What, you think I'm too old to be coooool? *g* (Not that I even know whether it is cool to like Green Day, that's how old and cool I am).
My nine-year-old was playing Boulevard of Broken Dreams a lot on holiday (which is the song Broken Dreams was based on) and I really liked it musically, then when I got to listen to the words properly I loved it even more. I didn't know the name of the band and I totally assumed at that time that it was some obscure German band or something (Billie does have some strange pronunciation!).
Anyway, long story short, Google, YouTube, and I love most of their stuff that I've heard so far - I'm planning on treating myself to the Bullet in a Bible CD/DVD set for my birthday. Google again, slash, and oddly enough, my OTP is a slim, tiny pretty guy and a bigger, not-conventionally-handsome bit of rough.
Just from my own experience of singing to an audience, the first stage is concentrating on not forgetting your words, then you start to have time to look around. After that, you find you have time to sing, look around, think completely unrelated thoughts and still have the next line turn up in your head at the right moment.
I think the music becomes like the sea you're floating on, leaving you time to steer the boat if you like. For Billie Joe, and indeed any lead singer, you can't afford to just lose yourself in the music - you're responsible for the whole thing, you have to work the crowd, you're the only one who can stop the music or change things. The others, I would suggest - not that I would actually know - need to be focussed on the lead singer for those reasons. And others too, of course.
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Date: 2009-01-11 02:45 pm (UTC)My nine-year-old was playing Boulevard of Broken Dreams a lot on holiday (which is the song Broken Dreams was based on) and I really liked it musically, then when I got to listen to the words properly I loved it even more. I didn't know the name of the band and I totally assumed at that time that it was some obscure German band or something (Billie does have some strange pronunciation!).
Anyway, long story short, Google, YouTube, and I love most of their stuff that I've heard so far - I'm planning on treating myself to the Bullet in a Bible CD/DVD set for my birthday. Google again, slash, and oddly enough, my OTP is a slim, tiny pretty guy and a bigger, not-conventionally-handsome bit of rough.
Just from my own experience of singing to an audience, the first stage is concentrating on not forgetting your words, then you start to have time to look around. After that, you find you have time to sing, look around, think completely unrelated thoughts and still have the next line turn up in your head at the right moment.
I think the music becomes like the sea you're floating on, leaving you time to steer the boat if you like. For Billie Joe, and indeed any lead singer, you can't afford to just lose yourself in the music - you're responsible for the whole thing, you have to work the crowd, you're the only one who can stop the music or change things. The others, I would suggest - not that I would actually know - need to be focussed on the lead singer for those reasons. And others too, of course.