Word: vocalic
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...when I went to lay the basic vocal tracks, I discovered that I had no voice. All of the singing in the dusty woods of Big Sur with the wood smoke and the cabin we were staying in, drinking too much whiskey in the kitchen and doing all of these horrible things for my voice had really hurt it. I had to not talk for two months. That obviously put a huge freeze on making the record...
...largely read as formulaic and somewhat trite (“I just want to be brave like you, Dad,” he insists cloyingly to his father), and the development of his character is confined to the wild, wide-eye child role, he’s undeniably a vocal powerhouse packed in a pint-sized body...
Less successfully, the characters of Timon (Tyler Muree) and Pumbaa (Ben Lipitz) dutifully serve their function of lighthearted comic relief, but both actors appear to be consciously straining to imitate the precise vocal accents and delivery style of their cinematic predecessors (Nathan Lane and Ernie Sabella, respectively). Worse, Zazu’s (Tony Freeman) over-acted comic antics and Rafiki’s (Phindile Mkhize) bouts of verbal incomprehensibility quickly grow tiresome...
...create melodrama, manipulating his deep baritone to sound as though it comes from a heavy trance. While at times this is an asset, his voice becomes more and more affected as the album progresses, until it reaches an unbearable level of pretension. The zenith of Meiberg’s vocal affectation can be heard on “God Made Me,” where he abhorrently accentuates every note with an exaggerated swell of his voice...
...Randi’s not the most vocal of the seniors,” said teammate and junior forward Kate Buesser. “But she makes a big difference just bringing the Harvard hockey spirit alive. We have our captains, and then we have Randi, being a great complement to the other seniors. You can tell just by talking to her that she’s really here for the team and committed to helping us get back to the national championship...