Breathless Female Vocalists
Posted: Sun Jan 25, 2015 4:57 pm
This is probably very sexist of my and I'm sure someone will point out that this is not only a female thing, but this pause thing that's in many songs over the past few years, you know the thing, singing breathlessly close to the mike and sticking a pause into a trailing vowel.
You must have hear it: (Sotto Voce) 'I'll always miss yuouoo[pause]u'
I don't know if people are trained to do it or whether people are copying one another and I know it's supposed to represent deeply felt emotion, but it always sounds to me like they've misread the length of the note or turned the page to discover they should have sustained or they've nearly run out of breath. I wish they'd stop!
You must have hear it: (Sotto Voce) 'I'll always miss yuouoo[pause]u'
I don't know if people are trained to do it or whether people are copying one another and I know it's supposed to represent deeply felt emotion, but it always sounds to me like they've misread the length of the note or turned the page to discover they should have sustained or they've nearly run out of breath. I wish they'd stop!