IF the Grammy Awards class THIS as 'a cappella', WHERE do we go from here???

Tonight we're jumping into another interesting discussion point!
Original Videos -
TIME STAMPS -
0:00 Intro
2:20 Starting the Track
6:46 Tori's Expressive Vibrato
7:56 Crazy Calibrations
8:44 The Ultimate Irony
12:05 The Pitch Correction Contradiction
14:59 Jacob's Harmonies
17:21 What is A Cappella?
19:14 The Actual Voices
24:05 The Problem.

[kimberlycorliss]

All this pitch correction makes me appreciate local live bands even more. It's not always perfect, but it's real and enjoyable.

[willcool]

Your analysis used to be an interesting curiosity and fun to train my ear with. But now your channel has become truly important. You're doing important journalism here, investigative musical journalism.
Thank you. Please keep documenting.

[karmageddon]

"Show your intelligence by showing restraint" is one of the best pieces of advice I ever heard from a vocal coach.

[bhgdetjbngfd]

It's the imperfections in the human voice that gives it the tonal qualities that make people like Torrie sound so good

[Kohbruh]

As a musician i appreciate runs because it showcases the artists knowledge of theory. I really love it when artists and musicians incorporate obscure scales and color

[aquamarine]

The challenge of a capella is staying on pitch without a supporting instrument. So pitch correction undercuts the "magic" of singing a cappella. it becomes pointless.

[russshaber]

Fil, you deserve a Grammy for this analysis and reporting. I'll print one for you on my 3D printer.

[superlove]

it's like turning real plants into plastic flowers.

[wesara]

As a person studying classical music (playing the viola specifically) making everything equal temperament is absolutely insane to me. Equal tuning is a compromise for keyboards so the don't have to retune every 5 minutes when the key changes. I play a fret less instrument and my C sharp is tuned differently depending on the context because to be perfectly in tune it changes. Nothing is as magically resonate as a perfectly in tune acapella performance, all the harmonies start really vibrating. And pitch correcting to equal temperament just absolutely crushes the harmonies out of the voices.
Tldr. The point of being acapella in my opinion is that you can be perfectly in tune without compromising to equal temperament. And pitch correcting to equal temperament defeats the entire point of not having accompaniment.

[tala.avraham]

As a producer, since I abandoned the pitch corrections and demanded more from the singers I started to get better results.. and the singers are singing better and giving more from themselves…

[jennastorm]

This isn't vocal runs, this is vocal diarrhea. Just because a singer CAN do this, doesn't mean that they SHOULD do it.

[guyjiminjapan]

Pitch corrected or not, to my ears this was a real hatchet job on a beautiful song.

[itwasntme]

Never mind pitch correction, it’s a woeful bit of soulless screeching . Warbling up and down 3 or 4 notes when one would have done.

[nicholasbartonlaw]

And there is somewhere some kid in a coffeehouse with an acoustic guitar pouring her heart out performing this song, singing maybe a little flat, maybe a little raw, but singing it earnestly and really connecting with the audience, but who goes on unknown and unheard by the world.

[canturgan]

They should have an 'Assisted Performance ' category in award ceremonies. That would be interesting.

[vidthreenorth]

Actually, I didn't like it anyway. The arrangement was overdone and missed the soul of the song. I would not care how "good" the voices were, it was tasteless.

[chthoniapodcast]

Couldn't recognise this one as Bridge Over Troubled Waters. It's weird, even as a so-called capella version. Doesn't deserve a Grammy, but then again, the Grammys are more of an industry thing that have to do with sales rather than talent.

[RachelLWolfe]

"So I'm going to jump in here.... immediately..."

Say no more sir. 😂

[nickelndime]

Years ago I heard Denise Williams sing a gospel song a cappella on the Grammys. It was incredible
and the hairs on my arm stood up. The world of music today is a mere shadow of the 1970s and 1980s.

[snagletoothscott]

"This is the worst rendition of of an S&G song I';ve ever heard. You literally could not make it any worse"
Some producer at a computer "Challenge accepted!!!"