https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gv-cPY0Bel4
― Pfunkboy AKA (Oor Neechy), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:14 (two years ago) link
Devil fest
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:25 (two years ago) link
It's almost as if she's never heard singing before until someone described the act of singing to her and she decided to take a stab at it based upon that description.
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:38 (two years ago) link
If this wasn't produced/presented the way it was, I think the response would be less bafflement and more praise. The YT algorithm showed me Wuthering Heights immediately afterword, and I think the algorithm is on to something.
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:44 (two years ago) link
Obviously Kate Bush is a much better singer! Just to be clear
― feed me with your chips (zchyrs), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:45 (two years ago) link
this is certainly a way to stand out amongst other youtube folksingers
seems like she knows what shes doing, and it isn't a parody
Her Covid song is a bit more standard, but when she sings an off note she makes a puzzled face, as if to say, "Isn't this quirky?"
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:49 (two years ago) link
She's playing standard chords on her guitar, so she's not quite some unschooled savant.
― Halfway there but for you, Friday, 23 July 2021 16:51 (two years ago) link
this is a girl who can't sing in tune, it's not the second coming of the shaggs.
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:54 (two years ago) link
xxxpost maybe she just farted
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Friday, 23 July 2021 16:55 (two years ago) link
I want a duet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2D5148rRIkw
Let's make this happen
― Marty J. Bilge (Old Lunch), Friday, 23 July 2021 17:05 (two years ago) link
Ahah this is great. I couldn’t help laughing in public while listening to it like a maniac.What’s the link to R. Black though ?
― AlXTC from Paris, Friday, 23 July 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
Eh, matching pitch is a skill that has to be learned for most people, myself certainly included. I've heard plenty of people who sound pretty similar to this in studios or schools.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Friday, 23 July 2021 22:25 (two years ago) link
The live Taylor cover def feels/sounds to me like a sort of trolling (as artistic strategy).
― Max Ice (morrisp), Friday, 23 July 2021 23:00 (two years ago) link
I usually understand "trolling" to mean that someone's main goal is to provoke and antagonize. I don't see that, based on the audience's reaction; if she was trolling them, she wasn't very successful.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Saturday, 24 July 2021 14:17 (two years ago) link
The more recent comments on the video do show negative reactions but the comments from when she first posted it don't.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Saturday, 24 July 2021 14:19 (two years ago) link
Yeah, that was my first impression: like an alien or someone living in a rainforest heard Taylor Swift and tried doing it herself.
Also reminiscent of: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wr3R8aSjkAk
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 24 July 2021 14:28 (two years ago) link
3. she picked a very nice note to sing and was v wise in not straying far from it
― Sheneneh et Caro (Stevie D(eux)), Saturday, March 12, 2011 6:26 PM (ten years ago)
― sarahell, Saturday, 24 July 2021 17:36 (two years ago) link
still curious about the Rebecca Black connection. is it cos this person has gone viral with a terrible song?
― making splashes at Dan Flashes (Neanderthal), Saturday, 24 July 2021 17:39 (two years ago) link
it's the only reason I can see tbh -- in addition to them both being female.
― sarahell, Saturday, 24 July 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
This is nothing like Rebecca Black imo.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Saturday, 24 July 2021 18:09 (two years ago) link
otm
― imago, Saturday, 24 July 2021 18:12 (two years ago) link
As for 'terrible', I found it quite compelling
because you thought she was hot?
― sarahell, Saturday, 24 July 2021 18:13 (two years ago) link
honestly, if I was more industrious, I would try adding a shit-ton of reverb to her voice to see if it could be palatable to gothwave cru
― sarahell, Saturday, 24 July 2021 18:15 (two years ago) link
Ari Evan12 hours ago (edited)Really niche of you to incorporate such strong Ives-ian influences in your composition. Who knew bi-tonality, microtones and “pop” could go so well together?!
Sarah BrandSarah Brand11 hours agoThank you so much!
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Saturday, 24 July 2021 20:37 (two years ago) link
I think I'm coming around to classic.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Saturday, 24 July 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
Imo we're all sleeping on her other video, the fully fleshed version of 'Fantasy':
https://www.gtc.ox.ac.uk/news-and-events/news/sarah-brand-fantasy-music-video/
― pomenitul, Saturday, 24 July 2021 20:57 (two years ago) link
Wow, that's actually kind of cool. I mean, I want there to be more going on in the music but the dissonances are amazing at times, esp the crunchy layered vocal harmonies.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Saturday, 24 July 2021 21:05 (two years ago) link
She makes me think a bit of Danielson Famile.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Saturday, 24 July 2021 21:06 (two years ago) link
Maybe Adorno is her sociological role model?
― pomenitul, Saturday, 24 July 2021 21:07 (two years ago) link
Tbc, I have been exposed to one Danielson Famile album many years ago.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Saturday, 24 July 2021 21:10 (two years ago) link
this is blowing up at the moment, huh
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 July 2021 21:12 (two years ago) link
honestly, if I was more industrious, I would try adding a shit-ton of reverb to her voice to see if it could be palatable to gothwave cru― sarahell, Saturday, July 24, 2021 7:15 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― sarahell, Saturday, July 24, 2021 7:15 PM (three hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
Given it a go - results are uh well...
https://soundcloud.com/james-errington-769931947/red-dress-fukd-up
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, 24 July 2021 21:38 (two years ago) link
reminds me much more of a maybe-accidental, maybe-avant-garde vibe of Farah Abraham much more than Rebecca Black
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 July 2021 21:39 (two years ago) link
i'm getting a slight whiff of "Space Oddity" in there
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 July 2021 22:13 (two years ago) link
yeah I was think "Can't Find My Way Home" by Blind Faith
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 July 2021 23:06 (two years ago) link
I subscribed to her Vevo; she only has a few hundred subscribers. (How does an aspiring artist get a Vevo acct, can anyone do it?)
― ghost runner on first (morrisp), Saturday, 24 July 2021 23:31 (two years ago) link
(or is she an “industry plant,” lol)
― ghost runner on first (morrisp), Saturday, 24 July 2021 23:32 (two years ago) link
Also reminds me of this, which I think I found out about bc of a rushomancy post: http://musicweird.blogspot.com/2018/05/sick-sound-craze-for-amateur-girl.html
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Saturday, 24 July 2021 23:43 (two years ago) link
her place is assured on the Oxbridge Outsiders album that Numero puts out in 2034
― in a bar, under the (seandalai), Saturday, 24 July 2021 23:49 (two years ago) link
I think anyone can start a Vevo account
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 24 July 2021 23:55 (two years ago) link
xxp Kathy Young is awesome, fwiw (I have her comp CD)
― ghost runner on first (morrisp), Sunday, 25 July 2021 00:10 (two years ago) link
― A viking of frowns, (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Saturday, July 24, 2021 2:38 PM (yesterday)
definitely moanwave adjacent! well done!
― sarahell, Sunday, 25 July 2021 07:35 (two years ago) link
Everett True stans for Brand …. and Brand replies!https://everetttest.wordpress.com/2021/07/22/sixty-for-60-27-sarah-brand/
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 25 July 2021 09:09 (two years ago) link
lol this is awesome.
― pomenitul, Sunday, 25 July 2021 09:26 (two years ago) link
If the Rebecca Black connection question is directed at me, there's none.
I just thought here was the best place to put it *shrugs*
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 25 July 2021 12:09 (two years ago) link
A lot of people outside of these walls are making a Rebecca Black connection, whether justified or not.
― mike t-diva, Sunday, 25 July 2021 12:39 (two years ago) link
Ah, I see
― Maresn3st, Sunday, 25 July 2021 12:45 (two years ago) link
Rebecca Black was a teenager who sang a banal song written for her by a commercial song factory, with extreme use of digital pitch correction. Sarah Brand is a grad student writing and performing her own songs and directing her own videos, trying to say something about religion and society, with a very unpolished voice to which she chooses not to apply any digital correction.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Sunday, 25 July 2021 12:57 (two years ago) link
There's a similar 'cringe' fascination for a lot of online viewers/listeners but it goes no further than that. They're opposites in some ways.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Sunday, 25 July 2021 13:00 (two years ago) link