It’s now October 2025. I’m wondering if & hoping that this singing style is now dead. However a track just came up on my Spotify by Aisha Badru, recorded in 2018 on album Pendulum. Good lyrics & melody, ruined for me by the baby frog breathy vocal affectation. I’m Australian. The very successful Sarah Blasko was big in promoting this stupid vocal style at the beginning of her career. The weird thing is, when we first heard it, this was new & we mistook it for interesting and good. Then suddenly every indie artist was sort of gargling, shinging “esh” instead of “s”, and swallowing their raspy sound instead of singing, while pronouncing everything in a new dialect like a cross between Cockney, someting-not-quite-Aussie, Derry Ireland, and that very sultry girl who teams up with Wolverine after his cage fight early in the first XMen movie. WTF? The novelty wore off pretty quickly. Also the excruciatingly annoying Julia Stone was an early offender (as in Angus & Julia Stone) ; I’m guessing her early recordings were made in a Steiner kindergarten in Byron Bay, so perhaps some forgiveness is in order. Though actually I can’t. Those references to Greenday, Joni Mitchell, CSNY, & Hip Singing are off track here. The Hip Singing YouTube clip was really great, but it describes the Adele Pseudo Soul Style, not the IrishAusRuralUSABreathyBabyThroatyWaif sound