New AOL interview

[Tyler1991]

Sorry, but I don't believe for one second that this is live.

 

It's a studio track placed on top of concert footage.....also known as "dubbing" ...something that Mariah Carey has done with all of her video releases dating back to 1993. Except her people do a far better job at making it look real. They dub in audience cheers and leave in a live feeling; at times, too much of the live feeling (they over-do it sometimes)....anyay, this dubbing is evident in how there is no live feeling to the video at all except a slight bit of reverb. There is no audience noise outside of the first line. And for the most part, all of her Celine-isms that she does when lipping appear to be present in this. Strange eyebrow twitches and obsessive jaw movement to make it look like vibrato is being added in. Although these Celine-isms are far less than what is present in the AND DVD...I still think that this means the "singing under the playback theory" and/or singing it live for one night is no longer a possibility. But I suppose if the audio was taken directly from the mic wihle singing under the playback (with the mic low) that could reduce a lot of audience noise, but certainly not that much.

 

Anyway, it's definitely 2009 (or 2008 or perhaps but doubtful 2010) vocals. No complaining there. It's great to have something new and glad to see she can still do it.

Edited April 15, 2010 at 06:54 PM by Tyler1991

[fan2celinedion]

I can't wait to hear to love you more

[fan2celinedion]

no it was never sung live or under the playback !!! But you're wrong even the live songs have the audience noise reduced! It has nothing To do with that

[Kaluss]

I can't stop listen, amazing

[Tyler1991]

no it was never sung live or under the playback !!! But you're wrong even the live songs have the audience noise reduced! It has nothing To do with that

 

I disagree. IAMW and RDMH sounded nowhere near as....dull...as TPOL or IDAN. The noise reduction in those was nowhere near the others, if I recall correctly.

[fan2celinedion]

no it was never sung live or under the playback !!! But you're wrong even the live songs have the audience noise reduced! It has nothing To do with that

 

I disagree. IAMW and RDMH sounded nowhere near as....dull...as TPOL or IDAN. The noise reduction in those was nowhere near the others, if I recall correctly.

 

well i didn't see the movie so ...

[Tyler1991]

Then how do you know if the live songs also have audience noise reduced?? Most of the videos we have has been playback...

[riobeard11]

I think it's very likely this playback will be used until 2025.

[GoldenLeaf]

no it was never sung live or under the playback !!! But you're wrong even the live songs have the audience noise reduced! It has nothing To do with that

 

I disagree. IAMW and RDMH sounded nowhere near as....dull...as TPOL or IDAN. The noise reduction in those was nowhere near the others, if I recall correctly.

What about the ''I'm Alive'' performance then ? We can see a bunch of people cheering and clapping right in front of Celine (like at 0:10) but we can't hear anything. I think the whole concert will be like that but it's not a problem.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wSC7i863D1A

Edited April 15, 2010 at 07:53 PM by Calypso

[Tyler1991]

Without a doubt, you're right, they have been reduced...but it's still present in amounts greater than the playbacks.

[Acacia]

Aww, that was a great interview and the video was amazing!!

[Claudette]

Thanks for the video and article!

 

Why do you guys keep analyzing this. Obviously it has been dubbed, but I wouldn't necessarily say with a studio version. You guys have to remember that they filmed the concert four nights and edited that performance together from all the clips. I would say that it is still very possible that she did sing it live one night and that they used that audio and dubbed it over the video footage which they edited together from the four different shows. That would explain why it still looks like she lips it at times. I sounds live too me though.

 

Anyway, this proves to me that Celine is still without a doubt the best singer out there.

Edited April 15, 2010 at 08:33 PM by Claudette

[davidjag79]

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[Céline's Blues]

Céline from 1996 would crawl under a rock and die after hearing this heavily vocoded mess of a vocal.

[iamcelinefan]

Thx for sharing m Love the video :wub: Edited April 15, 2010 at 08:30 PM by iamcelinefan

[Timster]

Céline from 1996 would crawl under a rock and die after hearing this heavily vocoded mess of a vocal.

I just knew you'd say something like that!

 

But I kind of agree with you, I don't think the vocals do sound completely natural. I can't really tell what they've done, but unless we get the original vocals from this recording (maybe if it's used as a playback in the future), then we'll never know how much work they did on the track. Hopefully not as much as RDMH from Vegas!

[Tyler1991]

Thanks for the video and article!

 

Why do you guys keep analyzing this. Obviously it has been dubbed, but I wouldn't necessarily say with a studio version. You guys have to remember that they filmed the concert four nights and edited that performance together from all the clips. I would say that it is still very possible that she did sing it live one night and that they used that audio and dubbed it over the video footage which they edited together from the four different shows. That would explain why it still looks like she lips it at times. I sounds live too me though.

 

Anyway, this proves to me that Celine is still without a doubt the best singer out there.

 

 

You raise a very good point. The video comes from four performances, while the audio (likely) 1. IF it was live for one night, it is possible that video of the other three lipped could be placed on top of the live audio in conjunction with the actual video.

[Céline's Blues]

I’d say they just put the original playback through ProTools or that software I forgot the name of that was huge for correcting the pitch and they simply mixed it so that it sounds a little different than the original but way more mechanical.

 

http://i43.tinypic.com/34t67ab.jpg

[Timster]

Yeah I never thought of that - well done Claudette!

 

However judging by her previous live attemps of this song in the 90s, I'd say this version is too perfect to be live. But then again we don't know - she might find it easier now. You only have to look at RDMH, in the 90s the high note was either deleted from the song (Live a Paris), or it was weak and not belted at all (Memphis). But in the TCWT it was fantastic, so it's clear that with some songs she get's better with age!

[Claudette]

Celine never sang that note in RDMH in the 90s (just look at the Divas DVD and the Brunei concert). There are definitely some song she sings better now than in the 90s. The note from ABM also sounded better than some of her attempts from the 90s. I'm not going to go into this any further. I'm just gonna accept it for what it is and believe that it was live. The rest of you can believe what you want. Edited April 15, 2010 at 09:04 PM by Claudette

[CelineDionFan710]

nice!

[CSCfan]

Yeah I never thought of that - well done Claudette!

 

However judging by her previous live attemps of this song in the 90s, I'd say this version is too perfect to be live.

 

Too perfect? LOL

Although I find it absolutely fantastic it was re-recorded one way or the other or that it's live....but it's hardly a great (vocal) performance IMO...

It sounds a bit like she has difficulty singing the songs at some points...

 

But I definately prefer this over the live track we've been hearing for more than a decade now..

[Javito]

I just can't wait to listen this in my home cinema

 

And whatever they have done, if she has recorded the vocals and dubbed it for this video, I hope she has done it for all the whole concert, because if not we are going to notice too much difference with the other nasal songs (I'm Alive...)!

Edited April 15, 2010 at 09:28 PM by Javito

[j411celine]

Wow she sounds great. Her voice has changed since the original recording but its amazing!! She sounds like she has a lot more fun now than ever!

[Scramasboy]

I think she sung it live, could be before a concert, inside the venue, or at one of the shows sometime, or whatever, but the long notes are autotuned, its obvious to me, I can always tell when she is autotuned, it sounds like perfect Celine but a bit mechanical. It's not perfect enough to be studio, but too perfect to be sung underneath playback. Its not autotuned to death, at least, like A New Day... Live in Las Vegas is. Hopefully they will rework the audio to add a more natural audiance sound, if not oh well, but it'd be nice.

[Javito]

Hey, you are talking as if Céline has never sung live since 1996 Of course we know she usually sings live, but if she took this break with this concret song, come on, give her a break! Edited April 15, 2010 at 09:27 PM by Javito

[Scramasboy]

I just can't wait to listen this in my home cinema

 

And whatever they have done, if she has recorded the vocals and dubbed it for this video, I hope she had done it for all the whole concert, because if not we are going to notice too much difference with the other nasal songs (I'm Alive...)!

haha! I agree! I think Im Alive is the most nasal song on the tour, aside from parts of BYLM and TC.

[fan2celinedion]

I think she sung it live, could be before a concert, inside the venue, or at one of the shows sometime, or whatever, but the long notes are autotuned, its obvious to me, I can always tell when she is autotuned, it sounds like perfect Celine but a bit mechanical. It's not perfect enough to be studio, but too perfect to be sung underneath playback. Its not autotuned to death, at least, like A New Day... Live in Las Vegas is. Hopefully they will rework the audio to add a more natural audiance sound, if not oh well, but it'd be nice.

 

that's what I think too!!!

[Feidhlimbrennan]

ahh who cares, live/not live it's our Celine and it's amazing, she had to have sung it at some point and even if it wasn't on that particular night, she still sang it and the version is fabulous, the shots in the video are epic and the whole thing is just great lol

 

lets stop wasting time on the whole live/not live debate and just enjoy it for what it is and look forward to the upcoming releases, i for one am even more excited than i was before! (if that were even possible lol)

[Shamrock_1982]

Exactly well said!

 

Darren.