‘S AWFUL!
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/microphone-fiends/Content?oid=936125
Microphone Fiends
A Rogues’ Gallery of Singers Who Need to STFU
by Dave Segal
1. The castrato heavy-metal wailer.
2. The death-metal Cookie Monster growler.
3. The Robert Smith emulator.
4. The well-off, suburban American punk who tries to sound like a circa 1977 English yob with clogged sinuses.
5. The unassuming white boy who squeezes out that constipated bovine yowl with squinty-eyed intensity.
6. Joanna Newsom.
7. The honky who adopts Jamaican patois.
8. The oleaginous male neo-soul/R&B singer who inevitably draws adjectives like “shmoove.”
9. The oleaginous female neo-soul/R&B singer who inevitably draws descriptors like “diva” and who overuses melisma.
10. The Ian Curtis–alike.
11. The Dirty South rapper with a mouthful of gravel.
12. Dave Segal.