张宇璇 亲爱的你怎么不在我身边 原唱者：江美琪
Audience familiarity with song: ***1/2
Song & Performance difficulty: ***
This song is a challenging in its own way because it has a lot of lyrics to remember and emotional management of the song requires matured handling. Performer definitely needs to paint the images inside the song to allow the feel of the song to the audience. When the song progresses, it can become a bland song vocally as it slows down again so gesticulation is necessary to improve the visual effect of the performance.
谢慧娴 真的 原唱者：张韶涵
Audience familiarity with song: ****
Song & Performance difficulty: ***1/2
This song is a soulful ballad with very clear pronunciation of lyrics and will require the performer to have a good control over the high notes, particularly holding the endnotes in certain places. Performer must learn to control the build-up of the emotions leading all the way to the chorus. With less emphasis on gesticulation, placing the audio image of pessimism and resignation in the ears of the audience will be the key to a winning performance of this particular song.
杨丽莹 过敏 原唱者：杨丞琳
Audience familiarity with song: ****
Song & Performance difficulty: **1/2
This song is sung in a very gentle way with little variation. In short, it's quite a simple song, which is good because it is easy to perform and is bad because it will hard to impress. Things to note will be readiness of breath during the chorus portions where there are fewer opportunities to pause and rest. I suppose facial expression will be necessary instead of large gesticulation because of the gentleness of the song as the latter will make the performance jarring instead of comfortable listening.
林佳君 一个像夏天一个像秋天 原唱者：范玮琪
Audience familiarity with song: ***1/2
Song & Performance difficulty: ***
This song is another jovial sounding song so adequate emotional preparation to get into the mood of the song before heading off to the stage is important to make the performance realistically friendly and enjoyable. Gesticulation and audience interaction will be pivotal in giving a stellar performance. Performer should let go and learn to enjoy the fun behind the lyrics before she can affect the audience in the same way as intended by the songwriter.
黄意凌 大手拉小手 原唱者：梁静茹
Audience familiarity with song: ****
Song & Performance difficulty: **1/2
This song is also full of lyrics, which means many pitfalls if the performer did not clock enough practice on memorising the lyrics. It's actually quite a slow and dry song with little variation and opportunity to showcase much talent so most of the focus should be on whether the performer can hold the low notes properly and make the full use of those few lines of chorus to impress the audience. Gesticulation will be quite important to vary the performance since distinctive vocal showcasing is limted by the song itself.
绕梓杰 只因为你 原唱者：张栋梁
Audience familiarity with song: ****
Song & Performance difficulty: ***
This song requires emoting that is happy and carefree and one of the major pitfalls is keeping pace with the song because it’s has quite a jovial beat and getting the audience to feel the song with the performer will be a challenge. It’s quite a popular song so audience familiarity will most definitely mean comparing and contrasting with the original singer. Given the specific rhythm of the song, it will be difficult to try and sing this song in a radically different manner without losing the flavour of the song.
范平庚 原来 原唱者：林俊杰
Audience familiarity with song: ****
Song & Performance difficulty: ****
The song has a lot of lyrics and fast-moving lines, which makes it one of the most difficult songs to perform for the QF 1B round. The performer must be very familiar with the song lyrics and have excellent breath control to recover from the quick-moving lines. The most difficult part, however, is for the performer to NOT over-concentrate on the fast lines but remain focused on singing and engaging the audience with the content of the song, which is not as colourful or soulful as the other songs.
唐伟盛 着迷 原唱者：潘玮柏
Audience familiarity with song: ***
Song & Performance difficulty: ****1/2
This is obviously a dance track and thus requires even more performance variety to impress the audience. Breath control, dance moves, audience interaction, gesticulation and poses are the usual staple for dance track performances and there is a lot of end-lines variation to juggle with so the performer must be prepared to eunciate accordingly. Most performers I have seen are overly-engrossed in their dance moves in this song and forgot to sing the song.
许国豪 男佣 原唱者：吴克群
Audience familiarity with song: ***
Song & Performance difficulty: ****1/2
This song calls for a certain level of resignation and yet playfulness of the song persona and the performer must learn to portray such levels accurately throughout the song. The rhythmic beats within the songs are numerous and practice is a definite if one does not want to miss those beats and since it's a dance track, dance moves will be expected from the performer. A couple lines of lyrics are also not easy to remember within the song as they are pronunciated fast and in unconventional language.
郑全威 Love Story 原唱者：范逸臣
Audience familiarity with song: ****
Song & Performance difficulty: ***1/2
This song is deceptively difficult because although the song's lyrics are easy and the tune is not difficult to remember but the emotional build-up at the chorus can make or break the performance. It's that kind of release of emotions of the song persona that differentiates the song and the endnotes will require a good measure of control in order to bring the performance to a respectable ending.
In case of complaints, I must make it clear here that the analysis is deliberately kept at a simple level because too many complex comments about their song choices (if they choose to adjust themselves because of what I said) can ruin their individual styles in singing, especially at this late stage of performance preparations. Good luck to all the remaining contestants and I hope to see a round of good performances on the coming Monday night then!
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