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To: OddLane
Today's "singers" rely on excessive tremulo, vibrato, throwing in notes that shouldn't be there and just general self-indulgence it's downright annoying to listen to them.

Almost none are trained musicians who can control their voice. They just belt out, loudly, and they think it's singing.

No thanks.

54 posted on 11/03/2012 4:35:23 PM PDT by Lizavetta (You get what you tolerate)
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To: Lizavetta
Melisma is another plague.

It started with Whitney Houston, but has been aped by her much less talented epigones.

See Mariah Carey.

57 posted on 11/03/2012 4:38:40 PM PDT by OddLane (If Lionel Hutz and Guy Smiley had a lovechild together, his name would be "Mitt Romney." -KAJ)
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To: Lizavetta

“throwing in notes that shouldn’t be there”

Yeah; that “scatting” is disgusting. I absolutely cannot listen. Until Obama began showing up so often during election season, my mute button was wearing out mostly from the Jennifer Hudson ads for Weight Watchers. My uncle would say, “She sounds like a sick calf dying in a thunder shower.”


58 posted on 11/03/2012 4:47:58 PM PDT by MayflowerMadam
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