0:00 Crochet, it's time. Now, I know that it doesn't have the highest amount of hearts, but uh I've seen LP come up a lot as a request on the channel over the last fit now 15, 16 months or whatever it is. And uh I want to check them out. Uh this is song Lost on You. I just checked a little bit and apparently it's about their breakup uh with their girlfriend and uh and it, you know, LP wrote for Rihanna, Christina Aguilera before they uh decided to take the the front and become an artist themselves. So, quick introduction. My name's Tim. I've been a vocal coach for the last 25 years. Building Voices is my life's work. This is my website here. I have an amazing team of teachers that teach with me here in the Manhattan Tri-State Philadelphia area. We do in-person
0:46 lessons out here, but we have students online all over the world. Online lessons work really well. So, if you need a vocal coach, hit us up. The link is down in the description. Last thing to tell you about, I have a Patreon community of amazing supporters who are keeping my YouTube channel and Patreon going with support because as YouTube reactors, the artist put a copyright claim on their music. So, when we react, all the ad revenue goes back to them. And I have no problem with that because of you guys supporting me over on Patreon. And because of your support, I hammer you guys with as many reactions over there as I can to make it valuable for supporting me. So, uh you know, I put up maybe 10 more reactions a week over there. So, if you like the content, there's a lot more over there. Kind of my Netflix of reactions over there, okay? This will be my first listen to
1:32 LP. Here we go. Mhm. I like this already. [Music] Nice groove. [Music] Wow. [Music] That's a unique voice. I just got goosebumps. Wow. [Music]
2:31 Wow. [Music] Wow. [Music] Wow. [Music] Wow. [Music]
3:24 Oh. Oh my, this is special, isn't it? Wow, I'm just entranced, completely entranced. This is such a passionate vocal performance. And this vocal tone, oh, it's so interesting. What makes this vocal tone so unique? Let's talk about it. Literally, like I I think goosebumps are are equated to like surprise and you know, just being completely taken by something unexpected. I think that's what my goose goosebump-ometer my my goosebump system is connected to cuz I, you know, I didn't expect there I didn't know what to expect from their voice, but that what I heard was so unique sounding. So, um and you know, it's all
4:10 plays in with the the choice of uh the the look and the way the sound is being produced. There's a lot of there's a lot to detail to it. [Music] So, it's a high-pitched voice, right? So, it's a higher tone. Meaning the vocal folds are not that big. They're not low like mine. High pitch, but there's a lot of edge and squeeze on the voice. I love that whistle. It gives it this kind of organicy when you start whistling and stuff, it feels like we're in the Southwest, you know? It's like yeah, we've got the desert. It's I don't know. There's something about that. It gives it this organicy sort of Western feel. [Music] So, they sing with a very small mouth. And that creates this very contained sound right?
4:55 It's very minimal in expression. And that is a huge trend in music nowadays. Like think about Billie Eilish. Think about um Lizzie McAlpine. Think about Nessa Barrett, these pop singers. Sabrina Carpenter. There's a lot of this micro mouth stuff, right? [Music] And this way of singing, it's so interesting. It's all microphone based. Like back in the day when we were, you know, Hello My Baby, the vaudeville shows, early Broadway, opera, it was all, you know, you didn't have a mic, so you couldn't do all this minimal like so minimal stuff, but it's so cool, right? There's so much more texture to the voice. And some of the coolest
5:41 sounds that the voice makes are in those quiet sounds. Oh. [Music] Ah, that tone. So, so, we've got a decent amount of compression on the voice, but not so much that we're we're not to the point of distortion on the voice. But there is a lot of squeeze on that voice. And what does that do expressively? It adds angst, right? [Music] I like that sequence, too, that
6:31 That's good. So, that's a sequence when you go So, it starts here. It goes up one, down, up one, down. Sometimes sequences will be like And that's like when you're riffing, when you're doing patterns like riffing in general, you want to think of sequences. Sometimes in your melody writing, you're going to think of sequences. Cuz kind of like you follow the same pattern with the melody, right? [Music] Hear that? Little little sequence. So, there's a little bit of like a Southern American Southern accent.
7:17 Like a was. You hear that little uh There's a little more schwa uh or uh vowel in very lateral I vowel. [Music] That was. I wonder where they're from. Are they from the South of America? [Music] Ah. So much expression. This is singing. Ah, this is singing. Just like I got
8:05 something to say. something on my heart. I'm experiencing something. I want to transmute it through music and give it to you, you know? This is what it's all about. [Music] Ah, I love this. [Music] It's in my mind already. [Music] What do they have in their hand? Is I know there's a shaker with the the uh percussionist in the back, but what does
8:51 LP have? It's like another shaker, I guess. Hear the little little creaky door grit. It's very conversational. It's all that little stuff, such great texture. [Music] So, that was vocal fry. You can do it with your vocal cords. Like creaky door, or you can do it through cinching with false cord grit. That's how you get grit. [Music] That's good whistle.
9:39 Tell me you love me more than hate me all the time. [Music] That is so catchy. That's stuck in my head already. [Music] I got to put this on so I can sing along. [Music] So they keep you So they keep using that sequence in the melody. It's cool. It's so catchy. Oh, I want to sing [Music] This is my first time hearing it and I'm singing along. [Music] It's just so catchy. It's so sticky this melody. That's always the That's the
10:25 word I like to use sticky. It's got a really sticky melody. It sticks in your head. Notice the vowel modifications that they're doing right there. Let's raise a glass or two. Why are they doing that? They're doing that because when you get up in that That's up on a C5. C5 is um That's right up in like gear two of the of the belty belt voice up there and you have to when you get up that high if you're hoping to take some brassy like chest voice up there you have to modify vowels. [Music]
11:16 Notice they didn't say or they said ah ah two. That vowel modification is important. It feels weird to do it as a singer. But you have to learn how to do it enough to what your um anatomy needs basically. Because everybody's oral cavity space and resonance chambers need their own particular amount of modification of the vowels. Um and we all some people modify more than others, you know, some people don't modify as much because the resonance of their head doesn't need it, you know. Watch or. You notice that the word was or but they said ah. [Music] I love that little fast vibrato at the
12:02 end of phrases they have so good. [Music] Notice there's no real drums. It's just like percussion stuff. It's like a little shakers and little jingley things. Notice that. I wonder if it's going to come in here. No, it's but we have that boom boom boom boom boom boom. Is that just an electric guitar in a low string or is that the ba Is that a bass? It sounds like an electric guitar in a low string. It doesn't sound like a bass's depth. There is a bass in there though.
12:50 I think that is the bass just up high on the fretboard. We can't see it. I haven't been paying attention to it in the video. I think it's all guitar actually. [Music] Let's see here. Yeah, so we've got I know that is a ba He's on an Okay, so it's like an acoustic bass. And then we've got the regular guitar over there. But he look he's playing up on the fretboard. I was right. Okay. Yeah, so all right. So what I'm hearing is mo So I don't know what they've got in their hand but he's got the shaker. I've got somewhere over there. I've got that red shaker thing.
13:36 And then it looks like he's playing a tambourine on his leg. So that's the percussion. But what's LP have in their hand there? It's another type of shaker but it's not really present in the mix because notice that when they walk away from the mic you still hear the shaker just like you were hearing before. So sometimes as artists that's what we'll do. We'll do things that aren't really contributing a lot to the track but we're so used to doing it when we sang the song and we do it anyway and it does add something, you know. Um I don't know. It's like sometimes as a good like a singer you need your guitar even though that song you're not singing a guitar. It's like I just need my guitar on me. I feel weird without it, you know. Anyway, I'm not saying that that's what LP's
14:23 doing here. I'm sure there's some purpose to it but I just don't hear it, you know. [Music] There's just something so awesome about real instruments and real musicians and just recorded and put up for us to listen to. I just you know, how could that ever die? And you know, we all love that too much. It feels so good. It's like humanity right there for us to experience, you know, this is music. This is like what we're doing right? [Music]
15:08 [Applause] What? [Music] Oh my god. I just got goosebumps again. [Applause] Oh my god, you guys were waiting for me to get to this part. You're like, Tim, shut up and get to the cool part. Oh my god, that was unexpected. I love it. Let's go back and hear that again. And I won't stop. We'll listen to it to the end now. [Applause] Wow, they went up the oc I'm sorry I
15:53 stopped. I SAID I WOULDN'T. THAT WAS A C Oh, it was up a C5 C6 No, yeah, that was C5. Okay, I promise I won't stop. [Applause] Notice the vowel. [Music] Hear that bass just holding the beat? The eighth note. [Music] That's a great guitar solo. [Music] He's using his fingers.
16:40 [Music] Oh, I love it. [Music] Man. I love that casette. Thank you. Oh, it was time I got to LP. Man. Man.
17:30 That was I mean that's the real deal right there. LP is the real deal. That song is the real deal, you know. Meaning like what is singing? It's like I I feel like if I have a purpose, you know, like one of my big purposes in life it's to like convey a very strong belief I have about how singing what singing should be about and like how to celebrate amazing singing in the world. Like what does that look like? Well, it looks like this. It's like there's something to be said. They broke up with their girlfriend. Apparently that's the the um impetus and the sort of motivation for this song. And then an artist becoming a conduit for expression or let's say a whole
18:17 ensemble of musicians then become a conduit a channel for the expression of I just broke up with my girlfriend. I'm going to write a song about it and express the the the the human experience of that. And I'm going to make a million choices in the realization of the art to do that with through the picking what style of song will this be? What's the instrumentation going to be? What's the chord progression going to be? What type of vocal tone will I use? What's the melodic contour going to be? What are the vocal effects we're going to use? Sonic effects blah blah blah visual effects. Like you got a million decisions to make but the art form is I have something to say.
19:03 Here's the art form through which to say it. Let me use the art form to become the channel for saying the thing. And then you the audience you the listener become the receptor of the expression that's coming through. That's great singing. That's pure That's singing at with the purest intention, I would say. You know, um that's doing the thing because what is What is the game here? The game is make me feel something about being a human. I want to know through your song I want to have an understanding of the human experience a little bit better through what you're conveying, you know. That's songwriting to me. That's singing to me. And uh and I look at everything
19:49 from that lens. And my god, is this not a case study in a representation of that idea right here, right? Um uh good on you, LP. So fun. I am so grateful I got to check you out here and got my first listen with you. Thanks again, Kachet, for uh the recommendation. Um if you want to join up uh I'm not sure if I'm going to put this up on YouTube or just leave it on Patreon. Uh I may put it up on YouTube. I'm kind of feeling a craving to. So, if you want to join up, I I've got my link to the Patreon community. I really mostly react on Patreon these days because uh of the copyright stuff on YouTube. I A lot of times my videos get blocked and I have a bunch of people supporting me and my adventure over on Patreon, so I give them like 10 times more reactions. So, if you want to come
20:35 over and also influence the stuff I react to, uh the link's down in the description, okay? Thanks so much for following along. That was a lot of fun. What That song's going to be with me all day here. That was really beautiful. Cheers.
