I'll take your word for it.

Damn, and here I was all impressed and stuff. Oh well. I shall await more concrete evidence before I rate!

I still think it's cool. Plus her face contorts like she's going to sneeze.

I don't think so. The fast part at 1:38 is slurred, in the original it's almost sticatto.

Plus, if you study professional singers (ie:opera, choir, etc.) you'll notice a lot of tell-tale signs of fakery, like the lack of tongue and throat ululation, nostril flaring, and neck (Sternocleidomastoid) flexing.

Also pitch is off slightly all over the place... what are you talking about.

This sounds faked

I can tell because of the nostrils and from hearing quite a few fakes in my time

If you don't believe it's a FAKE, sync this video up to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJB5Rqc1m0Y and they are EXACT. Fakes are exact, covers are not.

Compare 1:38 in this vid to 4:22 in the original. That's the hard bit Disneydiva can't quite do.

1:38 side by side is NOT the same as in the 5th element.

Sorry. Clean out your ears.

Music beards make me feel uncomfortable.

The REAL reason this video is FAKE as HELL is that GIRLS don't have any TALENTS! The original was sung by a CASTRATI because only MEN can DO THINGS!

If it was fake wouldn't it sound as good as the original? She is clearly off note throughout almost this whole thing.

Fuck you fake police. IS NOTHING REAL?

She's clearly singing along with the original. This makes it hard to tell how good she would be on her own.

So am I the only singer here who can say splatterbabble is fucking wrong?

There was nothing wrong with her facial movement, she inflected properly, he breathing was correct. His faggotry about tongue/nose is crap.

splatterbabble is a dumb faggot who failed as a singer.

he/she is also wrong

By the way, 1:38 is STILL EXACT!

I'm gonna take my toys and go home if I don't keep getting butthurt over the ignorance of people I don't know.

DAMN YOU INTERNETS! WHY MUST YOU MAKE ME WHAT I AM!?!?

Seriously, the piece is autotuned and modulated and overproduced. It's too easy to tell it's an overdub. I think people are only rating it up to be contrary or because the WANT it to be real. It really just shows gullibility and herd mentality.

Anyhow, this was the worst part of the Fifth Element because of how crappy it sounded after the aria.

Five for the idiots who don't realize that this isn't an overdub. This is the original, and the Fifth Element used this audio sample in their movie. Just check 0:29 for proof.

I think splatterbabble is baleen's newest troll incarnation. YAY!

Wow, you must've registered this week and already you've had a histrionic break down about sci-fi opera. SCI-FI OPERA, you unbelievable rube.

This is News on Parade with "THE MARCH OF WAR!"

Dateline: 2009

Controversy hits POETV!

The newly vilified Splatterbabble makes casual comment or shows his true colors? RED!

Community mobilizes to silence the faker claimer or uproar mere entertainment for the emotionally stable?

The shelled otter: is it actually a turtle?

Yes, It seems everybody is talking about whether the fine young lass with the big big voice is really a pinko commie faker! "Zounds, indeed she is!" claims the poorly named splatterbabble. "Nay, silence the disbeliever in insignifica!" says the older, established, elitist community of which this humble reporter is a member (owl burning later, boys?), some even claiming that the faker claimer is really faker maker Baleen giving his newest high concept comedy shenanigans out for a spin.

What will happen in this explosive front? When will hostilities end? Will anyone remember any of this tomorrow? If they do, what social problems do they have?

Stay glued to your seats and await the next reel of:
Parade of News presents "THE MARCH OF WAR!"
presented with the second feature in your local theater.

Goodnight and God bless POE!

aelric i want to give you 5* but it is too late

i am sorry

I want roast owl.

i'll add my 2 cents 4 years later.

it's real, the original has one or two small instances of pitch shifting beyond human ability, and this woman didn't recreate it.

Dude I analyzed her tongue movements and shit, this is FAKE.

It's not hard to believe that people get popular on YouTube for faking things.

Well in that case, at the very least A for effort.

If you don't believe it's a FAKE, sync this video up to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJB5Rqc1m0Y and they are EXACT. Fakes are exact, covers are not.

Hey dude post that exact comment one more time. I think it'll stick, if you do that.

Shit. I better try harder. I didn't think people were actually reading.

That comment is fake. Don't believe me? synch it up to the one above. Fakes are EXACT.

You got me! Ha!

Pretty good, but not good enough to convince me that that part is truly singable.

Splatter is most likely retarded because I haven't even seen this movie or heard this song in like, 6 months at least, and I can still tell that it's not exact.

exactly. you can hear with your own ears the original is only partially dubbed out. the fact that the girl isn't even that good makes it obvious that she's not singing the synthesized version.

She's mouthing all of it.

Please keep responding to everyone in the comments section, you are totally changing hearts and minds.

Yeah you can easily hear the original version underneath her singing. Some people are just born deaf and dumb.

It sounds very sampled to me. In particular, the glissando parts, and the fact her timbre doesn't match her pitch at the extreme ends of the pitch range. I can believe that most of it was performed vocally but those parts sound excruciatingly uncanny. If that was a natural performance that she purposefully made to sound that way, then I am extremely impressed with the singer's vocal talents.

Wikipedia doesn't mention anything about the production of the song, but does go to great pains to point out that the two sections were produced as separate songs, so it's possible that they were only talking about the aria and then "deceiving through omission" or whatever.

According to wikipedia, which cites the notes in the special edition, the original was sung, as-heard and digitally unaltered, by an Albanian Opera singer.

I thought it was sung by Renee Fleming, with digital alteration for the second part.

This.

I'm not much of a music guy, but I'll five star nerd rage any ol day.

didnt watch more than 20 seconds of the video

Oh, and this square woman sucks too.

Die Hard you tasteless moron.

Last Boyscout, you dribbling FAGGOT

Here we had the one and only instance of La Loco breaking his routine, and it was to say that Die Hard sucks.