mszue
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Post by mszue on Oct 28, 2019 16:01:08 GMT -5
Quick question about voting for the AMA's - I only get one vote per day from my desktop computer - and no option for anything else. Are the 30 votes from when you use other devices? I voted on my iPad and later tried on my desktop. The system recognized my IP and would not let me vote a second time. I assume it is the IP address it is recognizing and therefore I suspect you could vote elsewhere...say at work...or at a coffeeshop. But I could also be wrong....if you are using the same machine...
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Post by lurleene on Oct 28, 2019 16:01:35 GMT -5
Adam was super-charming on the One Show. He was elegant and composed and funny and just plain nice. I know I have no right, but I was very proud of him. He was on throughout the show. So good to think the UK has seen him on the last two nights, being so talented and beautiful. (Imho) Strictly and The One Show are huge exposure for him. ![](http://i770.photobucket.com/albums/xx348/Quu3/Adam%20Smilys/adamthumbsup.gif) Yes and yes. It is very important for Adam to be viewed and received well with the audience he is playing to. Judging by the response and the movement on UK itunes he accomplished that. YAY! It is so important for his promotion to leave a good impression, so I understand your pride. I'm proud of him too. I want him to get some of that in the US. Kelly and Ryan were good but the dead mic, at the beginning of his performance, seemed to take some of the excitement away even tho he recovered. I'll take anything like the UK performance (but all live in the US), and the wonderful UK and German interviews, on US tv.
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Post by lurleene on Oct 28, 2019 16:36:53 GMT -5
I think if fans have some special abilities that make them hear flaws in Adam's performance that others don't hear, or care about, it is fine. But it should also be fine if those of us who enjoyed the performance get to like it without feeling we need to follow or need to be convinced that we really did not enjoy it, lol. It is like all the critics who hated BoRap and expected everyone else to fall in line. But many of us loved the movie enough to see it several times. It was a hit with the public. Flaws, if they were there, were not important to many of us. We just liked the movie. There is no right or wrong way to enjoy or not enjoy music. There is no shame in being disappointed in an Adam performance. But "feeling bad for him", when most seemed to love it, is a personal choice. All will not agree with that. So some really liked the performance. Others did not. But that is always the case. Nothing new there.
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Post by bamafan on Oct 28, 2019 16:41:29 GMT -5
Quick question about voting for the AMA's - I only get one vote per day from my desktop computer - and no option for anything else. Are the 30 votes from when you use other devices? I voted on my iPad and later tried on my desktop. The system recognized my IP and would not let me vote a second time. I assume it is the IP address it is recognizing and therefore I suspect you could vote elsewhere...say at work...or at a coffeeshop. But I could also be wrong....if you are using the same machine... It's my understanding you vote once per day per Google account. At least that's what I saw on Twitter.
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Post by bamafan on Oct 28, 2019 16:44:07 GMT -5
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Post by bamafan on Oct 28, 2019 16:44:45 GMT -5
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Post by bamafan on Oct 28, 2019 16:45:37 GMT -5
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Post by bamafan on Oct 28, 2019 17:23:04 GMT -5
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Post by bamafan on Oct 28, 2019 17:24:55 GMT -5
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Post by PineappleOphelia on Oct 28, 2019 17:48:58 GMT -5
One more thing. About the pitch issue. The ability to hear pitches is individual. You can actually take a test online to see how precise your sense of pitch is. jakemandell.com/adaptivepitch/ Therefore, what may sound "pitchy" to me, might sound fine to others. Or what sounds fine to me might still be a tad off to someone with a more exact sense of pitch than mine. There are obvious pitchy moments for some singers that most listeners would notice and cringe at. There are other moments where some would say, "Hmmmm, it could be the slightest bit flat or sharp, but not jarringly so, and not enough to interfere with enjoyment of the performance." While others would say, "It sounds great to me." It is a matter of how minutely one hears differences in sound wave frequencies and modulations. Something learned, but also naturally innate. Just caught up on the past 2 days of comments and wanted to chime in on this discussion. I've been a staunch supporter since Adam was on AI and have lost count of the number of shows I've flown around the world to hear. One reason I adore him, out of many, is that he's technically a superb singer - head and shoulders above just about any other pop singers. That matters to me because, as a professional string player (with the Vancouver Symphony), I listen to music in a different way and there's nothing that I (or my colleagues in the business) can do about it. It comes from a lifetime of super critical listening to make sure our intonation is as perfect as possible - otherwise we don't get overtones on our instrument and the sound suffers. Not to mention we don't blend in with the other musicians. Like Cassie, I cringe any time I hear something off-key and Adam was definitely flat for a lot of the first half of the BBC performance. It wasn't major and the casual listener would most likely not pick up on it. That doesn't mean I'm picking apart the performance, or feel that some of us "hear" better than others - nothing like that. I wish I could just enjoy a performance and turn of the critical listening - but I can't. It's one reason I love Adam's live performances - he very seldom has any technical issues. He's truly at the level of a trained opera or lieder singer. On top of that he's gorgeous, musical, super adorable etc. etc. It's also why I go to great lengths to hear him live - like flying across country for one show in New York in Dec. He's not always perfect but he's pretty darned close. Hi, I commented at the end of yesterday's thread, and said that I heard no pitch issues in the performance. I want to add that I'm not just a "casual" listener. My ex and I had a music studio in our house, and we were perfectionists regarding pitch when we made demos. I admit that I am hearing impaired, but I was hearing impaired back then, too. I am not one to ever say Adam is perfect. He is beautifully human and makes mistakes like the rest of us. I admit I may be wrong about this performance, but if even I did not detect anything, then he was "pretty darn close" to perfection for sure. Thanks for listening!
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