Ben Barnes covers Peter Gabriel’s Sledgehammer

Because he’s an ACTOR.

This song requires horns.

He doesn't really know what the song is about, does he?

He's singing the words but nothing is connecting him to the song.

you've heard of method actors, he's singer version. He's trying to emote it. He's having fun, OP. He might have cofnused the space for his shower.

but I'd agree, he's too disconnected from ithe song.

It seems r3 he really doesn't connect to any song. I went thru and watched others from the set, he improves slightly but it's the same disconnect.

He's very flamboyant (as in flashy) in his vocal stylings... but it's all over the place.

I don't even think getting firm music direction would help. I don't want to say he's bad (horrible, horrible, horrible.) but it seems like he's extending himself far outside of his own reach. And my honest thought is he needs singing lessons and to work his way up to singing with a band. . . and probably not that one. They're overshadowing his tonal quality and he's coming off flat.

^ the problem follows to multiple songs... he's not as bad with just just a keyboard. But he runs into the problem, again, where his voice is weaker than the keyboard. I have to wonder if he's able to hear himself or if he relies on the music. neosoul seems to be his favored genre but there's a reason why male neosoul singers are far and few. What makes it bad isn't his voice. He has a nice voice but his control is just lacking. He's overpowed by the music and just a mess everywhere else. Which makes it worse than being an outright bad singer because a bad singer can can improve. . . his audience seems to be made up with people that worship him as an actor. so, he's likely to be deluded and continue perfecting his bad habits.

He sucks.

I don’t want to watch someone singing a song making faces like they are dropping a chipotle-sized turd.

Fruhuhuhuit!

he seems disconnected because he’s singing about 😺 when he really wanted to be singing about 🍆

[quote] It’s a decent cover

It absolutely the fuck is not.

He needn't have bothered.

Back in the day Joe Cocker would have epileptic fits when he sang. Perhaps Ben Barnes is trying to channel him

John Mayer makes stupid faces when he plays the guitar too.

That was horrendous.

[quote] singing a song making faces like they are dropping a chipotle-sized turd.

He thinks that's what "The Blues" is all about.

He didn't suffer the agony of picking cotton so he mimics that suffering by re-enacting a very painful bowel movement.

He would be great on Broadway where he has a script to dramatize

He's technically quite proficient, but there's very little personality in his delivery. It's all in the face, rather than in the voice.

The second place looking sister from HAIM also makes stupid faces while playing bass, and leans into it.

He’s enjoying the fuck out of three good tricks - none would survive nightly abuse.

Also, Peter Gabriel used more of those notes in a higher octave. He had a distinctive call that begs for mimicry, so I’m not offended.

I do believe 82.3% of gay vocalists (under the age of 40) could perform this song as well or better.

[quote] He's technically quite proficient

Compared to what? He's average in every respect. Messy uninspired runs, runaway uncontrolled vibrato, goes flat pretty regularly, seems to have no idea what he's singing about. He's beyond average. Peter Gabriel has a huge powerful range of which he has a great deal of control; Benny's not even holding a candle here.

I wanna fuck the keyboardist; I don't give a shit about the cover.

Great song. Awful attempt at a cover. Weirdly flat and does not connect in a single way.

Agreed. It was also weirdly sexless and missing all of the playful raunch of the original.