Royal Carols at Christmas

[LuluBlakey1]

Dear me!

DS1 (9 in 5 days time) has just said 'These singers are awful!'. And he's right.

AdamLamber and Beverly Knight were terrible. Singing 'Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas' - strange choice. Not a carol. Two not great voices, especially his. No idea who he is really poor and odd.
Now Jacob Collier singing 'Last Christmas' is just bizarre- deep, very posh voice that suddenly becomes high and waily, strange phrasing. DH was chuckling all the way through it.

The choir is lovely but the other music is awful.

Where does Kate get that super-posh accent from- it's posher than William's.

The only time I have heard him sing was at the Queen's jubilee concert, and I wasn't impressed.

How did Adam Lambert get such a big gig with Queen ? He features as their lead singer when they perform.

Queen were a massive rock group. Adam Lambert is a nice guy I’m sure and talented but no more than hundreds of other people from reality tv shows.

I wonder if he somehow shares some of Freddie’s personality that makes him fit as the front man? It’s more about personality/drama than voice? He isn’t unique like Freddie- and they wouldn’t want a tribute act anyway.

I agree . I've never seen it before but felt the singing was really strained and a couple were barely audible . Very disappointing.

Nothing would induce me to watch her concert but Kate isn’t weirdly posh - she just sounds like a girl who went to a smart school

It greatly irritates me that we have to come up with these ways of adapting something that ain’t broke (9 Lessons and Carols) for the masses (celebs and Jacob Collier, king of unnecessary reharmonisation which is of no interest to any except those of us who can tell you what a secondary dominant is) to appeal to the proles. Invariably it is tacky and inferior.

The real star of the show this musical season was the young lady who sang at the end of the King’s speech. What a talent and a stunning voice - a shame that of course the top chapel choirs wouldn’t admit her on the basis of her sex.

Totally agree Eigen.

We watched the Carol's from King's College Cambridge just before. Honestly there is no comparison

I couldn’t agree more Eigen. We said the very same thing. Her voice was exquisite.

I just watched this and was a bit disappointed. It says Carols in the title but half of it was Christmas songs and they'd been butchered!

I did like the reading from the JRR Tolkien book and the poem. Also the section about people who'd helped children. And the choir singing carols.

I've not watched it before and was expecting Kate to play the piano at one point too!

So a bit of a mix of lovely bits and not so great bits.

The posh voices were utterly ridiculous. Who speaks like that? M the Queen Mum oh she’s no longer with us- and neither is the need for the silly voices