pietROxette said on February 13, 2003 12:47:

I think it’s Marie who forgets the lyrics more often.
However, they are both very good in singing the “Look Sharp!” part in Dressed For Success at a wrong time when performed live. I’ve listened to several Room Service Tour concerts... and many, many times, they said it at a wrong time. For example, in Vienna, both the crowd and the band were signing “for your love, yea yea yea”, but Marie and Per sang “Look Sharp!”. Check RoxBytes for more :-)

Santi said on February 13, 2003 14:30:

I think what he refers with this question is that Per lots of times changes the melody that he sings in the CD when singing live. But I don’t think this is “singing wrong”. This can be due to many factors...

First: If you don’t sing exactly the same you prove it’s not playback :D

Second: When you sing a concert is not the same as when you sing in a recording. In a recording a lot of takes are recorded and they many times even select the best lines from different takes. Sometimes even mastering engineers tune the vocals. There’s not the same tension, it’s a completely different situation much more relaxed in the recordings. This stress affects the body and so the voice and how it sounds. A long Tour also strains the voice to a point where singing the actual melody can be even dangerous, so it’s better to take it easy (Remember that Listen To Your Heart original is in Bm and the key is shifted twice during the song, while the live version is 1 tone lower and it’s not transported -in CBB Tour-... for the sake of Marie’s voice! The same as “It must have been love”, when it’s transported after the piano solo the key is shifted just 2 semitones -in Join The Joyride Tour- while in the recording is shifted 5 semitones!! (I think, musicians correct me :D).
So one of the reasons might be that singing that way it’s more comfortable for him and strain less his voice.

Third: I don’t know about you, but many times musicians thinks it’s even better to give the audience another point of view of that song (in other words, a different version). If you want to listen to the songs the same way they are recorded well... that’s why they are recorded, play them again :D I guess musicians like to think their songs are not static, that they aren’t dead, so they give them new life by playing differently and slightly changing the melodies. I guess they also tend to think that this is interesting for the listener, but well... I have a not so good memory of the version of “Runaway” (one of my favourite song) that the Corrs did Live in Madrid 1998... Caroline even made 2 mistakes with the piano :’(
Anyway I don’t think they perceive what you say wrong as an actual mistake, just a slight variation to keep the song alive. I think it’s much more serious to forget the lyrics than this. :)

(sorry for the long post)

Santi said on February 13, 2003 15:14:

Ok, I forgot to add: :D

Fourth: Not every day is the best day!!!!

Vixzter said on February 13, 2003 18:28:

its called ad lib :P (which means? )

Santi said on February 13, 2003 19:16:

In the video “Crash Boom Live” during the song The Rain you can hear that Marie forgets completely the lyrics. And on the screen you get to see her face... sooooooooo ashamed!!! :D Don’t worry Marie! ;)

Boy_on_the_moon said on February 13, 2003 19:59:

I just remember “Stars” on the RS-tour in Berlin. Marie sang two times the same chorus, instead of the changed second one... but nobody noticed I think

regn said on February 14, 2003 06:31:

That Marie forget the lyrics its a “tradition” hehe if you coul hear (I don’t know how to upload Mp3:-( ) dance away(live in santiago’92) in the second verse Marie signs something that have really non sense, hehehe, and in run to you (live in costa rica) she sing ” Lying all alone in my eeed ” ;-)

Kiwein1 said on February 14, 2003 08:01:

I watched the scene yesterday from the CBB concert in Johannesburg.

She sings: I did my cry-out in THIS NORTHERN rain and not THE POURING rain..that’s all.
Sounds nice and fits to the first phrases of the song (-;

ngriffioen said on February 14, 2003 20:14:

Haha fun topic! The best new version I heard during the RS tour was C!B!B!, when Marie sang: “true love might come from behind”!!! Wooohooo go Marie! I don’t remember in which city she sang it that way...

Mackan-S said on February 14, 2003 23:18:

the “true love might come from behind”. is sang in the demo isnt it?