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yo. i just noticed- and i have been listening to prince for awhile- princes background vocal techniques.

and they pretty much follow the same patterns for pretty much every song.

his style is more choral- but churchy with each voice competing to be heard the loudest. ( i see it in church, its quite hilarious)

and he punches in with a random OOOOWHOAOOOWHOA after every few lines. or a loud UHHH!!! harmonized.

sounds a bit crazy, but if you listen out for it you'll see it in almost every song.


same things i noticed with the camille songs.

almost all those camille songs ( or altered pitched songs) start with him doing an ear piercing vocal run EHHHHHUHHHHHAHAHHOOOWWEH!





IM TIRED.

lol

sorry-gotta dissagree

he is the best at harmonising with himself-the best there is i think

you say he does the same thing every tune.....?

no way-not a chance-his vocals are actually getting better-at 50

if you hear the chior competing to be heard-thats cuz on that track-thats what he wants you to hear-but vocally i have never felt he works to some kind of manual-its organic (and thats not a mis-spelling all you dirty girls

I think you tripped bro, he does not follow the same pattern on almost every song.

its just a style of singing. i pick up alot of things. I study alot of music and different techniques singers use.
i didnt say it was bad... he just have his thing- everybody has one.
no big deal


UHHHHWOOOAHAHAHOOOHH!

I'm of the opinion that its Prince's backing vocal arrangements that make even his worst songs worth listening to, particularly on a decent set of headphones.

And the observation that they "follow the same patterns" is absolute hogwash.

darlingomo said:

Sacrifice of Victor as an example. Let me see someone compare that churching at the end to anything else

He got a few lil' styles...

That churchy style....
straight r&b backs....

My fav is when he gets operatic...

like on 3-chains o gold...or the closing moments of "dance 4 me"

ahhh dammit do i need to have examples? i already told yall im TIRED!

Nvncible1 said:

EAR.

PLUGS

ehhhh. IM right to me and at the end of the day thats all that matters.


and prince knows im right too, im on to him

polkadotbliss said:

Exactly! His background vocals r unmatched by anyone

Nvncible1 said:

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ROFLMAO!!!

polkadotbliss said:

Wow, that's a good one. But we all have our opinions. Prince can barely scream now a days let alone sing like he used to.

^^^^^
dude can still scream his ass off...

Some of my favorite screaming is in the recent track "dreamer"
also that scream in "no more candy 4 u"...Sound great....

When prince did that scream at club nokia during "The beautifull ones"
he erupted the whole crowd... he still got it rinluv

nyse said:

Naw,not to me. I mean he can scream but not like he used to, like I said. He struggles do it. He's gotten older and of course it doesn't sound the same as when he was younger. Like when he does it live, it sounds awful sometimes. Can't compare his younger screams to his 40 and older screams.

I agree that Prince, along with Marvin Gaye are probably the best at harmonizing and doing layered vocal tracks. Some of my favorite uses of this include "Joy in Repetition", "Adore", "Insatiable" and "Thieves in the Temple".