Vocal range is extremely overrated, and I am a bit tired of people confusing great vocalists with great artists or using a good voice to say the music has any quality.
Mariah Carey, Christina Aguilera and probably tons of modern disposable pop stars have a great voice. Not only does it not help their songs, it often makes them unbearable because rhythm and catchiness you look for in pop is completely ruined by screeching and vocal highs and lows.
Strong voices might be more suitable for other genres (like metal or obviously opera) but in the end it wont make a bad song sound good.
A good "artist" is a creator. Many poor vocalists are great artists because they wrote great songs. Sometimes the poor voice became iconic and made them unique. So someone who just has a good range and sings what people give to them simply isn't at all impressive to me.
I think the nail in the coffin were all the talent shows in the last 10-15 years. They really showed how good voices are dime in a dozen. At first people would share these videos, a girl would sing "I will always love you" and make Simon Cowell cry or whatever after we watch him make 50 people suicidal, then the gimmick wore old. So many people who can sing Whitney and Mariah well, but if they have no one managing them and getting them good songs to sign, there goes art.
I'm even sick of people defending classic bands with really exceptional vocalists like Queen from those who dislike the music by talking about Mercury's voice. If someone doesnt like his music and doesnt like him as an artist (at least he certainly is an artist), his voice is the least important thing that would make a difference.
Submitted December 17, 2018 at 09:05PM by MansonsDaughter https://ift.tt/2QB0xeR
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