{"id":166137,"date":"2021-02-24T07:55:24","date_gmt":"2021-02-24T12:55:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=166137"},"modified":"2021-02-24T08:03:34","modified_gmt":"2021-02-24T13:03:34","slug":"haley-reinhart-is-a-phenom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=166137","title":{"rendered":"Haley Reinhart is a phenom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Here she is, in what she is most famous for &#8211; her cover of Radiohead&#8217;s &#8220;Creep&#8221; &#8211; a performance that has 91 million (and counting) views on YouTube. Like, those are Eminem numbers. She&#8217;s not a superstar. How on earth does someone not in the mainstream get 91 million views for one performance on YouTube? Well, here&#8217;s why. <\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/m3lF2qEA2cw\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nThis is a live take (or, at least, her vocals are). She did it in one. It may have even been the first take. I am sure her fans will set me straight if I get it wrong because her fans are intensely devoted.<\/p>\n<p>She works a lot with Vintage Postmodern Jukebox, a project where singers re-interpret pop\/rock classics into blues\/jazz\/standard-ish forms. There&#8217;s a lot out there, sometimes hit or miss &#8211; but this &#8230; this is a hit. What I like about this performance is &#8230; just like the singers of old &#8211; and it&#8217;s not so much in vogue now because everything is so technologically advanced there&#8217;s not a chance for this kind of singing to really develop &#8211; is that her voice is another instrument in the band &#8211; she&#8217;s an instrument herself &#8211; the music speaks to her and she speaks back. This is like Ella\/Dino stuff. She understands music. She&#8217;s not just a good singer. She understands music. <\/p>\n<p>What I also like about it is it starts at one level &#8211; then it explodes &#8211; then she brings it back down &#8211; then she brings it up again &#8211; and when she explodes again it&#8217;s at a higher level than the prior explosion &#8211; and then when she brings it up AGAIN, it goes even bigger than that. She doesn&#8217;t give it all away from the jump. She MODULATES her performance, in other words. She is in total control over it: when she uses vibrato, when she doesn&#8217;t, when she hits a note straight on, when she adds trills &#8211; when she goes falsetto, when she belts, when she gets the RASP in her voice &#8211; she chooses it all. You see the issue with some young singers: the whole damn thing is a trill. They forget about the song they&#8217;re singing. <\/p>\n<p>Here she is performing &#8220;House of the Rising Sun.&#8221; This is almost 10 years ago. It&#8217;s eloquent to see her live, to see her in a less formal setting &#8211; because her talent is still there. She doesn&#8217;t need bells\/whistles. She IS bells\/whistles. <\/p>\n<p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pVtlBrGSIv8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\nThere&#8217;s more out there of her on YouTube performing live. She has a couple albums out. I am excited she&#8217;s found a place for that &#8211; as an INTERPRETER of songs. This used to be how it was. Everyone sang the same songs. Ella. Frank. Judy. Nobody was writing their own stuff. It was a given that everyone would sing the same songs, and you can hear Ella&#8217;s &#8220;take&#8221;, or Judy&#8217;s &#8220;take.&#8221; This is not the world we live in now, except for anomalies like Michael Buble and\/or Robbie Williams. Anyone with a marginally good voice and marginally good looks is shoe-horned into a pre-constructed aesthetic\/sound. Haley Reinhart hasn&#8217;t gone that route. <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m a big fan. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here she is, in what she is most famous for &#8211; her cover of Radiohead&#8217;s &#8220;Creep&#8221; &#8211; a performance that has 91 million (and counting) views on YouTube. Like, those are Eminem numbers. She&#8217;s not a superstar. 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