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Originally Posted by Captain_jovi
Are you sure? I ran it through a vocal-isolater plugin and it sounds like Richie the whole way through. The "I could write a couple liiiines" is a dead giveaway. 2:08 forward is without question Richie. The first half I'm not positive.
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HA! That's
exactly where I just stopped playback to come post the same thing.
There's no way that's not him singing "lii-i-ines"; but I'd back it up even further to 1:27. "...If ya stay..." and "... you wanna steal a piece of tii-i-ime..." is pure Richie, too, imo.
RDK, you may be right about the verses, but I'm not sure that what you're hearing isn't Richie emulating Jon's vocal style. He's done that before, where I've had to go back and listen to be sure it was him. I don't know if it's intentional or not, maybe for blend; but I've noticed it in several songs. In this case, while I agree that there are places in the verses that sound like Jon, there are just too many other words in the same places that have Richie's distinctive 'bend' (for want of a better word) for me to believe it's not Richie all the way through.
Including the oooohs, Thinny.
It's that li'l hitch in it somewhere, like the Cap'n compared to If I Can't Have Your Love, that just nails it as far as I'm concerned.