Mariah Carey - From Smooth To Fragmented Vocals - Emotions
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- Опубликовано: 24 июл 2024
- In this video, I break down Mariah Carey's style of performing emotions through the years 1991 - 2019, the legato and staccato, and all those good flavors!
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When Mariah Carey introduces staccato, legato, falsetto, headtone, chesttone, and whistle register on her every tour.. she also taught a lot of singers to be confident in dodging risky notes if needed.
That moment when you realise that she has sung the hardest song in her discography on almost every tour
It's not the hardest for her. There are harder songs.
Butterfly? Forever?
During the Mariah Carey, Emotions, Music Box eras.. she sang her songs live and made it sound more difficult on every tour. In her Daydream era, her voice started to become mature.. she had more control over her vocal agility.
@@vg6761 if Butterfly and My All were recorded on one of the earlier album, it could've been as difficult as other songs like If It's Over, I Don't Wanna Cry.. and she would probably sing it live with so much growl... 'Forever' is hard for her to sing as it is.. she recorded it so smoothly and it's hard to replicate the smoothness and exhausting riffs and runs at the end part of the song..
This song (like FOREVER) is a bitch and was made possible only for her. Only she can use what He gives her (BREATH CONTROL) how she does. Her GOD rocks and is holding this song’s piano player tightly💔💔🤎🤎
Up to 1996 and somehow 1998, the stacatto singing was a stylistic choice. Past these years, it became an adaptation to the unhealthy state of her voice.
I would add that up to 1998 it was a stylistic choice, onwards it was a necessity in order for this song to be performed decently
I'm thinking of mariah Make it happen live 8 'finally found mah WaYayeh-eh-eh-eh-eh-yeah-yuhyuhyuh 🥴🤣
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was it stylistic or was it an adaption to her changing voice? with her nodules, it takes less effort to sing staccato, especially due to her nodules, she doesn’t have a lot of vocal stamina, which only decreased with age.
Also she grew with age you sing like this you. have to train your voice it doesn’t happen overnight also a lot of other things can add to it. Look at Celine ruin prime example stunning range and great voice now she’s resting herself her body if you don’t take care of your gift or talent you can loose let’s face it 00s she was finally free from things but she never recovered herself.my family is my aunts where singers but not string singers and as they aged their voices to need training it’s all about taking care of yourself even Christina Aguilera has the range she’s 40 she’s got talent her voice never struggles and it shows she takes care of it and herself
The stacatto singing is a choice due to her impossibility to maintain a stable tone or note without her voice cracking or going into a rasp. At some point, her nodules which were responsible for her unique and beautiful sound but I do think as time went by, they became her worst enemy.
Honestly, 2017-2019's tone was really good- very creative as well.
I really love how basically her technique is always present, but like what happened in 1998, a lot of her abilities are harder to access and use
Her nodules were greatly responsible in giving Mariah an insane, practically non-human, vocal ability but as she's aged the nodules (mixed with obvious vocal damage, etc.) have been more of a problem for her and far less of a blessing. Either way, I will continue to listen to her sing in "present day" (as the years go by and she continues to sing live) for the rest of her life no matter what she sounds like because, hello, this is THE Mariah Carey, and I've been a huge fan ever since I watched her live debut in real time on Arsenio when I was still a kid. So, vocal damage and declination or not, there's nothing that could make me stop enjoying her voice. Thankfully, quarantine did wonders for her and even her confidence has started to go back up and I'm looking forward to what this new era will bring.
nodules were never a blessing they were always a problem… even whistle register can be achieved without nodules… nodules only give you unintentional rasp, but Mariah could do it on purpose, she never needed nodules
The stacatto like singing doesn't feel as weird in Emotions tbh, because the song is quite fast paced and it lends itself to experiment with this type of phrasing. It bothers me more at the end of Vision of Love, for example, where it completely breaks the climax imo. Still admirable that she manages to perform at this level with her nodules, and it's only a real issue in her belting range (and not every time), her lows, falsetto and whistle are very well preserved.
I guess that's the point of writng and performing your own songs live... you get to sing them however the hell you want even when your not feeling it. impressive voice condition after singing so much for so many decades! ❤
Funny thing, I do like her the thinner husky whiskey tones she has now. It sounds great on her albums, and I'm sure as she ages, her voice will continue to evolve in new and interesting ways. But watching this really reinforces why I vastly prefer watching performances from her prime years over anything live now. Her voice was fuller and she connected rather than dodged notes. She wasn't forcing or straining her voice, and the happiness of the song came through in singing itself, not just the lyrics ("empty" is such an apt and useful term for live stuff now). I know this song is tough to sing, but the parts where does it in her lower register (or that famous prime performance of hers where she sings it with an obvious and merciliess cold) prove this song could be lowered and still be just fine. I don't understand why she doesn't just do that instead. (I also wish she would hire a Broadway opera vocal coach to help her maintain the voice she has, rather than obviously strain herself.) And please make more song/vocal evolutions if you feel inspired! These are very informative in the best ways.
I'll never ever understand in my life how she doesn't have a vocal coach like the singing athlete she should be. Even in the recent documentary in the part where she talks about her voice she just says: "My mum was an opera singer, very disciplined, doing all of these exercises from bottom to top...and I just rest and use humidifiers" 🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲🥲 Thats like going to the gym to do proper workouts VS having walks from time to time, voice is made of muscles after all.
Not me wanting a new version of emotions with her current vocals, what she did with we belong together (Mimi's Late Night Valentine's Mix) is just 🔥🔥🔥
6:50 is probs her best sounding Emotions whistle ever tbh
One of the best made videos on an aspect of her voice usually only talked about in comments sections.
Admittedly I didn’t know this was a problem as early as Butterfly era (it was a thing during Daydream and Music Box but it seemed more tasteful).
I also agree with the Rainbow era being the last era where the song felt natural. It was almost as if Mariah was still in her prime even though her voice just wasn’t.
Edit: sorry for the ranty comment.
No, don’t be sorry! That’s what I’m looking for, people expressing their opinions and I thank you for watching ❤️
@@TheQueenOfLambily I listened to Mariah from her 1st album in 1990 vision of love.
In 1997 on butterfly because I had listened to her voice continuously almost daily for 7 years I heard very microscopic changes to her voice particularly on the song butterfly.
It was like hairline fractures. I also noticed every album after that the deterioration seemed to be a little bit more profound until it evolved to where we have arrived today with the demonstrations that you have in this video.
I really did listen to her incessantly so that's why I was able to detect such small vocal changes as early as 1997.
I like 11:12 how she sang that verse in 2017, was a very natural sounding adjustment to make, her voice sounded very comfortable singing it that way
I LOVE MARIAH VIDEOS LONGER THAN 10 MINUTES
Wheew I didn't notice this was 13 minutes long I watched everything!
You should've used Beacon Theatre 2014 and 2015, to prove that the usual problem with Mariah is, pretty much, lack of rest.
idk what the problem with her voice is because her voice starts to crack if she tries do use vibrato or do runs
@@cynixie8862 because she doesn’t have good breath support so she uses her throat to sustain notes, where it’s really hard to use vibrato from.
@@Solo-vh9fm can't she get her support back?
@@cynixie8862 of course she can. but she’s never been a technical singer, contrary to popular knowledge, it’s just the way she naturally sang produced this lovely resonant, sometimes buttery, sometimes gritty sound but from a health pov, it’s not a healthy way to sing and she didn’t always place her sound right and that can blow your voice out. The problem is she still tries to sing this way up to now so her condition gets poorer and she has less stamina to push air out properly.
If she got a vocal coach to teach her to sing with her vocal health in mind and with a bit more diaphragm action she probably could get that support back.
I think the only era she’s ever tried to sing more technical is Charmbracelet but as you will notice there’s not a lot vibrato or running in her vocals which is a sign that her approach in that era was not developed.
@One Mariah can say what she wants, but just like her age, technique is another thing she's not the most truthful. Nodules affected the timbre and range of the sound, it does not give you asthma. She shouldn't be having difficulty singing the first verse of A No No or the chorus of Shake It Off (and before you point out the songs being too far, she had sung the latter before when it first came out). She clearly has had poor phrasing for a long time (discomfort sustaining notes, chopping lines containing mid to low-mid belts up, getting out of breath at speaking range) and I can give you countless examples at least post-2004. Another symptom of bad breath support is how she had to switch a nasal style in 2018 when she clearly has a much darker voice as shown in 2017 (which if we're being honest her sustained notes were shouty) and prior. If you want to blame nodules, fine, but then ask yourself why has the situation with nodules changed, because nodules don't just naturally flare up and down, they're a vocal injury.
Also, resonance is heavily overused term, let's use the word open. If Mariah's learned to sing like that through vocal training (spoilers she wasn't and she even said her mother discouraged her from singing in certain ways) Plenty of singers have naturally open voices, Barbra Streisand being the most famous of examples.
For starters, the song is almost impossibly difficult to sing. It’s all about breath support more than style of singing but you are correct, in her later years she typically sings the 90s material in broken phrases. Breath support is almost nonexistent. Good breath support is how you get a connected sound and fluidity, which again is especially hard to do in a song like Emotions given it’s tempo, runs and overall technicalities.
The original performances in emotions era are refreshing and vibrant, everything is connected and sung fully. I appreciated her for keeping the integrity of the song here. 93-96 it’s more staccato and it breaks the original style but I think it was a genius adaption to the song. In a way I feel like it allows it more space and a makes the song more dancy while still honoring the original. Now after this period I feel like it got more and more fragmented over the years as her voice declined. The spacing became a more of a crux rather than just stylization like the years prior
I wish she would get her nodules removed. I know it’s somewhat of a risk but the surgeries have come a long way, and the odds are very good for her. Even if she lost her whistles, I would take a strong belt over the whistles anyway. We’ve had plenty of whistles over the years.
I love fans who are not afraid to show the struggles of their idols. So much respect. I love your videos. Keep it up.
I personally love 2014 Mariah. Her voice sounds rude angel hahaha 😂❤
2016 is missing 😭 the E5s that year was amazing
I think that was on purpose, since showing how vocals changed over a course of a few years instead of 1-2 shows more of a difference
She also lowered the key which makes it easier to hit the notes and runs. I totally get why she would though. This song is a vocal routine.
Rainbow getting the recognition that she deserves, she slayed that pitchy era, and is now found wigless
Watching the video end on a positive note really made me smile. Hearing that 98’ Mariah come through toward the end made my day
I am in love with this concept!!!
so insightful!
I love these types of analytical videos you make!!
Great analysis ❤️❤️😍
I just hope she’ll lower the keys to all of her songs now that she’s gotten older. Her songs are all very vocally demanding that I think it’s impossible for one to sing it regularly without not having to sing on the very edge of your belting range. I’m sure she still got it. She doesn’t need to prove anyone anything anymore. We’ve witnessed her grace the music industry over the past 3 decades and that’s more than enough. I love her!!
It’s incredible that she sang the hardest pop song ever on almost every tour!!
wait this video is so informative and overall phenomenal! nice job and and loved your insight and commentary!
thank you!
mariah carey's voice should have never aged
How to flawlessly strain your voice and then teach u techniques to flawlessly cover those tracks ugh Queen 👸 💖 😍 ✨
Could you make a similar video except with make it happen? I feel like that's another song where a loss if fluidity (but also showcases her musicality) is shown!
I think the general fluidity of runs ect went down as she got into her mid 20s but ye especially make it happen
Ever since mariah started her solo singing career her range has always varied and she has for the most part anyway adapted the melody to suit it. If thats not a songbird supreme I don't know what is.
My favorite were the beginning of the butterfly tour, rainbow (for tone), and 1993 for ease and power
I would love to see this done with VOL through the years as well!
Yeah, I’m thinking of doing this with VOL, Make It Happen and maybe Dreamlover
@@TheQueenOfLambily Those would be great to see! Especially VOL and MIH
Even when Maria has nodules, and her voice is tired or when she is sick, she goes through all the singers together, don't get confused..
When her voice is clear, it's just not human!!!
And that's what everyone got used to, but all the singers wanted, talent, a special voice, performance and songwriting, half of what Mariah has at her worst time!!!!!
Even when Maria has polyps and her voice is tired or when she is sick, she goes through all the singers together, don't get confused..
When her voice is clear, it's just not human!!!
And that's what everyone got used to, but all the singers wanted, talent, a special voice, performance and songwriting, half of what Mariah has at her worst time!!!!!
the Queen❤❤👑👑
I liked how she threw the mic at 12:57 like yassss queen is vibin.
Best live song
1 she began to lip a lot on those whistles, so it was not getting better whistles, cuz it’s fake; 2 The gold was that in Daydream era, she created that amazing riffs with that sexy and signature vocal break, and that riff was fast and powerful yet unique ( never seen any other artist can do that riff like her tho ), she didn’t have that back in 93 and before.
More Emotions, Lindaaaa ❤️🌟🌟
My God, you HAD to pick Emotions didn't you? This song is the Vocal Grim Reaper, I can accept Mariah singing it any way she wants she has nothing left to prove really. I know I am missing the point so let me come back to it. Her voice, like everyone's really, evolved and she adapted, sometimes with good results sometimes with bad ones. I really wouldn't mind a new Emotions version that is better suited to her current voice, huskier and less belty/less showy so maybe us one octave folks can follow along lol.
Mariah Carey is will always be a phenomena/phenomenon.
Desde desse ano de 1990 q começou a minha paixão por VC MARIAH CAREY onde sonho imensamente em conhecer vc aqui no Brasil SP litoral sul vem amo tem muita gente que tem esse sonho em lhe conhecer
6:18 Didn't expect to hear a news clip of Taiwan that's probably older than me. I'm Taiwanese tho. Anyway, great video!
That's from tokyo night1 tho we have like 65% of emotions audio
@@musicboxerathankyoufor100s2 It is from Tokyo but the audio is in chinese, I hope that's what you meant lol
It might have to do with her switch her vocal placement from predominantly chest to predominantly nose/mask. Singers like Phyllis Hyman and Ella Fitzgerald are more inclined to use staccato runs and scats with their nose/mask placement while singers like Anita Baker and Toni Braxton use more legato due to their vocal placement being predominant chest based. If you ever want to learn more, check out Black Music Archive. They have videos on this specific topic. 💛
Her staccato style through the years is because it's vocally more easy for her. But mannn, thus song is f&$%ing difficult. Now do this kind of video with VISION OF LOVE pleaseee
Yeah i can do this type of video with Make it Happen, Vision Of Love depends if you guys like this one a lot
@@TheQueenOfLambily YEAHHHH WE LOVE ITTT, Please do it 🙏🙏
Will she perform emotions 2022
The video: basically describes 2016 and 2018-2019 as a whole in all honesty. And I’m kinda glad people are realizing her choppy notes during those years
I think theres only one performance of Emotions from 2016 where she sings with more legatto.
This is what happens when you put a lot of whistles in every song people will be expecting her to be able to do it. Not to mention she never dropped her keys down so she is not competing with her 21 yr old self. Whitney learned to drop her song down at least by a 1/4 of a note and it puts less strain on the voice. I could see her struggling on a few of her performances, like she was getting voice paralysis from singing in a key too high, when her voice is tired and trying to belt while singing in a high key will definitely do it! She should have made her mic a little louder so she didn't have to belt!
❤️🎤 Sing Mariah 🎤❤️
I really like Mariah Carey but I feel like through the years, she didn't try to learn some new techniques while she's having her nodules. Maybe due to being busy since she's a very popular singer. But I feel like if she learned different techniques, her voice will have no bounds.
Legend
Late 90s early 2000s was Mariah’s whistle peak in terms of ability and creativity. “Unparalleled”
Queen of dynamics
That is one thing she never really had amongst her many gifts, she was poor dynamically
You can't get forte or fortissimo airy voice tho....thats mean controlled airy voice ≠ good dynamics control
I missed videos like this🥺hot tamale
Taiwan lamb here. Surprised to see a clip from Taiwan news coverage. Xoxo
Emotions is very belty song. Almost all the verses are in midbelts and the studio version is difficult to religiously follow in a live performance since there'd be no time to actually swallow and breathe in verses. Queen!
7:26 *why am i still getting hate*🥰🥰🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪🔪💣💣💣💣
Beacuse your undubbed vocals are 😬.....
2019 😍😍
You should’ve used the Dubai performance 2020 or something it’s so good
All eras from 1992,1993 & 1998 onwards Ended that DUBIOUS Mid-90s Era
Nice video but to some people: You guys the woman is 50 now... give her a break 😂😂😂 Even Celine (who took care of her voice so well!) has been lipping for the past 5 years. People get older...that's that. Also at the 1996 Tokyo dome performance hahahaha, she could have easily connected the "so" but after singing the same song 1000 times and considering the set list....she was probs like "let's just so-oh-oh" it 😂😂😂
Please do this for vision of love Queen of lambliy! Can you explain different belts between 1990 and present! Nd da staccatos and legatos?
okay but how could you forget about the cwt European leg version and the whistle adlibs 😩😩😩😩
I guess that's what nodules, decades of vocal gymnastics and ageing sound like. Maybe that's why she struggles supporting full phrases in recent years. But it could've been a lot worse...
this has been probably the biggest issue with her voice, just a lack of fluidity in general; it’s obviously only got worse with time
6:50 yes, it is lowered studio version ofc its better!!
You didn’t mention that in 1993 she started dropping the key down
I think in her vocal condition now, her phrasing and cadence should be more focused on "rhythmic" flow or rap like patterns in the melodies in Caution just adding subtle runs
The voice as sounds extremely beautiful and angelic
Can you do Vision of Love next? Many phrases in VOL are becoming disconnected now.
Yesss! I want to see Vision of Love with this video context too, it's annoying when she chops phrases in Vision of Love.
@@imthatchickyoulike98 Right? It doesn't work with songs like VOL that she herself has signed off with incredible connected runs and riffs. I was thinking how her concerts would have sounded if most of her number one songs were in the format of VOL.
It might’ve been a stylistic choice but to the average person who doesn't analyze voices like us lambs too the staccato she briefly started adding in 93 and then starting heavily implementing in 96 doesn't sound as healthy or natural. Anytime I've shown Mariah clips to friends or family that don't overanalyze the voice like us lambs they thought she started losing her voice in 96 because of the different techniques she started using.
Then I think after 96 she couldn't help but add staccato and breaks because of her nodules...
Mariah never performed Emotions in 2009 her earliest performance was 1 January and Atlantic City is 2 January so
I looked on google that her first performance of The tour was on 31st of December 2009, but yeah I guess you’re right
@@TheQueenOfLambily I’m sorry if I’m rude and I love you but if you know that concert you know that after Auld Lang Syne it was 2010 and Mariah performed Emotions almost as the last song❤️🤓
@@thelambilychannel8812 ooooh that makes sense, well 2009 is close to 2010 so at least there’s that 😂
@@TheQueenOfLambily yeah you’re right
Im wish she sang emotions 95 msg she would have killlllllllllled it!!!
6:49 that Bb6 was lipped, rite?
it sounds exactly the same as the studio version C7.
yes
2000 was her best emotions year bc it wasnt too fluid to where it wasnt pleasing and her tone and reasonance were both very good and balaced. I also liked 2017 the best of the 2010s because it was very resonant and consistant compared to the other 2010s
As she’s done emotions now we can def say emotions in 2022 was not an improvement from 2019 as you thought it’d be 🫤
10:14 was well controlled
i think its just a personality change tbh, a vocal evolution
Is a decline and a personality change too. I mean, she can find ways to move her voice even tho it actually resists to the agility in form of rasp.
Examples: her quarantine performances, where she actually sings in a more legato style instead of doing staccato, but her voice shows resistance to the agility, and that’s mostly bc her voice is thicker now.
IMO, she should find ways to move her voice with slower runs, and changing the arrangement of her songs to slower ones, the whole 2010’s decade is a proof of her voice sounding better in slow arrangements.
You miss Singapore 2018
She has always loved to sing while walking, so won't this affect the control of her breath ?
Yes but sometimes singers use their whole body to support a difficult note, and engage all of their muscles in order to get the right sound
Beacon theatre 2015 had such amazing performances of emotions ,the belts were a little "tight" but still she was giving 🔥 ruclips.net/video/Gk9yyJozRfY/видео.html
From 1996 to 2022 Mariah Carey she one of the best chosen female legendary 🎤🎶🎵🎼🎸 artist around the world 🌍 with vocal talent she always been the #1 on billboard charts hot 🔥 100
Did you slow down some part of the video ?
WHATS THE SONG YOU USE IN YOUR INTROS PLEASEEE I NEEEED IT
It's emotions
@@Dz-gw9dy no, the usual intros like the one where it says queen of lambily
Hi, it’s called “Underneath The Stars”
@@TheQueenOfLambily THANK YOU SO MUCHHHHH AAAAAAA
@@ghafar4383 yesss ❤️❤️
4:46 she still had the daydream tone in 1998 or my ears are just broken
You’re right! Just as in 1995-1996 there were some moments where merry Christmas era tone was present , so does 1997-1998 have Daydream influences sometimes
Not the RWT whistle being lipped
Mariah doesn't need haters, she just has her fanbase
2017 sounded much more easy and fluid than 2014 and 2010😊
Where’s ssft 🥺
Only thing tommy did right for mariah was limit her touring. Sony knew what and how priceless her voice is. The more she toured the more strain she put on her chords and nodules. If yall remember pre butterfly she was only doing 6 to 7 concerts a year. The she came out running with butterfly and thus began the damage to those pipes. But they are still magical and beautiful and makes my hair stand at attention. But guys she's been doing this for over 30 yrs now. There's bound to be damage from where she never slept. She is still an icon and she is the moment.
I'm really not a fan of her fragmented/staccato vocals. She started doing this noticeably to adapt to her voice decline around 98/99. I wish she would have stuck to a more connected/fluid singing style even past the 90s.
How could she if her voice wasn’t in the best shape to do so?
So Beyoncé is the only singer that sounds exactly how she started her career.
Beyonce does not sound the same luv
For those who say Mariah still keeps her voice quality, well, this video proves wrong. Unfortunately, she had vocal injury early in her career due to nodules. I don't blame her for not getting them removed. It must be a very tough decision for a singer to make. But let's be real, Can Mariah sing? Yes, of course! Can she still sing well? Not so much anymore. I still love her though.
You said “better whistle” than daydream for the rainbow performance, but it was lipped. Just a lowered whistle from the original track. Just wanted to point that out.
Oh I just noticed that, sad 🥲
@@TheQueenOfLambily no one is perfect, your content is still A+ :). I think rainbow was when she realized her whistles weren’t as reliable. Still an incredible vocalist though.
4:20 vs 4:24 why is her voice pitched so high in daydream? Wtf
That was her girly tone
It was through high larynx
Lighter placement