Music Review: Gina Stella @ Golden Horn

Second Life Live Music Review
Written by Enniv Zarf
Metaverse Music
Gina Stella
Golden Horn SLURL

I was thinking about staying at concerts longer when I review them, like the whole hour instead. But my mind just can't handle these unless if they are an amazing singer. I mean I had to give a spontaneous concert on Tuesday night to get everything out of my system after hearing like twenty something people over the weekend and such.

Well I am planning a full day of reviews, probably do 2 to 4 more reviews this afternoon. There are just so many people to do and I want to get to every single last person! I mean it, I want to be the first to really fully review everyone in Second Life so you can't say I don't know what's really out there. So far I have 32 down and Gina is my 33rd music review for Second Life.

Gina has a cute voice, very girly and cute. And it just splits my heart cause she's also got some intonation problems here and there. But she is much better then another singer (who's name I won't mention, but here's the link). And I do enjoy her light airiness and the simple quality of her sound.

I found out that she is new to the whole SL Live Music scene and only recently played an open mic event. Well she really does have a good quality to her sound, and has a good feel to what she's doing, but she's got a long way to go to be up in par with the really great singer/songwriters of Second Life. She has though potential if she really worked at it, and she's only just started.

Her set was much more heavy on the cover song side, but maybe she sang more of her originals during the first half which I missed....

...But I did hear her original song that she composed and someone else wrote the lyrics.

"You're the one" is the original (as I was told) by Gina and the tune is a descent one, though the way the lyrics and the music came off was totally whiny and gotten very annoying at the end. It also was plagued with a bit of intonation issues and there were just some not so flattering moments. At first I wasn't sure where the problem was until I heard more of Gina's singing of cover songs. She hasn't found her original voice yet.

Gina's cover songs are so much stronger then her original singing and I can tell which ones she has worked on more then others. When Gina's good, she's very good. When she's not, she's really not.

Later on in her set, she sang a blues song and it was excellent. She had none of the intonation issues she had in some of her other stuff. She was much more in tune with this style then most of everything else. It shows that she really dig the blues and the groove of it. Though she did sing another rock cover earlier pretty well too.

One of her final song, an original "Never get over you" was a great song, both well written and nicely delivered. Though she sounds better on her myspace then live here. Even so her in world live performance of this song was significantly better then her "You're the one." I can see with more production efforts this could be a pretty good song.

I think Gina is still discovering her voice and what she's all about and that's actually exciting. I know Gina will find out more and more overtime what works for her and what does and I hope she continues to be critical of her own works and performance. I think she's got some great stuff in her set, even in the 1/2 hour. But she does have some issues to address. I would say if you are in the mood of supporting a budding young artist with potential, Gina would be a good musician to give your love to. She's got a sweet and cute voice but she can dig a pretty mean blues when she wanna. Just needs a bit polishing.

And kudos to the Golden Horn for finding a new artist and supporting her growth. Hopefully she'll make you all proud, which I am sure she will.