Thursday, September 22nd 2011
By Popular Demand: Marc Martel Channeling Freddie Mercury
Meet Marc Martel, a Canadian singer who is causing the Internet to declare today the new Easter since Freddie Mercury has obviously resurrected and is now living inside of Marc's body. Marc sang out "Somebody to Love" in his video audition for the chance to sing in Queen's 40th anniversary tour. I refuse to dramatically hurl myself onto that bandwagon until Marc brings more stache, bulge, overbite, bulge and bulge to his performance. And this also needs less microphone that I thought was a blow dryer. And more bulge.
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z80 sorry to burst your bubble but look at thishttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGcDpnxtqsc&feature=related
Marc is amazingly talented!
Seriosly WallE is coming true already. Like when at the end it's time to fly back to Earth and all the captain knows how to do is press a button because the ship was programmed to do everything for him and now that it's time for him to do something, he's clueless. Ya, it's like that.
f anybody still cares, here's a video that illustrates how well you can polish a turd with professional software.
http://youtu.be/e5gpYozpoqI
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Oh man, that is depressing. Are people realizing that our society is using technology as a way to avoid actually having to know how to do things correctly? First there was spell check and now we're moving into voice recognition software to write for us. So people not only don't know how to spell, they aren't going to know how to write at all. And with GPS people have no idea where they are or how to go anywhere because all they know how to do is listen to a little box say, "turn right, turn left". Thus ends my old fogey rant of the day.
For some reason, I keep coming back to this post.. I guess it is because the whole fake vs. real thing has been getting to me lately. Honestly, I can't even tell anymore because the software is so good.
With Photoshop, an excellent and emotionally charged parallel, you can see the before and after effects very easily and formulate an opinion regarding the merit and ethics of the work. However, when employing Autotune or similar industry software, nobody knows the recording has been altered because the virgin recording is never released. Furthermore, there is no standard frame of reference that can be measured for a vocal like waist size in Photoshop.
Very few people even know that this technology exists. Personally, I think that this technology distorts the playing field and is unfair to people that have worked hard or are not as marketable(read: they don't have big tits or aren't that great looking).
If anybody still cares, here's a video that illustrates how well you can polish a turd with professional software.
http://youtu.be/e5gpYozpoqI
His voice is amazing, and he's kinda hot in a...well, Canadian way.
But he'll never get picked. He fronts a big ole fundie Christian band, and I doubt Queen will want to pick a guy who isn't fond of the gays to fill Freddie's shoes.
Submitted by LisaL on Fri, 09/23/2011 - 7:53am.
"To Z80:
He has a live performance of Bohemian Rhapsody on youtube which blows your theory out of the water. It is near flawless
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Yeah ditto that.
Other than the awful backup singers in the live performance, he still sounds amazing.
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I just saw the Bohemian Rhapsody video and it was good too!
I hope I'm wrong.
"To Z80:
He has a live performance of Bohemian Rhapsody on youtube which blows your theory out of the water. It is near flawless
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Yeah ditto that.
Other than the awful backup singers in the live performance, he still sounds amazing.
To Z80:
He has a live performance of Bohemian Rhapsody on youtube which blows your theory out of the water. It is near flawless.
I'm just happy I don't rent the flat below his garret.
Not bad, not bad....but of course I will always miss Freddie. The man was freaking gorgeous. And he even made big ass teeth look sexy. Today they probably would've made him get veneers.
Submitted by z80 on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 7:49pm.
thanks for saying all the things I didn't even know I was thinking!
WoW! @Z80--you are my new music guru!
Oooh...just like Freddie (after a shave and lobotomy).
I's not a hairdryer, it's a SHURE SM7 microphone. It's most famous use was by Michael Jackson on most of his Thriller album. Me thinks that he really doctored the audio for a few reasons:
1.) You can hear the huge amount of compression (Industry speak for making everything the same loudness) and special effects while he is talking;
2.) There isn't a correlation between his movement of the microphone and what is called the proximity effect (his voice should get louder and lower when the mic is closer)- this also makes me think that he altered the dynamics in post production to enhance the expressiveness of his performance;
3.) There isn't one plosive or pop in his entire song. Normally, when you say the letter P into a microphone it makes an extremely loud POP - that's why when you see singers singing into a studio microphone there is a little circular screen to remove the blast of air from their speech or singing from getting into the microphone.
His heavy post production work creates the inference that he also auto tuned the fuck out of his video; his pitch was spot on except for one small part that he probably left in there on purpose so folks would think he was natural.
My guess is that he's probably good but couldn't duplicate his video performance in a live setting. Sorry to ruin your day:)
Not bad. BUT the OCD person living inside of me wants to clean his apartment and fix those damn books on the bookshelf.
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Not bad at all! Could use a little tweaking, but overall, very good!
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"I'm not crazy; I'm just a little unwell."
The guy is pretty good, but Freddie resurrected? No. Not by a long shot. I don't there there will ever be another Freddie.
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"Wait until the bitch finds the family of wombats living in her chocha." - MK
while freddie did it better, more strength, more gravel, more presence, more everything, this guy is pretty dam good!
jeebus that was some good music we had.
Godamn that is fuckin amazing
Submitted by Bossy on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 3:36pm.
I don't know any of the names in the headline, I also think I'm not alone in that.
OMG tell me you are trolling, unforgivable
He really needs to win this contest so he can hire a maid to come clean up that fucking mess in the background.
Oh, forget it. he's a bible thumper. Like we really need a Jesus freak emulating Freddie.
You make me hate my hips! I hate my hips!
His the best of the best so far for the contest, have you people seen the others trying to compete for this Queen Extravaganza contest?? All I have to say is hahahahahahahah, I have no idea what compels people with zero singing chops to even think they can do Queen right, the folks are making it into a joke but Marc here is the real deal, damn!
Submitted by Bossy on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 3:36pm.
I don't know any of the names in the headline, I also think I'm not alone in that.
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you do not know freddie mercury? how is this possible?? i refuse to live in a world where freddie is not known by everyone! *dies*
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A baby's first words should not be: "DEATH DON'T TAKE ME NOW!!!" - MK
I don't know any of the names in the headline, I also think I'm not alone in that.
Holy smokes, that's pretty damn impressive...
Submitted by Smokey Kitteh on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 3:03pm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGcDpnxtqsc
Here he is doing Bohemian Rhapsody. Sounds amazing. He gets my vote.
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oooohhhhh i just love him. that voice. incredible.
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A baby's first words should not be: "DEATH DON'T TAKE ME NOW!!!" - MK
Submitted by Smokey Kitteh on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 3:03pm.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGcDpnxtqsc
Here he is doing Bohemian Rhapsody. Sounds amazing. He gets my vote.
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I've got goosebumps! And he's quite intense here.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGcDpnxtqsc
Here he is doing Bohemian Rhapsody. Sounds amazing. He gets my vote.
Submitted by P.T.Bull on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 12:11pm.
I am guessing he used apple garageband to record it, but what I am wondering is where he got the soundtrack without freddie in it.
You can download the tracks on the contest website. Choose your audition - vocals, lead, bass, etc., and download the track with that part stripped out. Very cool.
Fuck, if Queen ever needed a replacement for His Majesty, Marc would be it.
I thought he was amazing! Ok, I agree on the stage presence thing, but he might just be holding back because he's in a room the size of a walk-in closet. I say give the man a shot on the big stage in some tighty-whities and suspenders and let him show us what he's got. Yow.
i am in LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE
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A baby's first words should not be: "DEATH DON'T TAKE ME NOW!!!" - MK
Freddie's overbite was dreamy...
That was damn good! I think he could bring the personality if he was up on stage witht lights, camera, action.
low blow, Provy
Goddamnit, I really wanted to be a total cunt to this guy, but I gotta say- he's pretty fucking good. Yes, no personality and a little slavish, but those are small potatoes to the voice.
You make me hate my hips! I hate my hips!
Wow... that gave me chills.
Submitted by snowball on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 12:22pm.
Well he is Canadian. :)
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LMAO. Too true, my friend. Too damn true.
Boston Bruins-- Stanley Cup Champs 2011
It's damn hard to replace a legend but fuck all, this guy is good. Brian May, where are you? Sign this guy!!
Boston Bruins-- Stanley Cup Champs 2011
My favorite comment on the YouTube link:
"My dream of having sex with Freddy Mercury can finally come true now."
That's pretty amazing.
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-"I am not about to deal with unstable people" - HEART ANGELINA.
I can't watch it until I get home. Grrrrr!
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"I'm not crazy; I'm just a little unwell."
nice job!
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Oh God ,why don't you go sit under a rainbow and write a poem, Kyle.
book 'em - he's great - he can always pad his bulge later.
Submitted by Boo1212 on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 12:30pm.
two words.....
GOOSE...BUMPS...
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Two more words: tingly spine.
Dayum! He's good!
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“It does not do to leave a live dragon out of your calculations, if you live near him.” J.R.R. Tolkien.
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The sight of that enormous fish stink-hole nearly caused us to vomit!
::fans self with church hat::
Submitted by NovaNightly on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 12:44pm.
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You're so right NN, a good mike and someone who knows how to work a board properly can make an average singer sound a lot better.
Submitted by OVO-606 on Thu, 09/22/2011 - 12:35pm.
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LMOA! Matt is one funny gay. I love Little Britain, some of those characters are priceless.
Bubbles. "just call me Bubbles darling" makes me cringe and laugh my ass off at the same tiem.