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Hippo_Tron

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17. I didn't think she flubbed the high notes (not that there are many really)

Reply to Baitball Blogger (Original post)

Mon Mar 3, 2014, 02:07 AM

Mar 2014

The song (in that key) has a brief C#5 which is a moderately high note for a female. The chorus tops out at A4 which for most women is just around the beginning of the break.

IMO she was consistently under the pitch the entire song. My friend with a better ear than me explained that she always sings that way, nothing really different about tonight.

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