Second Life Live Music ReviewWritten by Enniv Zarf
Metaverse Music
Mimi Carpenter
Golden Horn
I thought I'd get a headstart this morning and catch some of the European musicians whom I would probably never get a chance to hear if I didn't check them out at this time. So I took a concert TP this morning.
Well actually I was going to go to another concert and I was already there but then they just took forever to start, so I decided to go elsewhere first before I go back later to review that one.
So here I am back at Golden Horn listening to another artists and I'm beginning to wonder if the venue here is just tone deaf to singers or they are just being super nice. I'll have to definitely check out more of their artists to see if this is a consistent thing or am I just being lucky and hitting all the bad singers. Ok, I think it's her huge group following why the venue booked her. She for some miraculous reason has a huge following. It's probably her French accent why everyone loves her. I just don't see how she can draw a 40 people crowd, but I can't blame Golden Horn for booking this kind of crowd, I would if I'm a venue owner! [Update: I just want to say here that I don't know why exactly they booked Mimi when I wrote this. it was just a thought.]
Mimi does covers as far as I know, according to the host there. [CORRECTION: Mimi told me that she has 2 original songs. I haven't heard them so I can't say anything about them] And my thing is if you don't have any originals, you better be an awesome singers. Cause otherwise why in the world am I listening to you! Ok...after hearing a little more, her French songs are pretty good, though not perfect but much better then her English stuff. [UPDATE: Well 2 songs is a good start Mimi and I hope to hear your songs in the future and review those sometimes. But I still stand by the fact that there are some serious intonation problems that needs to be addressed.]
Mimi's voice is hard to hear when she talks. She's French living in Germany right now and speaks English and sings in both French and English. She is extra soft spoken when she talks and I could hardly make out what she's saying and have to turn up the volume to hear her.
Her guitar playing is descent, though not impressive enough for me like Thumper yesterday where I would brush off some of the bad singing and still enjoy the playing.
Now when Mimi sings her French songs it is a lot better then her English songs, and I do have to give her a little credit. I think there is a definitely a language barrier. It is definitely very difficult to sing in a different language, but it's not impossible to do so and it's definitely something to work on. I would know, I do sing in English and Chinese, and both Mandarin and Cantonese. I know what I can sing well and I know what I can't sing well. I know what songs are good for me and what songs are not. And I definitely try not to sing anything that I am not absolutely certain has something special to it, whether it's that I can sing it well or that it's an original song that's good. But if occasionally I do sing just for the sake of singing and it's just for fun. I don't claim to be great or anything on those concerts.
When Mimi started singing German, the intonation issues also came out. But not as severe as her English singing. She also was messing up all over the place in the. I just think that Mimi has talent, but she definitely is not well rehearsed and is trying to fake her way through some stuff and that to me is not cool. And it's especially not cool if you are doing cover songs.
I may not understand what she's singing about in French and German, though I do speak a little bit of French, a couple years of High School French and I have family in France too. But probably not enough to understand half of what she's singing. In the end music is music and intonation is still intonation no matter the language. I think Mimi sings her French songs wonderfully, but the rest really needs some serious work.
I would not recommend her to anyone unless all you care is a cute French accent. Her fans will probably kill me for saying this, but that's my job now. She's out of tune half the time and there's no hiding from that.
