First I'll say that publicity due to this album is how I discovered Renee Fleming and I'm better for it, fantastic voice. That said, this just feels so weird. I guess because when I hear the original, it's in the context of the album, which I think is about kidnapping and stockholm syndrome. From what I've heard of Dark Hope, it doesn't showcase Renee's voice well at all, she's singing out of her range and there isn't the intimacy of the original artists' recordings. At least she tries though.
I don't even know who Cedric is and haven't heard him do it...so...I'm impartial. Coming to Renee with an un-biased ear, this is a great art piece and she did a great job with it. People don't "own" songs. Art is free to be interpreted by everyone.
OK. So here we have Renée Fleming with a full lyric soprano voice, who won the Swedish Polar music price. Conductor Sir Georg Solti have said of Fleming: "In my long life, I have met maybe two sopranos with this quality of singing", All this according to wikipedia. Now don't get me wrong, Renée does a good cover of this song. But what do we say about Cedric when we state that he sings it way better?
@ladyvelkor There's a difference between saying that one song or one version of a song is better, and saying that one person sings it better than another.
Cedric > Renee
leomack665 1 month ago 4
First I'll say that publicity due to this album is how I discovered Renee Fleming and I'm better for it, fantastic voice. That said, this just feels so weird. I guess because when I hear the original, it's in the context of the album, which I think is about kidnapping and stockholm syndrome. From what I've heard of Dark Hope, it doesn't showcase Renee's voice well at all, she's singing out of her range and there isn't the intimacy of the original artists' recordings. At least she tries though.
oldschoolcaddilac 4 months ago
I don't even know who Cedric is and haven't heard him do it...so...I'm impartial. Coming to Renee with an un-biased ear, this is a great art piece and she did a great job with it. People don't "own" songs. Art is free to be interpreted by everyone.
lisat13able 8 months ago
pretty faithful cover actually. didn't expect that.
valmurah1 10 months ago
Good cover, alas, slightly dissapointing (or my expectations were too high, probably).
SuicideSandwich 1 year ago
she has a great voice, but sounds retarded singing in english
dpuknowme 1 year ago
i like cedric's voice(:
pinkpop91764 1 year ago
not bad
but...
cedric cedric!
setaboy 1 year ago 3
I actually like the violin and guitar a lot. I prefer Cedric's vocal delivery a lot more though.
psychopomp88 1 year ago
OK. So here we have Renée Fleming with a full lyric soprano voice, who won the Swedish Polar music price. Conductor Sir Georg Solti have said of Fleming: "In my long life, I have met maybe two sopranos with this quality of singing", All this according to wikipedia. Now don't get me wrong, Renée does a good cover of this song. But what do we say about Cedric when we state that he sings it way better?
segdase 1 year ago 16
@segdase but cedric can't sing nearly so well in a live setting.
davidrush85 1 year ago
@segdase ...we're saying that there's more to music/art than technique? :)
ladyvelkor 11 months ago 12
@ladyvelkor There's a difference between saying that one song or one version of a song is better, and saying that one person sings it better than another.
squizz222 1 month ago
wow i'm the first to view this! i searched for i today and i was uploaded today. there seems to be some out-of-keyness here in the intro.
steviesaur 1 year ago
@steviesaur It's more bent than the original. Imagine that!
jmarsvolta 1 year ago