Madonna's out of tune performance at Eurovision 2019

This made me laugh.
Last-place UK does even worse in Eurovision

 

I’ve heard worse

 

But we came in 13 points ahead of Madonna though, and all without autotune.

 

Gosh, that was sooooo much better, nothing egregious about it ..... Amazing how long ago even Live 8 is now ....

 

Scores revised downwards thanks to Belarus. UK scored 11 points...

 

Whew, despite my problems with Justin I've enjoyed a lot of what he's put out over the years. Man Of the Woods isn't one of them, a travesty, and all after that panned SB appearance. 2018 was a big L for his career. On another note *NSYNC may go on tour with Ariana this year.

 

Haha my apologies I must have missed that nugget of news!

 

A mate of mine was working stage crew for Live 8 and said the rehearsal was incredible - everyone just stopped whatever they were doing the second the choir started up, and nothing got done until they'd finished!

 

Probably won't mean much to anyone outside the uk, but this year's Eurovision Song Contest will be on Gogglebox tonight. Of course there's no indication which clips of it they will use, but....

 

Sorry to resuscitate this thread but, a popular UK youtuber The Honest Vocal Coach has to be watched for her critique on that performance last week:

 

Absolutely, I always respect acts who know when something is substandard to remove it from circulation, rather than pretend it was fine. (I.E. Led Zeppelin's Live Aid performance).

But what she has done is worse by creating the fake vocal version and pretending it is the real thing.

Alanis Morissette could make up a song about the fact she is the one remaining grade A 1980s superstar left standing (RIP Michael Jackson; Whitney Houston; Prince; George Michael); and yet watching a performance like that at the ESC; and her studio albums post her Celebration compilation make you wish she had retired like Tina Turner has to protect her legacy.

 

Her face speaks volumes.... I'm surprised the "fixed" version is still up; a week later and it's still getting a crapstorm of abuse. I haven't watched it (once was enough) but apparently it's so obvious you can even hear it on the sound of the audience. Hm... I wonder if any extra applause was autotuned onto the end?
One particularly amusing sideshow is the occasional youngling stopping by to say she's trying to be edgy like Lady Gaga.

 

I didn’t watch Eurovision and when I went to see the performance on YouTube I clicked on the fixed version. By no means is it perfect, but it did make me wonder what all the fuss was about. Early in this thread you’ll see me saying this. I was totally duped.

The ‘actual’ performance is so bad it sounds like it’s been fixed to sound that way. Madame X must be crushed.

 

If I were the ESC committee I'd get the Gregorian monks back for next year's opening ceremony, and just have them lay a wreath on a giant "X" painted on the floor. She's not the only one with a platform to make "artistic statements."

 

Oh yeah, she handled this like the stuck up narcissist some wished she wasn't.
Doesn't she have any good people on her PR team?

 

Yeah, the non corrected version is almost like Madonna Shreds video.

 

Autotuned version vs. what was actually heard on the night:



The review in the Daily Telegraph described Madonna at Eurovision as a “one-eyed space pirate surrounded by humming monks”.

 

Bloody hell that is not good. It sounds like she must have had something horrific going on in her monitor. Either that or she's completely tone deaf.

 

Someone explains in the comments:

“Possibly what happened is that the autotune was set to pick the notes chromatically to the closest one she was singing, but Madonna was off by more than a quarter step at certain points, so the program tuned the note (perfectly) to the closest wrong note.”

 

That hardly covers her in glory though. It was the final of a singing competition after all.

 

There may have been technical problems but my take leans towards a human explantion. I guess she simply was nervous and that she hasn’t done enough to keep her voice in shape for a demanding situation like that.

 

The voice coach in the video above says that Madonna hasn’t looked after her voice over the years and also makes the point that the staging – walking down the stairs – made it even harder to sing well.

 

I’m not defending her, but Like A Prayer is probably getting to be too demanding for her now. She was ‘better’ on the rubbish that was Future, where she just had to mumble a few nonsense lines with the autotune turned up to max.

I’m starting to see the reasoning behind Madonna’s new material now.

 

sorry to say... I think this episode has killed any interest I had in buying Madame X new .....
I mean, I still haven't even opened Rebel Heart after getting it upon release.
It's been really hard for me to stay interested since American Life, though Confessions does have a lot of enjoyable stuff .

 

I liked Confessions quite a bit, but yeah I agree with you that American Life was terrible. Her last album that I really enjoyed was Ray Of Light and that was 21 years ago (!).