We’ve recently added Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush’s song Don’t Give Up from PG’s So album to our choir repertoire. Bizarrely, aside from the tempo of the scored arrangement being weirdly high and the syncopation of the Gabriel parts as written not being quite right rhythmically, there’s also a very odd word printed on the score…affeinted…it’s in the line “never thought that I would be…”. It should say “affected” but it says “affeinted”.
The word on the original vinyl album lyric sheet, which I just dug out from our collection is “affected”, obviously.
That said, it does sound a bit like PG is almost singing affeinted, but I suspect it’s either a vocal affectation or a mixing artefact. These things happen when you process a recorded vocal. Once when I’d over-egged the EQ on one of my own vocal recordings it sounded like I had a lisp. It was easily reversed. Another time, it sounded like I was “short-tongued”, I’m not, it was a mixing artefact. And, yet another time, some listeners misinterpreted my singing the neologism “funktastic” with no “n” in the word! I definitely wasn’t.
Anyway, I think we in the choir have all corrected our scores ahead of any forthcoming gigs. Not sure if we have to do the hugging thing like Kate and Peter yet…