A turn…for the worse
Written By: 孙智谦 on May 6, 2009
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| When I first heard the opening piano of this song, I thought, “Wow, this is gonna be good!” But then Wilber Pan started to sing, and I quickly realized that this was going to be a case of a great song ruined by a bad vocal performance. Like I said, the piano is very nice, and the melody is nice, too. But who gave the recording of the vocal track the green light? And how close was he standing to a jet engine when he did so? I’m not saying it’s an absolutely horrible vocal performance, but it’s more suitable for karaoke in a private room with friends than being put on an album for the whole world to hear. It’s just a very amateur performance. His vibrato sounds forced, it sounds like he’s having a hard time singing as low as low as he does in the verses, and his tone isn’t very good in the chorus, either. Even the background vocals sound rough to me. It could be that it was done on purpose so that they didn’t overpower the lackluster performance on the main vocals, but if you have to do that, either key the song differently for the singer, or just have someone else sing it. I haven’t heard any other of Wil’s ballads, but if they’re all like this, he needs to avoid them in the future and stick to hip hop (which he does well), for our ears’ sake. |
Tags: performance, vocal, wilber pan
