people who discuss music online don’t seem to really know what they’re talking about, at least not from a technical perspective. This can make for a fuzzy discourse, based on feelings and memories with little objective foundation. Granted, “objectivity” is a dicey concept, especially as it applies to the perception of art, but an absence of rubric can make for some arbitrary arguments that the other side wouldn’t even begin to know how to entertain.
“My name’s Georgina, I’m the Honest Vocal Coach, I teach vocals all day everyday when I’m not making videos like this one,” is how she introduces herself at the start of her videos. She speaks with the benevolence and ease of a family friend. Though her work is ostensibly criticism, nothing about her screams fussy. She presents herself as a fan of music in general and the artists she regularly covers, and discusses vocal performances with civility that is uncommon in online pop-music discourse.
Many of her videos are presented as watch-alongs, with her regularly stopping the action to comment. These include performances from recent awards shows. She also comments on fan-made clip compilations that her viewers send to her, which often pit two artists against each other, sometimes without any discernible rhyme or reason. Still, these comparisons can be extremely instructive, like this video that plays vintage clips of Mariah Carey singing at age 25 against more recent ones of Ariana Grande, also singing at age 25:
As someone who is absolutely here for Ariana Grande but cannot fathom how people can compare her voice to Mariah Carey’s at her peak, I really liked how this video confirms what I already believed. “In that clip of Mariah, her tone was lighter but definitely more consistent and more controlled,” Georgina says. “Not
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