AIBU to hate this singing 'style'?

[Albatross454]

Hello everybody. My dd, who is fifteen, loves music. She listens to a lot of pop singers, like Ariana Grande, Billie Ellish etc. She often listens to a lot of song 'covers' on youtube, which is where teens sing their favourite songs in their own style. I personally think it's sweet, but a lot of these teens use this strange style where they mispronounce the words! soit af loik thess. It really makes me angry for some reason. I seem to have an irrational hate of it. One singer that she listens to is called Jessie Reyez. Bloody hell! She's a talented girl but there really is no reason to sing like that... She sounds like she's screeching the words while mispronouncing everything.. Is it just me who gets annoyed by this?

soit af loik thess

Yes!!!!!! Yanbu. I fucking HATE it. A few male singers do it too. Ed sheeran is one of the twats. I think they think they sound folksy.

@positivevibes she went through and Ed sheeran phase last year! God, his voice annoys me. It sounds so weak and boring.

PubSinger 2019

I'm with you.
Sing with a range of accents and embrace it, but please please please fuck off with the whiny breathy half pronouncing words thing.

It's all a bit "look at me I'm so quirky and friendly but a little bit sexy too". It's fake and put on and shows zero vocal talent.

It's one of many things that irrationally annoys me.

Yes! There also seems to be a new trend of inserting glottal stops wherever they damn well feel like it. I think it started with Sam Smith's Money On My Mind, which has the line "I do it for the 'uv". And all the covers use the same pronunciation. Argh.

Oh gosh that’s horrible. Sounds like Jessie Reyez has swallowed a yoghurt pot which has wedged in her throat, and she is sort of trying to sing around it.

Just watched a video of Billie Ellish without autotune... She doesn't normally sing like this in her songs:

. She's so talented for a seventeen year old but moybee its en the gutta doesn't sound nice Wish people could just sing normally.
I also used to like Ariana Grande until she started swearing Her voice is so powerful and she has a lovely range and swearing just makes it sound trashy...

@lolasmiles it makes me laugh how they think it sounds unique

Aaargh, I hate this too. I heard a song a while back and the singer, male, sings moyving oyyn instead of just saying 'moving on', Don't know where he got the rogue y's from but it pisses me right off! Literally no one pronounces those words in that way.

Sounds really fake and forced.

@LizzieVereker she does! like she needs to clear her throat

Oh god. Sam Smith. I cannot understandhalf of what he says. His voive and pronunciation is horrible.

soit af loik thess.

I had a good belly laugh at this. I knew exactly what you meant without knowing what those artists sound like. And yes, is annoying because there are too many imitators of this style. It if was just one person it would be so bad.

To be fair to Sam Smith, I've just listened back to that track and I think some of it is down to the editing, but that hasn't stopped people faithfully reproducing it in cover versions.

"ShirleyPhallus

These breathy, whispery, folksie acoustic versions of previously pretty good rock songs drive me crackers"
This is one of my pet peeves at the moment. Dh loves them. They're always playing a guitar too

You can tell effwy botty
Vis is your song

*These breathy, whispery, folksie acoustic versions of previously pretty good rock songs drive me crackers

Scott Mills did a whole section on it a while ago*

Yes! Usually done in Christmas ads!

Whar else has there been? I love to hate them

@stealthpolarbear They are! Always with messy hair too, for some reason. Do they really think it makes them unique? Can't they see (or hear) that everybody else is doing it?

And actually I'd add Johnny cash's hurt to that although I appreciate his voice I far from whispery. He ruined that song but he gets all the credit.
I'll take myself off the thread... Don't need to be told

@origamiunicorn like that apple advert last christmas with billie ellish.

If it is not Chris Stapleton singing Tennessee whisky then I don’t want to listen to it.

And actually I'd add Johnny cash's hurt to that

Nooo! Johnny Cash was a genius and that song was pure emotion. There are decades of life experience in that song.

Haha my friends call it singing in cursive lots of vocal fry, trying to sound indie when they're actually good singers without the inflections

With his decades of experience why didn't he write his own bloody song
Have you seen trent reznor sing it?

@loveyou3000 A lot of them could sound wonderful if they didn't sing in cursive