Tina Fey Hosted Saturday Night Live with Ellie Goulding.
Ellie Goulding has a very sweet voice but with a limited range. Her first song "Lights" moves right along, propelled by her unidentified bassist with a Musicman bass, a drummer and a keyboard. the first hit of oh oh came as light sped into the exciting part and I became aware of a background vocal. I looked all over and I began to think that the backgound vocal was Ellie again. The use of squencers is generally legitimate but there is a band on stage and I define
tly hear too much mucic and the vocal continues when Ellie is not singing along with herself. It seems as if she has actually lost her place in the sequence for this to occur. At the end of the first song the bobbling track bink bonk bink bonk bink bonk, keeps on going after everything else stops. The keyboard player is not moving. This could be deliberate but the overrun on the sequencer track is of the same length as the background vocal in Ellie's voice was.
I danced to lights as I did have to listen to it about eitht times over. It was a good dance, I guess this is the purpose of pop.
I had viewed and listened to the second tune first, an Elton John song. "Your song." which Ellie performed with two live backup singers a piano and strings. In a similar manner to Grace from the Nocturnals problems with the ooo ooh ooo ooooh, which I found lacked relevance and I was struck by the disparity with the lyrics. Somehow I do not get it, as I write, I hear only, and I her schmaltz. Similarily with Lady Gaga, who I will review next, my schmaltz alarms are going off. Am I missing some cachet? Is there something about those stereotypical nineteen fifties TV female vocals that I am not aware of that is cool?
As I tried to research the names of band members I ran into a review with the lyrics to "Lights" I think those lyrics are absolute garbage. I wonder why they were featured. I wonder if I am being too harsh, Ellie looks really nice, but whoever dressed her is no genius, as the review I noticed suggested. I thought she looked bulgy in the middle, and moved in somewhat of a wooden manner.
Once again researching, all kinds of awards, I am shocked. It appears that schmaltzy wooden and ordinary is just great everywhere, not just on Saturday Night Live.
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