My Ballad

Alright so first off I wanna say I like the style. It feels like a really good mix between old fashioned 70s pop a la Bee Gees, and modern sort of Frank Ocean-type shit or whatever, even though I don't listen to the latter and I'm not entirely sure Frank Ocean is who I'm thinking of. It honestly reminded me of these two songs - youtube.com/watch?v=XpqqjU7u5Yc youtube.com/watch?v=Gru4IfbKlfU - for some reason, even though I feel like there's another song that I can better compare this too, but I can't really remember so these will have to do. You know, got that sort of soul to it, very good. I really like the melody a lot too, very well put together.

However, you need to learn to sing better. The vocal performance wasn't really all that stellar, you had some unneeded vibrato in some funky places, throws it off a bit. You end up sounding a bit whiny sometimes, like you're doing something closer to talking than singing. Plus your timing was also kind of strange, and on my first listen, the beginning of the song threw me for a loop trying to figure out the beat or whatever its called. Also you were slightly off-key in a few places, but I doubt many people aside from myself would really notice it, so that's not a big problem but still should be addressed. The good news is these are all problems that can be addressed and fixed in time, just be sure to do plenty of practice. (also no offense, cause i cant really tell since i dont know how music making works, but is the instrumental part midi? I hope not, if it is then you gotta fix that asap, and if not, then I'll just say it needs more polish bc it sounds that way)

overall 7/10 its stuck in my fucking head now

gonna review lyrics in a bit

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Thanks! My vocals at the beginning were still kind of rough but I guess i will redo later on down the line

Thank you for the criticism, I am still improving my style as an artist so I will definitely work on those. I also feel like some of the tuning made my vibrato sound more pronounced, it is usually more sublte. Is whiny a bad thing? Especially for this kind of song?

Also most of the instrumental was synthetic except for the acoustic parts

Also the bobby caldwell comparison was pretty amusing, I can see how you saw that, in the then I would choose verse
Thanks :)

has a nice 80s sound

vocaroo.com/i/s0TBLEUsR53S

wait which of you is the OP???

Still gonna review lyrics in a bit, just have a quick thing to do first

actually fuck it, I'll review em now

and yes to answer, sounding whiny is always a bad thing. Even for this kind of song. It needs to sound impassioned, not like youre complaining.

Both, sorry for the confusion

Really? Does this sound like the 80s that much? I am getting that a lot lol

Jeez you typed all that out manually? I thought you had like a transcript written down you could copy over, sorry for makin you do that

anyway

At first when I was listening to the song, since I wasn't paying too much attention to the words, I thought the whole "if you were me" thing was like a weird way to get pity or something, but now that I read this I see what the idea is. These are good lines, really gets across the feeling of being betrayed by a person you love very much, and what I initially thought was a pity thing is of course actually a call for the person this is addressed to to become aware of their actions, and understand how much she hurts the people around her, especially those who would give everything and value her above all else. Only real criticism I can think of is that this is a kind of tropey and overdone premise for a song, but honestly I can't really go around berating artists expressing their feelings through their craft. That's what art is all about. The words flow pretty well, the rhyming is good, not much to say there. Good job man, it's great, and youve delivered some solid OC to this shithole board.

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Thanks again, I really appreciate someone looking into what I do, it motivates me and gives me an idea of how people percieve my music, this was really helpful and I am glad you made it in here, now it is time to sit back and watch this thread get buried under fembot related threads... lol

LMAO it's literally ginuwine

youtube.com/watch?v=9B-vHhi7VK4

yeah it does, the production and arrangement totally has that feel. it's nice and retro without being ironic.

Just the first chord lol

Interesting, i will definitely remember this for future projects

lets talk about this instead

soundcloud.com/nateboii/b4c-bonus-track

why does this actually go hard