I understand that for the second round of the closed-doors CSS 2 auditions, the three hundred contestants will have to sing a slow and a fast song for the judges' panel. As with all of my previous related blog posts, I am here to only provide a guide for all those contestants who may interested in hearing what I have to say during this stage of the competition and for those who are really keen to learn more about music, they can freely choose to mull over what I will be saying in the remaining portions of this blog post.
In order to do well for the second CSS 2 auditions, the contestants must obviously pick songs that they can manage confidently. They will have to learn from the disastrous mistakes made by hundreds of other contestants during the first round where many have chosen popular but very difficult songs. Thus, they gave themselves and the judges a hard time because they could not bring out the songs' flavours and styles adequately to impress the judges. Of course, the songs selected should not be totally unheard of by the general population or be too outdated that they would sound too old from the voices of the young contestants.
I noticed a particular trend amongst the judges this year in picking contestants whose voices match their appearances. I believe this is a management-level decision to make the Campus Superstar competition more friendly and less stressful, thus moving away from being a miniature shadow of Project Superstar or Singapore Idol. Hence, I believe it will be a good idea to pick songs that one can carry rather than songs that may appear too matured or heavy-going if a contestant looks particularly youthful and energetic.
In order to do well for the second CSS 2 auditions, the contestants must obviously pick songs that they can manage confidently. They will have to learn from the disastrous mistakes made by hundreds of other contestants during the first round where many have chosen popular but very difficult songs. Thus, they gave themselves and the judges a hard time because they could not bring out the songs' flavours and styles adequately to impress the judges. Of course, the songs selected should not be totally unheard of by the general population or be too outdated that they would sound too old from the voices of the young contestants.
I noticed a particular trend amongst the judges this year in picking contestants whose voices match their appearances. I believe this is a management-level decision to make the Campus Superstar competition more friendly and less stressful, thus moving away from being a miniature shadow of Project Superstar or Singapore Idol. Hence, I believe it will be a good idea to pick songs that one can carry rather than songs that may appear too matured or heavy-going if a contestant looks particularly youthful and energetic.
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For example, a youthful and bright-eyed male contestant should not choose songs from Li Sheng Jie because his songs may sound too matured and emotive for the contestant who may look inappropriate to be singing those songs. Or for example, a young and jovial-looking female contestant should not choose songs from Sandy Lam because her songs require a certain level of maturity as well as a melodiously-layered voice.
So what are the possible songs that can be sung? If contestants reading this blog post have not decided yet, I have provided two music songlists for their general reference. I know I missed out some of the newer songs but the two songlists are just guidelines for those who are really desperate or lost in choosing songs for the coming weekend's closed-door auditions.
For the music songlist for slow songs, click here.
For the music songlist for fast songs, click here instead.
Slow songs have the following pitfalls, which contestants should learn to avoid: Wrong pitching, off-key choruses, weak endnotes, and poor emotion management.
Fast songs have the following pitfalls, which contestants should learn to avoid: off-tempo, garbled lyrics & pronunciation, out of breath, and poor emotion management.
In order to face the rest of the faithful supporters of Teresa, I will only explain the common pitfall of poor emotion management for CSS 2 contestants reading this. You will have to figure out the rest of the points yourselves. Yes, I am selfish because I am saving up all the more advanced pointers for Teresa only but I will help CSS 2 contestants at adequately basic level because I also hope to see good singing circulating around in Singapore.
Okay, back to the topic - Poor emotion management of songs usually happen when contestants do not really prepare themselves emotionally for the songs. For example, Wang Lee Hom's song "Kiss Goodbye" requires a sad and frustrated song persona who laments at the loss of his love. If the contestant miss the emotions necessary at the various parts of the song, smiling at the wrong line of lyrics, emoting at the incorrect line of the chorus, the contestant will most probably be marked down for poor emotion management of the song.
How does one improve one's emotion management of songs? Learn how the song is sung by the song persona (not the singer). I do not mean imitating the singer, Lee Hom, in singing Kiss Goodbye because Campus Superstar is not an imitation competition. I mean emoting the song in the appropriate places, degree and learn to be genuinely touched by the song. Professional judges can tell very easily if a contestant merely emotes the song without truly understanding the song's state of emotions.
That is all for now. Hope the above helps all those who are interested and loves singing. Jia you~~
So what are the possible songs that can be sung? If contestants reading this blog post have not decided yet, I have provided two music songlists for their general reference. I know I missed out some of the newer songs but the two songlists are just guidelines for those who are really desperate or lost in choosing songs for the coming weekend's closed-door auditions.
For the music songlist for slow songs, click here.
For the music songlist for fast songs, click here instead.
Slow songs have the following pitfalls, which contestants should learn to avoid: Wrong pitching, off-key choruses, weak endnotes, and poor emotion management.
Fast songs have the following pitfalls, which contestants should learn to avoid: off-tempo, garbled lyrics & pronunciation, out of breath, and poor emotion management.
In order to face the rest of the faithful supporters of Teresa, I will only explain the common pitfall of poor emotion management for CSS 2 contestants reading this. You will have to figure out the rest of the points yourselves. Yes, I am selfish because I am saving up all the more advanced pointers for Teresa only but I will help CSS 2 contestants at adequately basic level because I also hope to see good singing circulating around in Singapore.
Okay, back to the topic - Poor emotion management of songs usually happen when contestants do not really prepare themselves emotionally for the songs. For example, Wang Lee Hom's song "Kiss Goodbye" requires a sad and frustrated song persona who laments at the loss of his love. If the contestant miss the emotions necessary at the various parts of the song, smiling at the wrong line of lyrics, emoting at the incorrect line of the chorus, the contestant will most probably be marked down for poor emotion management of the song.
How does one improve one's emotion management of songs? Learn how the song is sung by the song persona (not the singer). I do not mean imitating the singer, Lee Hom, in singing Kiss Goodbye because Campus Superstar is not an imitation competition. I mean emoting the song in the appropriate places, degree and learn to be genuinely touched by the song. Professional judges can tell very easily if a contestant merely emotes the song without truly understanding the song's state of emotions.
That is all for now. Hope the above helps all those who are interested and loves singing. Jia you~~
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