daniel bedingfield - "if you're not the one"

i was thinking, as i do far too often, of bedingfield's many great tv performances of "gotta get thru this" and wondering why i still feel kind of cheated when he doesnt sing really high for the chorus like in the recorded version. i mean everything else is perfect - he struts around unselfconsciously like he exists on a different plane to all other pop stars! he makes animal faces! he acts like he's practiced every single different way to approach the song so he can flit between them at will! but then the chorus comes in and it plays his recorded vocal on the backing track while bedingfield sings along in a lower octave. i suppose its tough to hit those notes, fair enough, but really it pisses me off!

its the same with "like i love you" - the falsetto is like the key thing in the whole song but justin didn't even attempt it on totp! i honestly think even if the singing was slightly off, it would be so loveable if they just tried it. bedingfield and timberlake both make the kind of music where it seems they're constantly trying to extend beyond the natural range they possess - not just singing but everything involved with the music and image even - so maybe it feels lame to suddenly stop short and be like "oh i'm unafraid to look ridiculous but not that ridiculous!". really they need to sort that out.

(sorry, i didn't say anything about "if you're not the one" but you all know it's good, right!)