A music student's perspective on RYV -- i didn't write this

As a former student of Interlochen Arts Academy-which is considered to be the top Arts High School in the country, and whose former students make up 20% if this year's freshman class at Julliard-I must say I can't wait for this film to come out so that I can bash Hillary Duff to a hilt. Any one who has every been to real art school would realize that pop singing is so beneath the quality and talent of a classically trained voice, that is cannot be called singing at all.

I can sing with no microphone, no auto-tune, no back-ups in front of an audience of 5000 people and they all would be able to hear me and to hear that every note would be in pitch. This is what real vocal training does, people. You won't hear it in Britney Spears's voice, and you certainly won't hear it with Hillary Duff, Avril Lavigne, the Simpsons, Christina Aguilara, Kelly Clarkston, Beonce' or any other so-called pop "artist". Just so that you know, if any girl would have broken out in a pop or gospel song at Interlochen, we would have thrown things at her and told her to take some real music lessons. We wouldn't have crowded around her and cooed over how beautiful her voice was. Anybody can sing pop music, can she sing the Queen of the Night aria from The Magic Flute by Mozart?

That's what they really teach in art schools-not this pop crap. Give me a break, people. This music is so fake that I can't call it anything but trash. When Tyra Banks, Paris Hilton and Jennifer Love Hewitt all insist that they can "sing", I say that auto-tune probably produces more singing voices of today than their vocal chords do. Oh, and if you think that their concerts are performed "live"-you've got another thing coming. I've been in the recording studio before, and believe me, they have just as much tech. on their voice in concert as they do on their albums.

Give it a break Hillary-I don't care if you are 16, or any other age. Your voice is immature, undeveloped, and untrained. I could sing arias at ten with natural vibrato, I sounded like you when I was eight and every girl who was in school with me could sing Whitney's Houston's "I will always love you" while suffering from Laryngitis and still sound like Whitney Houston. Could you?

[i love love]

What is RYV in the first place, and why did you post it here? Just wondering, does it actually have something to do with a movie release? Otherwise it's just some rambling stuffed-shirt's self-absorbed remarks.

[SilverSpoon]

RYV = Raise Your Voice, Hilary Duff's new movie about her becoming some kinda of singer at some performing arts school.

Whoever wrote that is a douche bag

[i_survived_disturbia]

Actually, I read the whole article and I didn't like it at all. Why couldn't a performing arts school have pop music? I like Hilary Duff. I think she is a good singer and actress. [img]smile.gif[/img]

Originally posted by T w E a K:
Whoever wrote that is a douche bag

[ October 25, 2004, 07:10 PM: Message edited by: horse_lover_girl15 ]

Originally posted by horse_lover_girl15:
Why couldn't a performing arts school have pop music?

Exactly,

I find it funny how they basically had a hater write that review, too bad they didn't want someone who was in love with her to tell them about it.

:(

Oh we gotta get Spscott up in here.

[Sk8er gurl]

or mxer ;)

[i love love]

Hehehe, Hilary Duff, no wonder I wasn't familiar with these useless initials. Right up there with Ashlee Simpson's singing talents, or lack thereof. [img]graemlins/wacked.gif[/img]

[darko.]

who cares if she can sing...what is more important to people? "genie in a bottle" or "queen of the night" aria?

'nuff said.

You won't meet many classically trained singers who can do the "Queen of the Night" either. Its incredibly difficult, only top sopranos will get it.

Im not a fan of manufactured pop, but if it appeals to people, go with it.

[i love love]

Originally posted by d@rko:
who cares if she can sing...what is more important to people? "genie in a bottle" or "queen of the night" aria?

'nuff said.

Important to what people may be more to the point. Opera fans will obviously differ from the pop fans. Which sells, where's the numbers? The only aria I prefer is Giovanni. I compare operas to watching paint dry. [img]graemlins/upside.gif[/img]