@JeffBeck and @jossstone Vocal ANALYSIS of "I Put A Spell On You"

welcome back to the charismatic voice and happy Halloween we're gonna celebrate today by listening to the iconic spooky song I Put A Spell On You but we're gonna be listening to a version that I'm not familiar with this was suggested by our patrons and Shona wrote I want to hear Elizabeth talk about this Soul slash Blues Diva's voice it's off the scale there are a number of versions of Josh doing the song right up to last year when she was pregnant but picked this one because it also features arguably the best blues guitarist of all time I have yet to hear Jeff Beck or Joss so let's get to it [Applause] [Music] [Music] because [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] wow she's gonna kill her voice she's slaying it already whoa I love the extra snarl that she got on the sound when she went up higher it's not even that high quite yet but her original sound had so much depth and like a fluffiness in it when she went up there and got that snarl too I was not expecting that she's got a lot of sass oh okay I want to go back and listen from the beginning one more time [Music] okay so I'm guessing that that is Jeff Beck this sounds very lovely so far I'm looking forward to where there's usually like a a solo in the middle between one of these verses so I'm hoping that he gets like a mega nice Solo in that area we'll see um very smooth guitar but mostly I'm thinking how cool is that arm cuff and what wrist cuff too it looks really cool [Applause] that's a cool start though yeah wow okay I dig it already [Music] [Music] [Music] you better stop the things you do [Music] [Applause] [Music] I really do like the interjections that you hear beneath her and this guitar it it's like I almost feel like she's the consciousness of the song and then he's the subconsciousness of it interjecting little bits like uh almost like extra thoughts that might happen that aren't actually sung very very interesting additionally I was noticing that he was doing a more mellow tone at one point and then got to a sassier kind of tone a little more distortion on it and I feel like that is mimicking also what she's been doing so really interesting combo between these two already I want to go back to the beginning one more time just because I want to listen more to how the shift in tones maybe mimic each other or a little bit of that conversation between the guitar line and the vocal lines there's a lot that's weaving [Applause] [Music] that's the part that was like her round [Music] foreign [Music] I ain't lost [Applause] [Music] cause I can't stand it I keep standing cause you're running around yeah cause you're putting me down so I I Put A Spell On You [Music] because [Music] [Applause] wow that was a cool vocal moment okay I wanted to let her go a little bit because I was listening to a few things and how she was developing them and playing with them one of the things that I find is just being particularly interesting is the way she's playing with some of the vowels and sort of like chewing through them and really tasting them you can tell that she enjoys How Sound essentially feels in her mouth or in her vocal tract and another thing she does is well sort of pop in a note and then drop on another one and it's a a waste essentially like articulating and adding some fun Pizzazz and I've heard something similar in a couple spots on this song before so it sounds like she's taking maybe an idea that I've heard other performers do but she's accenting it a lot more there are a few different things though so I want to go back oh man she also is Mega great control over her vibrato thank you [Music] all right she's able to make it wide and fairly fast what she did right there [Music] notice how much teeth she has in her sound this is part of the reasons it sounds like she's got so much bite and snarls because there are a lot of teeth when you're showing your teeth like that it affects the tone quality of The Voice [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I love the way she has these oh kind of sounds every now and then or most it almost sounds like she has like a grunt in the overall sound reminds me of some other blue singers I've heard live just but she also sounds like she has so much body in the sound I'm hearing her a little more I feel surprised I just don't expect this kind of voice to come out of this slender lady on stage I think it's got so much richness and thickness in it it's a very nice [Music] [Applause] [Music] that's one of the vowels in particular that I'm really interested in is a lion uh it sounds like she has a lot of open space in the back of her vocal tract for that but then is really moving through the valley as it transitions lion which most of you know probably by now from watching the channel that this is a diff song it's combining two vowel sounds but as you move from one vowel to the next going from an ah to an E you actually Traverse other vowels between so I again and I hear her moving through all of those sounds and really enjoying them [Music] [Applause] [Music] cause I can't stand it keeps standing cause you're running around and just it's like she made another dip song out of stand Stein did okay in The Voice it's one of the moments I was talking about where she re-articulates a note I Put a Spell on You ooh she's essentially creating a glottal stop and attack to reinitiate the sound all while being on the same vowel ooh of you you ooh it says it twice [Music] so I think that this is maybe one of the sort of stylistic signatures of her sound we're hearing sound oh my goodness I'm playing with the vowels too now uh she likes to re-articulate on about and then of course this sort of delicious tasting and the vowels uh there's a lot of other things that I feel like going to that signature sound that she's made up so let's keep going [Music] okay [Music] wow wow man let's take levels of Louis Armstrong kind of distortion [Music] [Applause] I think I related to Louis Armstrong only because of the Distortion and that like how much I'm hearing come into the sound but also I think her vibrato wits and speed is very similar to Louise wow [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] that almost sounded like he was playing in those chords like it almost felt like he was playing a ham organ or something one more time that's a cool song [Music] I just really like the way that he um and a relatively short period of time was able to build it up so well and then let it sink down just a little bit so he wasn't covering her on her entrance it's very well crafted [Music] [Music] [Music] I came with those like Grunts and grounds it reminds me a little bit of the original recording um screaming Jay Hawkins had some of those in there too but it's just so visceral the way she's all right I want to say Primal is the word I'm really going for Primal like sometimes I think when we're looking for a really well supported sound what you need to do is go back to a caveman Grunt and that's where you'll find your supported sound often just directly connected to the diaphragm and I love the way it sounds like she has taken the body of her sound and it's completely contained so it doesn't feel like she's sort of trying to make all of these sounds right here at the laryngeal level it sounds like she's making them by digging deep down into her support and grunting like a like a really wicked awesome cavewoman [Music] I got a love noise she's brought so much more air into the sound here there's she has a lot of fun expression and Sass is that the thing to do it [Music] [Music] can't you see that I love you it really sounds like she's playing with like a little almost like a squeak into the voice every now and then playing with uh talking in a little more sound to get into a lore at a certain set of a Higher One can't you see that I love you I love you I love you I love you baby [Music] okay the way these two are playing off of each other is awesome like super awesome I feel like the guitar is just talking straight back to her it really truly feels like I'm hearing sentences out of the guitar which is insane to me guitars don't speak but do they maybe they do let's go back I love you away [Music] oh the way she made her Rhythm there was so cool put a sneaking stinking little Spell on You uh a sneaking I think she puts it in a triplet there [Music] yeah she goes into a triplet um or wait this one wow essentially she's working against the main beat of the song because we do have a one two three happening underneath so she ends up squaring her Rhythm to make that had this way of standing out super cool really really like the way she brought that in again I'm just so amused by the way I feel like I hear words coming out of this guitar so fun [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I also really love the way she moves it's so clear that she's 100 lost in her message it's great I don't think she's thinking an ounce about technique anymore she has moved beyond that and is just delivering a message it's wonderful to see and wonderful to hear [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh he's a sucker for Strings [Applause] [Music] okay so she did the grony thing our Primal cavewoman awesome Wicked Grunts and then right after that she did the reattack of the vowels in there as well [Applause] [Music] [Applause] so much oh that slow band in the guitar along with her Distortion is delightful together [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh my gosh [Music] I I once again this is such a good moment [Applause] because [Music] you're my eyes [Music] I've heard cadenzas on that last section which were much longer and I was thinking to myself how is she going to beat some of the amazing cadences I've heard done on this like what's she gonna do I think she chose a great thing with this which is they kept the flow going a little bit more they didn't say like let's stop it let's go around the piano or around all of the keys um they said no no keep that that energy we've built up and let's drive it into the end I think this is a really good decision when you're featuring two artists keenly like this is [Music] [Music] just notice as she's seeing mine that's neural that I'm talking about it's so extremely present and you can see like little raises in the upper lip particularly to get some of that snarly sound in there because awesome the whole thing was fantastic but I still can't get over that moment when Jeff Beck did that pitch bin and Joss was doing her Gravelly round snarl at the same time and it just it was glorious it was so fun to hear two incredible artists in sync with each other and really finding a musical climax at the exact same moment I loved loved that so thank you so much patrons and happy Halloween to everyone if you want to go down a fun Halloween spiral today you can check out this playlist over here and may you fall more in love with music every day [Music]

Channel: The Charismatic Voice

Views: 94,999

Keywords: joss stone, jeff beck, i put a spell on you, i put a spell on you reaction, the charismatic voice, jeff beck joss stone live

Id: asqX9Uxj0O0

Length: 21min 22sec (1282 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 31 2022