{"id":62534,"date":"2019-05-10T14:54:00","date_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/?guid=386c271b397ad40d5cb9a1d05fc8cedc"},"modified":"2019-05-10T14:54:00","modified_gmt":"2019-05-10T19:54:00","slug":"to-be-real-by-toni-fournier","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/2019\/05\/10\/to-be-real-by-toni-fournier\/","title":{"rendered":"To Be Real by Toni Fournier"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin-right:15px\" align=\"left\" border=\"0\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" src=\"https:\/\/d3ck8ztij7t71z.cloudfront.net\/192\/192482\/tmb_150x150_192482_283385.jpg\" title=\"Toni Fournier\" alt=\"Toni Fournier\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>Broadjam Artist: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/tonifournier\">Toni Fournier<\/a><br \/><b>Song: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/songs.php?artistID=122365&#038;mediaID=732122\">To Be Real<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Reviewer: <\/b><a href=\"http:\/\/www.broadjam.com\/artists\/home.php?artistID=122734\">Rich Goldin<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Positive Comments: <\/b>The vocals are very strong and listenable. The harmonies in the pre-chorus are stirring. The song&#8217;s tempo and general direction are excellent. The point is: the work is very original. I especially like the key change as we move toward the middle section of the composition. The song has a strong and memorable hook. Nice work.<\/p>\n<p><b>Constructive Comments: <\/b>My constructive comments are relating to the technical production work of the song and are not in any way meant to be negative. They are a representation of my professional experience and personal taste. My biggest concern is the out-of-tune acoustic guitar at the song opening. Indeed, the instrumentation masks some of this as the song builds, but it is a distraction. The piano solo is &#8220;angular&#8221; in execution and could have used some more &#8220;compositional&#8221; thought beyond a basic pentatonic construct. I would have liked to hear more &#8220;placement&#8221; of the instruments in the stereo field, i.e., pan left or right. Other than that, this is a great work. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Broadjam Artist: Toni FournierSong: To Be RealReviewer: Rich GoldinPositive Comments: The vocals are very strong and listenable. The harmonies in the pre-chorus are stirring. The song&#8217;s tempo and general direction are excellent. The point is: the work &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62534"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62552,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62534\/revisions\/62552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/broadjamreviews.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}