Okay.....so....Country vs Brit Invasion week, eeek!
First song - the country one. As I live in the UK, I never really hear much about country music, other than Taylor Swift (well, the old Taylor). So this was a tricky theme for me. I wanted to try and do something with the track, and make it seem like my style...so i wanted to take a country song and turn into something that makes it recognisably me. So I chose to sing 'Blown Away' by Carrie Underwood this week. It's a HUGE song with so much importance on the vocals. I've changed it up, though. I've stripped it down so it's just sung with piano to make it my own style, whilst honouring the original melody. (Side note....looking through country songs this week, I didn't realise just how absolutely brilliantly talented most of the country artists are)
So here it is:
https://soundcloud.com/martyn-macpherson/blown-away Now for the Brit Invasion song...
So...my thing is obviously stripped back, vocal-based songs. So, since I did one of them already this week - and have done a few before - I have chosen a song that I don't think anyone would be expecting from me. I have decided on 'Collide' by Leona Lewis. Leona is one of my biggest inspirations. She's THE VOICE really, nobody else comes close for me, so this is risky. This is a big track. I've used a full production backing track with backing singers - the first time I've done anything like this in any TI competition. It's a very dance/club-like song so its a big big big risk for me to try, so im really really hoping this works.
Here it is:
https://soundcloud.com/mat123/collide Dude's comments about me being "top 4, but nothing more" really stuck with me this week, so hopefully me doing two risks this week shows that I really do want to do well. I've given it my all!
Ahh, im so nervous!
Good luck everyone! You're all amazing!