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Artists who sing in an affected way

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ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 03/02/2023 23:26

This is a different generation to the warbling and wailing of Whitney and Mariah back in the day.

Mimi Webb currently pouting and badly enunciating her way through Red Flags 🚩on the Graham Norton Show.

Don't start me on Tom Grennan who sounds like an alien.

Paloma Faith sounds like she is pouting at the same time as she is singing.

Just sing, fgs!!!

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OppsUpsSide · 03/02/2023 23:30

Love Paloma Faith

Nightynightnight · 03/02/2023 23:32

Who do you think sings properly? I was just complaining about the same thing watching her on GN but it was more the actual song that I didn't like rather than her or her voice. It just sounded really samey. But I am quite old and the last album I bought was a Joni Mitchell.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 03/02/2023 23:33

Doja Cat, I thought I didn't like her songs but now I think it's because I don't like her voice.

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ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 03/02/2023 23:52

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 03/02/2023 23:33

Doja Cat, I thought I didn't like her songs but now I think it's because I don't like her voice.

Yes, she sounds mardy.

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afty · 03/02/2023 23:57

Liam Gallagher sings through a sneer ...

larkstar · 04/02/2023 00:09

This could be controversial - personally I think Miranda Sings is amazing.

Haters Back Off!
Changingplace · 04/02/2023 00:11

Billie Eilish, whispers/sings like she’s bored of her own songs.

TheShellBeach · 04/02/2023 00:22

This is why I can't bear to listen to pop singers.
Their voices aren't trained.

Doingmybest12 · 04/02/2023 00:32

The ones who sing is a child like sort of talking way , or the miserable men with moany voices. Very annoying!!

Thatcatisdrivingmenuts · 04/02/2023 05:51

Singing through the nose, and mid Atlantic accent style. Makes me shudder.

touterustome · 04/02/2023 05:54

TheShellBeach · 04/02/2023 00:22

This is why I can't bear to listen to pop singers.
Their voices aren't trained.

Yes it's this. No training. Some are worse than others but the ones who sing through their nose and don't enunciate are the worssst

Oblomov22 · 04/02/2023 06:30

Agree. Only a few can I tolerate.

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ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 04/02/2023 10:42

Doingmybest12 · 04/02/2023 00:32

The ones who sing is a child like sort of talking way , or the miserable men with moany voices. Very annoying!!

This is exactly it yes!

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ImJustMadAboutSaffron · 04/02/2023 10:44

That guy who called himself Passenger, Michael someone. Sounded like a five year old who was told he can't have any more Haribos.

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RenoDakota · 04/02/2023 10:45

Michael bloody Ball and his dreadful, exaggerated vibrato. I call him the warbling wanker (in my head).

Cocolapew · 04/02/2023 10:46

I always though Amy Winehouse did this.
Currently Adele and Beyonce.

PAFMO · 04/02/2023 10:53

I don't like those breathy semi-talking whingy women singers who sound like they should have a flower garland in their hair and be floating about barefoot looking for him that done her wrong. Give it some welly for god's sake.
I'd take Liam though. Snarling and in an orange cagoule. Oh yes.
There was a bloke on one of the Strictly shows. Never heard him before but had a real visceral euuuuuw at his voice. Nothing wrong with it. Just gave me the ick. I don't like George Ezra's voice either.

I speak as someone who would empty a shop on Christmas Eve the second I open my trap mind.

larkstar · 04/02/2023 11:34

I don't like that so many male singers in the pop world choose to emulate female pop vocalists who warble excessively around the melody. What I came to appreciate about Bowie was the way he would control when and how he injected real changes of colour into his lines - he was a master at this - it was never just one recognisable voice singing every line with the same voice - it beats me why so many opt for the warbling and so few work on the character, expression and colour aspects.

bluevalet · 04/02/2023 11:44

I always want to give Chris Martin some Sudafed 😂

cobblers123 · 04/02/2023 11:50

RenoDakota · 04/02/2023 10:45

Michael bloody Ball and his dreadful, exaggerated vibrato. I call him the warbling wanker (in my head).

He's been played on Radio 2 this week a fair bit and he's actually on right now singing Love Changes Everything.

I think he might have a new album out as I've heard his version of This Time The Girls is Going to Stay, an Elvis cover several times now😱

Giggorata · 04/02/2023 12:34

In pop, I always prefer it when singers either give it some welly or have that facility where they effortlessly fill the room with their voices.
That on top of basic stuff like being able to sing in tune, unenhanced, of course.
Women like Aretha Franklin, Mama Cass, Grace Slick, Annie Lennox, Sam Browne, Beth Hart. Men like Freddie Mercury and… no, there is no one like Freddie Mercury.
I also like men singers who have great blues voices, like Paul Rodgers, Jack Bruce and Robert Plant, gutsy and can roar and scream.(in tune)
An exception to this is David Gilmour, who has a pale blue voice but it is warm, melodic and full of emotion.

Who is out there to step into these shoes? I only hear electronically enhanced warbling, crooning, shouting, talking and whispering these days.

BlackAmericanoNoSugar · 04/02/2023 14:21

I never understood why Michael Ball did so much with Alfie Boe, the comparison really made him sound quite bad. Not that I'm a huge fan of Alfie's voice either.

I'm not sure that I would want all the pop singers to be professionally trained, I like a bit of quirk in a voice, it gives a song personality. In the same way as I wouldn't want all the actors to be giving a classically-trained, Shakespearean performance, it just wouldn't work for the vast majority of characters being played.

Mytholmroyd · 21/04/2023 22:40

Yeah me too - not impressed much with the current crop of pop singers although I don't agree it's the case that vocal training stops you having a quirky style - it just stops you singing badly through your nose, gives you more power and flexibility and stops you damaging your vocal chords etc.

I was gob smacked when I heard Lady Gaga doing the Sound of Music tribute to Julie Andrews at the Oscars a few years ago - she CAN sing!

I have a current crush on country and western singer Josh Turner - fab deep voice - he had to stop and take vocal lessons a few years ago because he had vocal chord damage - fine now!

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larkstar · 21/04/2023 22:53

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Bovrilla · 21/04/2023 23:00

Lady Gaga is so talented. Her album with Tony Bennett doing swing etc was fantastic. Such a versatile singer, it just oozes out of her.

I do miss George Michael, Freddie Mercury et al. I don't think George ever dang out of tune in his life. I do like Guy Garvey (Elbow), he also never hits a duff note, has a real emotion and depth to his voice. Not too early either!

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