Quite a stylistic pix, luv the bkgrd. Credit & thks to whoever took it @ davidcn. David attended strange variety kinda show in China over the weekend. He wore the orangy, stripy shirt, jeans & white jacket. Coming out he sang Small Town Girl & I wanna confessed sumthing here. Always thought the nasal way he sang this song was sorta 'engineered' in the studio but actually he can do it live. *shake head* why did I ever think that way?
Anyway after some silly antics by a chubby guy & 2 girls, they started to ask questions. They asked abt his unusual name & who gave to him. He said it was his granny & that she was an artist & so was able to give him such a meaningful name. Then they got him to sing sum lines of Moon over my hear & Spring Wind. He was in fine form. Then this girl wanted to know what his ideal gf *roll eyes* & he said must have character & be independent. He like girls with short hair cos it was harder to appear feminine. The main host praised him for being honest & going for character rather than looks.
Then the chubby guy said he wanted to sing his song & it was Liu Sha. David was surprised & said it was difficult. The guy kinda fluffed the opening heehee & David helped him; he was not bad but can see just imitating the way David sing not really singing but David was nice & harmonised for him. He sang 1 verse & bowed to David, kinda comical & David thought that was it but he carried on singing! In fact it was getting boring so David pitched in & demonstrated his voice gymnastics going high & low with such ease. It was so good although the chubby guy ruined it by his oooohhhhhh at the end kinda irritating. But David was vry gracious, after all he wrote the song haha. After that he confirmed that his concert starting in Aug & Shanghai could be first location.
So yeah it was funny show, can watch online @ davidcn but vry slow. As I watched, was thinking yes cannot be considered handsome. But David has that indefinable x factor that you just wanna reach out & hug him even kiss him hehehehehehehehehehe or maybe just me. Just love watching him talk, sing & move. Wish he can be a puppet that I can keep in a box so I can watch & listen to him all the time heehee.
Bloodbubble confirmed that MV session vcd available in Msia for RM26.90, thanks vry much. Advised u get the cheaper vcd. Finally for zoe who may not be able to watch Sprite mv, screen capture of girl swimming with David.
Pixs credit & much thanks to davidcn & davidfan
5 comments:
Zhao, i agree with you abt David's looks. In Chinese, I would say he's "nai kan". And when it comes to female beauty, I'll rather be "nai kan" than like stunning in the first instance (maybe I console myself on my looks only....ha! ha!).
There are some people who look really good at first and then the more you look at them, the more you think there's nothing special. There are others that are just the opposite. And David is just the kind of person who you'll like to keep on staring (not even look) at....hahahaha! =P
hi hi skybebe, glad u still around, yes, David kinda grows on ya hehehehehehe
Hi Zhaodi,
to quote you:
"Coming out he sang Small Town Girl & I wanna confessed sumthing here. Always thought the nasal way he sang this song was sorta 'engineered' in the studio but actually he can do it live. *shake head* why did I ever think that way?"
I haven't seen the particular clip, but although David certainly does sing this live, i think he uses a "vocoder" - a device that can give a voice a monotone (and other) qualities. I am sure he used one on soul power for small town girl, black tangerine, i'm ok and even on bastard (although I think he dropped the vocoder ion bastard later). Rehearsal footage shows him trying to get the same effect from a loud hailer, although it was too awkward (something I have seen REM using).
Stevie also uses a vocoder live with hilarious effect to make fun of himself doing "fingertips" as "little" Stevie Wonder, and also to imitate Michael Jackson on "I want you back".
btw - happy that Lucky got his t-shirt - although I can't help thinking that if david, unknown in LA, takes lucky for a walk and the dog actually wears the t-shirt, passers by would think "why is that bloke making his dog wear a t-shirt with a picture of himself on it"!
regards
Mark
Hi hi Mark, happy to see yr comment, haha, yeah it will be funny if he really get Lucky to wear the shirt. As for the 'vocoder', not sure if he was using one but when he talk to the audience his voice was normal, can you switch from nasal to normal using the 'vocoder'?
Hi Zhaodi,
I think the vocoder's effects are turned on and off by the sound engineer at the mixing panel, and so it is even used for part of a song and not all- the singer doesn't need to do anything - it is just a simple voice synthesiser- if you watch small town girl on soul power you will see that it is on during the verse, and off during the chorus.
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