Madonna at the Grammys

seadoug

seadoug

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I posted a pic of Madonna at the airport and some of you said she looks good for 64 and that she does Botox. Some of you will also say "who cares"? This much more than Botox. I was considering buying tickets to her 40th anniversary tour, but after seeing this I will pass. I can't watch this on stage.

https://www.youtube.com/shorts/GV3oB9gR1ek
 

OneEyedDiva said:
You couldn't give me tickets to a Madonna concert. But wouldn't you be going to a concert to hear her music? Is her voice jacked up now too? Considering who she is, I'd hope the production would be stellar.
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She's always been much more about performance than her voice. I've never attended one of her concerts, but I saw her on TV 10 years ago at the Superbowl halftime show and she was amazing. I just don't want to see someone from my youth acting and trying to look like a 20-something and sadly not pulling it off.

I saw Chrissie Hynde rockin' it out at 71 y/o a few years ago. She owned her age and was fantastic.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Is her voice jacked up now too? .
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Sound technicians can now do almost as much with pre-production as post-production. One example; microphones can be programmed to do pitch correction. Plus they use soundboards at concerts. So everything you hear at a live concert gets processed through a soundboard before it comes out of the speakers, and there are at least two production technicians working the soundboard.
 
OneEyedDiva said:
You couldn't give me tickets to a Madonna concert. But wouldn't you be going to a concert to hear her music? Is her voice jacked up now too? Considering who she is, I'd hope the production would be stellar.
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Murrmurr said:
Sound technicians can now do almost as much with pre-production as post-production. One example; microphones can be programmed to do pitch correction. Plus they use soundboards at concerts. So everything you hear at a live concert gets processed through a soundboard before it comes out of the speakers, and there are at least two production technicians working the soundboard.
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Miss Diva, with today's technology, you and I could give a concert and sound blow-your-socks-off awesome!
Because I'd have one of those pre-programmed mics. ;)
 
Murrmurr said:
Sound technicians can now do almost as much with pre-production as post-production. One example; microphones can be programmed to do pitch correction. Plus they use soundboards at concerts. So everything you hear at a live concert gets processed through a soundboard before it comes out of the speakers, and there are at least two production technicians working the soundboard.
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Wow...interesting! I should have known about this but did not !
 
OneEyedDiva said:
Wow...interesting! I should have known about this but did not !
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Meant to come back to this but I got sidetracked.

I don't know about you, but I hate that concert producers alter the voice of long-time artist's like Madonna. I would rather hear how her voice has matured, how the character of it has changed from years of performing and practicing. And post-production is also done on live concerts that were recorded and then televised later. You won't hear the concert that the live audience heard (even if it was altered live), and that bugs me so much.

I'm thinking of a recent Eric Clapton concert, specifically. He's nearly 80. We know he doesn't sound the same as when he was 30. When he performed Layla at this concert, he slowed it down, did some key changes and variations of the guitar rifts...it was a new arrangement of an old song, and he did that because his vocal cords are almost 80 years old.

I would love to have heard what the artist meant for me to hear, not what some post-production schmuck thought sounded better, such as consistently perfect yet absolutely colorless C or G or whatever. What could be better than Eric Clapton's actual voice at 80?

It just really makes me mad.
 

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