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Spin off: who are the least talented famous singers?

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WishinAndHopin · 15/12/2024 12:00

Mick Jagger: just shouts tunelessly. He can’t sing at all.

Generally a lot of men in bands, like the Gallagher brothers, Alex Turner, and the singers in the Kinks.

Chris Martin - he’s just an insipid whiner. There was an advert with a woman with a good voice singing while driving a big lorry. I thought “that’s a nice song” and realised that it was actually Yellow by Coldplay. I never even realised it was a decent song because he just sounds so horrendous.

Generally women are held to a much higher vocal standard, and are only ever considered respectable artists if they are also good singers. Men who can’t sing get away with it. But ti balance it here are two women:

Geri Halliwell: Posh gets shit on for her bad singing but at least she had a pleasant enough tone. Geri is far worse - flat as a pancake.

Taylor Swift: such a weak voice. Sounds like mediocre karaoke.

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Purplecatshopaholic · 15/12/2024 12:05

It’s hard to tell these days with all the tech wizardry employed to hide weak voices. Even singing ‘live’ is often not really live as us oldies know it, lol. It’s all about image, not the music. And I’m defo not a Swiftie, I just don’t get the hype there at all, but she’s an example of a great show/performance (according to the many, many people I know who inexplicably went to see her the other month).

UndeniablyGenX · 15/12/2024 12:04

Taylor Swift

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