No, just that very raspy labored style of singing by female vocalists nowadays.
I don3 know what she usually sounds like. I’m guessing if she was drunk she was probably more breathless and raspy than usual. A combination of nerves, trying to find the notes where she usually does, and doesn’t have the control. Alcohol can really mess up both control and can physically affect the vocal chords.
I wasn’t aware of modern singers doing this. I hear more of the ornamentation or the baby voice. I hate both. Would you share examples of singers who are raspy etc.? I’m curious. I avoid a lot of pop music because of baby voice and ornamentation. I may be missing something.
I put a link to a video of her first hit song upthread.
Since it was CPAC, it served the attendees right.
You are absolutely right!
I couldn’t listen last night, Hubster had just come to bed.
She isn’t bad at all, though I don’t like county music. She did have a couple good notes in the anthem, but over all it was a mess. It’s hard to tell how big her range is from that song. I like to think if she’d neen sober she could have pulled the anthem off. She had to have practiced if if just in the shower or around the house.
The husky voice? I don’t think it’s .style, but I really don’t lnow.
It’s become a bit of a cottage industry and an accepted leach on the experience. Akin to soda machines in Elementary Schools.
I just wish they’d stop God Bless America as part of the 7th inning stretch. And they expect you to stand. It’s not the mfing national anthem!
They expect you to stand because its the Stretch, not because of what they’re playing.
Then why do people remove their caps?
There are soda machines in grade schools? Good lord.
Because they’re idiots?
There used to be rules that you couldn’t get funding for the reduced-cost lunches program if there were junk-food (including pop) vending machines accessible to the students. I don’t know what happened to that.
Back on topic, I think that this was just a perfect storm of awful singing. We have a singer who…
1: Was drunk.
2: Relies on autotune
3: the autotune didn’t work right, or at all (don’t know the precise details, here), and
4: Was, like many National Anthem singers, trying to add way too much ornamentation to an already-difficult song.
Any one of those would have resulted in a subpar performance. But put all four together…
That’s not nearly as universal as the Star-Spangled Banner during the stretch; what’s most commonly played is “Take Me Out to the Ball Game.”
And this. People stand for “Take Me Out to the Ball Game,” too.
Incorrect, at least at the games I’ve been to.
The PA says “please stand for God Bless America”. or words to that effect.
I usually go buy a hot dog. Maybe some peanuts or crack er jacks, and then before the bottom I usually get back.
At the Mariner games they do both on Sunday afternoon. I always complain loudly in the survey they send me after every game. They don’t seem to care.
They do care, but what they care about is this, as I noted earlier regarding playing the Star-Spangled Banner:
A few fans annoyed about “God Bless America” being played during the 7th inning stretch is a minor issue; the team getting dragged on social media for ending a patriotic tradition is a bigger issue. Once a team starts doing a patriotic thing like this, it’s pretty much impossible to stop doing it.
I’ve experienced the same.
Interesting article here:
Why stand for ‘God Bless America’? (phillyburbs.com)
A few evenings ago while watching the broadcast of baseball’s All-Star Game from Cincinnati’s Great American Ballpark, I was somewhat surprised by the announcement booming over the stadium’s public-address system.
The fans were being informed the song “God Bless America” would be sung during the seventh-inning stretch and they were being instructed to stand, remove their hats and face the American flag.
sweet caroline is played as well…
By the Red Sox, though they apparently play it during the middle of the eighth inning, not for the seventh-inning stretch.