Why is it that when r&b girls make ballads about being driven out of their minds because their boy has left them the result is 99% CLASSIQUE, but when emo boys do it it's 100% DUD? Apart from all the obv reasons, eg the girls can sing, the girls are not pathetic scum &c &c.
This possibly deserves it's own thread (and may be short-cutting to the punchline to the The Lex experience), but please name five actual male voices that you enjoy.
to be fair to lex's obsession with singing voices, i noticed ages ago that singing style can put me off a band before i notice how good their songs are OTHERwise.
like a lot of ppl, i JUST CAN'T STICK that warbling "soul" singing style. the same can be said of ppl like him out of muse who tries for the vocal acrobaits bollix.
when i did a singing course once, one week the class leader used some awful recent ( <2 years) cover version done by some r&b band (and i mean someone good, someone i like on other songs) and the entire class hated it. we'd lapped up pretty much every other song and singing style to that point (including Walk on By, and Ribbons in the Sky - Stevie Wonder) and nothing had irked us all quite so much.
Sometimes 'We Belong Together' is played on a continuous loop in the changing rooms at my gym. Just that one song, OVER AND OVER AGAIN. This never happens with any other song, and I find it baffling.
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Oh baby, this is too deep, too deep
Date: 2006-06-21 02:05 pm (UTC)Re: Oh baby, this is too deep, too deep
Date: 2006-06-21 02:06 pm (UTC)Re: Oh baby, this is too deep, too deep
Date: 2006-06-21 02:10 pm (UTC)Re: Oh baby, this is too deep, too deep
Date: 2006-06-21 02:14 pm (UTC)Neil Tennant
Justin Timberlake
Usher
Will Young
Tom Waits
Re: Oh baby, this is too deep, too deep
Date: 2006-06-21 03:39 pm (UTC)like a lot of ppl, i JUST CAN'T STICK that warbling "soul" singing style. the same can be said of ppl like him out of muse who tries for the vocal acrobaits bollix.
and i'm no less a poptimist for it.
Re: Oh baby, this is too deep, too deep
Date: 2006-06-21 03:43 pm (UTC)Re: Oh baby, this is too deep, too deep
Date: 2007-12-04 12:35 pm (UTC)