Vocal Coach reacts to Michael Jackson - Billie Jean

Hello, and welcome to Beth Roars, where we look at your favorite singers to find out what makes them them. This is a sponsor vote winner and the song is a classic. Of course, I've heard this song before, but I haven't seen this performance live. but i think this might be the greatest showman the griffin ended at the wrong time maybe times are up but that's funny hmm i used to have a sparkly jacket like that i loved it so you think it's weird to become so iconic um i'm not sure, correct me if I'm wrong, but I think the initial use had to do with his vitiligo, which is a really cool thing to become a trademark feature, but you know what he did with that and uh, he did something evil, it's hot again, iconic, he just managed to make everything iconic hmm, everything is so thought out down to the last detail, hmm, wow, it's so good, anyway he does it, okay, before we know it, I know this baseline is iconic, the dance moves are It's very iconic, but before he starts singing, it's very interesting because everything is so sharp with his dance moves and it's so focused on the rhythm, it's so crisp and you know , that's exactly what their voice is like, they're crisp, they're direct, they're crisp. they're full of consonants and that's why they come together so well I think that's important and I often find that with musicians the people who play the guitar play the guitar in a similar way to them, it's not once you find your authentic voice. it runs through all your art, whether it's dancing or singing or playing an instrument or maybe I would paint a castle like I paint, I don't know something a little pointy, it does something amazing, like making little sounds, it sounds like part of the musical part. of the singing and it doesn't give you much room to breathe, but it makes the breathing part of the singing again, which is a really, really interesting thing, and actually that little hiccup at the beginning is something that I think maybe started it. with some country singers and people like Buddy Holly and he took the idea very, very far and turned it into something very unique.

I mean, it obviously started within a very rb or old school rb genre and had a very specific style.

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five and completely reinvented his voice, the way he sang and did something completely different, it had those elements, but he took things to the extreme. I am trying to make it. Mother always told me: do you know what's so amazing? doing things that are very technical, like his incredibly balanced mix that he's had since he was a kid and this ability to be so precise, his singing is incredibly precise, just like his movement is so precise and those consonants, everything is really like he.

I can tell he's the kind of guy who, and I mean, you know from his background, they made him work very, very hard, but he's really trained himself, but he's still embodied a lot of that training, he's embodied both his style and He's taken those things that you learn when you're trained like you know we want to have good diction, we want to have a good mix and he's taken them even further and with that being the case, okay, you want me to have these things. , I will do that. I'll show you good diction and it's so precise that he's turned his voice into something between a singer and a beatboxer.

He is fantastic and at the same time feels so incredibly natural. He embodies it in such a way that he has simply become it. it's him, it's an expression of who he is in every way, like just his legs doing the little thing, they're just doing it like, oh yeah, it's very natural, but can you imagine how much work it takes to make your legs work? You're a little wavy thing, yes, I must sing it, no, I'm sorry, and then play with textures. People always told me, don't you think it's amazing that he? I mean, as far as I know, this is based on a real life story. that went through um and became this pop hit that it's like you want to follow it, but actually the lyrics are like that happened to you and you're dealing with, I guess it was a court case, I don't know.

I know a lot about it, but it's a big emotional event and then turning it into something that feels so good again, it's kind of an expression of it, like this ability to put on a celebrity face, something that so many people have to do. I also have to think about how incredible it is that it's just him on stage and all these people, but you're completely caught up in him and his charisma and his movement and his concentration and he's completely in every moment that you don't. falls off. his approach at all and that's really hard, it's like he just lives in those moments, there it is, hey, wow, you know, a lot of people ask me, not necessarily like Michael Jackson, but how can I become an artist like that? what makes icons? there with him, I mean a very talented one that we saw as a child, he sang so incredibly well, he has a fantastic instrument that he naturally had a lot of control over, but then he trained hard as if he had clearly trained him.

He's like an absolute athlete to be able to do this physically and

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ly and then in the end he's just taken things that people usually say, don't do that in your singing and made them more, maybe taken the limitations of it. maybe, um, the things that he was trained to do and he took things to the extreme to make this really unusual sound, um, and you have to be brave enough to really live out the idiosyncrasies of your voice to be an icon like the what do you have. to be correct my voice sounds like this I'm doing it and I'm going to do it with all my energy because this is the true expression of who I am and it works um and I don't think many of us, I mean I don't know if I can get to that place.

I mean, definitely not like Michael Jackson, it's very difficult to get to that place where you can truly be one hundred percent present in every moment expressing your true authentic self, that's why he was a genius, he's so incredible beyond anyone else. artist that ever existed, it was really a showman's mistake, wasn't it like the 80's and 90's and showing women was so strange but for some reason it's a bit evil? It's so weird, imagine if you saw a guy dancing, I don't know where you're going to dance like in a club like that, you'd be like what and all of a sudden, like Michael Jackson was doing this on stage and you're like, cool, I don't know how.

It's, there's something beyond, you have to be so comfortable going against the grain, I think being different from everyone else and that's a scary place for most of us, the chair makes a little beatbox sound like Icelandic, a chant of throat, so wow, Michael Jackson was an incredibly fascinating personality, no doubt, and because of all that controversy, I just want to focus on the music, but musically and performance-wise, there's no doubt that's beyond what most humans can do like me. I can't think of many other singers who are able to hold your attention for 10 minutes in such an amazing way.

Just a human being standing on that stage with all that energy and power. Is incredible. Thanks for watching. I hope you enjoyed it, please. like and subscribe and see you next time