I like a lot of the waify stuff, but IMO it only works if the singer stays in that mode throughout the song (and, preferably, the album).
Oh, wow. I hate that commercial, and find the shorthaired girl to be not very attractive. You may be right about the target market, though, as I have never owned an iphone, ipad, ipod, mac or any other Apple product. The song itself is ok, I guess, but nothing I would ever listen to.
I can recognize that her face deviates in some ways from what is considered conventionally attractive (bit of a “jolie-laide” deal), although it would be hard to fault her body. But it’s all part of her hipster charm. Her style is on point too.
Naw, she’s pretty darn pretty.
I agree of course, but you don’t see how she deviates from a certain set of beauty standards? Think of Cobie Smulders or Gisele Bundchen.
You mean she has very short hair? Yes. That I see. But it astounds me that people can’t see the prettiness because of the hair (judging by the Youtube comments I’ve seen on that commercial.) I mean, she is very attractive by any measure, I would think. (I don’t know who the people you are referencing are, but I assume more traditional feminine looks.)
No, I mean her face (although there are people who can’t find shorthaired women attractive, which is nearly the opposite of me). It’s a bit different but she carries it off.
Oh, I actually didn’t notice the face being all that odd or different to me. She has one of those “cute” faces.
It’s incredibly annoying, like most pop singers, just in a different way. Here’s an instructional video I thought was a joke, but it’s not. So obnoxious.
I’ve been trying to find a word or term that describes this truly awful style of singing. That way, I can say something like, “Hey, the xxxxx style of singing really, really sucks, don’t you agree?” I found this thread today and joined the forum just because of this very subject. Many thanks for everyone’s analysis and comments.
Huh, if this is accurate the “hip” sound has evolved to something more full-throated and melismatic, akin to Lorde—as most of what she sang did not sound like the “waifs” we have been talking about.
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Welcome to the fight against singing ignorance!
I’ll take this style over Mariah Carey and her ilk any day.
I think the hip sound is more R and B than indie.
There is one out there right now, an indie college age sounding male white singer, whose voice goes “up, up” at the last line. OMG. It does soften my fear of death though.
Agreed!
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I have no idea how I missed this thread - but for some reason, Spotify has decided I like this and nearly every song on the “Discover Weekly” playlist is in that really, really, really awful style. (Most of the rest are in the overly high Tori Amos style. Which is annoying in a different way. Spotify must hate me)
It makes you want make them sit in a tiny room and listen to each other until they learn to sing in a real voice or promise never to sing again. Either is fine.
This style of singing is known as “hip singing” and it’s a disastrous, ongoing ebola-like epidemic! I believe the origin of this style is rooted in an attempt to hijack the singing style of Billie Holiday.
It appears that patient zero might be Cat Power, who’s been on the scene since the mid-90s. Somehow this virus laid dormant until the second decade of the 2000s. Interestingly, there is a co-morbid disease called vocal fry, that has reached the same epidemic proportions.
Millennials seem to be the demographic most susceptible to these terrible diseases. They appear to have some kind of personality defect that leaves them vulnerable to monkey-see monkey-do behavior.
In case anyone is still unclear as to the exact properties of the hip-sing style, here is a video that exactly nails it:
You’ve never actually listened to Cat Power, then?
That’s a pretty good breakdown of this annoying style.
And welcome to the SDMB!
Is wearing a weird pair of glasses part of hip singing?