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Subject: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 12th March 2012, 02:14
Hello!(=
When I criticize people, I am not afraid to unleash the mean side of me. Therefore, if you're not prepared to be judged harshly and coldly, please don't submit a cover. I don't want anyone to get their feelings hurt because of me!
My short Music Understanding!
I've been singing in my school choir for 3 years now. I took piano lessons when I was 6 and stopped when I was 8 because of money problems. I have little understanding in instruments, almost none. However, I can totally tell when you're off pitch and time. So, that's my short music history!
Requirements for My Critique!
- Solo and duet covers only! No collaborations of any sort at all! - No mediafire or 4shared links, only Youtube and Box! - Maximum of 2 links per post for each person! - Only Chinese, Korean, and English covers! (I won't be able to criticize pronunciation for Korean, sorry!)
Rating Type!
- 0% to 100% - 1 to 10 - 1 to 5 - Horrible/Bad/Average/Good/Excellent/Perfect
Critic Form!
Song : Artist : Language : Link : Rating Type :
Song Challenges!
Korean
Spoiler:
Good Day - IU How Great Is Your Love - SNSD Bubble Pop - Hyuna Oops - Super Junior Love me boy - MBLAQ
Chinese
Spoiler:
独占神话 - Jolin Tsai 蔡依林 我不难过 - Stefanie Sun 孙燕姿 最初的梦想 - Christine Fan 范玮琪 我们的纪念日 - Christine Fan 范玮琪 如果这都不算爱- Jacky Cheung 张学友
English
Spoiler:
Mr. Know It all - Kelly Clarkson Hurt - Christina Aguilera Mannequin - Britney Spears
<3 Thanks to be very hard with me. I want to cry =))
PiggyMelody Retired
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 13th March 2012, 01:03
@AnihJourney Won't Back Down - Tom Petty : You know this is a perfect cover, Anih. Why do you still need critique...? (x I've replayed this video 4-5 times looking for something to judge you about. Found nothing, really. Anyway, some of your words are not very clear. If I wasn't looking at the lyrics, I wouldn't be able to understand what you were singing. 0:54 - 0:57 ; that line sounds like you're closing your mouth and singing. It looks like you're very stiff o_O probably because of the way you're positioned + holding the guitar. Usually, that would affect the way you're singing, but it looks to me like it's not bothering you, heh. At some parts, it feels like you're using too much stress because it is very obvious that after you finished, your body totally relaxed. RELAX ANIH! Rating : 90%
When I say nothing at all - Ronan Keating 2:03 - 2:05 : Like the 'Won't Back Down' video, your mouth is 'closed', the words coming out aren't clear enough. Some of the pitches aren't reach EXACTLY correct, maybe 10% off pitch. Just that one little part doesn't match to the guitar tune. Which is pretty amazing how you can reach perfect pitch~ I really can't say much about this, it's like perfect. I really love the way you take in breaths in between. ^^ Rating : 85%
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AnihJourney LTS Firefly
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 13th March 2012, 01:18
@PiggyMelody
I wanted to cry and shout on my family =) But you're so nice that my cheeks ache because I'm so smiling =) You're so nice, that's why I am loving you so much. Won't back down : 0:54 to 0:57 =» I really hear the right lyrics.. maybe because I know them =) But often I say «Hey ey ey» instead of «Hey ey I» =) I recorded many times before, because of lyrics, or the guitar =) o.O I listened again 0:54 to 0:57... yes I don't hear the «out» =) it's like «aww» =) OMG I'm listening the rest of the song and other words are eaten too =) When you say nothing at all : you're right, I compeltely don't understand what word could it be =) So next time, I need a french accent more present to enunciate all the letters =)
Shiori Rainbow
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 13th March 2012, 01:31
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 13th March 2012, 02:19
@Shiori 我们就到这 - Fish Leong : 0:26 ; 1:16 - very very obvious wrong notes It sounds like you're holding your voice in most of the time. I can feel your emotion when singing, it's really beautiful and I think that this type of song needs emotion to be shown. However, sometimes I think that you are trying TOO hard to display the emotion. From my perspective, you are displaying emotion by stressing on some of the words and changing volume. You are using too much stress, more stress than needed. That causes the opposite effect instead of showing emotion. However, The changing volume trick is done wonderfully. ;) Pronunciation is sometimes off, but not a very big problem. Rating : 82% Keep Practicing! This is a very nice score!
如果的事 - 范玮琪,张韶涵 : 1:07 ; 1:12 ; 1:33 = wrong notes Only 1 out of the 4 high notes were sung on pitch. (Or as I heard) -Too Much stress -Not breathing enough But, I can clearly hear that your pronunciation is this one is better than the Fish cover above. The emotion is expressed nicely, not overdone. ^^ Rating : 79% Most of your points are deducted because of pitch problems.
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AnihJourney LTS Firefly
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 24th March 2012, 05:45
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 25th March 2012, 20:41
@Anih Listen to your heart - DHT / Roxette : Woot! awesome cover. (: some words aren't very clear and are "grouped together" . just a little pronunciation problem, you'll get over it by singing more english songs. But as I listen to more and more of your english covers, i find that this "problem" becomes "your style". So I guess that this is a good thing now that you have your own style of singing english songs but sometimes it would be better to be clearer. I love your high notes 2:00 ! <3 I like your "Mhm" at 3:56 ! It's so good and not overdone. :D Rating : 98%
Price Tag - Jessie J your english singing style! Some parts are slightly off pitch . & words unclear like 1:38/1:39. When you started off, it sounded like you were cracking or not ready. I like your "woah"s at the end. ^^ great job ~ Rating : 90%
Rie LTS Snowflake
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 25th March 2012, 22:53
Song : UFO and Diamond Artist :Stellar and SNSD Language : Korean Link :
Rating Type : 0% - 100%
PiggyMelody Retired
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 25th March 2012, 23:44
@Rie UFO - Stellar : You mixed this very well :D Some of the long notes end abruptly and not held to the max. Other than that, it's a very good cover. ^^ I love 2:48 to 2:59 ! I love how you change the style a little for each member. ~ Rating : 93%
Diamond - SNSD : The mixing is slightly off. I like the emotion that you put into this cover! You can totally feel it. ^^ It sounds like you cracked a little at 1:47. The bridge is so awesome!!!! You ended really goodly, emphasizing each syllable/letter/word. :D Rating : 90%
Rie LTS Snowflake
Number of posts : 352 Age : 29 Location : Indonesia Registration date : 2011-11-11
Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 26th March 2012, 00:19
PiggyMelody wrote:
@Rie UFO - Stellar : You mixed this very well :D Some of the long notes end abruptly and not held to the max. Other than that, it's a very good cover. ^^ I love 2:48 to 2:59 ! I love how you change the style a little for each member. ~ Rating : 93%
Diamond - SNSD : The mixing is slightly off. I like the emotion that you put into this cover! You can totally feel it. ^^ It sounds like you cracked a little at 1:47. The bridge is so awesome!!!! You ended really goodly, emphasizing each syllable/letter/word. :D Rating : 90%
Thanks for the critic!! :3 and thanks for the bacon..lol xD
AnihJourney LTS Firefly
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 11th May 2012, 03:37
Song : Summer Medley 2011 Artist : Sam Tsui Language : English Link : Rating : % :D
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jiroSHExfilesTATU LTS Firefly
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 11th May 2012, 07:35
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 21st June 2012, 00:30
Song : Because I'm a Woman Artist : IU Language : Korean Link : see video in siggy XD Rating Type : percentage
PiggyMelody Retired
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 21st June 2012, 01:15
GUYS !! Can't you see the title ??? IT'S CLOSED!!
Anyways, I'll get it to all of you latest in August ^~^ & for future ones, it's closed for now ~ Sorry ~ D:
PiggyMelody Retired
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 21st June 2012, 05:23
@Anih Summer Medley 2011 : First off, I have to say that you sang really well ^^ Didn't find much pitch problems, as you're always on pitch anyways :DD Next, I think you should've chosen something more '2012' , as this is the 2011 hit songs .. ^^ just my opinion .. maybe you could've created your own playlist ~ just some suggestions straight from the heart... since this is the 2011 medley, it would've been more popular if you covered this last year ~
Your english pronunciation in here is awesome! I can actually understand it, haha. Better than those english you showed me before ~ ^^ Great job on improvement! I still hear some stuttering here and there .. but it's good enough. ^^
I think you should've put more emotion (as in enthusiasm) in here .. kinda bored me out in the middle \: If I didn't have to critique this, I wouldn't have listened to the end .. Also, you should put 'more of your own style' ~ Overall, awesome job ! :D
Rating : 94 %
PiggyMelody Retired
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 21st June 2012, 05:38
@Erin Hello To Myself - Yenny thank god I watched Dream High 2 so I know how the song sounds like, lol. I hate criticizing songs I never even heard of. x) especially korean ... Anyways, really good singing!! it just sounded like your voice 'cracked' or 'went out' at some points... i guess, you could call it 'strained'. but I think it's a personal style .. if you don't do it too much. ~ kind of like Hyorin's personal singing style .. You're one of those naturally GIFTED/TALENTED singers .. like Jasmine & Anih .. really unfair to others like me >//< LOOL Nothing bad I can really say about this .. Mixing ? a little off at one point .. ^^ Acapella would've shown the judges your true talent :D
Anyways, great job ~
Rating : 97%
jiroSHExfilesTATU LTS Firefly
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 21st June 2012, 12:09
PiggyMelody wrote:
@Erin Hello To Myself - Yenny thank god I watched Dream High 2 so I know how the song sounds like, lol. I hate criticizing songs I never even heard of. x) especially korean ... Anyways, really good singing!! it just sounded like your voice 'cracked' or 'went out' at some points... i guess, you could call it 'strained'. but I think it's a personal style .. if you don't do it too much. ~ kind of like Hyorin's personal singing style .. You're one of those naturally GIFTED/TALENTED singers .. like Jasmine & Anih .. really unfair to others like me >//< LOOL Nothing bad I can really say about this .. Mixing ? a little off at one point .. ^^ Acapella would've shown the judges your true talent :D
Anyways, great job ~
Rating : 97%
omo! thanks, melody! you can be a good singer, too... we just don't know how to correctly train ourselves.. T_T i think the mixed one could have hidden my flaws, just like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWhfHzxmwpk they mixed it for me ... kekeke....
PiggyMelody Retired
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 21st June 2012, 15:28
@Jasmine : Twinkle - TTS
Wow, here comes the queen of perfection .. why even bother to step here? you're all perfect already
VERY NICE adlibs ~ nice emotion .. some "yeah~" aren't really 到位 . not enough Feel yet. Mixing is average, maybe too many effects?
Awesome Job! Rating : 98%
PiggyMelody Retired
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 7th July 2012, 06:36
@Shiori : Because I'm A women - IU First of all, love the emotion :)) I like the low notes .. but high notes - not so much .. your high notes are very shaky Lots of off pitch problems .. Sometimes, you breath at wrong times & that cuts off the singing .. If that happens the first time you record, just record a second time & take a more deeper breath ~ Also, some weird transitions from low to high notes .. but i love the emotion & the low notes ! Good job ~
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 7th July 2012, 13:21
Number of posts : 684 Age : 27 Location : Hong Kong Registration date : 2011-11-17
Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 11th August 2012, 03:37
Song : 忘了 Artist : Rainie Yang Language : Mandarin Link : Rating Type : 0 to 100%
Thanks :DDD
cloudymelody LTS Firefly
Number of posts : 911 Age : 27 Location : Singapore Registration date : 2012-05-01
Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 15th August 2012, 10:59
Song: Who You Are To Me Artist: Hyorin Language: Korean
PiggyMelody Retired
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 21st August 2012, 20:15
@Shiori : My Immortal - Evanescence
good start, 0:29 - 0:39 = awesome! love the emotion "time cannot erase" sounds a little weird, scooped too much - 1st chorus "all of these years" weird, and a little off tune - 1st chorus good job on "All of me" @ 1:18 nice 2nd verse the "time cannot erase" is better "held your hand" sounds weird, scooped/off tune - 2nd chorus the bridge is bad i like the last "all of me" in the last chorus. but all your choruses seem to sound the same, maybe improvise a little to give it all a different touch (: overall, the emotion is very nice held together.
Rating : 82% this is one of your better covers ^^
PiggyMelody Retired
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Subject: Re: [CLOSED]Piggy's Critic with Bacon 21st August 2012, 20:35
@ Anih Banmal Song - YongHwa so beautiful *-* didn't catch any wrong notes, i love the 'saranghae' at 1:09! work a little more on the pronunciation.. the singing and guitar is great, work on the visual effect you're giving to your audience.(: Rating : 97%
I know- Irma nice harmonies :) i like the video, haha. work on the pronunciation , some words aren't clearly understood for me. nice harmonies for 1:07 to 1:10, great job! Rating : 98%