My FIRST TIME Hearing BTS! "Fix You" (Coldplay Cover) - MTV Unplugged

hello everyone and welcome to another reaction and analysis of the base singer today we are going to see the presentation of bts fix you originally by

coldplay

on mtv

unplugged

presents bts now actually I just watched this is the

first

time

I see this video but I saw that scream dumb For the dumb gang, I saw you made a video of this today and obviously I didn't watch yours because it'll be a

first

for me, but I just saw it and I was like, you know what I want to do? But I want to make a video because the original is one of my favorite pieces of all

time

.

An absolutely stunning beautiful piece from Coldplay. I did it with my group in college called exit 245. It also works really well as an acapella arrangement, so I thought. You know what, let's go ahead and dive into this. I think it's going to be really interesting and I don't know anything about BTS other than that, I know they're a global sensation right now, but as far as the singers, their voices, I don't know. I know this group so basically I'm listening to you guys for the first time too guys please like the video subscribe to the channel it's free it takes no time it really helps my channel grow and if you are enjoying this content yeah They are learning something.

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I will leave the gofundme in the description below and would really appreciate any donations that could help me. with this project and do it as best as possible and without further ado, let's go ahead and set the clock ticking. We have about 25 minutes to break down this video and let's see how bts acts, fixes you, oh I was there for a few seconds. go back to the beginning, take the first chord, so first, before you start singing, let's see where we are. The original is E flat major. It's okay, it's very naughty. I think they're half a step up, so it looks like BTS is doing this halfway. a step up from the original, maybe the vocals are right for that, maybe there's a copyright issue that's hard to say and it starts very similar to how the original starts, we have some kind of organ-like instrument , it sounds like it's a synthesizer created organ like an electronic organ of some kind, but we have an organ sound and there's also a sense of lightness to this instrumentation, it almost sounds like some kind of flute placed on top of the organ. listen to that sound and I'll let it play until they start singing and you most likely won't be able to hear this in your mono version, but if you listen to this original video you can hear this kind of back and forth, panning between the two ears just to give it a little bit of atmosphere and reach to the soundscape trapped in a river oh, very good, okay, so we have a very nice head voice, very light, very light, singing in E major up to G sharp four in The lead voice is it keeps it very light, which is exactly where the original starts and how I think this piece should start in any version because it gives you somewhere to go and anyone who knows this

cover

or the original knows we have a great climax.

The song we're heading into once the electric guitar comes in really becomes a bigger choir-like kind of sound where I hope to be everything I think seven voices in this group are going to go full speed on. . really give it that gravity um originally made by uh what's yours? He's English, the original singer of uh, for Coldplay, um, American or English, so obviously there's a language barrier here, but I can clearly tell that he's very intelligible and I mean I'm. we're going to take on radically different languages ​​in terms of phonetically what the languages ​​sound like, what these singers grew up speaking natively versus singing in English, whether it's American or British, whatever, so they're doing a great job with a barrier. of the very radical language, apart from the fact that it is easy to understand the words they say, so we take our hats off, let's go back and, in fact, we will continue moving forward.

We have a pretty long song, originally about five minutes, so unless they do something crazy and shorten it, I haven't, I can't spend as much time as I'd like, but I'll make sure to hit the highlights here talking about his vocalism , so he's starting that sentence on his chest, star stem voice stuck and then he turns around as he goes up stuck in reverse I do it sooner because I'm a base so I would turn around sooner naturally you can hear him turn towards the head voice Now in the chest voice it's already an airy, breathy quality, so there's not as much of a dramatic change as if you were, you know, playing hard on your chest voice and then going up to your head voice where there would be a clear distinction. between chest and falsetto singing, both are both methods that this singer is using are nice. choppy and smooth, so it's a smoother transition than you might get otherwise, listen as it rises here it maintains a similar quality throughout.

I really like how they are spreading the solo and they even had a duet moment. where they were they only sang one octave so we had someone singing more in the baritone register you could feel that low resonance in the voice a little more maybe that singer normally sings the lower harmonies um it just sounded more baritone timbral e and then we went up the octave again, they all adopt this kind of intimate, breathy-in-the-ear singing, which I think makes a lot of sense for the first verse of this piece, but I like that they're passing the solo. around, I think it's a great way to do it, keep it interesting so we keep

hearing

different voices even if everyone sings similarly, you know, voice is like fingerprint, everyone has a unique voice color and quality that you wouldn't have.

Not imitate, I mean people, some people are very good at imitating voices. You can imitate people who do that, but everyone has a unique color and quality to their voice. It's very interesting about the human voice in that way, so it's cool. to listen to all these different singers, even when you approach vocalism the same way, you can still hear clear differences and naturally how their voices sound and let's go on, we're in about a minute now let's go back a few seconds here. Wow, we have the lead vocal here, a purple microphone and we have harmonies that happen in the left and right ear, but I thought this was the only person singing, that means they already have harmonies on record, so I think let me give me a fact .

Check it out here, yes, so there is one person singing, but you can clearly hear additional voices singing harmonies in the left and right ear. If you watch the original, if not, you'll hear it right in the middle if you're watching my video. So that's it. It's interesting that they recorded harmonies in previous layers even though there are seven singers there who could sing both harmonies completely, not that they're strident or anything that interesting, an interesting choice in this performance, a little more chest voice comes through . To keep the singing breathy, the little piano is very nice, very similar to the original so far in terms of instrumentation and style, I just want to be cool, so we have a piano in addition to this synth organ, of course we have a guitar.

I don't know if there's a live band somewhere or this is all pre-recorded with whoever they're singing. I can not say no. They're just showing the singers. There seem to be two or three singers happening at any given time. This time they're doing it directly in octaves, so they did it for a piece of that first verse, but now there's a consistent baritone octave below the tenor octave, which adds to the additional instrumentation of the instrument. I'm just adding a little more spice, a little more meat to this version as they add vocals. It's moving further away from the downward strip and closer to a wall of sound.

There is still a long way to go until we reach a wall of sound. but I'm just talking about one step in that direction of kind of a full sound, so let's back up a few seconds and yeah, let's move on. I'm really enjoying this so far, it's very similar to the original, very simplified, you know? We are doing a great job with him and singing very in tune live, which is very good, so let's talk more about this singer, using more vocality instead of the previous singers who go directly into pitch for the most part, this one singer is adopting a movement towards the pitch that changes the delivery, you know, it changes the vibe of the singing here, so just listen to this, the singer starts below the pitch and kind of goes up towards the pitch, just a slide there, um , obviously.

An artistic choice in this case, not that it's a difficult vocal line to do for any of these talented singers, so sometimes the paddle can be used as a handicap to singing if the singer isn't comfortable going straight up to pitch. . and starting right in the middle, but I don't think that's the case here. I think this is just an artistic choice and again, you know, adding a little bit of variety and contrast between all these singers, yet the baritone octave also tries to fix. I like that harmony, so it was three singers, which I think is the most we've had so far, they're really pumping the brakes here to make this work, which is great, we'll add this, let's We're about to get a great contrast if you follow the lead of the original, there's that guitar, come on, come on, how not to look awkward sitting on stage while it's happening, that requires mature performers, come on, so that's pretty much it so far.

It's very similar to the original, all the instrumentation, all the vocalism, but I guess I can't remember exactly what the harmony situation is like in the original. We have our lead singer, oh god, I should really know his name. I have seen it. I've seen him perform live, I really should know that Cole plays under the singer's name, so comment below, update my reality, I'll probably add it in post-production of this video, but it's very similar to the original, so I already know on the

cover

s. I often like it when a group takes their own original song, puts together the core of it and then puts their own spin on it, really making it their own so far, this is really just a kind of vocal cover, even if it's pretty done. well and of course with very nice vocals uh shown here um but but so far there hasn't been anything radically different from the original which I like, personally I like to see in covers uh that's why the voice reproduction at the moment is probably My group favorite acapella is because their arrangements are absurdly creative and they always take risks, they always take artistic risks when they do covers both on the audio engineering side and on the arrangement side, the vocal side and even when they put together videos they do it. things that you wouldn't expect like fun things um so that's a big thing that I stand for and covers um what I'm trying to do more now with my music is really get the core of the original but do it.

It's mine, it's something Tommy P does very well. Shout out to tommy p, wonderful producer, arranger and acapella singer, um, so we're not getting that kind of creative twist on this version, we're actually just getting a straight vocal version of this one. Original Coldplay, which is already a masterpiece, it's just a beautiful ballad, sad, heartbreaking but beautiful, so that's more the vibe of this, here are the vocals, okay, stealthy vocals, here we go, that's what I was waiting. High C sharp i and I think so, this is what I was waiting for for the kind of climax of this song, we have several singers happening, we have the drums, we have this electric guitar, we have all the instrumentation and now we have singers singing. high chest voice high belt voice, I think this singer just went up to a C sharp, so half a step above high C tenor, which is very, very high, I mean, it's called high C tenor for one reason, a very high belt, so I love that now we're getting close to this wall of sound that you have to have in this song unless, like I said, you're going to give it a crazy twist where you strip it completely away. and you turn it.

It's kind of like a chamber choir, but if you're going to play it, sing it like the original, this is this moment, it has to be big, this climax of the song has to be a climax, so I'm happy to see them doing that performance that turns your face so that the singer would stay in more of what I would call a voi mix or a mixed voice or a reinforced lead voice or reinforced falsetto the first thing that went up to that c f five when I did it I think with a full chest or a mix with a lot of chest this sounded more like a mixed voice when this singer came upthere the singer here second from the left with the bright blue microphone is a little more mixed not quite like not quite so much weight in the sound here we go and we finish it like the original also very stripped down one voice the drums are gone most of the instrumentation is gone i have what's left of the piano only the pixu piano remains and we're still in my major half a step up from the original i liked some vocalism here this singer was adding a bit of scoop and vocal fry to show a little more fragility and vulnerability in the voice instead of doing something robust to end the song, it makes sense to leave us here in this vulnerable place at the end of this ballad and things like that.

Things like that, like making the voice intentionally weak and a little bit vulnerable, it sounds very nice, a very nice touch and I love when artists are willing to get vulnerable with their voice because it adds a lot to a performance, we want to feel it, you know, we want songs. so to make us cry, this song has certainly made me cry at one time or another and we get that from the type of vocalism that makes these singers human, you know, it takes them off this pedestal as superstars and makes them relatable and that's what it's so powerful in pop music, especially because it reaches so many people and, um, you can do vocalizations like this, especially when you have a microphone and amplification, you don't have to worry about the volume, it's really a great thing about this guy from Oh, no applause, I always like it when we see the applause at the end of our performance.

Okay, that was it and I actually think you know what it was. I wasn't sure what they were going to do with it if they made a really complicated cover, it would have been hard to break down everything that happened that was different from the original, but this was pretty much the same bar for bar as the original song in terms instrumentation and vocally, we also had some extras. harmonies, I think because obviously we have a lot more singers here seven, I think that's right, you know, a couple of octaves happened that I don't think happened in the original but overall, very similar to the original, well executed, amazing work with the language barrier, that's a big career, I work with a lot of Asian singers and Asian American singers in the opera world and you know, going from something like Mandarin to English or Mandarin to Italian is radically different, that's a huge language barrier that those singers have to deal with and the singers like it. singers like me, don't you know, American singers, English singers, they face a barrier to a smell bigger than French Italian or something like that.

When we sing in Russian, we just did a Russian opera by Eugene about Negan in this at the institution I'm at and it's very difficult to learn how to pronounce Russian correctly and learn what you're saying. You know, we worked with several very high-level Russian coaches to make sure that we really sounded Russian when singing in Russian because that's very important in opera. speak fluently even if you're not and know what you're singing even if you're not, so I will always respect anyone who faces a big language barrier, that's a huge, huge difficulty that I don't think is the elderly.

People can appreciate it until you've had to deal with it or you know how to sing in another language especially when you have to know so clearly what you're saying that you can convey the emotions as if it were in your original or native language. tongue um anyway guys this was bts performance fix you on mtv

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i think this was about a year ago this came out another shout out to kufi and the kufi gang just for showing up on my feed and now I'm going to go see what he said about it because I wanted to make sure this was the first time. um yeah guys thank you so much for tuning in if you're still here.

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