I love when people say she's lip syncing, because let's face it.. Her voice is just amazing. Even with a problematic voice, she still sounds better than most popstars today.
+Ariana Stacey She's been sounding AAAmazing on this tour. This is definitely NOT lipped. The phrasing during the climax is completely different than the original and other performances on this tour. In this rendition, she sang the last "and you coming back to me" much lower and the final "that's the chance I got to take" is less forceful. Not to mention there's much more melisma thrown in at the end.
+Mariah Careylove I love Mariah. But she lip syncs. We have to take it as it is. If you listen closely you will hear the voice changes and you will notice that the high part is pre recorded. The change starts when she sings "But to wait for you..."
She had to lower the key, because "Miss Mariah" can no longer hit those "triple highs" as easily as she once did. Phil Collins still sings this in the same key, after all of these years, because he DOESN'T have to hit "triple highs." And no matter WHO covers this masterpiece, Phil Collins version is STILL the only one that matters.
waitressman1 oh? I never said this is better than Phil Collins'. I said, for me, this arrangement is better than HER recorded one. It is only a semitone lower than the recorded one. It's not "triple highs" that you are talking about.
Number 1) Phil Collins sings this song in the same key as Mariah, but he doesn't jump into another octave like Mariah does in the climax Number 2) Mariah has always lipped the climax of "Against All Odds". She has many pre recorded tracks of this and many of her songs. And in this performance she is indeed lipping the climax.
1) It doesn't take a music expert to tell if someone's lip syncing or not (clearly you are not an expert) 2) I don't see you referencing any "degree" or "experience" in your posts. (hypocrite alarm)
If she sings bad.... People will say Dang She Can't Sing Anymore. Poor her. If she sings great.... They will say ... Oh she lipped! Damn it! Cant you please just be happy!?! No matter what she does there will always be haters & idiots around!
+jhun dionz YASSS!!! I totally agree with you, but the good thing is, Mariah loves herself, and she gives a damn to the jealous haters, she care about us fans, the rest does not matter
Great performance: She lipped, and tabloids say nothing Bad performance: She can't sing, tabloids talk about it for a long time. coughChristmas2014cough
@@Felicity_Young No. He meant that the key at 2:55 differs from the original one. Instead of reaching higher, it tones down and sounds differently, which is interesting.
@@karaoke_bqv That's melodic change then, which was used to transition it back to the original melody at the end of the climat. The key remains the same. You can tell she even forgot about that initial change because she mimes a high note at 2:53 (But YOU coming back) when the recorded track actually goes back down.
the voice changed at 2.37 because her tone can slightly change during singing or styling or nodules acting up, not because of pre-recording. This is an easy song.
OH MANNNNNNN AT THE BRIDGE PART!!!! Only her can do that.. No matter what she does with the notes, high or low, it's always beautifully sympathetic to the song! Queen!!!!!
My girl is always amazing! I'm so proud of her for choosing this song for her tour. I'm just sad that she doesn't do the 10 second ending longer, like in the original (hers) but dam, the things I would do to be hearing this live in person.. LOVE YOU MARIAH! 💗
When a singer sings a song and that song touches a person very soul, it creates a connection and Mariah has been doing that to me every single time i hear her sing and thats why i love her so much.
I’m a huge Mariah fan and feel she is the greatest female vocalist of all time, hands down. But being familiar with sound engineering and the “tricks of the trade”, I can tell she is singing LIVE until the 2:36 mark. At that point, they dub in her studio vocals for the remainder of the song (she could have several versions of studio recordings on file as most artists do). It’s STILL her voice, just not live. There are several ways to tell: 1. The most obvious is the timber/tone/overall-quality to her voice/mic that changes at that 2:36 mark. Her voice is noticeably thinner before that mark as it is sung from her throat, then suddenly thickens up and becomes more of a full, rich sound from her diaphragm, even though most of the song is being sung at the same pitch. Granted, she is (after the 2:36 mark) adding riffs and runs at the top of her register, but that shouldn’t change the sound of her overall voice that intensely. Plus the sound of her voice after the mark, sounds mastered in the style she had in the 90’s. She uses her current style of mastering on the Emancipation albums and all the albums after that. 2. The effort. Notice before the 2:36 mark, you see her bottom row of teeth prominent during every phrasing (a lot! - she did not have to sing like that before)... This is because she is using more effort than she used to have to use to reach the same pitch. The result will be a forced & thinner sound with less ability to hold the note for extended periods of time (cause you run out of breath much faster that way - that’s also why a lot of her current live riffs on older songs are more staccato/rather than long-held continuous runs). After the 2:36 mark, her bottom row of teeth disappear because she is no longer having to sing as she begins to mouth the words at that point (no more struggle). Although she has now jumped an octave, she is showing almost NO effort (facial expression/teeth/eyes) which would be very visible at this point (as you can see in her earlier 1996 concerts when her voice could do anything it wanted to live on stage - her face shows the effort being put in even while she is reaching notes others could only dream of hitting). You don’t see that here. She remains poised and casual, like it took less effort to hit these huge notes than it did to hit the lower notes before 2:36. I don’t believe she has “lost her abilities” I just feel that she plays it safe when she needs to because after years of use (and possible misuse) of her vocals, her voice is less reliable and consistent when having to sing live, let alone having to sing 12-15 back to back number one hits that cover 5-6 octaves a piece.. Again, I am NOT hating on her, she is my favorite artist of all time and has the greatest voice the world has ever heard. It’s just what is really going on here. Again, whether live or prerecorded, it’s still her voice and yes, she just. did. that....
@@kennethdennisrojo1891 as a fan, for so many years we have been watching and observing her performances more than 10 thousand times for a decade, we can easily say when she lip or not. We admit that she lipped some part of the songs like pre-record it. We understand how tiring to be in a world tour and abusing your voice more than 4 decades.
@@kennethdennisrojo1891 I mean, Lambs know well that part was lipped. I just don't see how such a long passage of explanation as to how she lipped is necessary lol.
90% live and absolutely MAGIC!!! One of my favourite performances by her!!! Lost her voice where? Her tone is even better than the tone on the pre-recorded parts!!!
Oh, my! :) - This is fabulous! - She's making Phil Collins proud! - Another jewel from last night's experience in Oslo Spektrum... Thank you again for sharing this with us!
*wooooow am i PLEASANTLY SURPRISED?!?!?! that HEAVENLY tone & her control here is PHENOMENAL. well done mariah! such a BEAUTIFUL performance. this proves shes still the greatest. god, that voice is so BEAUTIFUL! the clarity, resonance, & just silky smooth.*
I think playback starts at 2:36 when she starts with "but to wait for you" - her timbre is slightly different, and her vibrato is less laggy. The playback is placed in an ideal spot because it's not discernable from the notes she hit prior, and your ears adjust to the decibel/mic changes from there on, so then when the climax hits, it sounds the same as what preceded it. Also, on the climax she does a gesture on the word "you" on "and you comin' back to me" that doesn't sync with the vocal, but would sync with more emphasis on the word "you" in other lipped climaxes. She's got several versions to trick people. She loves her music and what she does, and I think she would be crazy enough to have this many lipped versions, lol. Mariah wobbles too much on regular notes to nail the climax like that. With that said, Mariah has shown plenty of amazing long belted B4, C5's, D5's, and some beautiful E5's and even recently an F5 in Heartbreaker. And this is coming from a lamb, I love her, but I'm not delusional. I know when she's lipping and when she's not and I don't get mad because I know she's putting on a performance and also needs to save her voice.
+Filotus seriously could not have said it better. I've gotta be one of the biggest lambs and i listen to mariah like my bible but this is just too obvious from 2:36 onward. NICE CATCH on the "YOU comin' back to me" gesture - she clearly thought it was a version where "you" lands on the high note ha
If you don't know if a performance is lip-sync or not, just check if the proximity with the microphone is audible to your years and make some diference when it is near or far from the mouth of the artist. This one is a true masterpiece, because it is purely LIVE.
Great! Sounds better than she has in 13 or 14 years. This whole song sounds great! ALL of it. Her vocal quality is good. Even the parts people DON'T claim are lip synced. (I personally think the climax in this clip is too complicated for her to have lip synched perfectly and differently in comparison to other nights she has done this song - Let the YouTubing begin!). Ignore the pathetic haters who actually invest time scowering the Internet for Mariah videos just to hate regardless of how she sings. It just means she has made so much of a positive vocal impression on the music industry that people feel their favs are still threatened. She sounds good on this tour. Whatever she has been doing to maintain her voice, hope she keeps it up.
I will never be astounded by anyone else's vocals as I am by this exquisite woman's!!! It is just unreal her voice and the magnitude of it....also her beauty never fails to take me under as well 💝💝💝💝💝
I am so so happy I found this video and especially this absolutely sublime version of a true and classic Mariah ballad (Westlife included or not - it’s such a classic nonetheless). I love how she is still able to tell a whole story by slowly and still very intuitively lead us up to those key changes with such ease and class that before you know it you’re left breathless! Every single time. I actually can’t deal sometimes it’s just too good! 💕 Not to say anything about how her tone and belts sound so much richer and nuanced, I LOVE it.
Love this ending SOOOO much more!! The studio version always seemed like she was about to go off key.... especially the last “it’s against all odds” part - it’s probably why shes never done it live.... but here is soooo good! shes such a musical genius!!
Haters who are envious people always say, part lipped, part live. haha how stupid. Just accept the fact nobody can level to this songbird supreme. Better yet just watch videos of your own favorite artists to stop your heartaches. lol
Her voice still sounds just like the Mariah performing in the Tokyo dome.. I don't understand why people are saying her voice is good anymore...? she sounds amazing! love you MC
Has not been one of my fav Mariah songs , but now ...... It is . Fantastic stunning and heartfelt. You're an angel and a example of modern day classic. Thank you for these amazing new runs. Love from New Zealand
To anyone who thinks this is lipped, I would have possibly believed you until I saw her live in an intimate venue- first row maybe 10 feet away. That was her caution tour and still to this day I can’t believe what I experienced- it is unfathomable to believe that voice is coming out of a human being- oh but it is. However long it has been since then, I still find myself in awe of her talent, beauty and just simply her presence- none of it seems like it could be real.
Every singers’ voice evolve, so does Mariah. She has to change certain things, the way she sings, some keys and notes here and there but she still sounds freaking AMAZING! Queen!
