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passby: benita is C1? Hmm..information is different on my end. Oh well, we'll wait for the official site's update for next week then. Thanks for tagging!
pew: Hmm...good question. Although the general consensus was that Ridhwan improved the most for yesterday night, I personally thought Rachel Lim did a very good job on the vocal aspect. For most of the time, if her stage presentation skills did not hinder her overall performance, I thought Rachel's control of the extremely difficult song was admirable (only a handful of my friends can commandeer that song). The reach was there and the feel was right too.
fiona: Jeremy was much more confident than he was in the previous round but he tipped over to presenting his performance as way too casual for the song, staying well within his comfort zone given his range of manageable notes. I wouldn't go so far to say his performance is "insincere" but Jeremy did give the impression that the song was simply too easy for him.
I had expected Joselin to really give a good rock performance for that song but she was still too conservative - seemingly to have alot on her mind during her performance. I thought she was cocooning herself for reasons beyond my understanding and could not outdo herself since the Pre-concert performance.
Ridhwan was given more praises because of his relatively large improvement since his earlier near-defeat performance at Stage 1B but like Xiaohan laoshi, I noticed Ridhwan has been consistently picking R&B-styled songs and he may run into the same problems as Jeremy by playing too safe. Again, Ridhwan's familiarity with Chinese language is not within my considerations since he knows exactly what he is getting himself into - A Mandarin pop singing competition.
Of course, all my readers are entitled to their own opinions as to who improved the most. As long as it's a healthy, non-flaming discussion, there is simply no reason not to have alternative views from different readers.
My advice to the five contestants at Stage 2B on 9 February would be: Choose your songs carefully to showcase your improvements from your last known performance. If you are unable to have any breakthrough, you shouldn't be surprised if your scores from the judges start to stagnant or even fall.
Blog post to be updated after the performances.
Good luck to all the contestants tonight!
C1 蔡梦真 Shelly - 《星光》 原唱者：S.H.E
- 散, 艳 were sung slightly off-key
- chorus and verses were not clearly differentiated
- dance moves were not executed sharply
- 何必向往 lyrics were forgotten
- 光 note was not held long enough
- judges' scores were 5.5+6.0+3.5+4.0= 19.0
- I would have given a 5.0 because Shelly forgotten her lyrics and I agreed that her notes were quite jumbled throughout the song. If only Shelly could have designated some parts of the song as climaxes to push the song through better...
C2 丁文淞 Jeremy - 《豆浆油条》 原唱者：林俊杰
- accent was overly-deliberated
- he was managing the song way too alike to the original singer
- 需要 was nearly eaten up by his singing twice over
- 让我 was enunciated incorrectly
- judges' scores were 7.0+6.5+5.0+5.0= 23.5
- I would have given a 6.0 because Jeremy performed overly-safe and did not demonstrate an ability to challenge himself to better the original rendition. My score was given so because he had a technical superiority in terms of controlling the song properly but did not go on to differentiate his version to make the song uniquely his onstage.
C3 黄慧婷 Joselin - 《热情的沙漠》 原唱者： 欧阳菲菲
- 也 was not enunciated properly
- there did not seem to have enough breath left after each line during the verses
- the buildup to the chorus was not as strong as expected
- chorus endnotes require a little more punch to hit the max attitude and flavour
- judges' scores were 6.0+7.0+7.5+6.5= 27.0
- I would have given a 6.5 because it is not an easy to carry off but Joselin made the song her own at certain junctures. However, because I have heard many versions of the same song by many singers before, her rendition is still relatively weak in terms of drawing the audience into the song's mood when she could have let loose a little bit more, 野性多一点点 .
C4 Ridhwan Azman - 《空秋千》 原唱者：林宇中
- most of the first notes of the first verse started a little too low
- the chorus did not have the intended swing upwards at the designated places
- 太 was mildly mis-enunciated.
- judges' scores were 6.5+7.0+6.5+7.0= 27.0
- I would have given a 7.0 because Ridhwan managed to improve upon his previous song and I appreciated a difficult start to challenge himself by sitting down to start the song. Although I agreed with Xiaohan laoshi about giving himself a better challenged song the next time round, I thought Ridhwan had chosen his song more appropriately than the previous three contestants who had bitten a little bit more than they could handle so a bonus 0.5 was given.
C5 林瑞敏 Rachel Lim - 《月牙湾》 原唱者：F.I.R.
- 好吗 at the first chorus was sung a little bit off-key
- finally opened up at chorus because verses were a little bland
- good touch in management certain endnotes in opera-style
- stage posture could have been a little bit more active
- last note was held well for a good ending
- judges' scores were 6.0+6.5+6.5+6.0= 25.0
- I would have given a 6.5 because Rachel gave a decent performance for an exceptionally difficult song. She did a good job with the sustained falsetto choruses and micro-management of the choruses' endnotes but it was negated by a relatively poor rendition of the verses which could have been more colorfully vocalized Her rather awkward and passive stage gesticulation also took out some marks from a potentially strong performance.
All the best for the voting round!
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