Who sung it best: Poll Edition (goodbye yellow brick road, gravity, this woman's work)

[Hsamid]

Yeah, ik we already did this but saw that most people seemed split in the OG thread and wanted to put it to a vote. 

 

Goodbye Yellow brick road covers

 

Emily Keener

 

Mara Justine

 

Sarah Grace

 

Alexa Cappelli

 

 

This woman's work covers

 

Deejay Young

 

Lucas Holliday

 

Kevin Hawkins

 

 

Arcade Covers

 

Corey Ward

 

Hailey Mia

 

Joslynn Rose

 

Edited October 6, 2023 by Hsamid

[FloorWax]

1. Hailey Mia’s voice sounded so much more developed than Joslynn’s despite being three years younger. Crazy. 

 

2. Sarah Grace ate up that performance! So underrated and I just know she isn’t going to get a lot of votes.

 

3. Deejay Young by a good margin. It’s insane how effortless he makes those register switches seem.

[Hsamid]

Wow me and floorwax basically have the opposite view on this. I thought Joslynn's performance sounded more dynamic to me. She sold the softness of the song in the beginning similarly to the original with her slight transitions to headvoice and back then back to her chest register.

 

Her lows were actually decent as well (sounded like she went lower than Hailey) and there was a bit of depth to it as well, again, a bit closer to the original. I will say the belts sounded really raw and it's probably the one thing I'll give Hailey the edge in. But I also thought the rawness, especially in contrast to how gently she caressed other parts of the song, added to the performance imo.

 

Hailey sang in chest voice the entire time and seemed to only utilize her mid range and belts. It didn't really have the nuance and range of the original or even Joslynn's version, was very much a straightforward approach like how someone younger would sing it. Still a solid performance nonetheless, but listening to both back to back kinda solidified my preference for Joslynn's when before I thought they were even.

 

As for the other covers, Deejay was the most effortless and I kinda appreciate him not just singing it traditionally even though it was a bit much with those high mixed and falsetto belts. Also, his headvoice runs? Melodically pretty different from the original but they sounded gorgeous, especially the one at 0:58.

 

Everyone did great on yellow brick road, but it's between Mara and Emily for me and you'd need a gun to my head to pick one or the other.

Edited October 6, 2023 by Hsamid

[nytsch]

1. Hailey

 

2. I voted for Mara but realized I don’t even remember Sarah Grace’s version so idk? Mara is definitely my fav of the other 3 though

 

3. Lucas

[QueenCami]

1. hailey by a hair over joslynn. loved joslynn's version a LOT but listening to hailey's she just had more time to develop the performance more and do more things with it

 

2. alexa cappelli underrated pop powerhouse legend

 

3. deejay was the most exciting

[Someone648]

Corey > Hailey > Joslynn

 

Emily > Sarah > Mara > Alexa

 

Lucas > Deejay > Kevin

[FloorWax]

 

Anyway, this is still the standard for Goodbye Yellow Brick Road covers. @Hsamid I think you'll really like this.