what is the final note of boston globe in “dream on”?
For those of you who have been complaining that Adam Lambert shrieks when he sings in falsetto, I offer you one Danny Gokey. His final note on “Dream On” was perhaps the most painful single note I have ever heard on “American Idol.” Honestly, I feel a little bad for the guy, since he’s not the type who could ever sell a rock song. (It’s not like Sammy Davis Jr. would have sounded any more credible doing Aerosmith.) Still, with nearly every rock song in the world to choose from, Danny chose this one, and that’s all on him. Kris, too, is no rocker, and as he sang “Come Together,” I was mostly thinking about the strange shapes his mouth forms every time he sings. (It’s interesting that neither he nor Danny chose to turn a rock song into a soft, plaintive ballad — sort of like what Brooke White did last year with “Love is a Battlefield.” Maybe the presence of Slash was too intimidating.) I’m hardly a Styx person anyway, so I found the Kris-Danny duet fairly painful. It had a Jonas Brother
There’s a very good reason the “American Idol” top four didn’t mess around very much with the arrangements of the classic-rock songs they performed on Tuesday night: a) they probably weren’t allowed to and, more important, b) these songs are really, really hard to sing as is. Take, for example, Milwaukee native Danny Gokey’s choice of Aerosmith’s “Dream On.” The prototype for all hard-rock power ballads that followed, the song is from the Boston-bred band’s 1973 self-titled debut album. It mixes sensitive piano playing with a string section and fuzzed-out, distorted guitars for an emotional roller-coaster that made then-25-year-old lead singer Steven Tyler sound like he’d already lived the life of an 80-year-old blues originator. http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1610710/20090506/aerosmith.jhtml From the Boston Globe online: For those of you who have been complaining that Adam Lambert shrieks
