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Thanks for explaining. As I said in my previous post, I really think that what you attribute to his vocal technique is mostly a matter of songwriting. I find most of the Jason Malachi songs I have heard extremely boring and part of that is due to what you describe as spacing here. A song like Let me let go for instance has such a slow, boring vocal melody. However, I do not think that is because Jason Malachi is only capable of singing in that style. It's just that whoever wrote that song is not able to pen a rhythmically interesting vocal melody.first step outside the comparison audios - they are myopic in nature as they only focus on certain parts and certain words.
put jason malachi room 2 breath on play. close your eyes and listen till the end. forget vibrato etc and whether he sounds like michael or not. just pay attention to how he spaces his words. do you hear that he clearly separates his words? such as sometimes - you - need - to - step - outside - the - game.. continue listening the song. does it start to bug you in the end? do you get the feel that the spacing is annoying? finish the song
now play keep your head up. again don't worry about the voice , vibrato etc.. you are listening to the spacing. close your eyes. does it a lot more closely spaced? do you hear the ties the singer does? such as "shecries-s-s-sinside" listen to the end.. do you get that "easy flow" feel?
malachi - let me let go - again spacing.. do you hear the clearly separated words.
do I even have to write monster? it even sounds like it has been sung in one breath - I know it isn't and the faster up is making it feel like that.
listen to any michael jackson songs and you'll see that his words are more closely spaced and even tied to each other. for example he would be saying "ilove-e-you-u-more" like it's one word , that's what I keep calling "flow"
listen to any malachi songs and you'll see that his words are obviously spaced and his singing style sounds like " i - love - you - more" and have a stop and go feeling , lacking flow and seems like struggling
it's a overall feel you get and it's really hard to describe..
I'm hearing different techniques and different ability levels.
edited to add: you can even try justin timberlake's cry me a river and jason's acapella of it on youtube. if you compare jason's version you'll again hear that his words are more spaced then justin's are. and justin has flow and jason doesn't.
An example of what you mention is:
http://youtu.be/w3vDkfEY5Vg#t=0m26s
But take the first line you hear here ("Let me know when he can't please you," if that's what he's singing).
http://youtu.be/RH2muJa_Ky8#t=0m48s
There are many lines in that song with a similar flow. So, from the same song, at 14 seconds:
http://youtu.be/RH2muJa_Ky8#t=0m14s
I do not see how the flow on a song like Monster is any more complicated than this. Thus, I believe Jason is perfectly capable of singing like this (perhaps he cannot deliver full songs with rhythms like this live, but he clearly can in a studio environment). It's just that his own songs are different.
Btw, I remember seeing a clip on YouTube ages ago of Jason Malachi performing a song called 'Stop Breaking My Heart'. I do not remember the song very well, but for some reason have the feeling that the 'flow' was quite similar to Monster. I just checked but could not find the song on YouTube anymore. Does anyone know what I'm talking about?