Thank you for vocally explaing you comments!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

@@rhughell Pleasure!

Actually I don't think this is the audio used on her album... note the odd tiny mistake - in this version the audio for Magic is dubbed in : kzfaq.info/get/bejne/ia2oY8ebvbq8gZ8.html

We did. The album version syncs right over it really, easy peasy, the other video is of the studio album version heard through that microphone I'd have to assume and is certainly to die for. I'd prefer that video, everyone deserves a microphone, like she said in a sense, people sing for the tools they are using, but I like that sometimes it's this one for my own sake.

Although the final version was based mostly on this 1st take, she did make a minor mistake with the lyrics, so a 2nd take was needed to fix that, but usually only 1 take is necessary for her. This song on her album, It's Magic" is my favorite, along with It's a Man's World. Both are extraordinary & the fact that she recorded it when she was 11yo is incomprehensible.

I go back and forth on whether this is phone mic or a feed from the board. I think I hear some proximity effects and breathing detail that would indicate we're hearing her voice through the studio mic, but I just can't tell for sure. One thing that's certain is that there are important differences in the bridge section between this take and the album vocal. There were definitely some overdubs, but most of this take survived to the final mix.

Not a camera _phone_ , I think. Just a video camera. Same kind of built-in mic, though, probably. (And, yes, the audio here is the ambient room sound picked up by the camera mic. You can hear the sound of the orchestra [military band] seeping in from the adjacent room.) AFAIR, when the device used by Mery has been visible in videos (including in TV segments), I think it has always [or almost always?] been a small consumer-grade video camera, not a cell phone. OTOH, when Sara is seen recording something, I think it has tended to be a cell phone. I haven't done a detailed analysis of this, though, so I could be "overstating" things. (Interestingly, in one video I recall, Sara starts out as the cameraperson but then gives the camera to Mery and begins to record with a cell phone.)

@@DonaldLancon Interesting! I think you may be right, Donald.

According to the CD liner notes (as well as a December 2017 _Aftenposten_ article), the album was recorded in November 2017 (reportedly in a mere two days), when Angelina was 11. Oh, and BTW, the NGT performance was recorded on 2014-02-07 (based on an article about one of the other contestants, as well as some other evidence), so she was already 8 for that one.

Hi David, much appreciated! We will be mending this on future videos :)

Noted! hopefully you like our newest setup :)