Here's a video from tonight of a bunch of stars (Carrie Underwood, Sam Smith, Ariana Grande, Blake Shelton, Usher, Meghan Trainor, One Direction, and Christina Aguilera) joining Jimmy Fallon and the Roots for an a cappella rendition of WATC on his superbowl special.
Relevant since, in the other thread, we were just talking about how perfect Queen songs would be for the Superbowl. Jimmy Fallon thinks so!
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Cause I'm bored, I'm gonna rank 'em:
Xtina > Carrie > Usher >>> Sam >>>>> Ariana > Meghan > Blake
Note: I'm a self-confessed Xtina stan, so I'm going to be biased towards her. But still, you can't deny she has a power in her voice that almost all female pop stars sorely lack nowadays (like Ariana and Meghan)
Carrie was perfect except for when she sang "I've had my share of sand" - found the phrasing a little awkward there.
Usher was alright in his little bit.
Sam looked (and sounded) like he was singing "We are the Losers". Won't someone take over his melancholy blues?
Ariana, just sing the song and stop adding your light, airy, Mariah-esqe improvisations that are totally unnecessary. Meghan's continued success is continually baffling to me. I find her voice annoying on her own material, and it just sounds very weak here.
Blake's voice is completely wrong for the song.
Not gonna rank 1D because I couldn't even hear them. You can take them out of the song and I wouldn't notice a difference.
So yeah, those are my opinions. I'm gonna just conclude by saying Adam >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> all, even from the 2009 performance on Idol.