David did a super job and I loved it!!!!

well mary j blige is on the today show right now.. and most of the song she is ~le gasp~ singing with her eyes closed!”

LOL, my thoughts exactly when I was watching it… and she sang it beautifully.

If you read the fansites, you see all sorts of ‘he looked right at MEEEEE’  accounts.

I’m pretty sure he looked at meeeeeeee several times at my concert… just saying. lol and the girls next to me…

Bravo, sanduskyday, forensic evidence, exhibition A! Even Adam Lambert (!!!) closes his eyes to convey his emotions when the song requires it!

David is singing a lot of emotional and very reverent songs for his Christmas Album, and he tries to express his deepest feelings, his faith and connect with our souls’ ¦ eyes are not required for the task and he accomplishes that gloriously!!!

Now, if Nick Jonas sang a pop song with eyes closed, it would be a problem’ ¦ by the way, David never closes his eyes when singing pop, more uptempo songs!

I also appreciate David’s honesty about not liking to hear his own voice. It doesn’t mean he doesn’t think he has a good voice, just that he doesn’t like to listen to himself. I don’t see how that is any different than when a famous actor says that they can’t stand to watch themselves on screen. They may be great actors, but just don’t like watching themselves.

One of the biggest names in music in the last century was Ella Fitzgerald, who spent 60 years in the business and is considered one of the greatest interpreters of song. She almost always sang with her eyes closed as she immersed herself in the music. If a singer feels the music, then I feel it. They can look me right in the eye the whole time, but if they are not feeling it then neither am I. Obviously YMMV.

It’s generalizing, but I think this might be a somewhat generational thing? Before, IMO, music went from interpreting a song to performance art. And whether you are at all a fan of Jazz, Blues or even some operatic music. Because many, many, many of the artists in those genres are closed-eye singers.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p9g-jDV5K3o&feature=related

It is a performance by Adam. One of his best IMHO.

Tomorrow, on Regis and Kelly, he is going to sing the song he wrote, Melodies of Christmas. I am going to be at work, so video-tape, please?

BTW, only idol fans mention about his eye closing. And I think actually his eye closing is the reason why he produces perfect and consistent pitch when he sings slow songs so that he can totally focus on his own sound. But hey, open or close, does it matter? He feels it, delivers his emotions through his voice and eventually audience feels it. One of today’s articles on this performance wrote that readers prepare kleenex when listening to the song. I think the writer felt his emotions too although his eyes were closed.

As long as he never loses that connection between his soul, the song and his audience.

Andrea bocelli is blind. He can’t make eye contact with his Audience, and it is a handicap for him. David is sighted. Eyes are expressive. He has the ability to consct even more with his audience. I’d enjoy watching him perform more on tv if he did.

Also, on the Today Show, David was seen by 3 to 4 million. In his recent Xmas tour he was seen by about 20 to 25,000. TV is the way to gain more fans faster. Great that his fans don’t give a hoot about his eyes. I just think it’s likely that I’m not the only person who would enjoy watching him up close more if he had his eyes open occasionally.