Original Song for review

Hi Doggy, you get 10 points from 10 for your song writing and 20 from 10 for your lyrics. Damn good lyrics.
If you carry on, you'll be the Bob Dylan of Singapore.
It will be a shame if you do not develop your talent further.

Form an acoustic Band with harps and violins and perform. Your looks is a major plus too for success.
 
Bravo, Just checked the last link.
Like I said, you have the right ingredients. Your strong point are the lyrics and simple melody, simple but great.
Crazy Sunshine is up-tempo, you have to be careful that you don't shallow the words up and become inaudible. I do not know if you can do that song a wee bit slower, try it out.
Also, sometimes you don't seem to hit the note you are suppose to sing and goes flat, especially at the end of a verse when you have to sustain notes.
At the speed of Crazy S., it is not easy to sing in tune with constancy, it takes a trained singer or someone naturally has good vocal control. Then again, in your music genre I wonder if it is all that important. Dylan do not alway sang in tune too but he has a way of bending those notes with his voice.
Anyway, you appeared quite conscious of the surrounding and camera and not so concentrated in the performance. I know it is not easy with all those text/arrangement to remember. The 'ba la ba ba bab' part is a good hook and should be repeated, perhaps at the end after the slow part.

Another thing is that the guitar was not in tune.

Get a band together but with good musicians. With you ears I bet that your vocal control will improve as you listen to well tuned instruments.
 
Thanks for the awesome feedback. Appreciate it loads man. Have taken note and will be working on the vocals (which I have always thought I wasn't that strong in). And you're right... Dylan was more of a lyricist than a singer. But he always managed to pull it off - Dylan style.
 
Good to meet a fellow poet as well

Hey man, you into poetry? got a blog you wanna share? I'm mad about poetry.. well not mad but really into it. It'd be nice to share.

Anyhow, explanation about Inaugurational BO. The song's split into two parts:

1st half describes the America that was under the Bush administration and how Bush was just a stringed puppet who didn't know what he was doing and just pushed people to war.

2nd half is the promise of a much better America and how everyone is pinning their hopes and dreams on the - hopefully - great President Barack Obama.

Hope this explanation helps! I'm listening to your stuff now. Will be commenting on your thread.
 
Just watched both of your videos. They were very good! Very nice to listen too. Thanks a lot for sharing those to us.

I'm really no vocal expert so cannot critic that much lol. But maybe just missing a bit in some of the high note parts. But overall, it was great!
 
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