I've been saying for ages that she needs voice lessons. People here have pretty much covered everything...she does a lot of stuff wrong. In fact, the list of what she does right is a lot shorter than the list of what she does wrong.

Personally, I'm not entirely sure that it's because she just doesn't care...her really sucking lately could be her not caring enough to really try, but I would think that she cares about her voice. She has said that she warms up every day; to what extent, I would love to see. However, I think that she's got too high of an opinion about her voice to recognize the fact that she should get a vocal coach, even if it was just to get some extra exercises or something.

If you're in a good choir, you will get a touch of vocal technique training. A touch. Not a lot. Any serious singer needs to have extra training or her voice will get blown out...and I'm thinking that Amy's voice is full on its way to getting blown out. Which is a shame...despite her not sounding good live lately, I do have memories of amazing concerts and I <3 her voice on the albums. There's no denying that her voice is very powerful...and with the right tools, it could become extremely impressive.

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