It was still a bad performance but the autotune is actually what made it sound worse. She had it set to higher tones but kept trying to sing in her natural low pitch so it was “correcting” her to wrong notes. Combined with her weak vocals made it sound horrendous
Agreed! And I also must agree with Georgina when she says that "If you are 60 and you're coming to perform, you better be killin' it! Tina Turner would've killed it". So true. If you are a music legend, like Madonna is, you should make sure your voice is in good shape and you have a killer performance whenever you appear on a big event. It's sad that Madonna thinks this vocal is acceptable...
they REMASTERED (fake) version that Madonna put up on her own youtube channel! Its like she lives in a parallel universe, hilarious. There are short comparison videos on my channel here :D
Come on, Madonna has been out of tune for decades. Is anyone really shocked? She's only attacked because of her political statement on Eurovision. Madonna wants peace between Palestinians and israelis which is passe at this point, and too 1990s.
she definitely can sing live because since this she's done decent vocal performances. not really sure what went wrong here though lol. she was probably just unprepared. i heard the autotune was set to the wrong key but the fact that she was using autotune for a song like Like A Prayer is uhh interesting
Beyond pitch correction. No amount of Autotune could fix this. That's a prerecorded, and still heavily corrected version dubbed over the video. Naughty Madonna.
LOL. How silly that she actually had her team pitch-correct the performance and upload a dubbed video to her channel ;) ...Especially since anyone has access to the Eurovision livestream to see how she really sang.
“It seems like there’s some autotune in there, but she’s still out of tune, so she must’ve been so out of tune that her autotune couldn’t corrected it. Oh... Oh my godness” That whole bit... I died 🤣
She's not wrong, though. The very raw version of this that I heard (a recording someone did inside the venue) was actually even WORSE than this, which was because you could hear less of the microphone effects.
Agreed. And she wasn't prepared. She wanted to sing her new songs of Madame X album. However, Eurovision's production didn't let her do what she wanted to do, because they thought it was so political. She just improvised a "Like a Prayer" performance, and fucked it up.
The voice coach nails the review. I am an early Madonna fan. I always heard she had a huge work ethic but it certainly does not sound like she’s taking care of her vocal cords. She was never Adele but this is not even the standard for Madonna.
@@BenZoet The EU is nothing to do with her awful voice. Britain is about to set up loads of red tape for nothing and add 4% fees for customs declarations on everything. Well done for your sheep mindset.
No matter who the artist is XD obviously it's MADONNA who created music when there was no such thing like autotune correction . She created the best music of the last century among MJ . Therefore She can allow it. I'm not a Madonna fan but everybody who is old enough like the coach should know her career and respect it. You better teach singers who will never get this far but don't judge
It could happen, but it makes me wonder what made it this...rough. I believe it's suppressed to tune to the nearest semi-tone (for example, a note sang between C and C#, but closer to C, would be tuned down to C). So for it to sound THIS bad? She had to be quite a ways off OR like mentioned above, was slightly flat when singing the note and the auto tune tuned it even flatter... She has also used auto tune and vocoders in live performances in the past and did fine there. So I feel that there was something wrong with either the equipment or her voice.
I totally agree!! This was so flat and out of tune. Maybe she was having an off day! But again you were honest and that's what I love! It was a bad performance.
Eddie Trincas Yes, Is say she had a Bad Day b/c of Vocal Issues, That was Painfully Obvious. I agree w/ the vocal coach here.... Sounds like Madonna hasn’t kept up her vocal chops with vocaleese (vocal exercises)... A singer Must Do vocaleese everyday they have a performance, & even when they don’t have a show, they Should Be vocalizing (Even For Just 45-an hour) 5-6 days a week.I know(personally) myself, that I Have to do my vocaleese pretty much daily( except I take 1 or 2days off when Not gigging), Or I will have vocal issues. And the older one Is, the More preparedness you Must Have, in order to Not have an embarrassing Train Wreck Of a Vocal Disaster like Madonna had!
Yes, but she doesnt care anymore for ver voice, as Georgina said, she just wants to be #1 again, sadly she is not recognized and wants to do what is in fashionable, I miss confessions badly, hope she returns to do what she loves, not for making hits, everybody must change so maybe, maybe the industry changes and the way of making music will change
@@fervelazquez5398 she’s at that age where she doesn’t care anymore, she was just paid big bucks for this so that’s all she cares, so what if she did badly, she still got the money
Thank you for being so mercifull. It is super sad that no one in her entourage protected her from this..surely they have rehearsed this performance..or not?
You’re too polite 😂 She’s a megastar with access to the world’s grade A super expensive audio equipment. Imagine how she REALLY sounded going into the mix board.. 🤣
6:39 This face sums it up. Madonna was horrible, I'm a Madonna fan, but all this heavy clothing, the eyepatches, the grills... She should keep taking vocal lessons. Please, Madonna, you don't have to do all this extravagant stuff, simple is better sometimes.
@@davidcici11Evolution defiantly pushed the boundaries but has written and come wrote some iconic songs, but this era is just mehhh 😩 she defo needs to lose the grills. Every look after MDMA is just awful 😔 makes me sad
The first thing I said was why do all her stage performances look like the inside of a Satanic temple? Well the first church of Satan has a big huge temple in Boston that’s been finished. Madonna is doing this maybe they get attention. Everybody seems to be going dark
Jennifer Auld you answered your own question, they're all going DARK and they're not hiding it anymore! They have no shame because people think it's just fine.
This is a touched up version. I heard this live it was "blood coming out of ears" bad. Btw she was doing it for the money. She got one million dollars for these 10 minutes.
… what? Is this really what Madonna fans think of her? Like, y’all know that she still can’t perform this far into her career, and you ask people to be her vocal coach? 💀
@@Captain_OlimarKariyeri ister geri gitsin, ister ileri, dünyanın en çok albüm satışına sahip kadın sanatçısı, dünyanın en çok turne gelirine sahip kadın sanatçısı. Aynı zamanda bir ikon, bir kült ve ilklerin insanı.
Yes, but she's always been able to hold a tune, especially this one which she's performed live hundreds, if not thousands of times. This performance was shockingly bad.
You've got a point there, but I saw her live 3 times in the past, and she sang in tune. Not perfectly, not flawlessly, but in tune. And I'm talking about a time when autotune wasn't used as much as it is today. This Eurovision thing is horribly shocking. It sounds like her time has gone...
@@Timie81 I agree but she is 61. Edit She should've retired after her last album to be honest she had nothing to prove she and she still is the Queen of pop Even Michael Jackson was going to retire after his final tour and he was in his 50s I think? In my opinion I think her management is giving her false confident just to make money off of her she is already a muiti millionaire.
@@leonarddi85 While I may see your point,getting tongues wagging about her, No One wants This kind of BAD Press... I Mean, I've had the Flu w/103* fever & I Still never sounded this bad.... Every artist who sings LIVE, will at Some point, have a bad/off night, I know I have.... But this is Truly tragic.... There's No way any singer would want anyone to Ever hear them sound This Bad!
I did excactly the same thing...I looked at my man and saying wtf? I love Madonna and saw her perform live a few times. That was an amazing experience, so I just couldn't believe what I was hearing when I saw this. It's really sad.
Totally agree w/ the choreography going down the steps While Singing! Years ago, I was out of the country doing a show. Our choreographer was staging my set. Everything was clicking along just fine, Until, he wanted me to Start walking down the top level stairs upstage, all the way downstage, While Singing In The Stratosphere High Power Notes And Sustaining Them... Well, After Explaining , Listening And Witnessing (In person ), the Problems Which Do arise from such ill Place choreography, he agreed with me and All was good.... I’m the singer/performer, & I Know what’s best for my vocal performances. Having to walk up/down Stairs or Dance(OMG!) While Singing, is Difficult, it makes our Vocals Shaky! I Think 🤔 Some choreographers don’t always understand Singers , b/c choreographers are Dancers, Usually Not singers of any kind.
Yeah they isolated the vocal did post production magic and resynced and reuploaded it. She has tickets to sell and album downloads to sell. We'll still give that a proper listen tho!
I absolutely love watching your videos Honest Vocal Coah.. you give honest, creative, straightforward criticism.. keep up the good work.. and If I wanted to learn how to sing, I would definitely hit you up !..
I'm her huge fan and totally agree with you - that wasn't even close to what people expect from Madonna's performance. Don't even wanna be cruel and mention her vocals... She had to be completely aware of how bad it was, as the version which has been uploaded to her official channel has been edited (!) so she sounds much better there...
I genuinely think there was something wrong... Madonna can perform this song and has done brilliantly... I don’t know if maybe she was out of sync or whether she couldn’t hear herself properly... I’m the biggest Madonna fan and I noticed something wrong with this performance...
Totally agree! Something went wrong somewhere...she sounds completely out of breath. Madonna has been known to hit a bum note here or there...but NEVER the ENTIRE SONG! She has done this song brilliantly throughout her career! Something went terribly wrong!
I'm a very long-term Madonna fan too Georgina and I have to agree with you 100%. Obviously, I don't know what Madonna does or does not do in her private life, but the vocal performance doesn't give me the impression of someone who practices much nowadays. She's always been 'potentially' a bit ropey if she turns up to sing live between tour cycles, and then improves - often really quite significantly - for the tours themselves. But this was a car crash. If a singer is a vocal athlete, this is someone who isn't putting the hours on the track, so to speak. This is a shame because she *can* sound amazing live, though you wouldn't know it listening to this. It didn't help that there were 26 performances before this (and several more if you count the other interludes) where - like the songs or not - the singers all pretty much achieved what they wanted to vocally. If Madonna is honest with herself, she'll recognise that her vocals let her down badly; in fact, her people effectively already have by the fact that the version of this on the Madonna RUclips channel has a different vocal performance (either from rehearsals or cleaned up) on it. I agree again with the staging not being ideal - going down the stairs while singing live is hard enough. Doing so while having a long robe to tuck up to avoid a Brit Awards style massive fall is another level of hard. But, doing so *also* with an eyepatch on which reduces her vision is bordering on crazy. You can see her eye is fixed on the steps as she's going down, she's obviously not comfortable at all. That's super-inhibitory for a singer in a live performance. I also agree that her breath control isn't right as well. Without wishing to sound rude, she's not quite as in shape as she normally is when she tours (she normally transforms into a machine-like lean creature, sometimes bordering on the too thin), and that plus all the heavy getup she's wearing and the requirement probably has made things worse. As everyone's lung capacity decreases the further they get from about 20, she has to reach this level of fitness again if she's going to do the kind of performance where she moves as well as singing. Otherwise, it will have to be just the standard stand-at-the-microphone (not that there's anything inherently wrong with that, but it's not typically Madonna to do so). Like you, I'm not feeling this Madame X theme either, in terms of the styling or the indeed the music choices.
I am so glad to read such a well thought through argument, moreover, expressed so concisely and politely. It's a very meaningful voice much needed in this debate on her Eurovision performance.
Absolutely agreed . It’s a shame ... she can put on such a good show , but this performance is a cringe . Wrong choice of everything. What was she thinking ... she’s the queen but this was sad :/
Wrong choice of EVERYTHING FOR HER. Florence Welch could've rocked this dark prayers vibe. Madonna doesn't have that drama and depth or richness. It's too stark a contrast. Madonna doesn't have anything grand to her voice. Honestly I don't know what has gone on with her voice because it wasn't that many years ago that I remember her doing amazingly well.
I don't know what it is, but I noticed a long time ago something isnt right with madonnas mouth. First it was those stupid grills she was wearing but something is off about her mouth even when she is speaking.
@@giancarlo5316 No, it could be a neurological problem. A singer from my country started like that and he can't talk anymore, the muscles from your mouth slowly start to fail. :(
I was thinking of you while watching the performance... also disapointed that she's not taking care of her instrument at all. I love Madonna, but it seems her libido is not in her music right now.
On top of all the other problems, she was very under-energized, vocally and performance-wise. Even if her singing had been great I'm not sure I'd have come away feeling like I got my money's worth. (She was paid a million dollars to do this!!)
I used to be a huge Madonna fan and I was watching this performance (along with the whole Eurovision) with my non-Madonna-fans friends... and I was nothing but embarrassed.
I came to see if you could explain what could have happened, because some said it was a problem with her earphone or laryngitis, because she doesn’t sound like that live. This is kind of her worst vocals in her career 😥
@@matiasdv8848 she also had some problems in her Who's That Girl Tour she was moving around a lot in that tour too I think some of her best dancing was in that tour
@@matiasdv8848 Exactly! She is a pop star and need autotune and all types of electronical magic on her voice. This should be no surprise, she is overrated just because of her style and not her voice.
Obviously an ignorant comment, who haven't really checked her catalogue beyond a couple songs. There's plenty of evidence that she can sing. As good as Whitney? Never, obviously, but your comment is nonetheless stupid.
Unfair comment, she has done dozens of good and emotional vocal performances. This one, as some others in her career, was awful, but this in not an excuse to say that she was never a singer, when she has proven multiple times that she is.
Ooh you mentioned Tina Turner, does that mean a critique soon! Please do:) Madonna fan too! But no countries would have voted for her if she were representing them! lol It sounded like a struggle like it was very hard to sing, but Madonna appeared relaxed and confident and she wasn't moving much to affect her vocals. The lo-fi mix of the music really highlighted her lacklustre vocals here, Like a Prayer usually has a quite an up-tempo production.
I thought of Tina Turner, too without having watched this video before. I mean I saw Tina live on her 24/7 Tour nineteen years ago in Hannover Germany, where she was 60 already like Madonna today and Tina killed it on stage! Amazing performance. I saw Madonna live 7 times since the Drowned World Tour, but the Eurovision was a meltdown. Was she serious about this performance and rehearsing that one for four, I mean 4 (!!!) days??? I don´t get it!!! Still a fan though, but it hurt me watching her totally f*cking it up!
I always knew something sounded off with this proformance from the beginning, there where 26 acts in the ESC final that give a better proformance than Madonna.
You know, she sounds like she's squeaking her vocals. Too much tension in the neck muscles and the tongue associated with low breathing control. She seems nervous and a bit out of control.
Probably my favorite Madonna song of all time. This was painful to watch! But, you always tell it like it is and that's why we keep coming back! PS - I just about died laughing with your initial reaction of the intro until you first paused it (I think it was my exact reaction)!
"She was so out of tune that her auto tune microphone couldn't correct this" 😂
It was still a bad performance but the autotune is actually what made it sound worse. She had it set to higher tones but kept trying to sing in her natural low pitch so it was “correcting” her to wrong notes. Combined with her weak vocals made it sound horrendous
It was very out of tune. And I also created a video about my thoughts on it. I was thinking maybe she did not have enough practice.
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Wow, this is an insult to the Eurovision Song contest, America, keep your auto tuned artists home please, not all, but most of them.
@@lh2170 No autotune.
Dziuoi Asan lol
When she says "oh dear" you know it's bad haha
Yes, and in this video she said it THREE TIMES! Oh dear...
I was waiting for that _Oh dear_ from the very first note that Madonna sang 😂
Madonna: “let the choir sing”
Me: please
most intelligent line in the lyrics.
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She actually predicted the future in the 80's. We-
If she had just let the choir sing it would have been an awesome performance
“there is autotune, but she is still out of tune.” I’m dead laughing.
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All us who saw it live on TV heard it without the autotune.
Hahahaha awful singer !
Fergie: My national anthem is the most awful performance ever!
Madonna: Hold my eyeball...
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“Being a big Madonna fan, this is really disappointing”.
I hear ya sister. I hear ya.
Agreed!
And I also must agree with Georgina when she says that "If you are 60 and you're coming to perform, you better be killin' it! Tina Turner would've killed it". So true. If you are a music legend, like Madonna is, you should make sure your voice is in good shape and you have a killer performance whenever you appear on a big event. It's sad that Madonna thinks this vocal is acceptable...
😭😭😭😭😭😭MADONNA😥 You're getting old despite you look like 35😔
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they REMASTERED (fake) version that Madonna put up on her own youtube channel! Its like she lives in a parallel universe, hilarious. There are short comparison videos on my channel here :D
Anisio C. J.Lo fan for 20 years. I feel you 😂
Come on, Madonna has been out of tune for decades. Is anyone really shocked? She's only attacked because of her political statement on Eurovision. Madonna wants peace between Palestinians and israelis which is passe at this point, and too 1990s.
The honest coach. Also the sweetest, I'm sure you swallowed some very strong words there!
Margarita Medina Yes I was just about to type that, she was extremely nice because this whole performance was terrible from start to finish haha.
And she was paid 1.5 million dollars for this. Life is unfair.
Are you kidding?
Damn...I would have butchered it for half that!
How much???? 😮 they were robbed.
1.3 million actually
Ok it doesn't matter
EllaH Only 1.3? Well then it’s understandable, I wouldn’t have tried very hard for that either ;)
That first “Oh dear” 😂😂😂😂
“Ok, I don’t know what’s going on in Madonnas life right now” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
"oh dear" sums it right up!
Eurovision stage is a great place for understanding who can sing Live and who couldn't .
Vahe Karamyan she couldn’t 99.99 percent !
She's had amazing performances live, this one was trash sadly.
criticalhard not vocally amazing. She’s a stripper who could carry a tune.
she definitely can sing live because since this she's done decent vocal performances. not really sure what went wrong here though lol. she was probably just unprepared. i heard the autotune was set to the wrong key but the fact that she was using autotune for a song like Like A Prayer is uhh interesting
Wow I'm shocked, I just watched moments ago this same performance on Madonna's channel and it's completely different, most of the pitch is corrected!
They changed it and uploaded it on her channel.
Aha, I watched her channel first too, and am shocked how it aired originally! 🤯😥
Beyond pitch correction. No amount of Autotune could fix this. That's a prerecorded, and still heavily corrected version dubbed over the video. Naughty Madonna.
Oh someone needs to do a compare. The good the bad and the auto pitch corrected.
LOL. How silly that she actually had her team pitch-correct the performance and upload a dubbed video to her channel ;)
...Especially since anyone has access to the Eurovision livestream to see how she really sang.
“It seems like there’s some autotune in there, but she’s still out of tune, so she must’ve been so out of tune that her autotune couldn’t corrected it. Oh... Oh my godness”
That whole bit... I died 🤣
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She's not wrong, though. The very raw version of this that I heard (a recording someone did inside the venue) was actually even WORSE than this, which was because you could hear less of the microphone effects.
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This is the point. Why autotune is working whong? For me is proposital, is marketing... Is for the people talk about.
Lol but its all true🤣
I hear your voice, it‘s like an angel dying
Never a truer word.
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sounds like someone trying to sing under water
no prayer in the world would have saved this.
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You are right
You're honest, but also kind and gracious. You seem to be genuinely concerned, rather than disappointed. Thank you!
Nicely put 👍
Also, I think it is true to say that emotional stress and strain etc in life affect the voice.
This is my favourite Madonna song, too!!
@@grinch4567 this is a very difficult song to sing too, very difficult for her at her best probably, and worse now
Looks like my drunk auntie singing a Madonna song at Christmas family karaoke
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Oh my, this was painful to watch. You never should go on stage unprepared. **sigh** Thank you for being honest. :)
Agreed. And she wasn't prepared. She wanted to sing her new songs of Madame X album. However, Eurovision's production didn't let her do what she wanted to do, because they thought it was so political. She just improvised a "Like a Prayer" performance, and fucked it up.
The voice coach nails the review. I am an early Madonna fan. I always heard she had a huge work ethic but it certainly does not sound like she’s taking care of her vocal cords. She was never Adele but this is not even the standard for Madonna.
I actually fell asleep on the couch during the contest and really woke up because of Madonna's performance. I was shocked 😱😱
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You were so diplomatically kind in this video
she sounded like her drunk fans in front of tv's screaming along with her
There. Right there what you said. 😄😄😄
Yeah just like me everytime watching Blonde Ambition.
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Im a madonna fan who came for an honest review and it did not disappoint. Her vocals peaked in the 90s
I absolutely love how sincerely gentle hearted you are!
Soundguy: you can't sing of key with autotune
Madonna: hold my eyepatch
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Haha... BEST comment ever!
I need two eye patches just to stop looking at this trainwreck.
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Wha ha ha, I just bursted out in laughing so hard :p :p :p !
They paid her A MILLION for THAT!
She talks the talk. she's a globalist, as is the EU. Eurovision would like her, of course.
@@BenZoet The EU is nothing to do with her awful voice. Britain is about to set up loads of red tape for nothing and add 4% fees for customs declarations on everything. Well done for your sheep mindset.
no it was 12 millions...
Love your honesty, no matter who the artist is...you call it as it is. Good or bad👍🏻
No matter who the artist is XD obviously it's MADONNA who created music when there was no such thing like autotune correction . She created the best music of the last century among MJ . Therefore She can allow it. I'm not a Madonna fan but everybody who is old enough like the coach should know her career and respect it. You better teach singers who will never get this far but don't judge
@@telmoramoz7638 oh girl there was Autontune back then
Because she used a lot of Auto-Tune sorry but this is disrespectful to to show up to a big competition an event without prepare for it enough
Is it possible the auto-tune tuning the wrong key? An experienced singer would know how to handle this situation.
It could happen, but it makes me wonder what made it this...rough. I believe it's suppressed to tune to the nearest semi-tone (for example, a note sang between C and C#, but closer to C, would be tuned down to C). So for it to sound THIS bad? She had to be quite a ways off OR like mentioned above, was slightly flat when singing the note and the auto tune tuned it even flatter...
She has also used auto tune and vocoders in live performances in the past and did fine there. So I feel that there was something wrong with either the equipment or her voice.
"We'll having her going down a step while she is TRYING to sing!"
Epic burn is epic!
I enjoy your appraisals very much. Thank you for your honesty, but most of all for your tact and kindness. It's an important example.
I agree she's very sweet and fair.
I totally agree!! This was so flat and out of tune. Maybe she was having an off day! But again you were honest and that's what I love! It was a bad performance.
An off day??? Was she ever on? She has been known to record her songs word for word and not without reasons.....
Actually day before that was the reversal and it was a bad performance like this
Remco van Wensem lol right... the song was a “hit” because of her background singer, she made this song go off
@FilmFreak82 lmaooo bruhh they paid her million dollar for that shitty performance?
Eddie Trincas Yes, Is say she had a Bad Day b/c of Vocal Issues, That was Painfully Obvious. I agree w/ the vocal coach here.... Sounds like Madonna hasn’t kept up her vocal chops with vocaleese (vocal exercises)... A singer Must Do vocaleese everyday they have a performance, & even when they don’t have a show, they Should Be vocalizing (Even For Just 45-an hour) 5-6 days a week.I know(personally) myself, that I Have to do my vocaleese pretty much daily( except I take 1 or 2days off when Not gigging), Or I will have vocal issues. And the older one Is, the More preparedness you Must Have, in order to Not have an embarrassing Train Wreck Of a Vocal Disaster like Madonna had!
As a big Madonna fan since the 80s, I must say that this is her worst performance ever !!!
And probably one of her most whatched live performances.
@@jernfuglen more than 180 million people saw it 🙈
Yes, but she doesnt care anymore for ver voice, as Georgina said, she just wants to be #1 again, sadly she is not recognized and wants to do what is in fashionable, I miss confessions badly, hope she returns to do what she loves, not for making hits, everybody must change so maybe, maybe the industry changes and the way of making music will change
Same here. I’m a huge old school fan. Hate Madam X and feel embarrassed for her on this performance 🙈
@@fervelazquez5398 she’s at that age where she doesn’t care anymore, she was just paid big bucks for this so that’s all she cares, so what if she did badly, she still got the money
She is priceless her face says everything, I am a big Madonna fan too for over 30 years oh dear oh dear what are sad way to end it all.
Thank you for being so mercifull. It is super sad that no one in her entourage protected her from this..surely they have rehearsed this performance..or not?
No, they haven't. She refused.
You have the only copy of the real performance I’ve seen so far. The revamped version is a sham.
You’re too polite 😂 She’s a megastar with access to the world’s grade A super expensive audio equipment. Imagine how she REALLY sounded going into the mix board.. 🤣
She sounded better than that.
It is a wrong autotune setting
@@HAWXLEADER That still leaves the other issues like her crap breath control lol. Wrong settings or not, this was not her night by any stretch!
6:39 This face sums it up.
Madonna was horrible, I'm a Madonna fan, but all this heavy clothing, the eyepatches, the grills... She should keep taking vocal lessons. Please, Madonna, you don't have to do all this extravagant stuff, simple is better sometimes.
She made her career off being extravagant that is her stihck basically.
Huge fan too but really don’t like this phase of hers (I hope to god it’s just a phase) first tour I’ve not been to and first album I haven’t bought.
@@davidcici11Evolution defiantly pushed the boundaries but has written and come wrote some iconic songs, but this era is just mehhh 😩 she defo needs to lose the grills. Every look after MDMA is just awful 😔 makes me sad
Wrong. She has to.
I feel sick during this performance...the voice of hell, visuals from hell messege from hell. I must lie down for few hours now!
mess meg could you possibly be more overdramatic? Absolutely ridiculous.
The first thing I said was why do all her stage performances look like the inside of a Satanic temple? Well the first church of Satan has a big huge temple in Boston that’s been finished. Madonna is doing this maybe they get attention. Everybody seems to be going dark
She follows Satan ! He is her God! No one would risk their chances to go to Heaven just to gain attention .
all these People talking about magic stories lmao
Jennifer Auld you answered your own question, they're all going DARK and they're not hiding it anymore! They have no shame because people think it's just fine.
This is a touched up version. I heard this live it was "blood coming out of ears" bad. Btw she was doing it for the money. She got one million dollars for these 10 minutes.
I'm a massive Madonna fan since 1989, but you are right about this performance. Could you train her???
@@leonarddi85 Bitch that's being desperate for attention if that's her new way to attract controversy
… what? Is this really what Madonna fans think of her? Like, y’all know that she still can’t perform this far into her career, and you ask people to be her vocal coach? 💀
@@Captain_Olimar it's a joke
@@Captain_OlimarKariyeri ister geri gitsin, ister ileri, dünyanın en çok albüm satışına sahip kadın sanatçısı, dünyanın en çok turne gelirine sahip kadın sanatçısı. Aynı zamanda bir ikon, bir kült ve ilklerin insanı.
I grew up listening to Madonna and I have no clue on vocals but I can clearly hear an echo and more robotic voice!!! That's sad!!
Madonna decided to change the lyrics "I hear your voice, Oh god i think it's dying"
Funny Ass Shit right there!! :-P
Im dead
If Madonna calls that singing, then I can sing to lol
Lady. I love you. You are Awesome. I love your honesty and your accent. Thank you from Michigan USA.
Madonna never had great vocals though everybody knew this.
Yes, but she's always been able to hold a tune, especially this one which she's performed live hundreds, if not thousands of times. This performance was shockingly bad.
You've got a point there, but I saw her live 3 times in the past, and she sang in tune. Not perfectly, not flawlessly, but in tune. And I'm talking about a time when autotune wasn't used as much as it is today. This Eurovision thing is horribly shocking. It sounds like her time has gone...
@@Timie81 I agree but she is 61.
Edit She should've retired after her last album to be honest she had nothing to prove she and she still is the Queen of pop
Even Michael Jackson was going to retire after his final tour and he was in his 50s I think?
In my opinion I think her management is giving her false confident just to make money off of her she is already a muiti millionaire.
She's got a lot worse...she was never Arianna Grande but she used to be able to hold a tune...not anymore....
@@leonarddi85 While I may see your point,getting tongues wagging about her, No One wants This kind of BAD Press... I Mean, I've had the Flu w/103* fever & I Still never sounded this bad.... Every artist who sings LIVE, will at Some point, have a bad/off night, I know I have.... But this is Truly tragic.... There's No way any singer would want anyone to Ever hear them sound This Bad!
Such shame I looked at my partner when watching and thought wtf. I’m no professional but even I could hear how bad she was.
I did excactly the same thing...I looked at my man and saying wtf? I love Madonna and saw her perform live a few times. That was an amazing experience, so I just couldn't believe what I was hearing when I saw this. It's really sad.
" oh dear " " oh dear" 😂😂
Hi! You said something that's really truth. It's time for her to start looking after her voice!!!
Makes me laugh so much when she says ‘Oh Dear’ her face expressions really make me laugh,too 🤣😂I love watching Georgina 😄
My new life motto "I can't fluff up something when it's just not fluffable!" Audio at 7:58
Totally agree w/ the choreography going down the steps While Singing! Years ago, I was out of the country doing a show. Our choreographer was staging my set. Everything was clicking along just fine, Until, he wanted me to Start walking down the top level stairs upstage, all the way downstage, While Singing In The Stratosphere High Power Notes And Sustaining Them... Well, After Explaining , Listening And Witnessing (In person ), the Problems Which Do arise from such ill Place choreography, he agreed with me and All was good.... I’m the singer/performer, & I Know what’s best for my vocal performances. Having to walk up/down Stairs or Dance(OMG!) While Singing, is Difficult, it makes our Vocals Shaky! I Think 🤔 Some choreographers don’t always understand Singers , b/c choreographers are Dancers, Usually Not singers of any kind.
Oh and another thing - the video that Madonna has just uploaded on her RUclips channel has been EDITED so that she sounds amazing!!!! i kid you not!
Georgina Lewis of course she would do that.
Georgina Lewis I know right!
Georgina Lewis yeah the one she just posted is totally in tune
Yeah they isolated the vocal did post production magic and resynced and reuploaded it. She has tickets to sell and album downloads to sell. We'll still give that a proper listen tho!
Just watched it and you're right omg
You’re a total legend. You’re honest and upfront, yet clever and eloquent, and lost of all kind. ❤️
Madonna: "Heaven Help Me"
Me: yeahh they Really Shud
I absolutely love watching your videos Honest Vocal Coah.. you give honest, creative, straightforward criticism.. keep up the good work.. and If I wanted to learn how to sing, I would definitely hit you up !..
Your face on the thumbnail says it all😂
I love the honesty. I agree with you 100%, Georgina. Hurts to see because "Like a Prayer" is one of my favourites records by her.
There is one great thing about this performance: IT ENDS.
Whahahahaha
then why are you here, looking for it?
@@louiselouisethebest probably laughs
So you will.
She got 1.5 million DOLLARS for this.
What
you are waaayyyy too kind for that performance
So agree with you on this one... never thought I would say it but this MadonNO 😥
Or is it...MadonNAHHHHHH
I think we all said "Oh dear" at the same point you did. Not knowing how bad it would get...
I'm her huge fan and totally agree with you - that wasn't even close to what people expect from Madonna's performance. Don't even wanna be cruel and mention her vocals... She had to be completely aware of how bad it was, as the version which has been uploaded to her official channel has been edited (!) so she sounds much better there...
Lukasz Krutkiewicz But the massage Madonna hv brough priceless!!!!!! right??? or you will concern only the notes, silly
"the version which has been uploaded to her official channel has been edited" - oh yeah, she cheated like that a few times already.
You are the sweetest, Regina. Congrats on doing good research and explanation on all levels. Greetings from Perú
"....l would want my money back ...😂😂
Haha! Autotune and still out of tune! A new record has been made! 🤣
Autotune can also "correct" you to the wrong notes ! That explains why she keeps singing single notes wrong.. one too low or too high
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I genuinely think there was something wrong... Madonna can perform this song and has done brilliantly... I don’t know if maybe she was out of sync or whether she couldn’t hear herself properly... I’m the biggest Madonna fan and I noticed something wrong with this performance...
Andrew Phillips Madonna is not talented period. She never wrote any of the songs she sang. She’s a talentless puppet who cannot sing!
What's wrong is she DOES NOT know how to sing. Never had. Never will.
Andrew Phillips I agree I’ve heard her sing this live so many times and I really think something was wrong like a bad cold or something.
Totally agree! Something went wrong somewhere...she sounds completely out of breath. Madonna has been known to hit a bum note here or there...but NEVER the ENTIRE SONG! She has done this song brilliantly throughout her career! Something went terribly wrong!
She did on purpose to grab media attention, you know that on the inside 😏
Your face was in better tune. You are so sweet and I could tell you were trying to figure out how to respond nicely.
This was the last straw for me. This performance was terrible... And the nerve to put it on her RUclips channel with improved vocals? Too late love.
I remember watching this on the TV and being like “.....uhm what happened to Madonna?”
I'm a very long-term Madonna fan too Georgina and I have to agree with you 100%.
Obviously, I don't know what Madonna does or does not do in her private life, but the vocal performance doesn't give me the impression of someone who practices much nowadays. She's always been 'potentially' a bit ropey if she turns up to sing live between tour cycles, and then improves - often really quite significantly - for the tours themselves. But this was a car crash. If a singer is a vocal athlete, this is someone who isn't putting the hours on the track, so to speak. This is a shame because she *can* sound amazing live, though you wouldn't know it listening to this. It didn't help that there were 26 performances before this (and several more if you count the other interludes) where - like the songs or not - the singers all pretty much achieved what they wanted to vocally. If Madonna is honest with herself, she'll recognise that her vocals let her down badly; in fact, her people effectively already have by the fact that the version of this on the Madonna RUclips channel has a different vocal performance (either from rehearsals or cleaned up) on it.
I agree again with the staging not being ideal - going down the stairs while singing live is hard enough. Doing so while having a long robe to tuck up to avoid a Brit Awards style massive fall is another level of hard. But, doing so *also* with an eyepatch on which reduces her vision is bordering on crazy. You can see her eye is fixed on the steps as she's going down, she's obviously not comfortable at all. That's super-inhibitory for a singer in a live performance.
I also agree that her breath control isn't right as well. Without wishing to sound rude, she's not quite as in shape as she normally is when she tours (she normally transforms into a machine-like lean creature, sometimes bordering on the too thin), and that plus all the heavy getup she's wearing and the requirement probably has made things worse. As everyone's lung capacity decreases the further they get from about 20, she has to reach this level of fitness again if she's going to do the kind of performance where she moves as well as singing. Otherwise, it will have to be just the standard stand-at-the-microphone (not that there's anything inherently wrong with that, but it's not typically Madonna to do so).
Like you, I'm not feeling this Madame X theme either, in terms of the styling or the indeed the music choices.
I am so glad to read such a well thought through argument, moreover, expressed so concisely and politely. It's a very meaningful voice much needed in this debate on her Eurovision performance.
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I'm a fan for 20 years and I can't sugarcoat this even if I want to. It's a good review as always.
I hear your voice it's like an angel dying
In regards to age, they had two singers older than Madonna, Gali Atari and Ilanit and they both killed it.
Even Serhat sounded better than her.
Her performance showed that even the worst participant of ESC is a great singer.
Milena Z serhat = God
Absolutely agreed . It’s a shame ... she can put on such a good show , but this performance is a cringe . Wrong choice of everything. What was she thinking ... she’s the queen but this was sad :/
Wrong choice of EVERYTHING FOR HER. Florence Welch could've rocked this dark prayers vibe.
Madonna doesn't have that drama and depth or richness. It's too stark a contrast. Madonna doesn't have anything grand to her voice.
Honestly I don't know what has gone on with her voice because it wasn't that many years ago that I remember her doing amazingly well.
I don't know what it is, but I noticed a long time ago something isnt right with madonnas mouth. First it was those stupid grills she was wearing but something is off about her mouth even when she is speaking.
I've noticed too ... her brand new lips maybe? 🤦♂️
Some people think she's had a stroke or some similar episode. Notice how her mobility is gone as well?
I agreee...her latest tracks show that there's something wrong with her mouth and articulation...she is speaking and singing with a difficulty...
Yeah know what you mean even her speaking voice sounds different
@@giancarlo5316 No, it could be a neurological problem. A singer from my country started like that and he can't talk anymore, the muscles from your mouth slowly start to fail. :(
7:18 "Silence, I have nothing to say, ohh nooooo" xDDDDD
"Oh dear" - I think you're being really kind there, G. It sounds as though she's being strangled.
I was thinking of you while watching the performance... also disapointed that she's not taking care of her instrument at all. I love Madonna, but it seems her libido is not in her music right now.
Santiago Negri I agree. Also, her vocals are all altered in her new songs. Lazy!
On top of all the other problems, she was very under-energized, vocally and performance-wise. Even if her singing had been great I'm not sure I'd have come away feeling like I got my money's worth. (She was paid a million dollars to do this!!)
Yep that was awfully cringy.
Ritualistic
I used to be a huge Madonna fan and I was watching this performance (along with the whole Eurovision) with my non-Madonna-fans friends... and I was nothing but embarrassed.
It was like drunk karaoke over a funeral dirge version of what was such an uplifting song originally
”Oh dear”. That sums it up very well.
Thanks for your comments, could it be there is voice correcting and distortion signals clashing that caused the major sound problems for Madonna?
i hear a compression and reverb mess, butit sounds more as a mean to fix ithe performance rather the culprit
I came to see if you could explain what could have happened, because some said it was a problem with her earphone or laryngitis, because she doesn’t sound like that live. This is kind of her worst vocals in her career 😥
have you seen the blonde ambition? her voice was destroyed there...
@@matiasdv8848
she also had some problems in her Who's That Girl Tour
she was moving around a lot in that tour too
I think some of her best dancing was in that tour
@@matiasdv8848 Exactly! She is a pop star and need autotune and all types of electronical magic on her voice. This should be no surprise, she is overrated just because of her style and not her voice.
I’m a huge fan and this performance was heartbreaking, I really hope that she’s able to fix whatever problems it is that caused this.
I NEVER listen her singing. She was a marketing genius always, NEVER WAS A SINGER!
You're absolutely right. Being a marketing genius is what made her a pop culture icon. Not her voice. As opposed to a Whitney Houston.
She was a singer only in Evita.
Obviously an ignorant comment, who haven't really checked her catalogue beyond a couple songs. There's plenty of evidence that she can sing. As good as Whitney? Never, obviously, but your comment is nonetheless stupid.
Unfair comment, she has done dozens of good and emotional vocal performances. This one, as some others in her career, was awful, but this in not an excuse to say that she was never a singer, when she has proven multiple times that she is.
So true!
Your face when Madonna starts singing is an absolute picture, your little glance at the camera made me snort hahaha - I love your videos!!
It breaks my heart to hear this, I love Madonna, what's going on! 😭😭😭
Madonna is a nutjob. Honestly mate, get some better role models
You had me at 'oh dear'! 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Ooh you mentioned Tina Turner, does that mean a critique soon! Please do:) Madonna fan too! But no countries would have voted for her if she were representing them! lol It sounded like a struggle like it was very hard to sing, but Madonna appeared relaxed and confident and she wasn't moving much to affect her vocals. The lo-fi mix of the music really highlighted her lacklustre vocals here, Like a Prayer usually has a quite an up-tempo production.
Francis.Hearn I've been asking Georgina to do Tina and Cher for ages!
You can guarantee Tina would be owning the stage.
Please add Tina Turner review, especially her doing Let's Stay Together from 60 minutes acoustic with guitar only
I thought of Tina Turner, too without having watched this video before. I mean I saw Tina live on her 24/7 Tour nineteen years ago in Hannover Germany, where she was 60 already like Madonna today and Tina killed it on stage! Amazing performance. I saw Madonna live 7 times since the Drowned World Tour, but the Eurovision was a meltdown. Was she serious about this performance and rehearsing that one for four, I mean 4 (!!!) days??? I don´t get it!!! Still a fan though, but it hurt me watching her totally f*cking it up!
“I hear your voice.”
Me: Unfortunately, I hear yours.
"Oh God, I think I'm falling"
"Heaven hellp me!"
The lyric its perfect!!!
I always knew something sounded off with this proformance from the beginning, there where 26 acts in the ESC final that give a better proformance than Madonna.
You know, she sounds like she's squeaking her vocals. Too much tension in the neck muscles and the tongue associated with low breathing control. She seems nervous and a bit out of control.
Probably my favorite Madonna song of all time. This was painful to watch! But, you always tell it like it is and that's why we keep coming back! PS - I just about died laughing with your initial reaction of the intro until you first paused it (I think it was my exact reaction)!
The autotune is set to the wrong key, not that she is singing so off key /:
Actually this is the later autotuned version. The live live version didn't have autotune. Search for the unbuttoned version. Its SO bad.
"I don't know what's going on in Madonna's life right now...". Well, not much singing practice, that's for sure!