VOTE NOW! BWW's 'Give Us Your Voice' - THE LITTLE MERMAID Contest — Page 4

hey guys! I've been a member here for a while, but haven't been around much at all in a long time. I stumbled back in here and saw the contest, and since I already had recorded a song from TLM on Youtube, I decided.. what the heck :) I always wanted to be Ariel since I was little, so this is a lot of fun. Best of luck to everyone in this.. some very talented people! ohh and I'm Elisha J on the contest, by the way. Keep singing and dreaming peeps!

~Ej

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its sounds like elisha is lip synching...

Quote sh-k-boom2: "its sounds like elisha is lip synching..."

I assure you that I am not! As bway stated, I do have a decent mic, and a soundcard capable of producing reverb. If you check out my youtube profile, I have done songs with the camera's internal mic and no effects (like "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again") as well as response videos where I turned off the soundcard effects and sang without the music to a couple of my videos ("Home" from Beauty and the Beast and "Think of Me" from POTO) because people were accusing me of lipsynching. I'm just another singer in persuit of what she loves.. not a con artist.

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I choose to try and get as proffessional of a sound as I can. You'll rarely hear any artists singing live without just a touch of verb and a decent mic.. I sound just the same without it except it's just less of a "finished product" sound. All reverb does (when used properly and not in excess) is to warm the vocals and help them "sit" into the music better so they don't stick out so much.. A good mic doesn't make you sound better, but makes you sound like YOU by picking up all the colors and nuances of your voice.. internal camera mics can take away from your voice because they don't pick up the full spectrum of sound frequencies.

And as i've said, I have done songs on there without the mic and reverb.. I have no problem with that.. I just like the sound of a more polished and finished product for the majority of what I sing..

And you did not use the 'exact' words "con artist" but accusing someone of lipsynching pretty much feels like being called one..

I'm not upset by any means.. I just wanted to stand up for myself and clear that up. It just is frustrating as a professional to be called something you are not.. especially when it's something that means so much to me.. as music does.

~Ej

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Updated On: 11/15/07 at 12:12 AM

I am really impressed with some of these. But boy I never thought I'd get sick of Part of Your World!
The little girls are sweet! Some of the voices are nice but untrained. Stephanie! Whoa! You go girl! You got my vote!
Luck to all! Very impressive!

"Part of Your World" does seem to be the song of choice lol.. Hopefully people won't get too sick of hearing it when the voting starts! I need to go listen to everyone.. I haven't heard everybody yet, but from what i've already listened to, there are some great entries in this thing.. lotta talent out there!

~Elisha

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Thanks Elisha!! Yours is great too!!

and agreed about singing Part of Your World all the time as a child...that was me too :)

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Mine is now up. : )
yay!

I'm Kaitlyn C.

: )

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I've posted mine. :)

Yes, that is me. I appreciate your kind words :)

mines up! check it out...Samantha S.

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I took it to mean the same thing as you Romancegirl.. I haven't had a chance to go through all of the vids yet, to see what kinds of things people might be posting that would go against this thinking.. I assume that they would want a live clip of you singing the song as if you were in concert/on stage performing it. If you just put pictures up than I suppose that could mean you are just playing a recording of yourself that you were able to make perfect in a studio with punching in and multiple takes rather than one shot live singing. I would think since this is a video contest, they want to SEE you perform it..

But if there is no stipulation in the rules for that, then I suppose there is nothing against that and it will be allowed regardless of what personal preferences different people may have.. maybe that will influence the voting in some way in the long run.. I don't know

I'm rambling aren't I?? (I'm good at that lol)

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People like to make things MORE complicated than they need.

Any entries that are judged invalid will be removed before voting begins.

And admittingly, the rules weren't extremely specific about songs from the movie or the musical - I do know that the songs that some of you might think are not from Little Mermaid, are in fact, from the Animated TV Show. So technically, since we didn't specify, are valid.

Thanks - ONE MORE DAY to enter!

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