This is my favorite Mariah song! I've been a fan for over 22 years, and I think she has more control now than she used to. I don't care her voice now to then because it's just like comparing apples and oranges. It's still her voice but she has this buttery quality I'll always love.
Okay, just so people don't screw this up anymore: the studio version of this song is in C major with a range from C3-E7. She mostly sang it in Bb major with a range of D3-D7. Nowadays she's down another half-step to A major, with her range covering about C#3-C#7. Overall, very impressive, and it's been 22 years since the release.
She may be singing it lower but that doesn't mean she's changed. You saw how effortless that c#7 was. I'm sure she could hit that e7 just not all the time.
DAMN! She really went for it in this performance I am blown away! She went the fuck IN lol she was like ima show that little girl Ariana who daddy is lmao this performance is EVERYTHING! Very 90s like and powerful with a twist
To me Mariah still sounds the same just an evolution from what she used to know with more control and does not have over work like in 1990. Remember everyone, when she 1st appeared everyone thought she was a studio diva(Britney spears). when she did MTV unplug that's when she proved to those so called critics that she does have the pipes; further more, back then people said she did not convey emotion when singing just belt and scream. 2013 now, it's she lost her voice, but with me she improved.
The highest key that she's sung it in was B major back in 1991. Apart from that, she's either sung it in B-flat (1991-2010), or, recently, she's been singing it in A. She's never sung it in C major, which is the original key, because, while she can handle the whistle notes, the high belting is hit-or-miss when it gets that high for her, even in the 90s, because high Gs have never been her most reliable note.
Mariah is not lip syncing the whistle register, it is just thay as you age it becomes harder to belt higher notes, whistle register is an extremely high falsetto therefore it is attainable even in her 40s
I do agree with you......voices may change,as well as Aretha's voice has changed too! And they both are amazing! And furthermore anyone's voice has no as the same quality as each single day. If Mariah has a bad voice day which is a normal thing for everybody people start being offensive on her...
"She can still sing?" This is a LOT more than being able to sing my dear. Most singers would give their right arm to be able to sing like that. Don't be so hard on her. People are like she went from A+++ to A+, so she's no longer good. C'mon at this point, being a fan since 1990, I just feel crazy happy she sounds this good. Not to mention her writing genius will be there with her until the day she dies.
yeah i feel the same way... mentioning her exhaustion on her high schedule... almost no time to rest till now. she still sing good an A or at least a B+++ She have to do her recording session at 2 o'clock in the morning? fiiiuuhh... she's totally out of her mind...
...yes..but then again that wasn't part of the key signature. I think she was aiming for the C# and went a bit flat, or just tried to switch up major and minor for effect. Pretty much, she's singing the third of the chord as she always does.
She's never sung this in the studio key (for good reason - those high G5s are a bitch to belt). It's always been either B or B-flat major, and now it's down to A. Really, after 22 years of THIS song, the fact that she's able to sing it at all is amazing, because it's a sadistic song.
I think she should embrace her new vocal ability because at least she can still sing. Yes she doesn't sound nearly as good as she once did but she still amazing. She still sings better then most women in the business today.
The Whistle here (D7) is lipped, she do it live in the another place..... i forget, Melbourne or gold coast..... But she sang the Whistle LIVE There....
haha. he's talking about the notes she hits. stacatto = quick successive breaking up of words. transpose means moving the key of the song. The rest should be easy to piece together. :).
I'd rather have her sing the whole song naturally without lip-synching than concentrate on the imperfections (as compared to the studio versions). People age and their vocal cords get affected, simple.
Yeah, every once in a while she would touch the root of the chord. Most of the time, though, she sticks to the third, which is still impressively low considering that it's in the lower 3rd octave and she's female.
this has been taken down several half steps!!! its not even in the original thats sad and the high notes are lipped... thats sad that mariahs voice has chnaged... the vocal quality is much more brassy too does anyone else notice that???
ALL THOSE MELISMA! THAT FLEXIBILIY! THAT AGILITY! Now, just fix the belting issues and you're back to the 90's Mimi! Seriously though, what has been UP with her technique? It's not the same technique she used in the 90's...
The ending notes were off, so I really don't think this was lipsunk,lipsank, or whatever the hell the Hannibals would call it..lol.. I named lamb haters/ jealous mariah haters to Hannibals. Like Nicki Minaj is the definitive Hannibal.
If she was singing in A major, then C would not be part of the key unless she were borrowing from the parallel minor. I think she was, but it's a little unclear. Her low notes are not the best part of her range.
Yeah, but it would have worn her out like hell, that's why she never DID sing it in the original - she knew that G5 was a bit unpredictable, at least from a tuning perspective, because the higher you go, the harder it is to tune.
