Monday, September 24, 2012

One Thurd Video....aaaaand....




The whole idea of doing "rhythmic speech" is actually pretty old - here's a video of Rex Harrison, in "My Fair Lady", doing essentially the same thing.......sorta!

Rex was constantly being cast in musical, but he felt he could not sing that well, so he developed this type of rhythmic speech that worked quite well. The song really cranks up about 30 seconds in.

So what musical characteristics does this share with rap?