Hi Larry - I always watch Lucy's videos, and this latest offering is the bees nees. There story line in "Don't Walk Away" is so sad, but so true in the right context. Really! I can't get enough, the way Lucy potrays this song is so down to earth, that, when I listen to the lyrics and watch her body posture, the blend of Lucy's knack to deliver a song so strong, with emotional content is truly amazing and colourful. No-one can do better. She has the world stage now, a brillient performance that is so deserving of "Lucy Thomas" ❤ Thie collaberation was between (Lucy Thomas and Chris Broom) - Lucy needs no auto tune, her performance is as good as the studio version, but more stunning when you see her live. It brings you to tears everytime....
Larry, her voice was perfect at age 13. Scores of song reactors find her voice perfect - one is tracing it back to before age 13 to find imperfection. She has a gorgeous voice with great range and power and can execute high notes as well as lower register ones equally well. Her vibrato is extraordinary and that cannot be faked. It is standard to use pitch correction here and there today for almost all singers, but Lucy doesn't need it and I didn't hear anything in either of the words, "may." She is very clever in making songs her own, gliding up instead of down on a note - as expected, adding little frills, personal touches, depth, intensity, with amazing breath control - and the passion and feeling she brings to songs is her trademark. Autotune would be very obvious, and pitch correction software is very subtle today - hard to detect, but rarely significant. Lucy's voice is Lucy's - perfect (or at least 99% perfect). Mark, US.
Lucy is an earth angel with a voice made in heaven. Lucy's talent and skill level is unmatched. She will go down in musical history as one of the best singers of this century! This original song is priceless.
Thank you for reacting to Chris Broom’s award winning song ‘Don’t Walk Away’ sung by the phenomenal Lucy Thomas. The song first won the best Love Song and today was named the best new song of 2024. The Rosie Overture won best instrumental in 2024. I have heard Lucy in concert and there are some videos where there was no post processing and she needs no help. She is not only that good, she is the best in recording history. This song is genius as is Lucy’s performance. I aver that Lucy will be acclaimed in the future as the greatest singer of all recorded time. She is unbelievably good. No one has ever sung ever song at such a perfect level.
Chris, this song performed by Lucy is a double winner. It was written by Chris Broom who is the owner of Cavendish Records and the composer of the musical Rosie. Chris wrote this song for Lucy and entered it into the UK songwriting competition for 2024. It won the best song in the Love Song category. Later it was designated the Overall Winner of the whole competition. Chris Broom released this statement "I'm delighted to share the wonderful news that the British Songwriting Awards have just announced that my song "Don't Walk Away", sung by the amazing Lucy Thomas, has been chosen as the Overall Winner of the UK Songwriting Contest 2024. I'm incredibly honoured that it was chosen from a total entry of over 5,000 songs!" Now if Chris had submitted an autotuned or pitch corrected sample of Lucy singing this song to the contest to be judged, it is doubtful that it would have been awarded the overall winner of the contest. There is nothing that can be said or done to change the mind of those that are determined to believe that Lucy is autotuned or pitch corrected. By the way, there is no doubt in my mind that Lucy Thomas is the best female vocalist that I have ever heard. Thank you for your continued love and support for Lucy's solos and her duets with Martha.
Thanks Kenneth for the review of the history of this song. I remember one reactor the first time he reacted to Lucy said that she was AI generated. Yes there are times like Larry has said you can hear Lucy taking a breath or her voice crack just ever so slightly. If they were going to fix her voice they would take those anomalies out.
I agree but other sites with sound engineers show her voice using voice analysis' software and you can see it on the graphs. She is the best I have heard since 1969 with Linda Ronstadt better trained voice certainly and a different style of music but range power breath support and infusing emotions into the song I consider them about the same. And she is better without it those minute variations all voices naturally have are what makes them individual even if you don't consciously hear it.
@ how do you know that their equipment is even working correctly. Are they required to have the sound equipment calibrated ever so often. Does the software match the processor they are using or is it just some off the self software. Do believe everything you are told. These guys are just out for clicks.
I really enjoy your reactions. Having worked at Abbey Road recording studios I can tell, hear and say there was no autotune on this performance. Autotune was created to somehow create and mimic a pitch perfect performance for poor singers. So when people actually hear a pitch perfect singer they assume there is autotune used. Another example of this is Cynthia Erivo … she also has pitch perfect vocals on stage and in the studio but people still say “Autotune must have been used”. When you hear autotune you are hearing it try to mimic/recreate a performers like Lucy’s and Erivo’s so that’s why it’s easy to think that tech is being used. I personally hate autotune because I know it when it is implanted in a recording. I wish it had never been invented because great performers have to deal with this accusation far too often these days. Thankfully the greats of the past never had to deal with it.
I personally don't care if Lucy's producers use auto tune or not.. most do, simply because its just the norm unfortunately... I can hear and feel how authentic and unbelievable her voice is... no one can change my opinion of her.. 🔥
This continued bleating about Autotune, is often aimed at Lucy by some distractors who insist she can't perform to such a phenomenal standard. However it's been known that its been used on other vocalists who have a basic struggle throughout a song to hold a note that would be a nightmare to manually Pitch Correct. Autotune is sometimes used in live performances but it's risky since it has be known to misinterpret when the vocalist misses a note beyond the half sharp or flat and the software corrects it to one complete note above or below, which is a disaster for the performer. Several well known artist have suffered such a problem -- Michael Bublé being one of them, who should have kept well away from such nonsense, as if HE needed any help?!!! Lucy recently received a 5 star accolade from a musical critic Jeremy Chapman, when he was present at her Theatre Royal Drury Lane concert in London. Who described Lucy as a once in a lifetime vocalist. Lucy is, after all a classically trained vocalist and I would imagine her vocal coach Carolyn Hudson must be so proud of her. So please Chris, less talk of Autotune with Lucy!!
All that the audio wave forms, posted by self-appointed experts, prove is that either (1) the song has been pitch corrected or (2) the singer has perfect pitch. Only the sound engineer knows for sure. Everything that I know about Lucy says that she would not put up with someone "correcting" her mistakes. Perfect pitch is rare but it does exist and Lucy has it. Every analysis that I have seen by real professional sound engineers, people on the production end, says that there is no routine pitch correction done on Lucy. It may happen rarely when they don't have time and resources for a retake.
Thank you for that reaction. It's impressive. And each of her 70 videos is more impressive than the next. This song is fabulous, and Lucy makes it sublime. Will I Am said on her first TV appearance 7 years ago, that it was perfect the way she sang, and it's been perfect ever since. She doesn't need any auto-tune, it's perfect. And in concert, every time for over 2 hours, it's perfect. What's more, she has an exceptional personality.
i love this song and Lucy does it justice when it comes to the word no i think it is the fulcrum for the whole song thank you as always for your positive comments Chris
Oh God, just listen to your heart when Lucy sings 👌❤ And do you think software that you can of course manipulate as you wish could make it possible to come across as so fascinating. For Lucy fans, Auto Tune should simply no longer be an issue and any discussion with these Anti Fans and mostly WOP supporters only gives them a platform to see doubts.
I ❤ this, I’ve got a crush on Lucy every day I wake up and play on my phone and I’m in my 60s and no way Auto tunes! You have to see her live she’s the real thing she’s a Goddess with no side kicks or dancers to distract
Thx - enjoyed! Chris Broom wrote the song and Lucy sung it! :) She sang the heck out of it! IMO a great new original song - would be shocked if it did not end up as a theme song in future movie. Lots of great talent out there - I think you are right though - Lucy, to me, is the best vocalist of the rising new generation and is on her way to a career that will have her standing with Barbara, Celine, Whitney, Karen, Adele, Aretha, Diana etc. The incomparable Lucy Thomas at work - and we get to watch and hear it! Happy New Year!
Hey Chris. Another reactor, who just found Lucy this week, said her rendition of Unchained Melody was perfection. His 1st reaction of her singing hallelujah, he was left speechless. 5 years later and has only gotten better.
I believe that's" studio 27 you're referring to ? Didn't he say it was perfection but he would trade 50% of perfection for 50% more emotion ?Did you miss that ?
@tomwhite4736 no Tom, I didn’t miss it. I left it for you to criticize, as you have a habit of doing when it comes to Lucy. What’s your need to always say things like that?
Here we have the best female voice on the planet and all I hear is auto tune this auto tune that there is no auto tuning, why don't people including reactors just listen to the sheer beauty of her voice and her presentation and enjoy it. I see Pegasus is mentioned again with his fake squiggly lines, he is a failed musician who does all he can to talk down young talent, something he could never be, he also is in the middle of a legal battle for deformation so let's see. This song is beautiful in every way and so is our Lucy.
first there was this song and after 3 days there was this one which you listened to. TH-cam has errors because they do something with the quality of the spatial audio.
It's not autotune, it's pitch correction. Pitch correction can leave vibrato in, can leave ambient noises alone, plosives, breaths, etc. But in this case there are an equal number of squared step like waveforms, which are causing the artifacts you're hearing.
On these where she is soloing, and then there are harmonies, I hear Martha’s voice in those harmonies. That’s just what I hear. I also do not hear any auto tuning. When you hear a break, that’s natural. Auto tune would have fixed that. She is as good or better than most folks think.
Isn't it wonderful that the worlds talents are just a few clicks away. So much variety and all just there to enjoy. I don't care very much if "errors" are corrected in post but there are so many skilled artists that just don't need it.
AND ANOTHER THING! :) If Lucy needed auto-tune at that relatively "easy" set of notes in this song...she would need auto-tune in a dozen or so other points in this song...and in ALL of her other songs. No, no auto-tune.
Just to clarify.Autotune attempts to correct the WHOLE piece from start to finish using A440 software. Pitch correction is a manual process by an engineer isolating a single note, one at a time. Lucy Thomas doen't go anywhere near either technology.
A lovely performance from Lucy. With a stunning voice that is continuing to get richer she often sounds several years older than she is, but to my ears this is one of those performances when she does sound like a 20/21 year old, albeit with superstar qualities.
I don't think they use autotune much at all now a days although pitch correction is pretty much default throughout the industry Lucy sounds better without it as her live concerts show removing that perfection and allowing a human voice perform unaided sounds individual and old time recordings also show this. Lucy is a generational talent and other singers will soon be covering her songs.
This endless obsessing about pitch correction is ridiculous. There is vastly more to singing than pitch accuracy and all pitch correction can do is correct pitch. Whether it has been used in any of Lucy[s recordings is unimportant. What makes a singer great is a long list of characteristics including vocal range, tone, timbre, transitions, breath control, enunciation, intonation, dynamics, power, and more. The statement that a singer is “pitch perfect” is a cliche that is pretty much meaningless. Lucy is a great singer because of everything about her vocal talent,
@@randysimon7363 Hi,Randy. at last! someone who understands that pitch is only a very small component in a singers repertoire, What makes Lucy's voice so special is the control of the remaining elements! Ian.
Hello Larry. Here is my take on the Autotune/pitch correction issue. Please don’t take this personally. I always look forward to your reactions. No one with any real expertise can answer that question unless it is the person that has actually done the work. So I think it would benefit us all to just drop the subject. Unless of course someone wants to say that Lucy really isn’t as beautiful as she seems because she wears a mask that causes her to look better than reality. We could go down that road. It best in my opinion just to drop the subject. Mainly because both of those issues are subjective opinions. Yes this song was submitted with Lucy doing the vocals to the UK writers organization. Here is the Link that the UK songwriters dropped a few days before the official release from Lucy: th-cam.com/video/uHd_vrOJsNY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=51fJF0_yGuTdGhVy. My understanding is that the song won the best love song category. Then a few days later it won the best overall category. Fo me personally Lucy will be considered one of the best vocalist of all time and there are some bad actors out there that don’t like that opinion. So they are trying their best to muddy the waters. Stay safe healthy and free. Plus THANK YOU so much for supporting both Lucy and Martha.
HI Jim, I recall a reactor saying that in his opinion Lucy's face was created by AI, because "she could not be really that good looking" he also thought that the video was just to perfect, having seen her live i can vouch for the fact that she is undoubtedly the real deal!!!. Ian.
@iancave-nu1ff yes I remember that one. He did apologize for the comments. But hey like I say there are some bad actors out there that just seem to delight in spreading rumors and slinging mud. I think most of them are AJ fans. If you have nothing good to say don’t say anything at all is my policy.
Larry, last night I watched AleksReacts on this song, "Don't Walk Away." She is very discriminating, not a flag waver for any one performer, but she must have said at least five times that Lucy sings perfectly - using that word, "perfect."
Lucy has stated that she dosen't use autotune,so that's good enough for me!,her production team have used pitch correction though certainly on "Have yourselves a merry little Christmas",though why defeats me as we know how outstanding she is 'live',the only other female vocalist I have heard hitting the correct notes almost to perfection is Karen Carpenter, that's how good Lucy is,she has the sofness & control of Karen + the power at the top end to match any of the deva's past & present!,Lucy in my humble opinion is out there on her own,& I say that although i'm not one that would usually listen to this style of music,it's simply "The Lucy effect!"😊
@@Trevmom1It was “proven” if you accept the evidence by Fil at Wings of Pegasus (WOP)that HYAMLC was pitch corrected in post production. WOP were asked to analyse the song and produced the evidence. WOP are dirty words at Cavendish Records so you have to choose who and what you believe.
Barbra, Celine, Whitney, and Karen were and are tremendous! Lucy is beyond perfect! She is the BEST! Please play and react to Lucy’s breathtaking performances of: “I’LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN"; th-cam.com/video/4g1Qpu9XPL8/w-d-xo.html At only age 15, Lucy’s emotional and powerful performance was even better the original. I promise you will be blown away by the maturity of Lucy's voice. Enjoy! Hopelessly Addicted in Arizona
Ok, listen.., I have a couple of very important questions asking those apparently high qualified music experts that are still turning non stop around auto running , auto pitching, auto matics and probably auto fried chicken machines.. And I expect precise answers, bitteschön.. What percentage you thing is the amount of cotton and/or fabrics in the very nice dress Lucy is wearing? Cause I’m not quite sure if it is 28,043% or just 28,042%, and also if you experts know if the cotton comes from Ceyland or Bangladesh.. But don’t answer us before the asteroid finally hits our Earth, please. In the mean time, the rest of us will peacefully keep enjoying Lucy’s amazing music videos, thank you. And good bye..🥴
@ Thanks.., unfortunately the auto tunning… , humm..,sorry..,I mean the auto writing correction didn’t correct my less than perfect English spelling.., hope those auto tunning experts around didn’t see it..😜
Hi,Chris, i think i have Lucy deraingment syndrome, every time i listen to other singers, i get about half way through the performance and think, oh dear, not as good as Lucy, and start to lose interest, the only cure is to go back to lucy!!!. Ian.
J'adorerais l'entendre en live...pour l'instant la seule qui m'a prouver le pitch parfait et naturel c'est Faouzia et Billie illish qui chante leurs réactions en concert avec un seul instrument... Mais la chanson est magnifique je l'écoute en boucle... Pourriez vous faire une réaction de Faouzia 🙏❤❤❤
Your too critical. You pick her singing apart. Lucy has a beautiful voice. You seem not to go that way you seem to put enough negative things out there to cancel anything positive you say.
I love when you compare artists and talk about autotune, lol it's the perfect recipe for discussion in comment section, lol 🤭👍 Loved the reaction as always! 😊
Interesting reaction Chris. This question of AUTOTUNE and pitch correction, keeps rearing its head. Autotune is used throughout the whole piece where pitch A440 software snaps any sharp or flat notes to the standard line. Pitch Correction is applied by the engineer to any single note manually. Lucy is a classically trained singer and some serious music critics gave her was a 5 star rating for her two and a half hour London concert. I think these guys would instinctively know if Autotune was being utilised. There are going to be some commentators here who were lucky enough to have attended Lucy's concert and will say the whole experience was absolutely magical. I don't think Chtris Broom would even consider tampering with such a wonderful vocal performances.
Hi, pedro. i was fortunate to attend Lucy's first live public performance, her first song was "Somewhere" and she was noticeably nervous, so much so that there was an odd catch in her voice, so definitely no autotune!!, but spurred on by an incredibly supportive audience she settled and gave the best concert i have attended! and i've been to quite a few!! Ian.
Chris - your reaction video was spoiled early on, for me, by your two minute long obsessive discussion about whether Autotune was employed with the word 'days'! For you to focus on such meaningless and, for Lucy, mistaken, minutia was extremely disappointing - when surely your focus should have been on the composition of an original song (melody and lyrics), the arrangement and video production and, of course, Lucy's masterfully emotive performance! However, you did redeem yourself, to some degree, towards the end of the reaction video, and so, since you are a big Lucy fan, I'll forgive you for this momentary aberration! 😀
lol, thanks! I do hope that most viewers understand that as this is a reaction channel, I have always made a promise to myself to be genuine. To be myself. To share my observations in my own way. Could you imagine if I altered my approach to change my reactions and adjust it to meet everyone's expectations of how I should react? It would no longer be my honest reaction. I'd only be people-pleasing. I'm not asking someone to "suffer through" my reactions if it's not the style they like to watch. I do appreciate those that do, but I totally understand on why you might not like it. All good my friend.
@@larryshair I think it would be useful for you to educate yourself about what Autotune and pitch correction actually do. There are some good TH-cam videos in which a person with no vocal talent whatsoever and an inability to stay on pitch is processed by Autotune to enhance their performance. The result is still a singer with a lousy voice but now singing with excellent pitch control. That’s all those tools can do.
Hello Chris, this has to be the worst reaction to any Lucy Thomas I have ever heard. All I seem to hear from you is Auto Tune, Auto Tune, Auto Tune, if you think they can use Auto Tune to improve Lucy's beautiful voice better than it is so be it. I do not give a Dam, & as for this award winning song it won the award for best song in the UK for 2024 because it was better than the5,000 other entrants, Barbara.
Hi Barbara I have agree I don´t know why Chris keeps doing this.There is an old reactor who said when someone mentioned this about Lucy. He said no amount of machinery could make a voice like that .She has real talent .This is a musician and also does mastering etc on recordings.
Hi, Barbara, in order to win that award Chris and Lucy had to present their piece to a panel of Britain's foremost musicians, who obviously would not have issued said award to a record company who didn't play by the rules !!!. Ian.
Barbara, I get what you're saying. I really do. I think many missed my reasoning and thoughts about the auto tune. It's more of a sarcastic thought of like "I wonder if she's autotuned" because she is so incredibly spot on, it's more of a joke than anything else. Do any of us know if she is auto tuned? No, none of us know that truth unless you are Lucy herself. Do I believe that she IS really auto tuned? At this point, I'd have to say that no, I do not think that is is auto tuned. Do I (or even you) really KNOW that for sure? No. Unless you have an intimate knowledge of this occurring or not, we can only presume one way or another. I think that she is just too good to need it. But again, NEITHER of us really will ever know for SURE, but it's doubtful.
Hi Chris I really don´t know why you keep bringing up Autotune.Lucy does not use Autotune in fact is is hardly if ever used today.I have seen and heard Lucy Live and she is even better live .All you are doing by keeping on about it is to give the idiots a voice, the armchair sound engineers that have no idea what they are talking about many of them are trolls and are fans of others and don´t like the fact that Lucy is as good as she is.As you have said in the past there is no proof and listening or watching some clown on TH-cam with an app that is supposed showing pitch correction beggars belief that anyone could be that gullible .Lucy is that good.On to this song it is a beautiful song written by Chris and Lucy sings it perfectly She is the best of the best .I also remember you saying on one of your live shows that you thought Lucy was prrobably the best vocalist who had ever lived.
Colin, thank you so much for your comments. I totally agree with you. I have seen Lucy twice now live in concert in both Tokyo and London. She is absolutely amazing!
It's so good, it's hard to believe there isn't post production on her vocals, but I totally believe she is probably the greatest female vocalist at the moment, right up there with Sydnie Christmas.
Can we please get off this meaningless discussion of whether Lucy’s recordings benefit from auto-tune or pitch correction. Auto-tune just isn’t sophisticated enough to fool critical listening of a singer who exercises a variety of highly skilled singing techniques. Pitch correction is I think more often used these days. But either way, neither auto-tune nor pitch correction is going to make a mediocre singer sound like a great singer.
Autotune is the cheat machine attempting to make an average singer sound better, but it doesn't work as it compresses the sound as it squeezes the notes making it sound robotic.You don't need a keen ear to hear it either.
When Wings of Pegasus ran one of Lucy’s songs through pitch correction software, he was adamant that the song was totally pitched corrected. Nothing was mentioned about it being auto tuned. All I know is it pissed me off to hear him say it. Now I question everything. I see these channels that give a Got Talent feel and background and clips of the judges reacting only to find out it was a fake video fake singing and a total scam. I have to assume that Lucy sings that well. If the studio uses pitch correction and auto tune then whatever, she doesn’t need it.
Good question. Eminem and Jacob have their own strengths that separate them from the rest of the field. Lucy's voice happens to be her main strength. If you rewatch those Eminem, Jacob, or any other artist, you'll see that I'll tend to gravitate to that observation. Does that kinda make sense?
Larry could you react to: Eminem Dead Wrong Ft Biggie Smalls Eminem Bitterphobia (His first song ever) or Luis Miguel? Mexican singer with a very good voice
Fil is no expert - he could never prove that the graph he shows you is from the recording he claims it's from. He preys on young singers with many subscribers because it draws more people to his channel and then he benefits monetarily.
@@whatnone1020 I have used pitch correction in mastering a recording. It wasn’t a singer being corrected; it was a trumpet. The musician was a little flat on a few notes in the song. Otherwise it was a great take of a jazz tune. Rather than throwing it out, the few notes were pitch corrected. No big deal. Did pitch correction ruin the song? Hardly. Did it sound totally different? Nope. Could 95 out of 100 listeners even tell the difference from the original? Probably not. All these “whistleblowers’ yakking about pitch correction in Lucy’s recordings are barking up a tree with nothing in it.
@@randysimon7363My interpretation of Fils analysis differs greatly from yours.And how do you explain away Fils comments on Run ( Snow patrol) Lucy aged15 ..
Lucy is better than Dion, Streisand and Houston . Karen Carpenter had an amazing voice but I cant recall her ever doing the kind of power ballad that Lucy can sing. Lucy is far more versatile than the others. She is the best end of !!
Karen had a great voice,but I must agree that Lucy matches her for clarity etc,then adds an extra dimention of power to match anyone else I know!,in other words probably the finest vocalist around!.😊
Hi Larry - I always watch Lucy's videos, and this latest offering is the bees nees. There story line in "Don't Walk Away" is so sad, but so true in the right context. Really! I can't get enough, the way Lucy potrays this song is so down to earth, that, when I listen to the lyrics and watch her body posture, the blend of Lucy's knack to deliver a song so strong, with emotional content is truly amazing and colourful. No-one can do better. She has the world stage now, a brillient performance that is so deserving of "Lucy Thomas" ❤ Thie collaberation was between (Lucy Thomas and Chris Broom) - Lucy needs no auto tune, her performance is as good as the studio version, but more stunning when you see her live. It brings you to tears everytime....
Larry, her voice was perfect at age 13. Scores of song reactors find her voice perfect - one is tracing it back to before age 13 to find imperfection. She has a gorgeous voice with great range and power and can execute high notes as well as lower register ones equally well. Her vibrato is extraordinary and that cannot be faked. It is standard to use pitch correction here and there today for almost all singers, but Lucy doesn't need it and I didn't hear anything in either of the words, "may." She is very clever in making songs her own, gliding up instead of down on a note - as expected, adding little frills, personal touches, depth, intensity, with amazing breath control - and the passion and feeling she brings to songs is her trademark. Autotune would be very obvious, and pitch correction software is very subtle today - hard to detect, but rarely significant. Lucy's voice is Lucy's - perfect (or at least 99% perfect). Mark, US.
Lucy is an earth angel with a voice made in heaven. Lucy's talent and skill level is unmatched. She will go down in musical history as one of the best singers of this century! This original song is priceless.
She will be acclaimed as the best singer since there have been recordings.
Love your reactions. She is THE BEST EVER and she has ruined all others for me. You know why? Because they can't compare to this young angel.
i love her singing no matter what she is a wonderful woman who cares what others say smile
Great reaction...i know what you mean...she is so pitch perfect you think...can anyone be so perfect...the reality is that is is PERFECT. ❤
I heard that Chris broom wrote this specifically to show off Lucy's beautiful voice and in my opinion she proved him right best performance to date
Thank you for reacting to Chris Broom’s award winning song ‘Don’t Walk Away’ sung by the phenomenal Lucy Thomas. The song first won the best Love Song and today was named the best new song of 2024. The Rosie Overture won best instrumental in 2024. I have heard Lucy in concert and there are some videos where there was no post processing and she needs no help. She is not only that good, she is the best in recording history. This song is genius as is Lucy’s performance.
I aver that Lucy will be acclaimed in the future as the greatest singer of all recorded time. She is unbelievably good. No one has ever sung ever song at such a perfect level.
You have stated my opinions to the letter.
Autune ? I suggest you go and see her live !!
Not a chance of auto tune she's been amazing since she was 10 years old
Chris, this song performed by Lucy is a double winner. It was written by Chris Broom who is the owner of Cavendish Records and the composer of the musical Rosie. Chris wrote this song for Lucy and entered it into the UK songwriting competition for 2024. It won the best song in the Love Song category. Later it was designated the Overall Winner of the whole competition. Chris Broom released this statement "I'm delighted to share the wonderful news that the British Songwriting Awards have just announced that my song "Don't Walk Away", sung by the amazing Lucy Thomas, has been chosen as the Overall Winner of the UK Songwriting Contest 2024. I'm incredibly honoured that it was chosen from a total entry of over 5,000 songs!" Now if Chris had submitted an autotuned or pitch corrected sample of Lucy singing this song to the contest to be judged, it is doubtful that it would have been awarded the overall winner of the contest. There is nothing that can be said or done to change the mind of those that are determined to believe that Lucy is autotuned or pitch corrected. By the way, there is no doubt in my mind that Lucy Thomas is the best female vocalist that I have ever heard. Thank you for your continued love and support for Lucy's solos and her duets with Martha.
Well stated and totally agree.
Thanks Kenneth for the review of the history of this song. I remember one reactor the first time he reacted to Lucy said that she was AI generated. Yes there are times like Larry has said you can hear Lucy taking a breath or her voice crack just ever so slightly. If they were going to fix her voice they would take those anomalies out.
I agree but other sites with sound engineers show her voice using voice analysis' software and you can see it on the graphs. She is the best I have heard since 1969 with Linda Ronstadt better trained voice certainly and a different style of music but range power breath support and infusing emotions into the song I consider them about the same. And she is better without it those minute variations all voices naturally have are what makes them individual even if you don't consciously hear it.
@ how do you know that their equipment is even working correctly. Are they required to have the sound equipment calibrated ever so often. Does the software match the processor they are using or is it just some off the self software. Do believe everything you are told. These guys are just out for clicks.
Exactly
I really enjoy your reactions. Having worked at Abbey Road recording studios I can tell, hear and say there was no autotune on this performance. Autotune was created to somehow create and mimic a pitch perfect performance for poor singers. So when people actually hear a pitch perfect singer they assume there is autotune used. Another example of this is Cynthia Erivo … she also has pitch perfect vocals on stage and in the studio but people still say “Autotune must have been used”. When you hear autotune you are hearing it try to mimic/recreate a performers like Lucy’s and Erivo’s so that’s why it’s easy to think that tech is being used. I personally hate autotune because I know it when it is implanted in a recording. I wish it had never been invented because great performers have to deal with this accusation far too often these days. Thankfully the greats of the past never had to deal with it.
I personally don't care if Lucy's producers use auto tune or not.. most do, simply because its just the norm unfortunately... I can hear and feel how authentic and unbelievable her voice is... no one can change my opinion of her.. 🔥
She has the same "suspect" perfection in her live performances...no auto-tune.
Correct!
This continued bleating about Autotune, is often aimed at Lucy by some distractors who insist she can't perform to such a phenomenal standard. However it's been known that its been used on other vocalists who have a basic struggle throughout a song to hold a note that would be a nightmare to manually Pitch Correct. Autotune is sometimes used in live performances but it's risky since it has be known to misinterpret when the vocalist misses a note beyond the half sharp or flat and the software corrects it to one complete note above or below, which is a disaster for the performer. Several well known artist have suffered such a problem -- Michael Bublé being one of them, who should have kept well away from such nonsense, as if HE needed any help?!!!
Lucy recently received a 5 star accolade from a musical critic Jeremy Chapman, when he was present at her Theatre Royal Drury Lane concert in London. Who described Lucy as a once in a lifetime vocalist. Lucy is, after all a classically trained vocalist and I would imagine her vocal coach Carolyn Hudson must be so proud of her. So please Chris, less talk of Autotune with Lucy!!
All that the audio wave forms, posted by self-appointed experts, prove is that either (1) the song has been pitch corrected or (2) the singer has perfect pitch. Only the sound engineer knows for sure. Everything that I know about Lucy says that she would not put up with someone "correcting" her mistakes. Perfect pitch is rare but it does exist and Lucy has it. Every analysis that I have seen by real professional sound engineers, people on the production end, says that there is no routine pitch correction done on Lucy. It may happen rarely when they don't have time and resources for a retake.
The easiest way to be sure that Lucy doesn't need autotune is to watch her live performances, which are every bit as good.
Thank you for that reaction. It's impressive. And each of her 70 videos is more impressive than the next. This song is fabulous, and Lucy makes it sublime. Will I Am said on her first TV appearance 7 years ago, that it was perfect the way she sang, and it's been perfect ever since. She doesn't need any auto-tune, it's perfect. And in concert, every time for over 2 hours, it's perfect. What's more, she has an exceptional personality.
She is best female singer in this planet. Hope she can making the world tour to American
i love this song and Lucy does it justice when it comes to the word no i think it is the fulcrum for the whole song thank you as always for your positive comments Chris
Oh God, just listen to your heart when Lucy sings 👌❤ And do you think software that you can of course manipulate as you wish could make it possible to come across as so fascinating. For Lucy fans, Auto Tune should simply no longer be an issue and any discussion with these Anti Fans and mostly WOP supporters only gives them a platform to see doubts.
She does have a little flip she does in some words, sometimes a little like a yodel. It's her thing.
I ❤ this, I’ve got a crush on Lucy every day I wake up and play on my phone and I’m in my 60s and no way Auto tunes!
You have to see her live she’s the real thing she’s a Goddess with no side kicks or dancers to distract
Thx - enjoyed! Chris Broom wrote the song and Lucy sung it! :) She sang the heck out of it! IMO a great new original song - would be shocked if it did not end up as a theme song in future movie. Lots of great talent out there - I think you are right though - Lucy, to me, is the best vocalist of the rising new generation and is on her way to a career that will have her standing with Barbara, Celine, Whitney, Karen, Adele, Aretha, Diana etc. The incomparable Lucy Thomas at work - and we get to watch and hear it! Happy New Year!
A bold statement,but probably right!,the only one of those mentioned who has a comparable voice is K.C.😊
Don't Walk Away (feat. Lucy Thomas) - Chris Broom
No auto tune needed.
Hey Chris. Another reactor, who just found Lucy this week, said her rendition of Unchained Melody was perfection. His 1st reaction of her singing hallelujah, he was left speechless. 5 years later and has only gotten better.
I believe that's" studio 27 you're referring to ? Didn't he say it was perfection but he would trade 50% of perfection for 50% more emotion ?Did you miss that ?
@tomwhite4736 no Tom, I didn’t miss it. I left it for you to criticize, as you have a habit of doing when it comes to Lucy. What’s your need to always say things like that?
@@lawrenceb5236What criticism lol .? I stated what the reactor said .
can you imagine anyone walking away from Lucy?
Not even if they were blind, deaf or dumb.. because even her presence and energy alone are so magnetic that it's all it would take.. 🔥
@@shaunhines7883 you , two, are so right. Any , sane, human being would wish to be , only , part of her close friend's.♥️👍😉
Hi Chris ... "This is a Master class in diva-esque musicianship."
We have been told this song has since been awarded the overall winner of the competition first of 5,000 songs.
Here we have the best female voice on the planet and all I hear is auto tune this auto tune that there is no auto tuning, why don't people including reactors just listen to the sheer beauty of her voice and her presentation and enjoy it. I see Pegasus is mentioned again with his fake squiggly lines, he is a failed musician who does all he can to talk down young talent, something he could never be, he also is in the middle of a legal battle for deformation so let's see. This song is beautiful in every way and so is our Lucy.
first there was this song and after 3 days there was this one which you listened to. TH-cam has errors because they do something with the quality of the spatial audio.
Love your reaction. Lucy has had several live performances and I know for a fact she is actually that good.Knock it off
“Days” sounds perfectly natural to me! But if not natural, perhaps it might be because she’s SUPERnatural? Just sayin’!
It does to me to God knows what Chris nis on about.
It's not autotune, it's pitch correction. Pitch correction can leave vibrato in, can leave ambient noises alone, plosives, breaths, etc. But in this case there are an equal number of squared step like waveforms, which are causing the artifacts you're hearing.
On these where she is soloing, and then there are harmonies, I hear Martha’s voice in those harmonies. That’s just what I hear. I also do not hear any auto tuning. When you hear a break, that’s natural. Auto tune would have fixed that. She is as good or better than most folks think.
Autotune / pitch correction can be set at different levels. Some producers will set it to have a few vocal mistakes .
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Isn't it wonderful that the worlds talents are just a few clicks away. So much variety and all just there to enjoy. I don't care very much if "errors" are corrected in post but there are so many skilled artists that just don't need it.
Question Larry, do you think this voice can still progress, if so where will it stop?
Not sure how you can improve on perfection, but when she was younger, I felt that it wouldn't be possible, but here we are!
@@larryshair i agree
AND ANOTHER THING! :) If Lucy needed auto-tune at that relatively "easy" set of notes in this song...she would need auto-tune in a dozen or so other points in this song...and in ALL of her other songs. No, no auto-tune.
Just to clarify.Autotune attempts to correct the WHOLE piece from start to finish using A440 software. Pitch correction is a manual process by an engineer isolating a single note, one at a time. Lucy Thomas doen't go anywhere near either technology.
A lovely performance from Lucy. With a stunning voice that is continuing to get richer she often sounds several years older than she is, but to my ears this is one of those performances when she does sound like a 20/21 year old, albeit with superstar qualities.
She'll be 21 in February 🙂
I don't think they use autotune much at all now a days although pitch correction is pretty much default throughout the industry Lucy sounds better without it as her live concerts show removing that perfection and allowing a human voice perform unaided sounds individual and old time recordings also show this. Lucy is a generational talent and other singers will soon be covering her songs.
This endless obsessing about pitch correction is ridiculous. There is vastly more to singing than pitch accuracy and all pitch correction can do is correct pitch. Whether it has been used in any of Lucy[s recordings is unimportant. What makes a singer great is a long list of characteristics including vocal range, tone, timbre, transitions, breath control, enunciation, intonation, dynamics, power, and more. The statement that a singer is “pitch perfect” is a cliche that is pretty much meaningless. Lucy is a great singer because of everything about her vocal talent,
@@randysimon7363 Hi,Randy. at last! someone who understands that pitch is only a very small component in a singers repertoire, What makes Lucy's voice so special is the control of the remaining elements! Ian.
Hello Larry. Here is my take on the Autotune/pitch correction issue. Please don’t take this personally. I always look forward to your reactions. No one with any real expertise can answer that question unless it is the person that has actually done the work. So I think it would benefit us all to just drop the subject. Unless of course someone wants to say that Lucy really isn’t as beautiful as she seems because she wears a mask that causes her to look better than reality. We could go down that road. It best in my opinion just to drop the subject. Mainly because both of those issues are subjective opinions. Yes this song was submitted with Lucy doing the vocals to the UK writers organization. Here is the Link that the UK songwriters dropped a few days before the official release from Lucy: th-cam.com/video/uHd_vrOJsNY/w-d-xo.htmlsi=51fJF0_yGuTdGhVy.
My understanding is that the song won the best love song category. Then a few days later it won the best overall category.
Fo me personally Lucy will be considered one of the best vocalist of all time and there are some bad actors out there that don’t like that opinion. So they are trying their best to muddy the waters.
Stay safe healthy and free. Plus THANK YOU so much for supporting both Lucy and Martha.
HI Jim, I recall a reactor saying that in his opinion Lucy's face was created by AI, because "she could not be really that good looking" he also thought that the video was just to perfect, having seen her live i can vouch for the fact that she is undoubtedly the real deal!!!. Ian.
@iancave-nu1ff yes I remember that one. He did apologize for the comments. But hey like I say there are some bad actors out there that just seem to delight in spreading rumors and slinging mud. I think most of them are AJ fans. If you have nothing good to say don’t say anything at all is my policy.
Larry, last night I watched AleksReacts on this song, "Don't Walk Away." She is very discriminating, not a flag waver for any one performer, but she must have said at least five times that Lucy sings perfectly - using that word, "perfect."
Lucy has stated that she dosen't use autotune,so that's good enough for me!,her production team have used pitch correction though certainly on "Have yourselves a merry little Christmas",though why defeats me as we know how outstanding she is 'live',the only other female vocalist I have heard hitting the correct notes almost to perfection is Karen Carpenter, that's how good Lucy is,she has the sofness & control of Karen + the power at the top end to match any of the deva's past & present!,Lucy in my humble opinion is out there on her own,& I say that although i'm not one that would usually listen to this style of music,it's simply "The Lucy effect!"😊
@@johncollins392 What is your source regarding her production team using it?
@@Trevmom1good question John.
@@Trevmom1It was “proven” if you accept the evidence by Fil at Wings of Pegasus (WOP)that HYAMLC was pitch corrected in post production. WOP were asked to analyse the song and produced the evidence. WOP are dirty words at Cavendish Records so you have to choose who and what you believe.
Barbra, Celine, Whitney, and Karen were and are tremendous!
Lucy is beyond perfect! She is the BEST!
Please play and react to Lucy’s breathtaking performances of:
“I’LL NEVER LOVE AGAIN"; th-cam.com/video/4g1Qpu9XPL8/w-d-xo.html
At only age 15, Lucy’s emotional and powerful performance was even better the original.
I promise you will be blown away by the maturity of Lucy's voice.
Enjoy! Hopelessly Addicted in Arizona
Ok, listen.., I have a couple of very important questions asking those apparently high qualified music experts that are still turning non stop around auto running , auto pitching, auto matics and probably auto fried chicken machines.. And I expect precise answers, bitteschön.. What percentage you thing is the amount of cotton and/or fabrics in the very nice dress Lucy is wearing? Cause I’m not quite sure if it is 28,043% or just 28,042%, and also if you experts know if the cotton comes from Ceyland or Bangladesh.. But don’t answer us before the asteroid finally hits our Earth, please. In the mean time, the rest of us will peacefully keep enjoying Lucy’s amazing music videos, thank you. And good bye..🥴
Great comment
@ Thanks.., unfortunately the auto tunning… , humm..,sorry..,I mean the auto writing correction didn’t correct my less than perfect English spelling.., hope those auto tunning experts around didn’t see it..😜
Well said great comment.
Hi,Chris, i think i have Lucy deraingment syndrome, every time i listen to other singers, i get about half way through the performance and think, oh dear, not as good as Lucy, and start to lose interest, the only cure is to go back to lucy!!!. Ian.
J'adorerais l'entendre en live...pour l'instant la seule qui m'a prouver le pitch parfait et naturel c'est Faouzia et Billie illish qui chante leurs réactions en concert avec un seul instrument...
Mais la chanson est magnifique je l'écoute en boucle...
Pourriez vous faire une réaction de Faouzia 🙏❤❤❤
3:45 - Definitely a LucyYodel.
Your too critical. You pick her singing apart.
Lucy has a beautiful voice. You seem not to go that way you seem to put enough negative things out there to cancel anything positive you say.
I love when you compare artists and talk about autotune, lol it's the perfect recipe for discussion in comment section, lol 🤭👍
Loved the reaction as always! 😊
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certainly causes arguments.
lol, funny to see how people get so upset at that thought lol!
Interesting reaction Chris. This question of AUTOTUNE and pitch correction, keeps rearing its head. Autotune is used throughout the whole piece where pitch A440 software snaps any sharp or flat notes to the standard line. Pitch Correction is applied by the engineer to any single note manually. Lucy is a classically trained singer and some serious music critics gave her was a 5 star rating for her two and a half hour London concert. I think these guys would instinctively know if Autotune was being utilised. There are going to be some commentators here who were lucky enough to have attended Lucy's concert and will say the whole experience was absolutely magical. I don't think Chtris Broom would even consider tampering with such a wonderful vocal performances.
Hi, pedro. i was fortunate to attend Lucy's first live public performance, her first song was "Somewhere" and she was noticeably nervous, so much so that there was an odd catch in her voice, so definitely no autotune!!, but spurred on by an incredibly supportive audience she settled and gave the best concert i have attended! and i've been to quite a few!! Ian.
Chris - your reaction video was spoiled early on, for me, by your two minute long obsessive discussion about whether Autotune was employed with the word 'days'!
For you to focus on such meaningless and, for Lucy, mistaken, minutia was extremely disappointing - when surely your focus should have been on the composition of an original song (melody and lyrics), the arrangement and video production and, of course, Lucy's masterfully emotive performance!
However, you did redeem yourself, to some degree, towards the end of the reaction video, and so, since you are a big Lucy fan, I'll forgive you for this momentary aberration! 😀
I agree with you Michael👍
lol, thanks! I do hope that most viewers understand that as this is a reaction channel, I have always made a promise to myself to be genuine. To be myself. To share my observations in my own way. Could you imagine if I altered my approach to change my reactions and adjust it to meet everyone's expectations of how I should react? It would no longer be my honest reaction. I'd only be people-pleasing. I'm not asking someone to "suffer through" my reactions if it's not the style they like to watch. I do appreciate those that do, but I totally understand on why you might not like it. All good my friend.
@@larryshair I think it would be useful for you to educate yourself about what Autotune and pitch correction actually do. There are some good TH-cam videos in which a person with no vocal talent whatsoever and an inability to stay on pitch is processed by Autotune to enhance their performance. The result is still a singer with a lousy voice but now singing with excellent pitch control. That’s all those tools can do.
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Hello Chris, this has to be the worst reaction to any Lucy Thomas I have ever heard. All I seem to hear from you is Auto Tune, Auto Tune, Auto Tune, if you think they can use Auto Tune to improve Lucy's beautiful voice better than it is so be it. I do not give a Dam, & as for this award winning song it won the award for best song in the UK for 2024 because it was better than the5,000 other entrants, Barbara.
Hi Barbara I have agree I don´t know why Chris keeps doing this.There is an old reactor who said when someone mentioned this about Lucy. He said no amount of machinery could make a voice like that .She has real talent .This is a musician and also does mastering etc on recordings.
Barbara, I totally agree with you. Thank you for your comments.
Hi, Barbara, in order to win that award Chris and Lucy had to present their piece to a panel of Britain's foremost musicians, who obviously would not have issued said award to a record company who didn't play by the rules !!!. Ian.
Barbara, I get what you're saying. I really do. I think many missed my reasoning and thoughts about the auto tune. It's more of a sarcastic thought of like "I wonder if she's autotuned" because she is so incredibly spot on, it's more of a joke than anything else. Do any of us know if she is auto tuned? No, none of us know that truth unless you are Lucy herself. Do I believe that she IS really auto tuned? At this point, I'd have to say that no, I do not think that is is auto tuned. Do I (or even you) really KNOW that for sure? No. Unless you have an intimate knowledge of this occurring or not, we can only presume one way or another. I think that she is just too good to need it. But again, NEITHER of us really will ever know for SURE, but it's doubtful.
Hi Chris I really don´t know why you keep bringing up Autotune.Lucy does not use Autotune in fact is is hardly if ever used today.I have seen and heard Lucy Live and she is even better live .All you are doing by keeping on about it is to give the idiots a voice, the armchair sound engineers that have no idea what they are talking about many of them are trolls and are fans of others and don´t like the fact that Lucy is as good as she is.As you have said in the past there is no proof and listening or watching some clown on TH-cam with an app that is supposed showing pitch correction beggars belief that anyone could be that gullible .Lucy is that good.On to this song it is a beautiful song written by Chris and Lucy sings it perfectly She is the best of the best .I also remember you saying on one of your live shows that you thought Lucy was prrobably the best vocalist who had ever lived.
Colin, thank you so much for your comments. I totally agree with you. I have seen Lucy twice now live in concert in both Tokyo and London. She is absolutely amazing!
It's so good, it's hard to believe there isn't post production on her vocals, but I totally believe she is probably the greatest female vocalist at the moment, right up there with Sydnie Christmas.
Can we please get off this meaningless discussion of whether Lucy’s recordings benefit from auto-tune or pitch correction. Auto-tune just isn’t sophisticated enough to fool critical listening of a singer who exercises a variety of highly skilled singing techniques. Pitch correction is I think more often used these days. But either way, neither auto-tune nor pitch correction is going to make a mediocre singer sound like a great singer.
Autotune is the cheat machine attempting to make an average singer sound better, but it doesn't work as it compresses the sound as it squeezes the notes making it sound robotic.You don't need a keen ear to hear it either.
@@pedromancenithe3rd Right.
When Wings of Pegasus ran one of Lucy’s songs through pitch correction software, he was adamant that the song was totally pitched corrected. Nothing was mentioned about it being auto tuned. All I know is it pissed me off to hear him say it. Now I question everything. I see these channels that give a Got Talent feel and background and clips of the judges reacting only to find out it was a fake video fake singing and a total scam. I have to assume that Lucy sings that well. If the studio uses pitch correction and auto tune then whatever, she doesn’t need it.
Lucy is just so mesmerizing n enchanting! A beautiful beautiful song sung by the one and only incredible Lucy!
Just curious - Do you ever bring up the topic of AutoTune or pitch correction when it comes to Eminem or Jacob Collier?
Good question. Eminem and Jacob have their own strengths that separate them from the rest of the field. Lucy's voice happens to be her main strength. If you rewatch those Eminem, Jacob, or any other artist, you'll see that I'll tend to gravitate to that observation. Does that kinda make sense?
Streamline!!!!!
Larry could you react to:
Eminem Dead Wrong Ft Biggie Smalls
Eminem Bitterphobia (His first song ever)
or Luis Miguel? Mexican singer with a very good voice
She is pitch corrected. Fil at wings of Pegasus did one of her songs and has showed it on his video. I still love her anyway.
Fil is no expert - he could never prove that the graph he shows you is from the recording he claims it's from. He preys on young singers with many subscribers because it draws more people to his channel and then he benefits monetarily.
@Trevmom1 your opinion and you are welcome to it.
@@whatnone1020 I have used pitch correction in mastering a recording. It wasn’t a singer being corrected; it was a trumpet. The musician was a little flat on a few notes in the song. Otherwise it was a great take of a jazz tune. Rather than throwing it out, the few notes were pitch corrected. No big deal. Did pitch correction ruin the song? Hardly. Did it sound totally different? Nope. Could 95 out of 100 listeners even tell the difference from the original? Probably not. All these “whistleblowers’ yakking about pitch correction in Lucy’s recordings are barking up a tree with nothing in it.
@randysimon7363 all I know is Lucy sounds beautiful.
@@randysimon7363My interpretation of Fils analysis differs greatly from yours.And how do you explain away Fils comments on Run ( Snow patrol) Lucy aged15 ..
Can you react to Survival by Eminem?
This is a Christian song not to walk away from jesus new testament hint a chip in me 😮
So good, you have to forensically examine her voice looking for flaws - come on, get over it.
It's my true reaction as I watch it. Come on, get over it.
Lucy is better than Dion, Streisand and Houston . Karen Carpenter had an amazing voice but I cant recall her ever doing the kind of power ballad that Lucy can sing. Lucy is far more versatile than the others. She is the best end of !!
Karen had a great voice,but I must agree that Lucy matches her for clarity etc,then adds an extra dimention of power to match anyone else I know!,in other words probably the finest vocalist around!.😊