Now This Is Music (hearing John Farnham for The First Time)

John Farnham and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. I have never ever heard of this before. This is my first time and from what I understand, John Farnham is a legendary voice for the Australian people. So I'm taking a glimpse into a world that I am not familiar with. Although I should know this because I do have one friend in Australia. My friend Steve Welsh. Every once in a while we celebrate Australian culture when he comes to America and we hit up an Outback Steakhouse. I'm kidding, that's an inside joke. It's obviously not Australian culture. This guy, John Farnham, I was told to check this out and I wanted to wait until I did it right here, right now, for my audience for the first time. If you're interested in watching this without any interruptions, I put the link directly below in the description if you want to watch that because I plan on going through this and giving some comments and maybe even try some of the vocal textures that I'm hearing. So let's go. Now that is a loud crowd. The first thought that comes to mind just hearing this is, now that is music. Oh, this is awesome. Oh, dude. Okay, hold on a second. What are the lyrics to this song? Because now I'm like, you got me sold, my brother. You got me sold. We have the chance to turn the pages over. We can write what we want to write. We got to make ends meet before we get much older. Yes. Oh, yes. We're all someone's daughter. We're all someone's son. How long can we look at each other down the barrel of a gun? You're the voice. Try and understand it. Make a noise and make it clear. We're not going to sit in silence. We're not going to live with fear. This is beautiful, man. All right, I'm on board with this. See, that's really cool. That's such an awesome sound. It's such an awesome tone. We got to make ends meet. This is incredible to me because it's obviously an old video. You can tell this is the 80s and it's like I've discovered a whole other world. I didn't know this was going on. I was born in 1987, but wow. Listen to that belt. The way his mouth is positioned right there, it's so effortless. His mouth is kind of like. That's something I have to be a little bit more conscious of too sometimes because I've had a bad habit for years where I would just kind of like go up in the note like the way that my face was positioned was actually kind of my tongue was trying to do too much. That's what she said. And it would choke off my air. It may constrain things a little bit. It's so much more of like a relaxed position. He's doing more of like a full voice, which is crazy to me. And fear, by the way, to say the word fear that high is ridiculous. You got to kind of like fair. Before singing vocals like this, it's important to warm up. So I've created a free vocal warmups course. So if you're interested in warming your voice up and exploring the capabilities of your voice freely, check out the link in the description or in the pinned comment below. Let's continue. He's so percussive with his voice kind of going with it. Just the percussive nature of the song. It's so it's like perfect. It's like he's just another instrument. Oh, we're all someone's daughter. We're all someone's son. Yeah, man. Reminds me of something that would be on like the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. That's the 80s coming through. This is kind of a kind of blows my mind because it's like something that's been available for my entire life. And I'm hearing it for the first time. Same feeling I get when I hear like jazz from the 1960s from Japan. It's like, wow, didn't know that was going on. Bagpipes and we got bagpipes. OK, now this reminds me of some of Typo Negative's music a little bit in like one of their interludes where it's like where Josh is going on the keyboard just the atmosphere kind of like a similar atmosphere to Green Man a little bit towards the end. It's very like worldy music almost. This is so cool. Could you imagine having this all organized where the guy's there? He's got the bagpipes. He's ready to go. And on cue, there's all these moving pieces where everyone's just doing their job perfectly. That's crazy. The choir, the orchestra, the singer. Kind of reminds me a little bit of like Michael Bolton there a little. There's a very similar quality where it's just like, you know, very, very, very strong chest voice that is blended so perfectly with the mix that it's like it seems like the chest voice goes on forever. Throw that mic stand. Are you kidding me? Sounds like a celebration of life. This gives me life. I can understand why he's the bees knees in Australia. What I don't understand is why he's not more of a star in America or like, you know, maybe he is. Maybe I'm just completely underneath the rock. That was smooth. So how he kicked that mic stand up. Damn, that's like the mark of a seasoned performer. You know, he's done that move a lot because that's not something you just get right the first time. You know, there's been a couple of times where he's done this in rehearsal. He had to do that at least a hundred, maybe even thousands of times before he can get it that smooth. Come on. You know, and the thing that I like to watch with performers like this is I really, again, I like to watch how relaxed they are, like the relaxed position of their mouth, like when he's going into the high notes. It's something that even I need to be reminded of. That's why it's good for me to see stuff like this every once in a while because like I'm always learning. I think we all are always learning. We have to be reminded sometimes. Even if we already learned it, we need to be told again by seeing stuff like this. This is like the quintessential, like if you ever think like, you know, sometimes if you're a songwriter, if you ever wanted to write a song that was like arena rock or a song that could be sung by a big crowd, you're always thinking, can this chorus be sung by an arena like this? A perfect example of a perfect arena song. This is, to me, like Sweet Caroline almost. Sweet Caroline. Doesn't sound like Sweet Caroline, but it's like it's got that effect where it's like, everyone can sing this. Oh, man. Now that's all, that's all chest. This is like, could you imagine having a golden voice like that? Can you? I can't. This is music right here. What do you listen to? I listen to John Farnham and the Melbourne Symphony Orchestra. That's music. Holy ****. Well, anyway, that's all I have to say about that. This is really cool to see something that I never knew existed. I was told to check out John Farnham and I'm like, I don't know who that was, but now I do. And I'm glad I checked this out. I'm glad I did this in front of everybody. So thank you for watching. And as I said before, if you're interested in exploring the many capabilities within your voice and you want to learn how to warm up to sing anything you want, I created a free warm-ups course that you could find directly below in the description or in the pinned comment below. Thank you for watching. I'll see you next time.