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Originally Posted by bonjovi90
In one interview during the THINFS promo period Jon had addressed his problems and said that the 2013 stress had manifested itself in physical ways that prevent him from singing to the best of his capabilities. I have no idea what he meant exactly by that but it would explain why the quality of his singing varies so much and why he hits certain notes no one would expect. There's still some more range left that he can consistantly show.
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I also think that's the case now - Jon's suffering from serious confidence issues and therefor seems to have a "lock" in his gut/chest, which makes his voice sound extremely forced. He probably still has the range he had in '08-'11 (or even more, as is shown on the KTF video from Singapore '15 where he suddenly belts out a pretty strong high C# - the "YEAH yeah yeah" that he had never sung in key since Amsterdam '05 - with his old, chesty technique I assumed he had lost for good after the Bounce tour). The voice is clearly still there, but right now it seems like Jon can't "get it out" properly.
As a proof, check out the note he hits at 3:00 - it's insanely high and perfectly in key while definitely NOT being auto-tuned:
https://youtu.be/jahOp-4Rqqw (Keep The Faith, Singapore 2015)
Poor Jon - at one moment he's hitting '96-level notes with seemingly no problem and at another he can't sing Captain Crash in key... I'm afraid he's just way too worried about failing. Whenever he thinks he's going to f*** up vocally, he ends up doing so.