VI. MEMORO DE LA STONO FEAT. SUSAN CALLOWAY

DISTANT WORLDS CHICAGO 12/12/09
Playlist http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p=9A0D592B58FEFDB4

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Final
• Fantasy
• Distant
• Worlds
• Nobuo
• Uematsu
• Susan
• Calloway

[riznich]

not the most accurate performance a little too fast and obvious mistakes.. also the original singer is better

[jpnn80]

@riznich If you are referring to the japanese version, I don't see how you can find its singer's voice and english better...

[riznich]

@jpnn80 because i'm not closed minded and ignorant to other cultures and styles. the japanese singer is much more intimate and genuine to the song, how it's supposed to be sung, chosen by the composer for a reason..where as this girl just sounds like any mtv pop singer clone on the radio and ruins the intimate emotion by belting out every note. this whole performance however is just simply played too fast and poorly.

[jpnn80]

@riznich Well it's interesting you're mentionning that the singer is chosen by the composer, since it is Nobuo Uematsu himself who chose Susan, and not only for this live but also for the 2 lives in San Francisco. Also keep in mind that depending on the ambient mood, a live interpretation of the same song can have different tones and speed. Which can either please people as they discover a new version suiting their taste or not like in your opinion, which I respect.

[jpnn80]

@riznich BTW I hope you were not implying that unlike you I'm close-minded or ignorant to other cultures and styles, since you would be wrong as I come from an asian family, I have been watching anime, studied a bit of japanese language and listening to all styles of music from Japan for 15 years.

[syaorankun017]

@BloodyScreams I agree with you

[BloodyScreams]

This is WAY too fast.

[paulsky1]

@riznich Also her voice is beautiful ( sorry for reopening this but I feel I wanna say something) I recently attended the London concert and I had to tell her how beautiful her voice was ^_^. So please even though its your opinion many here have disagreed ^_^ and so do I and this track is one of my favourites from the concert :). Just enjoy the incredible music or go.

[alejandro31192]

@justa16thnote yes, romance are languages that come from Latin, but esperanto is also Slavic and German based, not only Latin.

Yes, you're right, her English is not the best, but it a nice try. But there's lot of people that speak very good and without accent, and therefore can sing in their non-native language if they want so. Moreover, usually people like accents of a singer in a song. Shakira has a spanish accent and sings in English too. I don't see any problem there. GOOD NIGHT!

[justa16thnote]

@alejandro31192 Romance is latin based... THe orignal singer, Izumi Masuda, did not do a good job singing in english. I prefer Susan Calloway, an english speaker, singing the song in her native language. NO mistakes. Honestly, I think the best person to sing a song in a language should be a native speaker, Esperanto being the exception because there are only a handful of native speakers.

[alejandro31192]

@justa16thnote and I said, and repeat that Esperanto is not a latin based language, its grammar it's VERY different to Spanish or French and very similar to Chinese or English. It's based on indoeuropean languages, Romance, Germanic and Slavic.

So spanish people singing English is not fine, or singing Russian... If they can pronounce it well, why not?

Why redundant? You don't need an English native speaker to sing a song in English. Also, the creator of Final Fantasy is Japanese.

[Alchemical]

People are so stupid. Take a music course and you'll know it's up to the conductor how the song is preformed. Tempo is rarely something set in stone, generally it's given a ballpark range (ie. moderato, allegro and so on). The speed will vary based on who the performers are and what the director thinks is best. Since this show uses local orchestra as it travels, each show will sound a bit different.

[justa16thnote]

@alejandro31192

That's not what I said. I said that Esperanto, a latin based language, should be sung by people who sing in Latin based languages. Spanish people singing Esperanto is fine. Also, Distant worlds is originally in English but they had a Japanese singer sing it in English. Redundant don't you think?

[alejandro31192]

@justa16thnote Why everything has to be sing in English, ¿por qué no en español?

In Spain, I see lot of people singing in English and I don't complain.

You watch only once your people singing in another language and you complain? How dare you? It would be great to hear people singing in other languages, not only English.

[alejandro31192]

@justa16thnote Esperanto is not perfect, but it suits better than English. If a better planed language comes, then welcome. But a globalized world needs an easy language which don't destroy other's culture. Maybe you can't understand this, you certainly can only speak English. Why mistakes? their prononciation was great. Esperanto's grammar is similar to English language (and more similar to Swedish)

-AS =present; -I =infinitive; -OS =future, -IS=past

mi saltOS = I'll jump; li trinkAS= he drinks