{"id":18,"date":"2008-04-17T05:42:00","date_gmt":"2008-04-17T05:42:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2017-08-25T23:53:22","modified_gmt":"2017-08-25T23:53:22","slug":"more-american-idol-thoughts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chrisandjanet.net\/blog\/2008\/04\/17\/more-american-idol-thoughts\/","title":{"rendered":"More American Idol Thoughts"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"DeliberatelySo, I’m watching American Idol&#153 this evening, and I’m looking at Mariah Carey and thinking, “Hey, I used to really like<\/em> Mariah Carey, but it made me think again about my old roommate telling me she had a six or seven octave range…<\/p>\n

\nWell, I can personally produce sounds, some admittedly quite ugly, over what, on a good day, approaches a 5-octave range, from a low note that is about a half-step lower than the guy on Elvis’s “Way on Down” to a note that I can barely whistle, and I can produce any note along that 4.9 octave scale (which is only possible because I found a way to suck the air in<\/b> instead of out<\/b> and cheat-squeak a half-ocave or so beyond my regular fasetto that underlaps my lowest whistle by a note or two. (I do this when I imitate Paul imitating Little Richard, and I’m pretty sure Paul does too.)<\/p>\n

\nWikipedia had a cool page about “whistle-register”, and Mariah has a song on her debut CD called Someday<\/i>, where she definitely sings higher than I thought people could whistle, and higher than I can whistle by close to an octave, but after that, what’s the point? Dog whistles?<\/p>\n

\nAgain, definitely<\/em> not knocking MC – she’s undoubtably one of the greatest singer\/songwriters of our era. I’m just sayin’…<\/p>\n

\nI listened to her first CD again tonight, and I have to say that I think she is probably the most effortless, if not the best, singer of our generation, but I was very disappointed that it seemed obvious to me that she lip-synched her AI performance this evening, and I can’t think of any reason why that would be necessary unless she was sick.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

So, I’m watching American Idol&#153 this evening, and I’m looking at Mariah Carey and thinking, “Hey, I used to really like Mariah Carey, but it made me think again about my old roommate telling me she had a six or seven octave range… Well, I can personally produce sounds, some admittedly quite ugly, over what, … <\/p>\n

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