Seasoned Vocal Coach Reacts: ‘Red Wine Supernova’ Chappell Roan

this will be my third reaction to Chapel rone I'm super excited to be back into Chapel Ron's world I think she's a mega talent I think she's a brilliant artist on so many levels from the way that she dresses her costuming on that respect from the lyrics and the clever ways that she writes these witty sort of Sometimes runchy lyrics but with true emotional connection to them I love The Melodies and the sticky hooks she writes her vocal technique is super impressive that's really where I focus mostly as a voal instructor of now 24 years and I'm just so excited to be back here so I want to jump right in my name's Tim this is my website I teach around the Manhattan tri-state area I have a team of amazing teachers we do a lot of lessons online too which actually works pretty well if you're not around and you want lessons so don't be afraid to hit us up without further Ado let's Jump Right In yeah not to brag but like yeah like I'm really giving so she's so funny this is red wine [Applause] [Music] Supernova be bimbos ladies be bimos be [Music] bimbos she was a playy bridg she show me things I didn't know she did it right there out on the deck put her K9 te in the of my neck in the hallway waiting for you mini skirt a go go boo I just want you to make a move so slow down sit down just W to get to know you guess I didn't quite think it through uh girl love you face down baby why don't you come over red super Fall Into Me let's pick it up now [Music] hry you're AER [Music] red one super falling into me I like I like you like you like long hair no my that's right you just told me want me to [ __ ] you maybe I will CU I really want to I just want to get to know you cuz I didn't quite thinking through uhuh girl fell in love with the you [Music] face baby why don't you come over red one super no for into me okay y'all let's pick it up now I love you're a ster red one super no fall right into me well back to my house I got a California king okay maybe it's a twin bed as a roommates don't worry we're and I heard you like magic I got a wand and a rabit so baby let's let's second bab why don't you come over r one super no right me I you're red super into [Music] me yeah yes okay Chapel wrong man all right wow that was fun Chapel rone man I just like every song I have another layer of huge respect for her this was fun my first impression what a fun playful rockus but still tight not not rockus in a loose way it's just such a such a fun Jam that first of all I just got to say the drummer is killing on this recording I love what she's doing it's so good and I love the little play back and forth with her and the band how there's a little you know interplay with the instrumentalist and the background singer the background singer Is Amazing by the way I mentioned that in picture you she's so good band is so cool what was interesting was to hear how rocking the band was able to get in this Arrangement you know there's no distorted guitars there's no like um really gritty synthesizer sounds it's all kind of organic sounds but it had such an energy to it that it really didn't feel like it was missing that at all I don't know in the original song if it has those things or not but I found it to be really energetic and fun to listen to from a an energy standpoint and just a quick thing about her singing which I'm about to go back and break down now her singing was killer on this one lot of power this is the most brass and punch I've heard in her voice period especially in the upper register she was just going for it and she was killing it so all right I need to go back we're going to talk about what she's doing at the end because the vocals in that big part that she's singing at the end were like were really great it's really hard to sustain that amount of intensity in your tone quality that high in your voice like she did for that long and I just want to break down a little bit what I'm hearing in her doing that but first we got to go back to the beginning and talk about all the nice little nuances and tones she has right out of the gate she was a playy bridg she show me I love her lower voice I love the texture in that tone she's got this natural huskiness that she's able to access in her lower tone what's huskiness actually from a voice pedagogy standpoint huskiness is slightly gapped vocal folds but with a little bit of what's called compression on the tone which is a cinching above the vocal folds H which creates a little bit of an edge to the sound like a pressure buildup after the vocal folds listen for that huskiness that she has there it's so appropriate and she uses it a lot in her lower register she was [Music] ay also notice the amount of depth in her tone she's kind of almost like she show me than she's putting on a little bit of this uh uh confidence strong type of a vocal tone which is a little different from picture you and the when she started picture you it was a little sweeter it was a little lighter it was a little more intimate she's got a little more bass in that tone here in this beginning part listen for that again she was a that that [Music] dep and the huskiness I love it when artists are able to integrate singing and speaking seamlessly in a song so I'm singing now and then I like to talk you know it's like that little way of going back and forth she's doing that throughout in the song very cool again this reminds me a little bit I think of another artist that does that is Cheryl Crowe she does that quite a bit too and I mentioned a little bit of a reference last time that I I talked about Chapel rone that there are some Cheryl Crow types of things she does but it's so funny to watch people talk about ch cuz I've read all of your comments I read all the comments by the way so you know feel free to to let me know what you're thinking I love there are so many different artists that people are comparing Chapel rone to from Lady Gaga to Cindy loer to Kate Bush I'm bringing up Cheryl Crow she's just so interesting in all of the things that she's doing how she's grabbing from our pop artist lexicon and making all of these things she's doing her own she's so clever there out on the deck put K9 tee in the side of my neck the hallway waiting for you mini skir and my go go boots I just want you to [Music] make so she has a lot of brass and punch that she's bringing in her voice now this song is more leaning on the side of her power voice and what we do when we sing with a power voice is we get clean vocal fold closure we let the vocal folds thicken a bit with thyro aroid activation if you want to nerd out with me and then we add a little bit more subotic air pressure now she also has a little bit of compression even in her big belty stuff compression just gives the voice a little squeeze it gives a little extra attitude a little Edge when you sing other things like I just reacted to this artist deos who is like a an international sensation and in the reaction I did he didn't have a lot of that squeez on his voice it was a little more of what I call an open tube type of a sound chaperon doesn't sing with an open tube type of a sound she has a lot of squeeze which gives a lot of nice angst which is appropriate for the types of songs that she's singing and writing it's absolutely perfect vocal technique here what she's doing I couldn't imagine her doing it any [Music] better to know I didn't quite think it through see there's that little talkie stuff again guess I didn't really think it through when she does that little talk stuff there so cool it's so hip and playful it makes it so playful and believe it or not it's not that easy to do that type of a thing in the song Because what can happen sometimes is you either over sing the talkie part or you over talk the singy part this is something that I work on a lot with people who do musical theater because in musical theater you do this all the time but chel peron's doing it in such a cute quirky fun way and this song I [Music] love another thing I love about her performing is she's so natural with her body and her physicality she does like really fun physical things that don't seem staged or choreographed at all yet they're just so perfectly inside of the Persona I remember feeling that way in the first time I ever heard her when I watched the performance of her on Jimmy Fallon singing good luck babe I just loved her physicality she would move at the right times it was so cool B come I love this chorus this is what I call a Dropout chorus where you've got the beat you've got the drive you're building building building and instead of having a big lift more musically into the chorus what we do is we drop out the energy in the chorus and the instrumentation that does that dropping out primarily is guess what it's the drummer who is killing it in this recording by the way she is so good I was like two-thirds of the way through the song I was just eating up those fills for lunch it was so so good all right so I love this chorus concept I'm a big fan of a Dropout chorus here we go drop out yeah come now she's doing some of her Chapel rone flipping I feel like we need a name for it like the chapel rone Flip or something it's such a signature part of her [Music] singing You're a ster red super fall so the first part of the chorus was drop out and then the band kicks in for the repetition of it notice how in the first part of the chorus she's up in her head voice and she's mix down into her chest voice when she goes into low notes then once she does the second half of the chorus when the band kicks in she's up in the same pitch range but now she's got the brass she's got the punch she's got the power in her voice listen back for that [Music] voice chest voice in the bottom that flip now she's going to stay brass the whole time brass you're a ster red Super Falling notice also how much she's not over opening her mouth on those belts in the upper part of her voice I love that I love that that means she's in a nice efficient place you've heard me talk about her before and that I think that she's going to sing for and do this for a long time she has a really good vocal technique for a pop singer she's singing very efficiently she's not musling or punching her vocal folds in any way that makes me as a voice teacher go like some singers do and it's I'm a big fan I'm a big fan of I don't know what I'm not a fan of of her I'm I'm trying to be critical too but I just this is more of just a uh a celebration of her brilliant Artistry I like I like you like you like long hair I just love the playfulness of the song the song is so light and fun and playful and you know it's about early stages of relationship hooking up with somebody fun red wine Supernova as opposed to Champagne Supernova The Oasis song If you all haven't heard that one this is a little reference to that but I was reading a little bit in a Reddit Forum that this red wine Supernova could have some other implied meanings that I'm not going to go into here here but if you want to go down another Rabbit Hole of the song go start reading what people are interpreting red wine Supernova to be actually about you can feel free to leave it in the comment I'll respond but I'm not going to get into it here on this video because I want to talk about the vocal [Music] technique I've spoken in the past about how cool I think her lyrics are and how Innovative and you know working in these risque topics into her lyric writing it it makes her lyrics so grabby and fun to hear but she's not just doing it for shock value like all of these songs have a personal meaning to them which I really really respect it's like layer upon layer of great Artistry in her performing I just get to know you gu I didn't think it [Music] through like the little bell synthesize it sounds that the keyboard player is doing it's so appropriate for the light playfulness of this [Music] song why don't [Music] come okay y'all let's pick it up now notice how that she still has some of those yodel flips off of things like uh she's still doing it some here even in the chorus but it's a little more subtle than it is in some of her other [Music] stuff super no for into me okay y'all let's take it up [Applause] now you're a ster one super no fall right into me I love how she just lost it there it was so natural so playful so fun oh she's so good well got a California king okay maybe it's a twin bed and some roommates don't worry we're and I heard you like magic I got a a I love that talking part too like she's just so seamlessly from singing to speaking singing to speaking this song is so light and Whimsical and playful it's Whimsical is the right word it's just sort of silly fun but catchy and it just makes you want to move I mean I'm dancing like like a goofball here listening to Don't Come super me yeah she's she's really big here this is like this is the last song of the Tiny Death so I think she's leaning into and going she's like boomy here this is like maximum power here on her singing listen for [Music] that me I a ster red wi super [Music] me all right I just have to say one of you mentioned in the comment on picture you that the background singer was on The Voice and that she's got her own thing going on if you know her name or any info about her please leave it in the comments i' I'd love to check out some of her stuff I just reacted to an artist Ren doing a song back on 74 and two of the background vocalists were singers that had things going on so I I just love to support singers and and check them out so don't be afraid to send any information that if you have it about her for me this is so good and and just one last thing I have to say again that drumming the fills of the drummer and the she's really good too there chaperona surrounded herself with some really talented people and it's I mean what's not to likeing this this is just so good so just to recap on what she's doing vocally here compared to some of her other stuff she's starting off in the beginning in that sort of husky introspective tone this song's cool because she has a little of that speaking fused in with the singing which I haven't heard her do in her other stuff very much maybe a little bit in some of her other things but in this one she's doing quite a bit of it and she's doing it really really well I love the energy of the song I love the Dropout chorus I love how much power and breath she's bringing into her tone I think she's a great vocal technician I think she has a lot of years she's going to be doing this really well I'm definitely in the fan club the only problem I'm seeing here is it doesn't seem like the fans of Chapel rone have an official name yet and all the other artists that I am reacting to eventually their fan bases find me and they all have names like Ren has the Renegades deash K beran has the deers chinchilla has the chili beans what do we call Chapel rone fans we have some ideas maybe you know maybe she's said what she wants you all to be called I don't know just a thought out Hadad anyway this was a really fun song to react to thank you for recommending I check out this one next I'm looking forward to going down the rabbit hole more with her stuff if you like this video subscribe click the little notification to stay up to date on my latest stuff and please join us over in the community tab of my YouTube channel I'm putting up ideas of things that I would react to next and getting feedback from you all and I love the feedback and uh interaction over there too so don't hesitate to reach out over there but thanks again for recommending this and I'll see you in the next video