Skyfall (song)

[Ladybug]

it's amazing to watch this song transcend cultures and refelect each artists' essence. it strikes a deep, beautiful truth in each artist that unites all of us. I'm crazy about this song. Enjoy my skyfall montage

female vocalist:

adele (It's her song, all bow down):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HKoqNJtMTQ

a chicago singer who imbues with a CW/gospel/ jazz club feel to it. i love her soulful voice.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vP_go2dJuJw

brazalian (model-looking) sisters with a drum player/vocalist. it's the only harmonized cover I've found, which adds a lot of depth.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p6RslThrrG8


Male vocalist:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WbQInyuvRuc


Violinist:

jun sung ahn. he sounds incredibily warm and soulful. everything I would hope for in a violin solo.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlQ-Y-lo6uY

the mad violinst. this guy is insane!!!!! it's my favorite cover of skyfall. the contrasting images captive me. watching him play feels like touching his soul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0mMYhlswgs


And for the piano purist (waves hand wildly, like a six year old sitting in the front row).
He really infuses himself into the song as he developes it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueCfhQUGhGQ

[Momo]

thanks!!!
I fell in love w/ the song the night it was 1st released online! We are a big Adel;e household. Sophia, last year for her 2nd grade classroom talent show, sung Rolling in the Deep. Her teacher was uber impressed because she really belted it out!

[Ladybug]

I would love to hear her. We have some unbelievably talented "belters" at our school who audition for NYC theater too.

Just came across this and found it interesting. I find this to be incredibly emotive song, like most of Adele.

Meaning in Melody
Emotions in music mimic the way we emote in speech
A haunting melody can change your mood in just
a few notes. New evidence suggests it is the
distance between notes that determines how
they make us feel—and that characteristic may
have evolved from the way we use our voice.
Daniel Bowling, a cognitive neuroscientist at
Duke University, analyzed the intervals, or distances
between notes, in melodies from Western
classical music and Indian ragas in a study published
in March in PLoS ONE. He found that in
both types of music, the size of the average interval
is smaller in melodies associated with
sadness and larger in melodies linked with happiness.
Consider Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata.
The melody in the first movement sways mournfully
in a small grove of notes. In the second, happier
movement, the melody takes off, lightly skipping
through a much broader swath of the scale.
Bowling suggests that music mimics the natural
patterns of our most primitive instrument—
the voice. To test his theory, he collected speech
samples from 20 English speakers and 20 Tamil
Indian speakers and looked at whether the
changes in frequency predicted the emotional
content of their words. He found the same pattern
as he did in written melodies: the sadder
the speech, the more monotone the delivery.
“Through the voice, we’ve come to associate different
emotions with different tonal characteristics,”
Bowling says. —Morgen E. Peck