Nicki Minaj - Vocal Profile/ Range

Nicki Minaj

Vocal Type: Soubrette
Whistle Register: No
Vocal Range: 2 octaves, 4 notes  D3- Bb5
Vocal Strengths: Although classed as a rapper, has demonstrated the ability to carry a melody aptly. Her voice is full of character and energy: able to switch between a thick and heavy timbre to a light and bright one quickly providing brilliant contrast. Her midrange is solid and her chest is capable of hitting the fifth octave.
Vocal Weaknesses: Her chest voice is thin and becomes weaker very quickly as it gets higher.
Recommended Listen: Super Bass, Fly

Nicole Scherzinger - Poison Official video

Nicole Scherzinger - Poison

I initially really disliked Nicole Scherzinger's new song Posion due to it  sounding like a weak, mess of noise to me. But today, for no reason, I succumbed to a craving for the song and since then, like some kind of fungus, its taken root in my mind and now I actually quite like it.

Maybe I've finally succumbed to Nicole's poision (shock!)! oh and props to her for keeping fully clothed  in the superhero inspired video.

WIki desciption:
"Poison" is an up-tempo synthpop and dance-pop song produced by RedOne. The "guitar-driven" number uses a "pulsating" and "toxic" beat throughout, which is similar to that used in the Britney Spears's song "Toxic". The lyrics were also compared to "Toxic" and said to have similar themes, according to BBC Music blogger, Fraser McAlpine.

Nicole Scherzingers' first attempt at solo success

Nicole Scherzinger:  whatever u like
video still

Nicole Scherzinger, is currently having a stab at solo success with the release of her new single "Poison" (see her performance of the song here on the X-Factor). However, What many people don't know is that this isn't her first attempt at launching a solo career post the Pussy Cat Dolls. 


That came in 2007 when Nicole released the grimy, sexually suggestive, single Whatever U like featuring T.I. Despite it being very of of the moment at the time song- think of it as a mash up of Beyonce's Ring the Alarm and Kelis' Bossy-  it didn't connect with the listeners and quickly tanked.  Surmising the public didn't like "sexy" Nicole, record execs scrambled to save the project by toning down Nicole sauciness and releasing the non-threatening, and terrible,follow up, Baby love. Unfortunately for Nicole this single also flopped and as a result of the combined failure the album "Her name is Nicole" was shelved and never released.


Here's hopping its second time luck for Nicole Scherzinger and her solo career.

Alexandra Burke- The Silence X-Factor performance 2010 review

Alexandra Burke performing The
Silence on the X-factor 2010

Alexandra Burke walked out again onto that hallowed X-factor stage where just two years ago her life was transformed by winning the show. Now a successful solo star in her own right she proved she still had the X-factor by  giving a rousing performance of her single The Silence.

Simply stunning : Adele "Someone like You"

Adele performing Someone like you
on Later with Jools Holland

Adele gives us all an early Christmas present by premièring another song from her as yet unreleased album 21, entitled Someone Like You.

Stacey Solomon: I'm a celebrity get me out of here 2010 Winner!

Stacey And her Boyfriend after winning I'm a celebrity get me out of here

Stacey Solomon on the x-factor last year

Stacey Solomon was a runner up on last years X-Factor and despite actually having a good voice and "the likeability factor", the buggers never picked her up for a record contract after the show ended.

This year Stacy found herself on the masochist's favourite television program, I'm a Celebrity get me out of here. A prime-time show, ironically shown directly after the X-factor, that has "celebrities" doing gross tasks to earn food stamps to essentially live.

Unsurprisingly-because she's awesome- Stacey easily won the show and took home the title of Queen of the Jungle. Hopefully winning the show will open the doors for her that the X-factor failed to last year.

So to show my support and offer congratulations, to  possibly the nicest person in the world, here are two of her best X-factor performances.

First step, Queen of the Jungle, next, Queen of  ENGLAND!

Watch the moment Stacey Solomon Won I'm a celebrity get me out of here



Stacey Singing Queens Who wants to live forever:


Stacey singing Somewhere

Listen to T.I. Ft. Christina Aguilera - Castle Walls

T.I and Christina Aguilera

Christina Aguilera has teamed up with T.I on the song  Castle Walls from the rappers upcoming album No Mercy. The song was produced by Alex da Kid ,who also produced Eminem and Rihanna's smash hit duet  Love the way you lie. 

Castle Walls features Christina giving an unusually sombre, muted and controlled vocal that's delivered mostly in her mid-range. Its a smart delivery as it successfully conveys  the sad sentiments of isolation and loneliness in the lyrics .

 Castle Walls  would  be  a clever release for Christina as it washes away the loud, brash image Bionic created -and bombed with - and replaces it with a sensitive,vulnerable and more relatable Earth diva.

Did you like Crystal Castles? Comment by clicking here or scrolling to the bottom of the post. 

Christina and T.I: Castle Wall Lyrics

[Christina Aguilera]

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble if I should fall

Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all, behind these castle walls

[T.I.]

Observing the estate through the gate from the outside looking in

Bet you would think I got it made, better look again

I got buttler, got a maid, and a mansion

The belief is that I'm living out a millionaires fantasy

With pantoms and ferrari's in the driveway

But you see the pain and the change of the same man's

Your vision jaded by the grammy's on the mantelpiece

Just switch your camera lenses you would see the agony

Apparantly it's damaging the man you see before you

On the canvas he may seem alright but all the diasadvantages his family

Encounters overpowers his extravagance

Walk in my? I dare you

While it really seem like the kings life aint glamourous

As seen through the eyes of untrained amateurs

Because the camera's don't see beyond the walls of the smiles

Only counts until it falls in the pile

[Christina Aguilera]

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble if I should fall

Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all, behind these castle walls

[T.I.]

Honestly to me, I think I'd lose every benefit of all that I've accomplished

If my key is never with it, sh-t

Me knowing this, why should the verses I have laid

Be more important to me than the persons I have raised

I guess I'm saying that to say that ooportunity

But they just don't equate to all the time they take away

From the kids all the sh-t I did right is a mistake

If deyjah end up a stripper and major slinging yay

How could I ever consider myself a great

If messiah ain't paid and nique nique ain't straight

Would your favourite song about the whips, money and sh-t

Be relevant if you found out, the money wasn't real, nope

So me being the goat shouldn't mean more to me

Than see it to a king though

From a bad ass kid to man with some dough

Otherwise I may well have stayed poor

So while they stay focused on me beefin with flip,

Shawty low, gucci or ludacris

Or if I'm f-cking with a hoe

Did I snitch when I got arrested or will I die over nonesense

Internally I'm dealing with this conflict

So excuse me if I don't get the chance to kiss the hand

Or slap me in the face, ay I, m just the man

If they saying I ain't the best at making hit records

It's cause this my life these ain't just rapping

Sh-t, you think of that deep, did ya dawg

See you can't see the castle through the walls till it falls

Bitch ain't thinking with the deep, did ya dog

Cause see you can't see the castle through the walls till it falls

[Christina Aguilera]

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble if I should fall

Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all, behind these castle walls

[Christina Aguilera]

Nobody knows I'm all alone

Living in this castle made of stone

They say that money is freedom but I feel trapped inside it all

And while I sit so high up on a throne

I wonder how I can feel this low

On top of the world it's beautiful

But there's no place to fall

[T.I.]

For the record ay, I give a damn if I never said sh-t again

My career was meant for me to come and tell it

Honest interpretation of how affected I'm faced with

Matters most rappers used to keep locked away in the basement

The day that I walk I ain't saying that I'm amazing

Down playing the way I keep fellas from catching cases

Won't take into consideration how much it mean what I'm saying

And when I say what I mean even when I'm sorrounded by the fakers

From one of the greatest centers, blessed with most of god's graces

Who made his way amongst the greatest from the grimiest places

So next time you rating royalty, I'm always being given to recordings than the level

Of your loyalty, obvious you've been ignoring me

Who else ya seen make it through the storm, unharmed disjointed

While all the critics was looking for prince charming

Disregarded the king of the south raised doubt

Even though he made a castle out of used to be a house

He did sh-t that all your favourites rappers only rap about

But most of y'all don't see the castle through the walls

And the smiles till it falls in piles so while...

[C.a.]

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble if I should fall

Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all, behind these castle walls

[Christina Aguilera]

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble if I should fall

Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all, behind these castle walls

[T.I.]

Observing the estate through the gate from the outside looking in

Bet you would think I got it made, better look again

I got buttler, got a maid, and a mansion

The belief is that I'm living out a millionaires fantasy

With pantoms and ferrari's in the driveway

But you see the pain and the change of the same man's

Your vision jaded by the grammy's on the mantelpiece

Just switch your camera lenses you would see the agony

Apparantly it's damaging the man you see before you

On the canvas he may seem alright but all the diasadvantages his family

Encounters overpowers his extravagance

Walk in my? I dare you

While it really seem like the kings life aint glamourous

As seen through the eyes of untrained amateurs

Because the camera's don't see beyond the walls of the smiles

Only counts until it falls in the pile

[Christina Aguilera]

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble if I should fall

Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all, behind these castle walls

[T.I.]

Honestly to me, I think I'd lose every benefit of all that I've accomplished

If my key is never with it, sh-t

Me knowing this, why should the verses I have laid

Be more important to me than the persons I have raised

I guess I'm saying that to say that ooportunity

But they just don't equate to all the time they take away

From the kids all the sh-t I did right is a mistake

If deyjah end up a stripper and major slinging yay

How could I ever consider myself a great

If messiah ain't paid and nique nique ain't straight

Would your favourite song about the whips, money and sh-t

Be relevant if you found out, the money wasn't real, nope

So me being the goat shouldn't mean more to me

Than see it to a king though

From a bad ass kid to man with some dough

Otherwise I may well have stayed poor

So while they stay focused on me beefin with flip,

Shawty low, gucci or ludacris

Or if I'm f-cking with a hoe

Did I snitch when I got arrested or will I die over nonesense

Internally I'm dealing with this conflict

So excuse me if I don't get the chance to kiss the hand

Or slap me in the face, ay I, m just the man

If they saying I ain't the best at making hit records

It's cause this my life these ain't just rapping

Sh-t, you think of that deep, did ya dawg

See you can't see the castle through the walls till it falls

Bitch ain't thinking with the deep, did ya dog

Cause see you can't see the castle through the walls till it falls

[Christina Aguilera]

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble if I should fall

Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all, behind these castle walls

[Christina Aguilera]

Nobody knows I'm all alone

Living in this castle made of stone

They say that money is freedom but I feel trapped inside it all

And while I sit so high up on a throne

I wonder how I can feel this low

On top of the world it's beautiful

But there's no place to fall

[T.I.]

For the record ay, I give a damn if I never said sh-t again

My career was meant for me to come and tell it

Honest interpretation of how affected I'm faced with

Matters most rappers used to keep locked away in the basement

The day that I walk I ain't saying that I'm amazing

Down playing the way I keep fellas from catching cases

Won't take into consideration how much it mean what I'm saying

And when I say what I mean even when I'm sorrounded by the fakers

From one of the greatest centers, blessed with most of god's graces

Who made his way amongst the greatest from the grimiest places

So next time you rating royalty, I'm always being given to recordings than the level

Of your loyalty, obvious you've been ignoring me

Who else ya seen make it through the storm, unharmed disjointed

While all the critics was looking for prince charming

Disregarded the king of the south raised doubt

Even though he made a castle out of used to be a house

He did sh-t that all your favourites rappers only rap about

But most of y'all don't see the castle through the walls

And the smiles till it falls in piles so while...

[Christina Aguilera]

Everyone thinks that I have it all

But it's so empty living behind these castle walls

These castle walls

If I should tumble if I should fall

Would any one hear me screaming behind these castle walls

There's no-one here at all, behind these castle walls