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Originally Posted by jovifan93
Hmm, but how does that fit with the poor 2015/2016 shows, and the lyrics of God Bless This Mess ("my voice is shot")? If you rewatch older shows (from 2010 onwards), it's clear to see that there was a slight decline from 2010 to 2011, a bigger decline to 2013 and an even bigger decline to 2015/2016. But the whole clinging to the mic as if his life depends on it was already present at 2013, if not earlier.
So I think it's more of a psychological issue (insecurity) combined with decline due to age, smoking and most of all overusing his voice in the latter half of the 2013 tour.
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I think that the surgery option is the most viable. His voice isn't just shot, or he would sound like 2013-14 (or like today's mariah carey to give another example). Many tend to forget that BJ songs are really high and "screamy", from 2005 to 2011 he certainly improved his technique, but he used it to push even more on songs like always or STBI in which he just pulled chest voice like there's no tomorrow (and that were too high even when he recorded them, as usual). No wonder there was that kind of decline, but in that decline he lost power in his voice, it became much thinner, but it was still him. If u check out some 2014 runaway shows you could hear that the problem was with the power in his high range, he had no breathing/tempo issues like he has today, and his tone was still "intact". The clinging to the mic thing is a physical thing, what do u do when at your favourite karaoke u have to sing LOAP or stuff like that? You squeeze every inch of your body to push your voice up there.
Another example? listen to Steven Tyler, yes he screams at 70, but his voice is much weaker than 10-15 years ago, that's "natural" voice decline.
08-27-2020, 08:09 PM
