Blog post to be updated as soon as performances are over tonight. As there are a total of eight contestants onstage tonight, commentaries may be slightly delayed due to the additional effort needed to analyze the performances so please be patient.
There is some strange script error in the poll which prevents Chinese characters from being displayed. I can't fix it on my side so hope the voters don't mind the weird ??? characters.
C1 叶嘉敏 -《如燕》 原唱者：Olivia Ong
- 碎片 was sounding rather unsteady
- there was a rush in the song which was really odd
- 挪 was not clearly eunciated
- judges' scores were totaled at 31.0
- I would have given Jiamin a 6.0 because there was no breakthrough in her choice of songs - sentimental love ballads and I am beginning to penalize Jiamin for not daring to showcase any versatility onstage. The song is also technically more difficult than what she could manage because she could not hold the right notes, nor drag the correct ones and the unnecessary rush in the song ruined the beauty and lightness of the song mood.
C2 李李美子 Mavis - 《不见不散》 原唱者： 孙楠
- 徒劳 was sung too low
- verses sounded strained on the low side and too heavy to perk the song up
- 不见不散 had the vocal projection but not the emotional projection hence sounding unimpressive to my ears
- judges' scores were totaled at 25.5
- I would have given Mavis a 5.5 because her song was really too cold in terms of popularity in Singapore and in terms of the range of emotions. Although she was projecting her voice, she did not project the emotions level needed for the song to be impressive enough.
C3 李奕贤 Jarod -《拥有》 原唱者： 许美娴
- 样， 命 not fully enunciated
- 么， 相扣 was sung off-key
- judges' scores were totaled at 28.5
- I would have given Jarod a 6.0 because he reverted back to the earlier genre of matured ballads which are not suitable for his age and image and I still cannot be convinced by his portrayed emotions of the song which he seriously cut off by shutting his eyes away from the camera angles. Such emoting blindspots, deliberated or not by Jarod, becomes jarringly obvious at this late stage of the competition and it will not do if ballads are not convincingly emoted by the singer.
C4 林瑞敏 Rachel Lim -《自己》 原唱者：李纹 Coco
- unnecessary breaks in the verse lines which breaks the flow of the song
- sounds out of breath managing some of the note variation in the song
- emoting was much better during chorus but made verse struggles more distinctive
- 放手 was sung off-key and was shaky
- judges' scores were totaled at 27.5
- I would have given Rachel a 6.0 because the song was obviously too difficult for her. Like what Qi Yu Laoshi said, the range of notes of the song was too broad for Rachel to commandeer properly and I felt that she was overly-cautious to really release the song's potential power. However, I liked her emotional conviction invested in her singing and I could feel the genuine emoting so even though she did not fare as well in the technical aspect, she made it up with decent emoting.
C5 郑琪颖 Benita -《你没想象中爱我》 原唱者：石欣卉 Sing
- emphasis on lyrics were done at the seemingly correct places
- 痛 could have dragged out more properly
- general control of the song was comparatively stronger than the rest of the contestants
- judges' scores were totaled at 24.0
- I would have given Benita a 7.0 because she demonstrated a good control of the song's techniques and gave an equally good show of her emoting. I disagreed with Fei Hui Laoshi because I felt that Benita did not have to sing word-for-word, technique-for-technique with the original rendition. At the time of typing, Benita was graded by the panel of judges as the lowest scorer which is completely opposite of my grades but I stand by my analysis. Oh well, such is the way of such competitions. Good luck in your future endeavours, Benita!
C6 蔡艾珈 Rachel Chua -《曾经太年轻》 原唱者：蓝又时
- 不懂 was enunciated too hard into the microphone
- facial expressions were too strained at certain portions of the song
- kept feeling the song was too constrained to showcase her strengths
- judges' scores were totaled at 29.5
- I would have given Rachel a 6.5 because although Ai Jia showcased her stable high notes but she did not pick a song that could continue to showcase any further strengths in her slower song performances as the song choruses kept revolving around that narrow range of notes which I felt was of zero challenge for the girl. I rated Ai Jia slightly lower than Benita because of the lack of technical challenge Ai Jia gave to herself in this round.
C7 Ridhwan -《从开始到现在》 原唱者： 张信哲 Jeff
- verses were way too low and brooding when the key ought to be higher
- verses and choruses were not distinctive enough
- emotional buildups were not properly managed to give song the necessary personality
- judges' scores were 25.0
- I would have given Ridhwan a 5.5 because I really really felt he made quite a mess of the song by hovering overly low on the verses of the song. Although I appreciated his creativity to instil Malay lyrics into the song to give the song a fresher feel, I could not understand Bahasa Malay to even comment whether he was actually singing the right lyrics or giving the right feel to the lyrics or not. The overall feel of Ridhwan's rendition was very flat and bland even though the song actually contained several emoting buildups which he had missed out on. I know this song very well because I had performed this song onstage before and even though I had then practiced the same song for more than a dozen times, I still could not completely nail the song but Ridhwan really fell short of the basic crescendoes within the song.
C8 黄慧婷 Joselin -《你要的爱》 原唱者：戴佩妮 Penny
- 虽 note did not come out right
- 那个 trembled unnecessarily
- 会 note enunciated too hard into the microphone
- 坏， 赖 were sung off-key
- judges' scores were 27.5
- I would have given Joselin a 6.0 because although I really enjoyed the breakthrough Joselin gave onstage by singing slow sentimental songs, she did not hit the necessary song persona's emotions of youthfulness and coyness portrayed within the lyrics. The sunny feel was obviously missing from Joselin's relatively cold, expressionless look during the performance and she did not really pick up the subtle nuances in the playfulness of certain parts of the lyrics. Add these to the technical errors she committed, it was only a reasonable performance even though one of the judges said she was sounding great. I felt it was only an average rendition of a highly-popular song.
Good luck to all the contestants! ^__^
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