VOCAL DOMINATION

We watched a three episode series called Broadway or Bust in class for the last few classes. I feel like I related the most with Erika. A girl who sang “Salt A Lake A Siti” from the Broadway musical Book of Mormon. I love that song and she did the song more than justice so I immediately began to favor her. The reasons why I believe that I relate with her most are because of her song choice, her performance, and her singing skills. I think she could have won, but her performing in the last time she sang for the judges wasn’t good enough.

Her song choice is a song that I actually have been planning to start working on with my voice teacher and that was automatically the first thing I noticed when she sang. She sang it the way I hope I will be able to after some practice and it showed that she is an example of how I want to be vocally. Her voice is a little more mature than mine, but it reminded me of Nikki James who is someone I look up to as a singer and performer. I’ve seen her in two musicals where she played two different characters, but she made them characters I want to play one day. Erika surprised me with her vocals and her talent was something I appreciated unlike a lot of the other singers in the series. Her performance was a little weak. She was amazing and her facial expressions were good too, but her body wasn’t very interesting. She needed to perform with her body as well as the rest of her. This is something I too have trouble with and it helped me see her even more as someone I can relate to. Her singing was very impressive to me and it reminded it of my voice if it were a little more mature and I liked that. I tend to like people more if they remind me of myself.

I plan to keep in mind how I felt watching her performance and to remember all the things I liked and didn’t like. I liked her voice and I’m going to watch her performance again to listen to contrast in her song so I can try to incorporate into my audition piece. The songs that we are doing are two very different songs so it will be difficult to compare them in sense, but I’m going to listen to what the judges had to say as well. She was amazing from the beginning I want to be like that too so once I’m done being sick then I will just vocally dominate the way she did. I love the way her clip just popped up and it was obvious that she was better than the others from the start. It was like a volcano on an island. Her lava was just too much for all the things on the island and it also stood out much more than just a palm tree.