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I'm going to be reacting to ariana grande performing God as a woman at the VMA Awards
Actually looks live
That run at the end is so cool
I really like her use of n in this woman every time at the end of it. She really buzzes through her ends
She doesn't stop halfway through she keeps her vibrations from her vocal cords going all the way through
It's like The Last Supper
From what I've heard from her spoken voice her spoken voice is usually a little bit breathier and rough when she goes to start
singing it becomes super clear because her vocal cords are coming together. In singing we have control over three things:  air
muscle and vowel. We want to move a little bit of air past these muscles and that's what makes frequency or buzz
She doesn't do that quite as much in her spoken voice
but in this
She's doing it quite often in her lower range and that's setting her up so that her high notes are gonna be very easy.
That's right on her bridge and it's not pulled it's not excessively loud it's not really chesty it's not hoarse it's a nice mix.
It's connected. So it's not completely flipping into her head voice
that's a hard note to sing like that and she's doing it well because she's keeping her chords together that little bit and
She's using good vowels which are just spoken vowels.
It sounds like the work the way that she's
pronouncing her words for this she would also use if she was just speaking the words in a sentence.
This is some of the most consistent singing I've seen her do actually.
That was interesting she kind of flipped.
She didn't - it wasn't a complete flip
but you heard how she got
softer as she went up into the high part and then the second time that she went up there
she leaned into it a little bit more because she didn't flip that first time her cords were still together and so it wasn't
hard to start leaning into that sound she was able to just use the same coordination from before and make it more intense.
That stage is so awesome.
She's singing, Uh all the way through it. It's a great palette for her.
And she's able to do these movements
I mean they're not the hardest dancing that I've ever seen but she's able to move really well with her voice
Because the air is very consistent. It's not a varied amount of air
She always knows what she's gonna need breath wise and then she can dance around it
If the rate of her breath was really variable
It would be harder to start dancing because her body wouldn't be have something constant to anticipate as she's dancing
That was awesome.
Yeah, that was a very consistent very
professional performance. I mean she was obviously singing she was able to move with it
Her voice was in a very balanced place. So that that high
E-flat up and whistle voice was not difficult for there wasn't very much tension in her voice.
You could see her pushing her jaw forward a little bit
I think that if I was working with her
That would be my main goal is just to make sure that she can at least do things without that jaw tension.
But she's able to do it and maybe that some of how she's getting her style is just by manipulating
her jaw and tongue making them a little bit tense for a purpose
and as long as it's not
preventing her from doing the things that she's wanting and it's obviously not. She's singing really high and she's singing very clear and she sings
pretty consistently across all of her performances maybe getting rid of that tension isn't the most important thing
But I do believe that you can create the same sounds that she's looking for without that kind of tension
And she's probably working on it if it actually is a problem for her. Thank you for watching.
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