Do kid's today get born with more "special gifts" or is it's just the DnA...  XD
Angelina Jordan, 8 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrE_bI9BHR0

She has that wonderful Lady Day inflection in here voice. WOW

Soundblend
Do kid's today get born with more "special gifts" or is it's just the DnA...  XD
Angelina Jordan, 8 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrE_bI9BHR0

I don't think so.
 
HOWEVER, when you compare it to 50 years ago, and the media being so "small" and you did not hear, know, or had any idea that folks in South Africa also played music, not to mention Argentina or Papua New Guinea, it made the learning and understanding music a lot more difficult.
 
We didn't even have a RADIO in Brazil, and we came to the US in 1965! I had never seen a TV until we landed at Kennedy Airport!
 
Nowadays, you have your little cell phone, you have your icrapper, you have the tv, you have so much that seeing some folks catch on to music, or anything else is easier ... with one exception. None of them are learning instruments and in the end, the conventional "orchestra" as you and I know it, will die off and be a thing of the past!
 
Changes ... it's what it is about, no matter how good a guitar player you want to be!

Moshkiae has an excellent point. We learn about things we never knew in the past, because the rare has gone viral. 
 
Another issue is the push to push children in ways we did not do so much in the past. Children used to be used to feed the hogs and run the steam looms. Now they are expected to be beauty queens, opera stars, and mathematicians. That has expanded the knowledge of what some of them can be encouraged to do. When I was young nobody was throwing babies too young to stand into swimming pools to teach then to swim. Times change. Now you can be a failure before you get to middle school.

slartabartfast
Moshkiae has an excellent point. We learn about things we never knew in the past, because the rare has gone viral.
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Thanks.
 
My biggest concern, both here and at PA is the lack of understanding and conceptual ability to see the difference between yesterday and today (so to speak) and then think that things are the same.
 
We used to drive to LA to get the "new" and "imports" stuff, because it was not available anywhere else in the whole area. Today, you YT or whatever and there it is. Yesterday, no one would give a cahoot about the CHB because only you and your neighbors would hear it. Today, folks across the whole world have heard it, and even collaborated on it!
 
The media, has changed history ... be it for the better or worse. The arts are more visible. So are all the wars and skirmishes and jihads. In those days, you didn't even really know they existed! I keep telling folks that the late 60's was an immense cultural change the world over, but sadly, too many of us got caught in the advertising and the "greed is good" thing, and we forgot about anything else. And we don't understand that for a symphony to get to the US in the 1800's would have to be via a ship that took 25 days, and a person that could teach music, to a handful of folks, not a school! And no one else in the whole country would ever hear it because there was no orchestra ... only an imagination!
 
How times have changed!

slartabartfast
Now you can be a failure before you get to middle school.

I was a failure in middle school.
 
 
And it went down hill from there.

bapu
 
I was a failure in middle school.
 
 
And it went down hill from there.

lol, seems familiar, no wonder i cant get stuff right
and i thought i was the only one.

I was very surprised watching that video - usually whenever someone tells me "you gotta see this amazing child singer," they have that bland, shrink wrapped "dime a dozen" pop style down to a tee but I'm less than impressed. This kid however is in a class of her own, a rare display of soul. 

I don't know what to say. Actually I liked more the Gloomy Sunday (Billie Holiday).
She sounds thoroughly convincing, but somehow I can't avoid the impression of an imitator.
It's like an 8 years old acting the delivery of a baby. You can imitate the screams, but there's no baby.
 
Like this dutch girl singing opera in the Dutch talent.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8LsNJmwH2WA
 
Many specialists said she has possibly already damaged her voice, but nevertheless, what you hear is simply unbelievable. This one is easier for me to handle, because opera aria like this is somewhat pretencious/theatrical anyway.