Here is the link: Angelina Jordan Fanclub Mosarz: ru-vid.com/show-UChM_lpT4shdnsez93QMJPig

Id drop the "female" bit.

so correct

Totally agree.

Not yet, but I bought it yesterday so…

john This was not her audition for NGT; it was her second performance ----- "the judge's cut". She was 8.

@@103mrg I have looked for a timeline of her NGT performances and never found one. I know this was her second performance before the judges, but I could never find any dates. Can you supply a source for that?

@@johnvasi Sorry, I don't keep the source or a link for all the info I've gathered about Angelina over the years. I do, however, have the dates of her performances on NGT: Audition (Gloomy Sunday) recorded Nov. 24/13; judge's cut (I'm A Fool) recorded Feb.7/14; Semi-finals (Bang Bang) live Apr. 11/14; Finals (Summertime) live May 23/14. That's the best I can do for you.

Billie was also innocent 💟 that woman was really something

I just love that head wiggle!

In the black and white video of 'I put a spell on you', she wiggles her nose during the sax solo and it sort of predicts the little sax riffing following immediately after. Lovely little details :-)

bart Sang I'm A Fool at age 8 on NGT.

@@103mrg no she sang it at age 6 first time in a studio.

@@danahiggins957 Would you have a link for that claim? Are you sure you're not referring to "I Who Have Nothing?"

Thanks for watching 🙏 my buddy Matt is gonna pop by tomorrow, he’s a session musician and I’m sure will have some great input as well!

@@Beldvlmnt you might want to take a listen to Sara James, recent golden buzzer winner on AGT 14 and very good, her father has a music background and has been coaching her..

She sounds almost exactly like Billie Holiday.!

@@joeseay2883 What you say is eerily true and goes back to her first audition, at 7, when she sang Billie's 'Gloomy Sunday'. That was when all the talk about Billie being reincarnated into Angelina, for if you listen to both singers, it sounds as if one singer performed both renditions. Her being acclaimed a 'vocal chameleon' really was reinforced shortly after she turned 8 and sang Dinah Washington's iconic version of 'What A Difference A Day Makes'. Angelina can replicate the sound of so many A-list artists that it's mind boggling. Even on the 'pop' side (You don't Own Me by Leslie Gore) and country side with Patsy Cline's legendary song 'Crazy, just to name a few others..

sue She was 8.

The last half of this take we are watching her record, from the point where the album cover slides away from her face up to (but not including) the last line, was used on the album. The other parts (first half and the last line) were taken from one or more other takes. I agree that it's preferable to hear the original audio (i.e., the ambient sound recorded in the booth) if someone is going to watch this performance. But it's even better when you compare the two (album track vs. sound in the booth), because it reveals how little processing they did on her vocal for the album (just a little added reverb/"presence", like she did in her own recordings at home with "the good mic", but nothing beyond that). And just for the record, she actually sang this with the band playing live in the adjacent room(s). Some of the musicians can be seen through the windows as the camera pans around at the end. (They're even more obvious in some other videos recorded during the same sessions. Unfortunately, none of the other videos where she's singing contain any vocals heard on the album, so they were all from alternate or rehearsal-only takes.)

@@DonaldLancon Hi Donald! I just went back and listened to the audio from both videos and I think you may be wrong. There are very subtle differences, as well as a left out or changed word. In the album audio, she sings, "But then WOULD come the time..." whereas in the Fanclub Mozars video she sings, "But then COMES the time...". Also, the downward run on the end of the word "time" is a little more pronounced in the Fanclub Mozars recording and always gives me goosebumps. The two performances are very similar during the section you mention, but being able to reproduce a vocal performance is a standard recording skill that's used to get the best doubled sound. I'm sure Angelina, with her great lip-syncing abilities(another essential skill for a modern pop vocalist so that music videos look their best) can easily perform two almost identical takes. If you have some inside knowledge from the engineer or producer, I beg your pardon.

@@capstan50g Yeah, I usually say "almost all" of the last half of the song when I talk about this, because you are correct that that one line is different. But otherwise everything else I'm referring to is *exactly* identical. If you listen to the two audio recordings synced up together (played simultaneously), you will find that the line just before the one you referenced (namely, "Time and time again, I went away" - the one that she seems so impressed with after she sings it) is the first point in the song where the two vocals sync up perfectly. Getting the sync right is _very_ difficult at first, because the vocal takes are not the same in the first half of the song. But I tried doing that again just now, before typing this reply, just to be sure of what I'm saying, and I happened to nail the sync _perfectly_ at the beginning of the song. So perfectly, in fact, that there wasn't even an "echo" or "reverb" effect when the two vocals snapped into sync. It literally sounded like one track was being played, not two. (To be specific, I was using the audio I personally ripped from the CD for the "album audio", and, of course, the Fanclub Mosarz video for the "booth audio".) Anyway, after the line that is different again ("But then would come the time…"), everything from "And once again…" to the second to last "Without you" is perfectly in sync again. Then, finally, like I said, the last line ("I can't give it up without you") is different. Playing the two tracks in sync makes it absolutely, 100% clear that it's the same vocal take for those portions. I wish I could record what I am talking about and post it somewhere, but I can't. (I would probably need to import both tracks into an audio editor to get the sync as perfect through the whole song as I just lucked into doing "manually" just now.) You'll just have to do the experiment yourself.

@@DonaldLancon Thx for the reply and all the info, Donald! I've played around with home recording myself and also like to nerd out about Angelina. I really love the Fanclub Mosarz version that highlights her voice and use of dynamics. Looks like it's time to break out my copy of Audacity to better appreciate her wonderful arrangement of this classic!

There's also a bit video editing because Angelina did some small mistake (wrong lyrics).

Small correction: the recording sessions for the album were in November 2017 (according to the CD liner notes, and corroborated by an article published in December 2017), so she was still 11.

I appreciate the touch about the smile - I’ll do a video about my process and also give this a spin 😄

blaster You've got your brain hemispheres reversed.

I think it probably started mostly natural and then was worked on through mentors and other pros, but I’m sure anyone who would have helped just fast tracked what would have come later

Like two pitches at the same time - some people can do like harmonies to themselves