Here's my personal performance reviews of the CSS 2 contestants who had just finished their Quarter-Finals 2A round. Feel free to give constructive feedback and think about how they could improve. Perhaps if you know them in real life, you can ask them to take a look at my comments on their performances tonight.
How do I grade them?
Singing techniques subtotal: 5.0 (includes lyrics, pitching, falsetto, rapping, breath control, volume)
Song delivery subtotal: 2.5 (includes feel, groove, emoting, impact, reach)
Stage Presentation subtotal: 2.5 (includes attire, dance or movement, gesticulation, eye contact)
Grand Total: 10.0
F1 林佳君 - Honey Honey 原唱者：孙燕姿
Jiajun played it safe again by choosing another happy and light-hearted song, and trying to make use of her comfortable stage presence and smile to give her the strong advantage. However, she was seriously exhausting the audience, or at least, my expectations of her because she looked as if she could not attempt other types of song (reinventing herself). She swallowed some endnotes at the earlier part of the song and lost a bit of control of her voice during the first chorus portion. Jimmy Ye was right to point out that Jiajun should attempt less bland and more challenging songs to impress the audience. Her scores were 6.0+6.5+5.5=18.0. I would have given her a 6.25.
F2 黄意凌 - 一眼万年 原唱者：S.H.E
Elaine was holding her microphone a little bit too close to her mouth and that amplified her already-heavy breathing and pauses whenever she sings. Her facial expression was quite rigid and the chorus of the song was not really distinctive. However, she was still sounding confident enough and her stage presence, though dwarfed by her lack of reach in her voice, managed to hold the audience's attention properly. The judges were lenient to her but I felt that her performance was rather bland and without much impact. Her scores were 7.0+8.5+7.5=23.0. I would have given her a 7.00.
F3 阮诗凯 - 原来爱情这么伤 原唱者：梁咏琪
Keely did not match my expectations of the song, which I am fairly familiar with. She closed her eyes way too often and thus lost many opportunities to communicate the emotions within the song to the audience using her eyes. She also swallowed some of the lyrics at the start of the second chorus and her forceful, husky voice was, like what the judges said, rather unsuitable to bring out the gentle, fleeting feel of the song, especially those at the endnotes. Her scores were 6.0+7.0+6.0=19.0. I would have given her a 6.25.
F4 许政宁 - 逆光 原唱者： 孙燕姿
Zhengning was looking at the floor too often during the first half of her performance but she managed to lead well into the chorus portion, which sort of saved her performance in an otherwise not very impressive vocal performance. She sang offkey for two parts of the song and her gesticulation with her left hand was bland and a little awkward. She has quite some room for improvement but I like her reinvented stage image. Her scores were 6.5+7.5+6.0=20.0. I would have given her a 6.50.
M1 温俊杰 - 背叛 原唱者： 曹格
Junjie sang with a really coarse voice for his performance and his chorus was not distinctive nor flavourful. He was seriously lacking in energy throughout his entire performance and seemed to make little effort to correct himself with the lack-lustre stage presence. He went off-beat at the later portions of the song and looked as if he was half-slouching. His scores were 5.5+6.5+5.5=17.5. I would have given him a 5.25.
M2 郑全威 - 非你莫属 原唱者： Tank
Javin surprised me with a confident rendition of the song. He lost the pronunciation of the first two words in his first line but he recovered quickly enough to give the song a decent feel and emoted appropriately at the key junctures of the song. I would only complain that his facial expression was a little too bitter when some of the lyrics did not really necessitate but I think he was one of the better singers in this entire round tonight. Relaxed, confident and unassuming. His scores were 7.5+8.0+6.5=22.0. I would have given him a 7.00.
M3 范平庚 - 枫 原唱者： 周杰伦
Benjamin swallowed the last two words of his first line and had quite a stiff stage presence. His chorus was again very limited and could not reach the audience at the appropriate impact level and his falsetto was still not very stable (seeing the strained look on his face). I would say that he did not really choose a suitable song too because his voice belonged to the crystalline-clear category and not very suitable for the darkly-emotive songs like this one. His scores were 7.0+8.0+6.5=21.5. I would have given him a 6.75.
M4 吴福宽 - 两只恋人 原唱者：曹格
Fukuan started off quite rigidly but managed to relax quickly and in agreement with the judges, he made a lot of improvements in his performance as well. He was much more relaxed and confident but I could still tell that there was still room for improvement because of his stiff shoulders, weak gesticulation and stiff eye contact with the cameras and audience. However, his smile was very sincere and was winning over both scores and probably votes. I personally have found little to complain about the vocal aspect of his performance too. His scores were 7.5+8.5+7.5=23.5. I would have given him a 7.50.
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