Nothing worse than the sound of the "trained" human voice. (except the muzzard call to prayer)
Irish tenors suck too.
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Oh, I can't resist this one... By far worse is the pop singer who swoops and slides to the high notes all through the song, camouflaging it as "style" in order to obscure the fact that he or she can't just hit the right notes on pitch without having this kind of annoying vocal running start.
17strings..
Re: your reply to RockLobster =
I could not agree with you more, 17strings. This phenomenon is what I was referring to, when speaking of SOME Country artists’ lousy phrasing. (Mind, I was not referring to ALL of them) You’ve simply described it better than I did.
But I would also be remiss if I did NOT reiterate my charge regarding singers who sing nasally.
Singing through the nose is simply not pretty. Nor is this technic welcome to ears far more accustomed to trained voices.. Sinatra had a trained voice. Most serious vocalists, even Jazz vocalists have trained voices. BUT some country singers truly need to go to the woodshed in regard to Training and PRACTICE.
And, that’s all I have to say on that subject, to end the Opera Slide. ;>)
You mean like Bing Crosby and Dean Martin....can't disagree. Although I don't hear a lot of "singing" in today's so-called "music"...just a bunch of robots, junior-high girls, whining castrati and jabbering murderers.
The 60s and 70s had some good pop vocalists, and some junk. Even the bubble-gum and disco crowd could sing...Judy Collins always sang flat.
Most of the MoTown, Soul and Blues people were and still are greats, probably from Gospel training in church. Much of that got lumped in with "pop".
When I'm in the car and turn on the radio, the last thing I want to hear is "music"...especially "all your favorite hits"!
(Sez who?)