Cheryl Cole, The Flood LIVE (Royal Variety Performance 2010)

Cheryl Cole

Chery Cole gave her first live performance of her terrible single The Flood at the Royal Variety Show.

It's almost as if this was a different Cheryl Cole to the one we've watched on the X-Factor these last months. Gone was the tough, in-control aura and instead poor Cheryl looked nervous and meek, visibly shaking throughout the song. It's vulnerable side I've never seen in the confident Geordie before.

There's speculation about whether this was live or not, but I think the tuning issues and Cheryl being clearly nervous made it more likely to be live than not. The belted D5 note-that people are claiming was mimed- on the word "flood" (see 1.07) was also live; although that note is supported by a backing track that can be heard at 3.19.

Cheryl Cole "The Flood" : Video and Review

Cheryl Cole still taken from "The Flood"

Cheryl Cole is back with new single The Flood, a soppy, mid-tempo ballad about, you guessed it, Love (symbolised by the water) and its transient nature. All in all it's a pretty mediocre and forgettable follow up to her last single Promise This, but will no doubt go top 10 thanks to her X-factor profile.

Watch the video below:

Do you Agree or do you think Cheryl Can do no wrong?

Cheryl Cole - Vocal Profile/Range

Cheryl Cole

Vocal Type: contralto

Vocal Range:  1.7  octaves (Approx). f3- Eb5

Vocal Pluses: Voice has a pleasant soft quality in the head and mid range.

Vocal Negatives: weak voice that lacks strength or dexterity with a tendency to become thin and whiny as it progresses up the chest voice.

Audio Clips

Lowest note: F3

Highest head note Eb5

Highest Chest notes:A4

D5:

Cheryl Cole the mimer?- Promise This - X FACTOR PERFORMANCE 2010 (Review)

I decided to Youtube Cheryl Coles' X-Factor performance, where she performed new single Promise this, after reading the hoopla in the press about her supposed miming to judge for myself if this was the case or not.

Surprisingly, as far as I can tell, Cheryl Cole isn't miming. The confusion over "was she or wasn't she" may have stemmed from the heavy backing track.

Never being the strongest vocalist I felt she did a commendable job; displaying melisma (Shock!) at 3.24 after a sustained (double shock!!) note before finally ending with flourishes of head voice(triple shock!!!) at the end of the song (around the 4.06).

All in all I was pleasantly surprised to hear variation in her vocal abilities and to see the improvement in Cheryl's dancing and stage presence since her performance of Fight for this Love on last years X-Factor. Maybe there is a reason Cheryl Cole is on the panel after all...still not sure about the song though!

Did you think she was miming?