Hi Bob. What an incredible performance by Courtney. If you watch the conductor, rather than Courtney (which is hard when she just nailed the song), the conductor sneaks a long peak at Courtney's performance instead of remaining focused on his musicians. The look on his face says it all. The same can be said for the guitarist. Let's be real. If you were on stage, 15 feet away from this magnificent performance, how could you not help but sneak a peak. It's not very often that you get to hear the voice of a lifetime. It was mind boggling hearing her live. Take how great she sounds digitally, multiply it by ten, and that gives some sense of how she sensational she sounds live. Courtney shared the stage with many all time greats tied to Clive like Barry Manilow, Dionne Warwick, John Mellencamp and many more. The New York Pops released this 2+ minute clip of her performance. It now has over two million views (along with 2.6M on TikTok). By far the most views of any video the New York Pops has released since they started posting in 2014. Too bad they didn't release the whole thing, because Courtney's full performance was spectacular. So far it's the only individual performance that the Pops have released from the concert. Kind of says something about how fabulous they thought it was.
Wow.....We all knew this day was coming....Only 19 years old and performing at Carnegie Hall with the legends of music....The next few years will be filled with Courtney's voice and performances. I got goosebumps !
Thanks for your reaction, Bob! And glad you knew the history. This youngster takes me right back to those days in the '60s. Always frustrated that her cover of Otis Redding's posthumously released 'Hard to Handle' for her AGT audition, and the fact that she followed Ms. Etta James' lead in using adapted lyrics for a woman's point of view, all get lost in the 'Golden Buzzer' hype. This kid really gets the history. She learns from the best, then reimagines it and performs it HER way. Love that.
It is always my pleasure to react to her. Thats the way true artists do it, they do it their way without being an exact copy and without destroying the integrity of the song.
@@SixxDaze You should seriously check out her cover of Tina Turner's What's Love Got To Do With It. She did it during one of the COVID lockdowns, and she really made it an original version. Here is the UA-cam title,... Courtney Hadwin - What's Love Got To Do With It (quarantine cover) ... I would post the link, but UA-cam might kill this message.
Incredible quality of video, but there is a longer version, with just as good quality which someone has linked in the messages below. Courtney is INCREDIBLE, whichever version, pouring her heart and soul into the performance. Most modern singers don't do that, and thusly are forgettable, unlike this fabulous young lady.
nice reaction to a wonderful presence on stage! I would never, ever expect, but I would sure desire her performances to be delightful. I think expectations put too much pressure on such a lovely and wonderful person, as Courtney is.
She's already got other artists paying attention to her talents. She's a dynamo for sure. The sound quality ain't too bad here, but could be much better. Pretty sure that this video was one of the video guys from in back of the audience at Carnegie and the sound isn't piped into any mixing board, just coming from one of those profession type video cameras. There were at least 7 pro video guys in back of the audience video taping this concert that I noticed. Ed's video, that some have mentioned gives more perspective on the acoustics of Carnegie. Although it was on his phone so viewers can't really appreciate it the sound for what it really was. But believe me the sound quality was electric in that theater. Really enjoy these reactions of Courtney from you.
Courtney posted the vid you reacted to of most of that performance on her UA-cam channel. Thankfully, someone else was recording from the balcony, and another channel constructed a more complete mashup vid of her full performance opening the show, from walking onstage to walking off: ua-cam.com/video/gDM9jYavLqA/v-deo.html
She's simply special. What I hope for her future though is for people to stop making and hoping for covers, and instead let her original work shine. Her career to date is known for mostly covers. This performance made perfect sense, and awesome she was the invite to sing a Janice song because "they" knew no one could do it better. She owns every cover she does, but she's too good to be doing covers at this stage of her career. Down the road, sprinkle a cover or two in.
She has produced four original videos I hope you check out- Breakable, That Girl Don't Live Here, Call Me Back, and Monsters. Plus, she put out an awesome audio Christmas song called Christmas Rocks that is pure rock and roll.
A fantastic performance by Courtney as always, born to perform! Thanks Bob for the great reaction and comments.
Thank you for watching.
And as noted elsewhere, an integral complement to her vocal performance is Courtney's stage mastery.
Hi Bob. What an incredible performance by Courtney. If you watch the conductor, rather than Courtney (which is hard when she just nailed the song), the conductor sneaks a long peak at Courtney's performance instead of remaining focused on his musicians. The look on his face says it all. The same can be said for the guitarist. Let's be real. If you were on stage, 15 feet away from this magnificent performance, how could you not help but sneak a peak. It's not very often that you get to hear the voice of a lifetime. It was mind boggling hearing her live. Take how great she sounds digitally, multiply it by ten, and that gives some sense of how she sensational she sounds live. Courtney shared the stage with many all time greats tied to Clive like Barry Manilow, Dionne Warwick, John Mellencamp and many more. The New York Pops released this 2+ minute clip of her performance. It now has over two million views (along with 2.6M on TikTok). By far the most views of any video the New York Pops has released since they started posting in 2014. Too bad they didn't release the whole thing, because Courtney's full performance was spectacular. So far it's the only individual performance that the Pops have released from the concert. Kind of says something about how fabulous they thought it was.
I noticed him watching. It was a great performance. Like I said in my reaction, I expected nothing less. Thanks for watching.
I really appreciate your observations and comments!!
Wow.....We all knew this day was coming....Only 19 years old and performing at Carnegie Hall with the legends of music....The next few years will be filled with Courtney's voice and performances. I got goosebumps !
Thanks for your reaction, Bob! And glad you knew the history. This youngster takes me right back to those days in the '60s. Always frustrated that her cover of Otis Redding's posthumously released 'Hard to Handle' for her AGT audition, and the fact that she followed Ms. Etta James' lead in using adapted lyrics for a woman's point of view, all get lost in the 'Golden Buzzer' hype. This kid really gets the history. She learns from the best, then reimagines it and performs it HER way. Love that.
It is always my pleasure to react to her. Thats the way true artists do it, they do it their way without being an exact copy and without destroying the integrity of the song.
@@SixxDaze You should seriously check out her cover of Tina Turner's What's Love Got To Do With It. She did it during one of the COVID lockdowns, and she really made it an original version. Here is the UA-cam title,...
Courtney Hadwin - What's Love Got To Do With It (quarantine cover)
... I would post the link, but UA-cam might kill this message.
It is already on my list. It will be my next reaction to her.
Incredible quality of video, but there is a longer version, with just as good quality which someone has linked in the messages below.
Courtney is INCREDIBLE, whichever version, pouring her heart and soul into the performance. Most modern singers don't do that, and thusly are forgettable, unlike this fabulous young lady.
nice reaction to a wonderful presence on stage!
I would never, ever expect, but I would sure desire her performances to be delightful.
I think expectations put too much pressure on such a lovely and wonderful person, as Courtney is.
She's already got other artists paying attention to her talents. She's a dynamo for sure. The sound quality ain't too bad here, but could be much better. Pretty sure that this video was one of the video guys from in back of the audience at Carnegie and the sound isn't piped into any mixing board, just coming from one of those profession type video cameras. There were at least 7 pro video guys in back of the audience video taping this concert that I noticed. Ed's video, that some have mentioned gives more perspective on the acoustics of Carnegie. Although it was on his phone so viewers can't really appreciate it the sound for what it really was. But believe me the sound quality was electric in that theater. Really enjoy these reactions of Courtney from you.
Courtney posted the vid you reacted to of most of that performance on her UA-cam channel. Thankfully, someone else was recording from the balcony, and another channel constructed a more complete mashup vid of her full performance opening the show, from walking onstage to walking off:
ua-cam.com/video/gDM9jYavLqA/v-deo.html
She's simply special. What I hope for her future though is for people to stop making and hoping for covers, and instead let her original work shine. Her career to date is known for mostly covers. This performance made perfect sense, and awesome she was the invite to sing a Janice song because "they" knew no one could do it better. She owns every cover she does, but she's too good to be doing covers at this stage of her career. Down the road, sprinkle a cover or two in.
She has produced four original videos I hope you check out- Breakable, That Girl Don't Live Here, Call Me Back, and Monsters. Plus, she put out an awesome audio
Christmas song called Christmas Rocks that is pure rock and roll.
@jamesgilles6378 I know every song she had sung, originals and covers. Been following her for 6 years now.
There is a slightly longer version available i think it's on UA-cam lph it's a mix of this and some shot by someone there
Great voice !
I totally agree!
Great reaction, a little of topic but polo g dropped a song you will definitely like