Skip to main content

Singing Is for the Mainstream Now


 It seems that singing is uncool, and singers who know how to really sing are often categorized as "Mainstream" at this point in music/industry. I'm talking about singers who can really belt out notes.

It also seems what's regarded as more "real", soulful, "artistic" singing comes from singers who cant really sing, maybe even singers who seem to be merely whispering into the microphone while recording their Indie album. Or, even singers who sound decent in the studio, but horrible when performing for live audiences. Do I even know what I'm talking about? Yes. Yes I do. Check it...


Take these guys for example. The guy in the first video is "Dan McCaffert" from the 70's Scottish rock band Nazareth. In this song "Love Hurts" he's really singing, belting it out. That muthaf**ker says LOVE HURTS! And, you can tell he means it. In the second video is singer "Lou Gramm" from the 80's band Foreigner. He's another dude who could really really sing.






So what happened?

I think somewhere in the 90's around the time Nirvana came out people started to not sing all that great, and people applauded them for it. Perhaps people who weren't singers, the audience, could relate to it more because the now giant instrument store "Guitar Center" was making it easy for everyone to get a guitar and a 4-Track. So people who couldn't really sing increasingly liked songs that didn't sound so bad when they covered them (The whole "if you want to succeed have low expectations" thing).

There was one guy I remember who could sing very well, and he was part of the Grunge movement of the 90's, and that was Chris Cornell from the band Soundgarden. It's no-less a mystery as to what happened though, and my "Guitar Center" theory is just a theory. - Here are the two examples mentioned in this paragraph:






Also from this era. I say the guy from Alice in Chains, Layne Staley (Who's a good singer) started the whole thing where every male singer in rock music sang into the pallet of their mouth while mimicking an under-bite. As did Eddy Veder from the group Pearl Jam.






So WHAT HAPPENED??
This sh*t gets worse (concerning singing)...

Now we have singers like these below, and although their songs may be likable, they sing like they're tired, or like they've been smoking since age three, and they don't really SING, SING. First is (whisperer, lol) Samuel Beam, better known as Iron & Wine. And, second is Charlyn Marshall better known as Cat Power.





Now, don't go getting all pissed off at me and delete me from your facebook. I like Iron & Wine and Cat Power too, but I'm just making an observation about singing itself. And, I didn't even mention what I call "Whiny Punk" started by bands like Blink 182, but that's another story and I have sh*t to do. Peas.



www.goliathflores.com

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

School and Home School

  Oh my. I don't have time to write this. So it will be as follows:   1. What is school for? I think that Seth has a good grasp on this at the bottom, see [1] 2. There's an ongoing debate about homeschooling vs. public schooling. 3. I agree with most things about home schooling. Which is why I take the view that my kids are home schooled 5 days a week, from 3pm to 9pm, on the weekends, and all of their vacation time. 4. Home schooling should feel like art, it's enjoyable (largely), so don't worry about overloading the tone of "school" in it. 5. Everyone's situation is different: (a) Some of us have checks coming to us from the government that give us all day to do as we please. (b) Some of us have to work long hours every day to survive. (c) Some of us have a spouse that gives us all day to do with as we please. (d) Some of us are the spouse that gives the other all day to do as they please. etc. 6. Thus, our ideals aren't applicable to everyone. 7. Th...
Post a Comment
Read more

Is Your Government A Narcissist?

  First of all, I apologize. Writing is a craft that takes ample time to do well, but I live in time and society that necessitates swift communication. The two don't go well together. I'm a single father who also looks after his elderly father, so there will be some grammatical mistakes, as well as composition related ones. Please endure with me through a semi edited writing. UNO There's a reporter who's controversial Tucker Carlson. I couldn't tell you why he's controversial, I just know that he is by how people talk about him. I also heard that Tucker Carlson is on the "far right". In our ZANY society, if you identify as the opposing party, in this case that would be "the left", it is almost socially mandatory that an individual express negativity for that person. Because if you don't someone might look at you suspiciously. DOS There's a personality disorder call "Narcissist" . They come in a couple of flavors. Tucker Car...
Post a Comment
Read more

Does Art Necessitate Mental Unrest?

Music alone is not enough And being a film director is too much It's usually the case that there's nothing that I want to say badly enough to put myself through the labor. There was a time when I really wanted to say something, and I did. But, mental well being, in a way, quells the desire to express myself through art. Something about art has been about me not being seen enough, good enough, or just enough period. Feeling like enough kills the drive to express yourself in what David Bowie once called "such rarefied terms". I still make music, I still record music, almost never finish it, and share it with others even less. There's more to me than being a musician. I do have a love for it, but I need more. I always hated math, I've grown curious about it, and have gotten substantially better. The pandemic compelled me to become a roof salesman and to get my insurance adjusters license. I still laugh at that, but nothing is wasted. Transferable knowledge is tak...
Post a Comment
Read more