Sopranos meets Batman!

I can see Tony Soprano trying to buy one of those.

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That was cool, but....

surely this is only funny if you've watched the sopranos? I really hope most of Sesame Streets audience haven't!

Apparently, when the composer showed the sheet music to the soprano that performed the piece, she said that some of the notes written were not humanly possible to achieve because the human voice cannot change notes that fast.

Have a listen to the insane scale she sings around 4:18 and compare that to the same scale at 4:32 in the video @Sagemind linked.... to my untrained ear, they're not quite the same. The Fifth Element version sounds like it drops an octave in the middle.

I could be wrong about that, though.

Either way, it takes nothing away from what is an absolutely amazing performance.

Never saw the Sopranos, but that was excellent.

When composer Eric Serra showed soprano Inva Mula (who dubs the voice of the Diva) the sheet music for the Diva Dance, she reportedly smiled and relayed to him that some of the notes written were not humanly possible to achieve because the human voice cannot change notes that fast. Hence, she performed the notes in isolation - one by one, as opposed to consecutively singing them all together and they digitized the notes to fit the music. There are a few moments when you can hear the differences in the vocal tones of The Diva's voice.

/imdb

He's right y'know...This is four gals harmonizing, far from barbershop. Female vocal ranges (with maybe the rarest of exceptions to be found on the planet) are soprano, mezzo-soprano, and contralto.

@chingalera, I have an extensive range. I can sing contralto to coloratura soprano. Maybe I'll record an aria or something operatic for something different! I'm not sure how well my phone will record that..

Uh... Every pack needs a soprano?

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very Coltranesque~has that soprano sax kind of register~very cool

>> ^ant:

http://videosift.com/video/The-Simpsons-Sopranos is better.


That's because it was made by professionals, this was made by amateurs

http://videosift.com/video/The-Simpsons-Sopranos is better.

Nah. This is a good try, but it doesn't quite work.

If you cast yourself as a victim, then it isn't funny.

Try again?

>> ^Shepppard:

>> ^bareboards2:
I know how to settle this whole rape thing.
Let's start making castration jokes. The male equivalent of being raped -- something violent and horrific and something devotedly to be avoided, but it will be a joke! It'll be funny!
We can start a trend, here on the Sift.
It would have to be worded well -- I am not clever that way.
We have lots of clever folks with words here -- can someone come up with a catch phrase that involves castration? That is funny? Oh, and it has to be clear that a woman will be doing the castrating, from a powerful position. Something Lorena Bobbitt-esque.
Once we can get on an equal playing field in terms of jokes about sexual violence, then maybe @tsquire1 and others (like, me) won't get so upset about casual references towards sexual violence towards women.
That's the real problem, isn't it? The one way street of "jokes"? Let's empower women with the funny idea that any given night, they might snap and cut off the penis of the man lying in bed next to them, sound asleep.
Then we can all laugh together.
Works for me.

I used to be able to tell rape jokes, but then someone took my balls away. I used to find rape jokes funny, but then my balls got taken away. I used to be able to laugh about castration jokes, but now I just sing soprano!
I used to find all jokes funny, but since my balls got taken away, I just sit on the internet all day telling people what's funny