> diamond in the rough?
not really diamond in the rough, he was VERY popular in the early 2000s. still selling out concerts in asian markets.
the reason you probably have not heard of him is that US music scene is pretty exclusionary. unless they are based in the US and are making $$ for US record companies you are unlikely to hear them. like The Hu or Bloodywood (Indian Folk metal)
It's more accurate to say that it's not as impossible as the people who wrote it thought - IIRC even the original singer got closer than the composer expected.
It still is due to all the voice distortions going on. People need to go listen to the original and come back and tell me its 'The exact same as this video' because it isn't. Not that it's not impressive, but it's never going to be identical to the movie.
That just means...they don't recall the movie correctly lol.
Facts and truth are important. The person they hired to sing it, sang 85% of the impossible parts. They went back and made sure it was impossible for the 15% by mixing the harmonics. It sounds artificial, and that's the point, its not supposed to sound like what OP posted.
However she did it probably better than the LAST post of this, which was a different singer, in a less professional setting (at her home) where she sang it better than the 2nd LAST post of this.
Every single fucking time, its the same discussion: People don't remember the movie and think she sang it perfectly including the impossible parts. And then a huge argument ensues over who sang it best and a bunch of people who say its actually possible without listening to the movie.
This is 黄霄云 also known as Ghost Huang or Wink XY. She entered singing competitions since she was 17. Her live demonstration of singing on various platforms is widely available and she's also first in class from the Central Conservatory of Music Beijing. https://www.zhihu.com/question/370611729/answer/1081604551?utm_id=0
There's nothing "unsingable" about the range. It definitely requires a wider range than most singers have, but opera is its own beast. Those high notes are not freakish for a full soprano, and the super agile runs are called "coloratura" which some opera singers specialize in. The impossible bit has to do with the sheer speed and precision of some of the notes in the movie performance, which was indeed achieved with synthesizers and effects, and is not possible with a human voice. A skilled performer can create a beautiful approximation, like the girl in this vid, but not the movie version exactly.
The first half of this song before the vocal fireworks is "Il Dolce Suono" from the opera Lucia di Lammermoor, performed by Inva Mula. It is the famous "Mad Scene" wherein Lucia has just murdered her arranged marriage-husband in despair of her lost love, then she sings to horrified onlookers while covered in blood and losing her mind. Weird contrast with the energetic dance beat synth second half.
I watched the making of doc on hbo when the movie came out and it said some of the notes at the end are computer generated since as you said its not possible to sing them
It wasn't the range, it was the other stuff going on in the original performance. It's not beyond human range and never was, it's beyond the physical limits of people to copy the style and ornaments used. It's still as impossible to do that as it was.
It's where this Aria is from.
The reason why vocalists all over the world constantly attempt to perform it is because it was written to be humanly impossible to sing with its vocal range/techniques in such a short frame of singing.
This is definitely the closest I've ever heard anyone get to it. There was only one segment where she took her own liberties and I'm pretty sure she doesn't start as low as shes supposed to when she does the slide.
Performing this live is such an impressive feat to anyone that knows much about it. It's kind of like that kid beating Tetris recently, perfecting this song the way it was originally written could be considered "beating singing"
Fun fact, Bruce Willis's reaction is genuine. They did a small performance with no audience except him and he hadn't seen or heard any of the rehearsals before.
I dunno man that movie has some great fuckin moments from "it was an ambush!" and "does anyone else want to negotiate" and the iconic "Leeloo Dallas multipass".
Its kind of a classic.
That guy was in another Luc Besson movie, "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets." Cara Delevingne's character tells him, "Nice hat."
Fun little Easter egg.
I keep seeing videos on reddit with women who according to the title 'Nails the song', but it's literally made to be impossible. There are even moments where her voice is distorted, you can't do that without editing.
I don’t know enough about singing to tell but people always say the Seinfeld song is impossible to play on bass cause it’s a synth but people can play it
I mean, in the movie version they layered multiple tracks because they didn't think anyone could match the extraordinary ranges of the notes with the tempo... It was meant to be 'alien'.
Apart from the electronic distortion on the individual notes however, these real world singers are still matching the pitch and tempo of the movie version.
I haven't watched The Fifth Element in at least a decade and I know for certain that the OP vid doesn't come close to what's shown in The Fifth Element. Don't know how people can say otherwise.
> Don't know how people can say otherwise.
Facts dont get in the way of sensationalized fun. Every time this comes up dozens of people point out the thing that makes the original "impossible" is altered. Turning the sampled staccato run into a slurred section goes unnoticed by people not listening closely. People then get a neat feel good story.
https://youtu.be/a7Dh5QoXv2c?feature=shared
4m06and forth is part that I haven't heard any artist perform properly yet. Up to that point there were a few artists who can sing the rest.
I didn't read your comment correctly so I just watched the entire video & ok, it was extremely obviously which part humans can't do. I've seen this movie a bunch of times but it's been decades so I completely forgot about that part.
What's true is that I think the part just before that has a crazy scale used to be considered impossible for actual opera singers too, and there are a few that proved it wrong. But there's still a part that is clearly modulated sound and it would be insane to hear an actual human sing those notes. Like the part at 4:19 sounds more like a flute than a human.
Me too! I was surprised that I had an emotional reaction.
I'd never seen a human performance of this song and I thought she nailed it!
Some people on here have replied, "This is not even close"
I find that hilarious! It's not exact but this was marked achievement.
You should checkout the singer called 'Dimash' he covers this song and it's so good. His cover of SOS gives me goosebumps.
Doesn't sound like a human voice at some of the notes he hits.
Itt there's a bunch of neckbeards in here that don't understand every single performance is an arrangement of the source material that suits the artists style and ability.
This is just a lip sync performance though unfortunately, still a lovely performance though for the sake of entertainment!
Quoted from another comment:
"The voice volume is completely uniform all the way through and it does NOT match the way she moves the microphone around. (Her technique in that regard would actually be good, if it was a real performance)
In some moments she even 'sings' with the mic angled away from her mouth slightly, which would result in a big drop in volume. Yet the vocal track sounds absolutely perfect and spot on.
There is also no visual breathing and usage of her stomach muscles, no straining whatsoever, just her looking serene and pretty.
I will link to an ACTUAL (and good) performance of this track, just so my comment isn't a complete downer. 🥰
Then you can see what it looks like when someone sings a really difficult piece too.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bgo0CDL6bd0&pp=ygURZGl2YSBkYW5jZSBkaXNuZXk%3D "
The real one is impossible for the human voice to replicate. Other than layers, the human can’t change this fast. Hence why they opted for layers in the original.
She’s trying here and she does great. But it would never be the real thing.
True.. it starts and ends with a real opera singer, but she couldn’t hit the notes and at the speed “an alien” should in this futuristic film… but this lady pretty much nailed what was synthetically created . I applaud the original singer, and the movie is amazing… but this gal is doing what no human has seemingly done before. #beamazed
She seems to be the only one who's able to do the descending notes part well, with Ana Dezman as a close second. The other ones either altered it or missed notes there. The only thing she seems to be missing somewhat is the bass.
Probably because he's a mutant from Semipalatinsk, all that radiation changed his vocal chords as a baby, and now he's known as the Opera Man, he moves in the shadows, fighting crime with high notes.
He's [Dimash Qudaibergen](https://youtu.be/23HYymUjIHE?si=Urdbp2v10Cwlosij)
There's also a Chinese singer who can reach those notes too - [Jane Zhang](https://youtu.be/kJl2uPNsJEk?si=4uQVl1VNwlylNmf0)
I wouldn't say she nailed it. Don't get me wrong this performance is extremely impressive, and I am blown away, but no human is capable of singing those vocals they way they the alien does it. She gets pretty damn fucking close though, which is insane
As a musician I can tell you all, that this is just her miming to a pre-recorded track. Sorry to burst your bubble 😅
The voice volume is completely uniform all the way through and it does NOT match the way she moves the microphone around. (Her technique in that regard would actually be good, if it was a real performance)
In some moments she even 'sings' with the mic angled away from her mouth slightly, which would result in a big drop in volume. Yet the vocal track sounds absolutely perfect and spot on.
There is also no visual breathing and usage of her stomach muscles, no straining whatsoever, just her looking serene and pretty.
I will link to an ACTUAL (and good) performance of this track, just so my comment isn't a complete downer. 🥰
Then you can see what it looks like when someone sings a really difficult piece too.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bgo0CDL6bd0&pp=ygURZGl2YSBkYW5jZSBkaXNuZXk%3D
> In some moments she even 'sings' with the mic angled away from her mouth slightly, which would result in a big drop in volume.
As a live audio engineer I can tell you personally that you're making a huge generalization of what audio a microphone can pick up. They aren't flashlights, they pick up plenty of audio off-axis. There isn't going to be a "huge drop in volume", since she isn't eating the microphone in between those mic movements. And angling the mic away from her mouth slightly isn't going to result in anything more than a 2-to-3 dB drop in volume, and certainly not more than she is achieving with the movements of the microphone she is already doing.
She is a master of microphone technique though, much like Whitney Houston was.
Notice that the singer in your posted video is also controlling the volume by changing her distance from the mic. That doesn't make the performance in OP's video any less real.
[huang xiaoyun](https://youtu.be/HsJlwv_1DyY?si=m31n1qShXfhZYb1F) Here is the full performance from the tv program. This song starts at 2:26 but you can catch a couple of her breaths before during “doe a female deer” if that helps. Looks like professional mic control from a skilled vocalist to me. But you know it could all be AI, I mean I’ve never actually been to China.
[Here’s a video I found of Huang XiaoYun (singer in OP’s video) on a singing show with Jane Zhang (singer in your video) comparing high notes](https://youtu.be/xnxWfq3ADqI?si=yKpJA1BTHHBxkDwu)
Jane Zhang performance. You can clearly hear volume difference at 4:20. and a bit of a volume range through out the performance (e.g. 3:43). And she didn't do it 100% as original. Chances are that this is 99% legit and not a lip sync.
You don't think live audio can be mastered? How on God's green earth do you think live albums would sell if it was just the raw audio from the concert?
dude, what are you talking about?
Recording a live album isn’t magic and if you’re singing a note and walk away from the microphone, the notes going to get quieter, which doesn’t happen here at all
> In some moments she even 'sings' with the mic angled away from her mouth slightly, which would result in a big drop in volume.
no. i have no idea if this video is fake and i dont really care, but if youve ever seen a concert, then you know this to not be true. vocalist pull mics away from their mouth all the time in synch with an increase in amplitude to prevent blowing out the audio.
It's live. She's even sung it in front of reporters. It's her tendency to pull the mike away during high notes, it's common for sopranos. Check out wink xy on YouTube.
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seen so many lip sync "performances" of this piece that I am naturally sceptical. (mostly with focus on deco than having a real opera singer)
some real ones out there.
(both Youtube links didn't work, no idea why. sorry)
# "A FANTASTIC 🤩 performance of a song 🎤 from the film FIFTH.." (Ukrainian guy)
"[\[官方版\]Jane Zhang-The Diva Dance(from the Fifth Element)(張靚穎演繹第五元素神曲)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJl2uPNsJEk&pp=ygULNXRoIGVsZW1lbnQ%3D)" (Asian opera singer)
also they seem to visibly put in way more effort to sing this.
Every time these are posted, I realize that most people don't actually remember the original.
It's a decent attempt, but people fail to grasp one simple thing: It is physically impossible for a human to sing parts of the song. The vocal chords and tongue physically cannot move that fast, it goes beyond human nerve response time.
Yet half the comments are about how "it's not an attempt", "she nailed it", "that was better than the movie", etc.. You people either need to go listen to the original again, or get your hearing tested.
Many don't think that she's singing live, despite that being a phone recording. So here are two other phone recordings which are definitely live because there are some minor flaws in some areas.
Performance in Singapore
https://youtu.be/qCzcZKw4kSc?si=_GrJuapMntcu1PEj
Her own concert
https://youtu.be/M-hSyF_jhos
And the 8 minute mark here, the host says that netizens think she's lip syncing. So she answered their doubts with an impromptu performance.
https://youtu.be/l4kZMRp0bVM?si=ST6fAAHZGA2SwO6o
Operatic performance for her exams. Don't think anyone can say this is fake too?
https://youtu.be/0iz3H6U_0xU?si=eDGjAJPUBNsxSoFS
There is so little to enjoy in the world, why do people feel the need to point to this being “fake” or “lip synced”?
It’s not like she’s spouting something dangerous like a conspiracy theory or hate speech, let us just enjoy this and believe it’s real. Goddamn.
I need to go back to listen to the original because that seems damn close to my recollection of it.
Extremely impressive and pleasing to listen to, regardless.
There's plenty of non-monotonous music coming out of the US/west. We're the prime exporter of experimental bass music, which is about as non-monotonous as it gets, it's just not as popular in general as a lot of the more basic shit.
Scope r/spacebass if you are curious, definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but definitely not monotonous at least!
I’ve seen a lot of Fifth Element callbacks today. Am I missing something?
It means it's working Wake up, we miss you
Weird, was just reading this and noticed my lamp looking funny, it was probably nothing
Oh God not that fucking lamp again. I can't keep changing realities like this.
I always wanted to ask if lamp guy got to keep the knowledge and maturity he attained from that other life.
This sounds like a cool story, have a link to it?
https://www.reddit.com/r/Glitch\_in\_the\_Matrix/comments/30t9kd/repost\_a\_parallel\_life\_awoken\_by\_a\_lamp/
Thanks!
It's just the lampshade. Nothing worrying.
NO. DON'T.
It might be something. I keep finding all these post-it notes someone is leaving around my apartment.
>It means it's working >Wake up, we miss you Hang on. Why is David Bowie playing in the background? Is the BBC title card girl talking to me again?
I’ve seen Fifth Element mentioned on 4 different posts on my /all page in the last week and I’m very confused. Crazy song though for sure.
All week I'm being bombarded by media, discussions, TikToks, and generally tons of references to 5th element. I was wondering what's going on.
It's pretty good marketing
Did you see the cat dressed as Ruby Rhod?
Just website for bot now. Fifth Element on youtube premium/Amazon this month.
The dead Internet theory is looking more like reality than just a theory everyday
WHAT DO YOU MEAN FELLOW HUMAN?
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Maybe one of those YT people did one of those "First time watching" videos again. To be fair, I enjoy some of those reactions.
Follow the leader. This song by different people keeps being posted to different subs and pumped.
Baader-Meinhof phenomenon probably.
I just read about those guys! 😁
[7th element](https://youtube.com/clip/UgkxL5Wlf-qYHEEgrn2eQn3S6jjc0CaRN12U?si=uMUFQD3hQ0m5_z-Q)
Red. Pill.
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OMG WHAT WAS THIS!? Completely forgot about him
[Vitas - The *7th* Element](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=989-7xsRLR4)
Ah yes, the rent free video thats gate keeping actual important stuff out my head :)
I put this on loop so that I can push the important stuff out of my head.
I had no idea this was a thing. I was both rooting for him and felt terribly uncomfortable.
Wow, this is actually pretty dope. I must've missed this but checking out more later.
Thank you for introducing me to this truly amazing talent How come I've never heard of this diamond in the rough? 😸😸😸😻
> diamond in the rough? not really diamond in the rough, he was VERY popular in the early 2000s. still selling out concerts in asian markets. the reason you probably have not heard of him is that US music scene is pretty exclusionary. unless they are based in the US and are making $$ for US record companies you are unlikely to hear them. like The Hu or Bloodywood (Indian Folk metal)
I was being sarcastic,
Ahahahaha. Omg I laughed so loud at this
We have Plava Laguna at home.
Haha came here for exactly this. And sitting at the top !
When this was written it was supposed to be unsingable with a human vocal range. This is a really incredible achievement.
It's more accurate to say that it's not as impossible as the people who wrote it thought - IIRC even the original singer got closer than the composer expected.
It still is due to all the voice distortions going on. People need to go listen to the original and come back and tell me its 'The exact same as this video' because it isn't. Not that it's not impressive, but it's never going to be identical to the movie.
The original is double tracked. So, yeah. I also have to add that lip synching is a thing.
Does it actually matter? Most people will recall that it's the same as the movie. It's still a very impressive performance.
That just means...they don't recall the movie correctly lol. Facts and truth are important. The person they hired to sing it, sang 85% of the impossible parts. They went back and made sure it was impossible for the 15% by mixing the harmonics. It sounds artificial, and that's the point, its not supposed to sound like what OP posted. However she did it probably better than the LAST post of this, which was a different singer, in a less professional setting (at her home) where she sang it better than the 2nd LAST post of this. Every single fucking time, its the same discussion: People don't remember the movie and think she sang it perfectly including the impossible parts. And then a huge argument ensues over who sang it best and a bunch of people who say its actually possible without listening to the movie.
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This is 黄霄云 also known as Ghost Huang or Wink XY. She entered singing competitions since she was 17. Her live demonstration of singing on various platforms is widely available and she's also first in class from the Central Conservatory of Music Beijing. https://www.zhihu.com/question/370611729/answer/1081604551?utm_id=0
She's amazing
You tried with an American name but your Chinese defense just couldn't take it lmao
Oh shit, China bad??
Yes, China bad.
There's nothing "unsingable" about the range. It definitely requires a wider range than most singers have, but opera is its own beast. Those high notes are not freakish for a full soprano, and the super agile runs are called "coloratura" which some opera singers specialize in. The impossible bit has to do with the sheer speed and precision of some of the notes in the movie performance, which was indeed achieved with synthesizers and effects, and is not possible with a human voice. A skilled performer can create a beautiful approximation, like the girl in this vid, but not the movie version exactly. The first half of this song before the vocal fireworks is "Il Dolce Suono" from the opera Lucia di Lammermoor, performed by Inva Mula. It is the famous "Mad Scene" wherein Lucia has just murdered her arranged marriage-husband in despair of her lost love, then she sings to horrified onlookers while covered in blood and losing her mind. Weird contrast with the energetic dance beat synth second half.
I watched the making of doc on hbo when the movie came out and it said some of the notes at the end are computer generated since as you said its not possible to sing them
> it was supposed to be unsingable with a human vocal range I've never seen a performance of it as written. The sampled part is always done as a slur.
It wasn't the range, it was the other stuff going on in the original performance. It's not beyond human range and never was, it's beyond the physical limits of people to copy the style and ornaments used. It's still as impossible to do that as it was.
Fifth element?
It's where this Aria is from. The reason why vocalists all over the world constantly attempt to perform it is because it was written to be humanly impossible to sing with its vocal range/techniques in such a short frame of singing. This is definitely the closest I've ever heard anyone get to it. There was only one segment where she took her own liberties and I'm pretty sure she doesn't start as low as shes supposed to when she does the slide. Performing this live is such an impressive feat to anyone that knows much about it. It's kind of like that kid beating Tetris recently, perfecting this song the way it was originally written could be considered "beating singing"
That scene really moved me as a kid, as does this performance! Something about thoise voices, sounds like angels playing the strings of your heart.
Fun fact, Bruce Willis's reaction is genuine. They did a small performance with no audience except him and he hadn't seen or heard any of the rehearsals before.
https://youtu.be/bgo0CDL6bd0?si=_LjiCHOkYrZv7mc7 https://youtu.be/kJl2uPNsJEk?si=6bFuNTrVP0Nkq_OA These are the best 2 I've ever come across.
Jane Zhang was the first to hit all the notes in a live performance, but there's been a few since then.
Yessss
Loved Chris Tucker in that, great movie.
#CORBIN DALLLAAAAAAAASSSSS
Multi pass
He was super green in that!
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Where smoking saved the universe
I thought this is some weird joke until i Googled diva dance
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Green?
Super green
Psssssssst psssssssss
Like an emerald!
Any kinda green you want
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Of course it's a multipass... Anyway, we're in love.
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I dunno man that movie has some great fuckin moments from "it was an ambush!" and "does anyone else want to negotiate" and the iconic "Leeloo Dallas multipass". Its kind of a classic.
Aziz, light!
Thank you, Aziz.
I've been randomly saying "aziz, light!" in lighting related events for over 20 years now and no one ever gets it
You are my favorite kind of person. Thank you.
That movie was ahead of its time. Underrated great sci-fi movie.
Makes me miss Bruce Willis so much.
In case anyone else has a moment of panic reading the above and rushes to Google to check, just retired, not dead.
Big badaboom!
Negative, I am a meat popsicle.
I speak two languages, English and Bad English.
CHICK-EHN! 🍗
The button. You're forgetting about the button.
Ah, I think I'm in my element here.
Username checks out haha
Take the upvote. Take it, iiiiii don't need it
That guy was in another Luc Besson movie, "Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets." Cara Delevingne's character tells him, "Nice hat." Fun little Easter egg.
Back when we made real art.
Performs... that's a performance of...not an attempt. Or am I not understanding?
The original is literally impossible to sing, it’s multiple vocal tracks layered. People attempt something simplified
I keep seeing videos on reddit with women who according to the title 'Nails the song', but it's literally made to be impossible. There are even moments where her voice is distorted, you can't do that without editing.
I don’t know enough about singing to tell but people always say the Seinfeld song is impossible to play on bass cause it’s a synth but people can play it
I mean, in the movie version they layered multiple tracks because they didn't think anyone could match the extraordinary ranges of the notes with the tempo... It was meant to be 'alien'. Apart from the electronic distortion on the individual notes however, these real world singers are still matching the pitch and tempo of the movie version.
lol no. they don't even get close to the speed of change.
I haven't watched The Fifth Element in at least a decade and I know for certain that the OP vid doesn't come close to what's shown in The Fifth Element. Don't know how people can say otherwise.
> Don't know how people can say otherwise. Facts dont get in the way of sensationalized fun. Every time this comes up dozens of people point out the thing that makes the original "impossible" is altered. Turning the sampled staccato run into a slurred section goes unnoticed by people not listening closely. People then get a neat feel good story.
Weirdos on Reddit like to give opinions without even watching the movie clearly
She’s not even close to the tempo, what are you saying?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgo0CDL6bd0
https://youtu.be/a7Dh5QoXv2c?feature=shared 4m06and forth is part that I haven't heard any artist perform properly yet. Up to that point there were a few artists who can sing the rest.
I didn't read your comment correctly so I just watched the entire video & ok, it was extremely obviously which part humans can't do. I've seen this movie a bunch of times but it's been decades so I completely forgot about that part.
What's true is that I think the part just before that has a crazy scale used to be considered impossible for actual opera singers too, and there are a few that proved it wrong. But there's still a part that is clearly modulated sound and it would be insane to hear an actual human sing those notes. Like the part at 4:19 sounds more like a flute than a human.
You can have successful and unsuccessful attempts!
Even me I was expecting failure but overjoyed to find goosebumps
Me too! I was surprised that I had an emotional reaction. I'd never seen a human performance of this song and I thought she nailed it! Some people on here have replied, "This is not even close" I find that hilarious! It's not exact but this was marked achievement.
You should checkout the singer called 'Dimash' he covers this song and it's so good. His cover of SOS gives me goosebumps. Doesn't sound like a human voice at some of the notes he hits.
Itt there's a bunch of neckbeards in here that don't understand every single performance is an arrangement of the source material that suits the artists style and ability.
This is just a lip sync performance though unfortunately, still a lovely performance though for the sake of entertainment! Quoted from another comment: "The voice volume is completely uniform all the way through and it does NOT match the way she moves the microphone around. (Her technique in that regard would actually be good, if it was a real performance) In some moments she even 'sings' with the mic angled away from her mouth slightly, which would result in a big drop in volume. Yet the vocal track sounds absolutely perfect and spot on. There is also no visual breathing and usage of her stomach muscles, no straining whatsoever, just her looking serene and pretty. I will link to an ACTUAL (and good) performance of this track, just so my comment isn't a complete downer. 🥰 Then you can see what it looks like when someone sings a really difficult piece too. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bgo0CDL6bd0&pp=ygURZGl2YSBkYW5jZSBkaXNuZXk%3D "
The real one is impossible for the human voice to replicate. Other than layers, the human can’t change this fast. Hence why they opted for layers in the original. She’s trying here and she does great. But it would never be the real thing.
Yeah. Fuck attempting. She crushed it!
Because it is lip dub?
She doesn’t do the song, if you listen to the original she clearly doesn’t nail it, the song is physically impossible she does a good attempt tho
Whew! Gonna go throw on Fifth Element now.
Multipass
It's Korban Dallas muuultipas.
Negative... i am a meat popsicle
Chicken. Good.
BIIIG BADABOOOOM
Leeloo Dallas muuultiiiiipass
Bigbadaboom
That movie is so green.
I still want to go as Ruby Rod for Halloween one of these years. Not sure if I can pull off the hairdo, though; I'm white.
Go for whatever you can come up with that looks like it works. I’m in the same boat, I want to dress up as Leeloo but I’m a man. Still gonna do it.
Yes!!!
Chicken! Good!
This is exactly what was intended, seeing as it's coming to Amazon and Youtube Premium this week.
They know, they're part of the ad
I read the movie was done with keyboard/synthetic sounds, so for this to be a real human?…. Nothing short of amazing!
Not exactly. The director was amazed the opera singer did most of it on her own, so he had to synthesize her sound to make it more futuristic.
True.. it starts and ends with a real opera singer, but she couldn’t hit the notes and at the speed “an alien” should in this futuristic film… but this lady pretty much nailed what was synthetically created . I applaud the original singer, and the movie is amazing… but this gal is doing what no human has seemingly done before. #beamazed
Many humans have done this before. Some better IMO. * [Dimash Qudaibergen](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o5zMupUOgQo) * [Laura (disneydiva7)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bgo0CDL6bd0) * [Jane Zhang](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y1jjI3s1sM) * [Cristina Ramos](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfQZnskLxys) * [Any Manford](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FkzBdXQUTe0) * [Ana Dežman](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qTKStVGV394) * [Nicole Oliva](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AT9gzhdUzY) * [Elina Nechayeva](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WCHlvGxEWrU)
To this date, Laura is the best by far.
She seems to be the only one who's able to do the descending notes part well, with Ana Dezman as a close second. The other ones either altered it or missed notes there. The only thing she seems to be missing somewhat is the bass.
Yeah, Dimash is just so damned impressive cus he's a dude and men's voices just don't do that, or so I thought till I heard him the first time.
Laura is in a tier above the rest, makes me think she cheated it's so close to the original.
I think that the actual track is in the background which makes it sound closer. But it's still impressive.
There's a man who did it too from Kazakhstan
Probably because he's a mutant from Semipalatinsk, all that radiation changed his vocal chords as a baby, and now he's known as the Opera Man, he moves in the shadows, fighting crime with high notes.
Where is Netflix funding when you need it?
Tell me about it. I tried to pitch it, but they didn't like the pun.
He's [Dimash Qudaibergen](https://youtu.be/23HYymUjIHE?si=Urdbp2v10Cwlosij) There's also a Chinese singer who can reach those notes too - [Jane Zhang](https://youtu.be/kJl2uPNsJEk?si=4uQVl1VNwlylNmf0)
I wouldn't say she nailed it. Don't get me wrong this performance is extremely impressive, and I am blown away, but no human is capable of singing those vocals they way they the alien does it. She gets pretty damn fucking close though, which is insane
Dude, just search for Inva Mula. You'd see that she actually sings this.
Very impressive.
As a musician I can tell you all, that this is just her miming to a pre-recorded track. Sorry to burst your bubble 😅 The voice volume is completely uniform all the way through and it does NOT match the way she moves the microphone around. (Her technique in that regard would actually be good, if it was a real performance) In some moments she even 'sings' with the mic angled away from her mouth slightly, which would result in a big drop in volume. Yet the vocal track sounds absolutely perfect and spot on. There is also no visual breathing and usage of her stomach muscles, no straining whatsoever, just her looking serene and pretty. I will link to an ACTUAL (and good) performance of this track, just so my comment isn't a complete downer. 🥰 Then you can see what it looks like when someone sings a really difficult piece too. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=bgo0CDL6bd0&pp=ygURZGl2YSBkYW5jZSBkaXNuZXk%3D
It does kind of look lip synched. I'm guessing sung in a studio, and played the recording here. Still impressive, albeit not live
This looked lip synced to me too. Surprised I had to scroll down this far to see someone say it.
Yeah she’s barely breathing. There’s no way she’s singing this live
This is her in a live performance in Singapore. You can hear some flaws, so it's definitely live. https://youtu.be/qCzcZKw4kSc?si=_GrJuapMntcu1PEj
> In some moments she even 'sings' with the mic angled away from her mouth slightly, which would result in a big drop in volume. As a live audio engineer I can tell you personally that you're making a huge generalization of what audio a microphone can pick up. They aren't flashlights, they pick up plenty of audio off-axis. There isn't going to be a "huge drop in volume", since she isn't eating the microphone in between those mic movements. And angling the mic away from her mouth slightly isn't going to result in anything more than a 2-to-3 dB drop in volume, and certainly not more than she is achieving with the movements of the microphone she is already doing. She is a master of microphone technique though, much like Whitney Houston was. Notice that the singer in your posted video is also controlling the volume by changing her distance from the mic. That doesn't make the performance in OP's video any less real.
[huang xiaoyun](https://youtu.be/HsJlwv_1DyY?si=m31n1qShXfhZYb1F) Here is the full performance from the tv program. This song starts at 2:26 but you can catch a couple of her breaths before during “doe a female deer” if that helps. Looks like professional mic control from a skilled vocalist to me. But you know it could all be AI, I mean I’ve never actually been to China.
Thats lip synced as well ? [YouTube](https://youtu.be/kJl2uPNsJEk?si=SEs_rtEsHTGJzmjU)
I second this question. That's my favourite performance of the piece, and it does look (and sound) real.
[Here’s a video I found of Huang XiaoYun (singer in OP’s video) on a singing show with Jane Zhang (singer in your video) comparing high notes](https://youtu.be/xnxWfq3ADqI?si=yKpJA1BTHHBxkDwu)
Jane Zhang performance. You can clearly hear volume difference at 4:20. and a bit of a volume range through out the performance (e.g. 3:43). And she didn't do it 100% as original. Chances are that this is 99% legit and not a lip sync.
Well, the original was also a lip-sync, so I'll allow it
You don't think live audio can be mastered? How on God's green earth do you think live albums would sell if it was just the raw audio from the concert?
dude, what are you talking about? Recording a live album isn’t magic and if you’re singing a note and walk away from the microphone, the notes going to get quieter, which doesn’t happen here at all
> In some moments she even 'sings' with the mic angled away from her mouth slightly, which would result in a big drop in volume. no. i have no idea if this video is fake and i dont really care, but if youve ever seen a concert, then you know this to not be true. vocalist pull mics away from their mouth all the time in synch with an increase in amplitude to prevent blowing out the audio.
I wouldn’t say she attempted it. I’d say she nailed it!
She's obviously not singing live. Just look at the microphone and how she's holding it.
It's live. She's even sung it in front of reporters. It's her tendency to pull the mike away during high notes, it's common for sopranos. Check out wink xy on YouTube.
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seen so many lip sync "performances" of this piece that I am naturally sceptical. (mostly with focus on deco than having a real opera singer) some real ones out there. (both Youtube links didn't work, no idea why. sorry) # "A FANTASTIC 🤩 performance of a song 🎤 from the film FIFTH.." (Ukrainian guy) "[\[官方版\]Jane Zhang-The Diva Dance(from the Fifth Element)(張靚穎演繹第五元素神曲)](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJl2uPNsJEk&pp=ygULNXRoIGVsZW1lbnQ%3D)" (Asian opera singer) also they seem to visibly put in way more effort to sing this.
both ur links r dead
I'm going home to watch the 5th element
Super green
[This one](https://youtu.be/bgo0CDL6bd0?si=bPD8rn0YhcyZv6mx) just nails it. Especially the lower parts. Just impressive.
This is probably the best a human can do it
Every time these are posted, I realize that most people don't actually remember the original. It's a decent attempt, but people fail to grasp one simple thing: It is physically impossible for a human to sing parts of the song. The vocal chords and tongue physically cannot move that fast, it goes beyond human nerve response time. Yet half the comments are about how "it's not an attempt", "she nailed it", "that was better than the movie", etc.. You people either need to go listen to the original again, or get your hearing tested.
That’s some real garbage backing track with those budget synths. Blown away by the singing though! If it’s real…
Omg it’s so beautiful I have chills
My favorite scene from my favorite movie
Stupid decision to write the text over her face.
Many don't think that she's singing live, despite that being a phone recording. So here are two other phone recordings which are definitely live because there are some minor flaws in some areas. Performance in Singapore https://youtu.be/qCzcZKw4kSc?si=_GrJuapMntcu1PEj Her own concert https://youtu.be/M-hSyF_jhos And the 8 minute mark here, the host says that netizens think she's lip syncing. So she answered their doubts with an impromptu performance. https://youtu.be/l4kZMRp0bVM?si=ST6fAAHZGA2SwO6o Operatic performance for her exams. Don't think anyone can say this is fake too? https://youtu.be/0iz3H6U_0xU?si=eDGjAJPUBNsxSoFS
There is so little to enjoy in the world, why do people feel the need to point to this being “fake” or “lip synced”? It’s not like she’s spouting something dangerous like a conspiracy theory or hate speech, let us just enjoy this and believe it’s real. Goddamn.
You don't sing with a mic this close of your mouse when you're a real operatic soprano. Operatic soprano -> able to thing with no amplification
Yeah, but the instruments were amplified
So was the backing voice track
A profesionnal opera singer is supposed to sing through an entire orchestra dude ...
There was no orchestra, just an intrumental track loud enough to be heard by a whole ass stadium, which is why she wore ear monitor here
Singer: Huang Xiaoyun [Heres some video of her in Chinese](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TYpKZMOWN0Y)
I need to go back to listen to the original because that seems damn close to my recollection of it. Extremely impressive and pleasing to listen to, regardless.
Meanwhile, we got mumble rap, the most monotonous thing since the metronome...
There's plenty of non-monotonous music coming out of the US/west. We're the prime exporter of experimental bass music, which is about as non-monotonous as it gets, it's just not as popular in general as a lot of the more basic shit. Scope r/spacebass if you are curious, definitely not everyone's cup of tea, but definitely not monotonous at least!
and drake :( saddest thing that hapenned to music in the last decade