Imagine how loud his annoying, out of tune little song will have be to be heard over the ... KABOOM! ... never mind

They are vintage instruments, and I don't believe your standard music shop will repair them. Sometimes a little bit of pitcy-ness in vintage instruments is considered charming and nostalgic, hence the popularity of out of tune upright pianos in indy music. Also, overblowing or underblowing can push the instrument sharp or flat. >> ^chingalera:

So...whys the melodica kinna flat???

Vocals and the rest is out of tune...

Hitchens insists on taking other people's view on God and dismissing it, which is fine, but he apparently never went looking for God himself.

I don't think this bothers God any more than an errant wave bothers the sea. There are people far more out of tune than Hitchens.

It is Hitchens' loss, however, not God's, really.

Why has Hitchens relied on others' interpretations of God? He can't prove that God doesn't exist any more than anyone else can prove that God does exist, yet he clings to that notion with a stronger faith than many Christians have.

Iunno, she could have.. practiced singing, maybe.

Makes it kinda difficult to fully appreciate her humor and creativity.

Like listening to expert guitarist play a famous solo with two strings out of tune.



>> ^messenger:

Should she have hired a professional singer and actor to sing her lyrics? She's a smart lyricist and nailed the facial expressions. I enjoyed it.>> ^GenjiKilpatrick:
i wonder, is the tone deaf singing/talking part of the gimmick?

>> ^lurgee:




Similar mood. This is a great performance, save a little out of tune whistling.

From my understanding of autotune (everyone's on the internet's an expert, right?), as this is a single track recording, if someone bent her voice, it would also bend the keyboards, so she'd still be out of tune, and the keyboards would sound wrong to boot. The other possibility is that the video is overdubed from a two-track recording with the vocals autotuned, which I'm also doubtful of, given how close the video matches the audio (still an expert). One thing I'm not an expert in is detecting subtly autotuned songs by ear, so I can't speak to that.

>> ^G-bar:

Don't want to be the bad news guy, but I'm pretty sure there's a bit of Auto tune going on there with the high notes... She does have an amazing voice though...

Horrible song, bass out of tune, generic sounds that makes me think fruityloops 2.0, complete with sustain bass that's not properly cut leaving dissonances... Just awful.

>> ^Jinx:

>> ^probie:
As much as I like the idea behind this, there's something very discordant about the sound they produce. Like its out of tune or something. Wind chimes sound much better to me than this.

I imagine that if you made the bowls the right size you could get them to resonate at the right notes in a scale.


Exactly my thought.
Maybe use different material for the bowls--some glass, some metal.

Yeah,.. some tuned metal bowls might be cool..
>> ^Jinx:

>> ^probie:
As much as I like the idea behind this, there's something very discordant about the sound they produce. Like its out of tune or something. Wind chimes sound much better to me than this.

I imagine that if you made the bowls the right size you could get them to resonate at the right notes in a scale.

>> ^probie:

As much as I like the idea behind this, there's something very discordant about the sound they produce. Like its out of tune or something. Wind chimes sound much better to me than this.

I imagine that if you made the bowls the right size you could get them to resonate at the right notes in a scale.

As much as I like the idea behind this, there's something very discordant about the sound they produce. Like its out of tune or something. Wind chimes sound much better to me than this.

>> ^raverman:
Of course you're welcome to like what ever you like. Liking something doesn't make it quality.
You can like Kesha but it doesn't make it in tune, or masterful music.
You can like Jackass because it makes you laugh but it doesnt make it cinematic excellence.
There are people who have dedicated their lives to mastering the techincal skills or creating quality music. And you don't have to like it... but it doesnt make their life and experience any less valuable.
You look like an idiot for boasting about a basic tertiary education and getting personal and pissy because people are criticizing music you like and is widely popular... but requires computer software to even make it sound in tune.


I am not "boasting" about my life. You are completely missing my point. I actually think my life is fairly mediocre. But the point is that I am a real person, and just because you don't like something doesn't make it any less valid to another human being.

I'm not saying that everybody should like it. I'm saying you are not the arbiter of what is art. It does not require talent, it does not require dedication. Of course these things help the artist express what they want to express, but any idiot off the street can weld two tin cans together and call it art, and you would have no right to say "This isn't art because he isn't talented and dedicated." Art requires only an idea and an effort to make it manifest.

You can say you don't like it. You can say you think it is frivolous. You can say that you don't relate to it on a personal level. You can say you think it is out of tune. But don't say "This isn't art." How arrogant. She could be strumming random chords and chanting nonsense syllables in atonal screeching and it would still be art if that was how she chose to express herself.

Excellence is an opinion. Good or bad is an opinion. Skilled or not is an opinion. Art is whatever the artist says is art. That's not up to you.

By the way, this is also 'Musical art': http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tS-VvIcfSuw

I too am a fairly accomplished musician, and I don't think she was doing that bad on a purely technical basis. Granted, I heard a couple of notes that were a tad out of tune, but nothing extraordinary considering the circumstances. I have heard far worse from Enrique Iglesias.

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>> ^Duckman33:
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>> ^owatadorkiam:
no processing on the vocals....she seems to still hit all the right notes...I'm sorry, but it doesn't sound that bad.

I didn't know the term "tone-deaf" described a real thing...but it does. And you suffer from it.

owatadorkiam is not tone deaf. I'm a vocalist (yes I was paid to do it for a living at one time in my life) and sorry to say I didn't hear any sour notes. Granted she's no virtuoso, but she's not singing off key at all. What I expected to hear was horribly out of tune singing and heard nothing of the sort. And yes, I really wanted to hear her choke.


Uh are you serious? It's not that bad overall, but she definitely falls a tad flat on quite a few notes.


Yes I'm serious. Look I'm not the only one saying she is singing on key. Why is everyone singling me out to question? She didn't sound as bad as I expected, why is it so hard for everyone to understand that?