[mb-users] Questions about lead vocals and "cut by" credits

[Fred Marchee]

Just my two cents:

Vocal: As in Bono performed lead vocal on "One" by U2 -> Vocal performed 
by Bono.

Vocal: As in Bono & Mary J. Blige performed vocals on "One", a duet. 
Vocals performed by Bono & Mary

Lead Vocals: As in Diana Ross & The Supremes -> Diana Ross performed 
lead vocals, The Supremes (only singing Oo Oooooh) background vocals.

Guest vocals: As in famous rapper featuring forgotten, once famous, 
rapper (or forgotten old rapper featuring famous young guy) relationship 
-> guest vocals by forgotten, once famous, rapper or in the second case 
guest vocals by famous young guy (often Justin Timberlake ;-) )

Guest lead vocals: Metallica usually has James Hetfield as singer -> 
vocal performed by James Hetfield, but on the bootleg "Stone Cold Crazy" 
(http://musicbrainz.org/show/release/?releaseid=697614) the track "So 
What" is completely sung by Animal of The Anti-Nowhere League Guest lead 
vocals by Animal *

In this specific case I should choose "guest vocal"

The other question I don't know but my not so world famous mix friend is 
always moaning about the number of edits he had to do  for a mix or song 
(on turntable, computer, tape recorder or on his other shiny buttons) So 
edited by.....

Fred(576)

* (why I didn't add this will always be a question, perhaps because it 
is the only bootleg in out collection? No that's a bad and silly reason, 
let's make it a reality show and find out in 10 weeks.....)

Maurits Meulenbelt wrote
> Hello,
>
> I've recently run into two problems interpreting the style guidelines, 
> so I'm looking for some advice.
> 1. voiceinsideyou and I disagreed about the use of the "performed vocal" 
> AR and whether you should use "lead". I interpret "lead" as "not on the 
> background", but voiceinsideyou thinks the performance itself should be 
> substantial. The wiki doesn't offer a lot of help here. The discussion 
> is here: http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8788359 and the wiki 
> page on the AR here: http://wiki.musicbrainz.org/VocalRelationshipAttribute
> 2. Something else we didn't find a conclusion on is how to handle the 
> "cut by" credit. Traditionally in rap music, "cutting" is a production 
> job performed on turntables but in current days of Pro Tools wizards I 
> think it could also a be a pure computer job. So what AR to use? The 
> discussion is here: http://musicbrainz.org/show/edit/?editid=8850736
>
> Any fresh ideas on this?
>
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