Sarah Brand

we love sarah brand now, basically

*points gun* always have done

SARAH IS TEARING US APART

looks like quite a few more time bombs await on the full album

Album Tracks (...coming soon...)

Red Dress (single & music video: July 7th)
Fantasy (single & music video: June 15th)
How Do I Explain
American Gap Rap
Breaking Down
Cliches
Movie Screen
Cr@zy
The Critics Lie
Anyplace
The Fig Tree
(Rainbow)
EyEs

I can see the storms brewing in your eyes, forks.

American Gap Rap

welp it was fun while it lasted

oh come on, that is by far the most exciting track on that list
milkshakes for everyone

"The Critics Lie (like kites)"

Imagine being the person that has to mix those tracks. Hand on the mouse, hovering over the Melodyne Plug-In as you silently weep.

ok, after listening to the interview I am also now On Team Sarah, however not to the extent of actually wanting to listen to her music.

ILM precovers surely

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-58047513.amp

Basically, they've found her and she answers the question.....

wow what a head-fake!

I note that she does not say if the song was related to her academic work.

if she's singing deliberately poorly as an artistic statement related to the 'outsider' theme of her lyrics then that's really good because of how strange a move it is

There are also the non–Red Dress songs where her singing is just as weird, so…(?)

She doesn't know how to sing and is cleverly making the best of it.

(btw, she has an awesome attitude)

She doesn't know how to sing and is cleverly making the best of it.

Yeah, she's completely upfront. xps:

She admitted to the BBC that she is "no professional singer".

She added: "The style in which I sing the song was important because it reflected the story.
"The vocals don't seem to quite fit, they seem out of place and they make people uncomfortable... and the video is this outsider doing things differently and causing discomfort and eliciting all this judgement."

Unless all of her songs are sung from the point of view of an "outsider doing things differently and causing discomfort", it's an ex post facto justification - but I still love the way she's fronting.

otm

Well I was expecting something unlistenable but this is quite pleasant. I like her voice.

It extent of the kerfuffle really does say something about expectations, in terms of how little pitch deviation is allowed into pop productions, and maybe in how it's been further discovered in the context of being "bad." It might be pushing it slightly but it's not *that* bad and I think it is actually enjoyable. Old man says this is infinitely preferable to excessive autotune.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1ptQatdjOFM

I mean, whether you like it or not is absolutely a subjective thing but I maintain that "has the ability to match and maintain pitch in the context of a non-dissonant backing track" isn't an unreasonable expectation to have of a pop singer.

Sure, but what remains is the response to that expectation being somewhat confounded.

Unless all of her songs are sung from the point of view of an "outsider doing things differently and causing discomfort", it's an ex post facto justification - but I still love the way she's fronting.

The dissonance can still work that way even when it's not the lyrical theme. I think the way she uses it in "Fantasy" has a surreal quality, which again fits.

Old man says this is infinitely preferable to excessive autotune.

OTM

I mean, DJP is right, of course - I wouldn't want every singer to sound like this - and this only works because there is a norm that this is defying.

She's also only a 'pop singer' in the broad sense of the term that would also include Danielson Famile's singers. These are self-released indie songs.

Well she also covered a Taylor Swift song in the same "style." I guess if it works for someone in that context, it works anywhere.

Taylor Swift's own s/t-Fearless-era live performances not always a model of "matching and maintaining" pitch tbf.

trying to mimic the awkwardness of t-shirt wearing bleacher dwellers iirc

haha

sarah bland

She's back!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cITvIxVNAN0

on brand

Exaggerated Autotune abuse does seem like a good response to the previous flak but still not sure what to make of this; I think I want either the rapping to be better or the production to be more mental.

while she is clearly going for another shitpost, this one isn't weirdly pleasant to listen to

too boxy and irregular to be passed without a bit of tearing

doctor said that when i was born

lightning not gonna strike twice here. whatever her intent was, she's now In On The Joke

Actually I quite like it now, it does get pretty mad by the end

Wow, this only happened six months ago and my brain had already scrubbed all memory of the phenomenon

A marketing genius at work (the question posed at bottom came up as a notification; clicking it led to this, an autoplay video)

https://i.imgur.com/YTNoj1v_d.webp?maxwidth=640&shape=thumb&fidelity=medium

oh god no

She’s really leaning into a particular angle now

(YouTube keeps showing me these clips, I must’ve “subscribed” to her channel)

this is not good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PzIB9ty-Dp0

The song isn’t, but the video’s pretty well done

haven't watched it yet