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[winterlive]

i was just talking to thenyxie about adam, and about how while i do love the bejesus out of him for his sexy filterless diva qualities, i have Many Thoughts in my music nerd brain about him. i love music. i've made an informal study of music for a long time and if you have Thoughts about adam's musical skills and stratagems, you should comment below.

as an appetite whetting, here are three songs adam usually performs (two covers and one original) that have been totally rearranged just for kicks. because when you're a musician and not just a performer, you do amazing shit like this for funsies.

mad world, but funked up and rocked out.

wwfm, but stripped down acoustic and zero falsetto.

and then just in case by some horrible crime you missed it, whole lotta love, but dreamy drugged out vocal tantra.

Comments

[trinity_clare]

I'd already seen the Whole Lotta Love video, but the other two are just awesome. That new arrangement of Mad World must be sooooo much more fun to sing than the usual one. (Also, Longineu is a BAMF.) It's amazing how much more emotion Adam can put into WWFM when he doesn't have to wail through the whole thing. It could possibly go a touch faster, but only because it gets long when you slow it down too much.

As far as IEMs go, having both your ears plugged really affects your ability to hear your own voice, because all of a sudden you're hearing it from the inside of your head instead of the outside. I wouldn't be surprised if it's messing with his ability to tell if his tone is any good, because sometimes what happens is that sounds that seem like they're bouncing around a lot inside your head sound thinner on the outside because less of it is getting out. But honestly I have no idea.

In conclusion, I love that Adam is remixing his own songs even more than I love Kris's tendency to do nothing but mashups in concert.

[winterlive.livejournal.com]

longineau is amazing, and monte is kind of my hero.

i read about the IEM problems, and that has to be some of it. he improves by orders of magnitude when he isn't wearing them.