What music artists voice can you just not stand...

[MrsPeterVenkman]

For me, it has to be Robbie Williams.. I feel irate when I hear him on the radio. I will never ever like his voice.

I forget his name, he won some TV show some years back and released a song..
All I can hear is him caterwauling 'impossible, impossible' in an awful toneless way. Makes me shudder he got even a modicum of popularity, truly awful

Sam smith. He just sounds like he’s whining.
The woman who sings dance monkey, don’t know who it is. She doesn’t sound like she’s pronouncing words properly and it irritates me. Then it irritates me more that the song is so catchy.

Macy Gray

Can't listen to any of her songs

Justin Bieber - won't listen to any of their songs.

Nick Knowles - no thanks.

@FrankiesCheeseTruckle

Beyoncé, Ariana Grande, Christina Aguilera - all lovely voices when they Sing normally but they have to do the whole histrionics and caterwauling thing which sounds like nails on a blackboard.

Yes and what is it with the stupid up and down hand movements when they warble? They're all guilty of it..so bloody irritating.

Kate Bush!!!
Rod Stewart
Lily Allan

Bob Dylan
Tom Waits

My DH likes both. Tom Waits, in particular sounds like some drunken old karaoke singer. Thankfully he isn't played on the radio v much.

Obviously going back a bit now, but Cilla Black's voice was strong, powerful, in-tune.... and yet really horrible.

I always remember a comment on an old Radio 4 comedy-music show where a musical impressionist was introduced as able to sound 'so much like Cilla that even Cilla herself walked in once, heard her and asked "What's that dreadful noise?" '

Bob Dylan's voice is also truly horrendous. I still can't believe that, in a band that included Roy Orbison, Jeff Lynne and George Harrison, there were occasions where it was decided that Bob was the best man to sing the next bit. Brilliant songwriter, but so was Jim Steinman - and Jim, unlike Bob, had quite a decent voice; yet still usually bowed out of the singing in favour of other artists with outstanding voices.

@MrsPeterVenkman

Buddy Clyro is my favourite one so far 😊😊

Fat fingers! Biffy, Biffy!

Whoever just reminded me that Macy Grey exists, thanks for that, I can't get her awful grating voice out of my head now 😂

Kelly Jones.

Simon LeBon. His straining in “Wild Boys” sends me into a rage.

And Billie Holliday. I used to love her but then pitch-perfect DC pointed out that she slides up to every note. Now she’s lost to me…

I see that I x-posted with others re Bob Dylan!

Oh and Mariah Carey - shrieky
George Ezra - monotone and boring

Sam Smith. Soooo whiney

There are so many singers that drop their larynx to try and sound more alto/rich and it sounds fucking dreadful. Adele and Paloma Faith both do it. Just sounds forced and stupid.

@WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll oh god, Cilla singing Surprise Surprise every week to close the show... it was bloody awful. I can remember doing impressions of her in the playground with my fellow 6 year olds and saying "No, you need to sound more donkey" to a friend who wasn't quite nailing it.

I also have an intense dislike of Robbie bloody Williams, as I always refer to him as.

Adele
Ed Sheeran
Timmy Mallett

Yes to Sam Smith whining!
Chris Martin- I would like Coldplay much more if they had another singer, when they dueted with Rhiana i loved all her bits!

Adele
Coldplay
Scissor sisters
Lily Allen
Any manufactured girl/boy band
Any singer who takes a good song and turns it to whiny mush eg Born to be wild on an advert last year. Sacrilege.

Macy Gray

Yes, I don't find her voice the most pleasant either. However, I do like that bit in 'Still' where she momentarily turns into a blunt-speaking Yorkshirewoman at a market stall, horrified at the prices and declaring something in a strong local accent as 'much too much'

Ellie Goulding sounds like she is have hiccups whilst whispering.

I agree with Jane McDonald. My guilty pleasure is watching her cruising show, but as soon as she does her cheesy singing I switch over.

Sam Smith is just awful in every possible way.

Any singer that sings in the babyish, breathy "bananis and avocadis" voice (google the phrase and you'll never unhear it)

Ellie Goulding is a bad one for that.

"En' we're gunna let it buwrn buwrn burwn oh"

"wheeyyyyey don't yewww bee the arteeeest and meek meee out of cleeyy"

Beyonce! Sometimes she sounds like a warbling sheep. Really grates on me.