# So.....is this guy a good singer or not? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [July 26, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274 "2007-07-26T19:41:13Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 7:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/1 "2007-07-26T19:41:13Z")
What’s going on with this [guy](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EwTZ2xpQwpA)? Here’s another [one](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u_aY7HZvFpQ). I can’t stand the style, but is he technically a good singer? ---
**Author:** ![lowbrass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dc4da7/32.png) [@lowbrass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lowbrass)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 8:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/2 "2007-07-26T20:25:17Z")
Well he sings in tune and his tone and phrasing are decent. But it sounds like he’s not really in his natural range. He’s in Barry White or Isaac Hayes territory but he doesn’t have the resonance and depth of sound that make it interesting. And his “Chocolate Rain” song is awfully repetitive. I kept waiting for something different to happen, and it never did. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/3 "2007-07-26T20:39:58Z")
Personally, I don’t care for his phrasing. It sounds a bit unnatural and calculated to me, like somebody who is trying way to hard to hit everything exactly right at the right time. It doesn’t have that natural, carefree feel great singers have. He’s not horrifically out of tune or anything, but his singing just doesn’t sound particularly musical to my ears. It’s about as soulful as the sequenced backing track. ---
**Author:** ![lowbrass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/dc4da7/32.png) [@lowbrass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lowbrass)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/4 "2007-07-26T20:45:59Z")
[QUOTE=pulykamell] Personally, I don’t care for his phrasing. It sounds a bit unnatural and calculated to me, like somebody who is trying way to hard to hit everything exactly right at the right time. It doesn’t have that natural, carefree feel great singers have. [/QUOTE] I agree. It’s not _wrong_, but there’s nothing musically interesting about it. It sounds stilted. ---
**Author:** ![Liberal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/848f3c/32.png) [@Liberal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Liberal)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 9:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/5 "2007-07-26T21:41:26Z")
Reminds me of Zappa. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 9:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/6 "2007-07-26T21:49:49Z")
I think he has some potential, once he gets older and maybe loosens up a little so he doesn’t sound so robotic. I think he could be pretty good with a lot more musical experience. He looks really young. ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/7 "2007-07-26T21:53:30Z")
[QUOTE=pool] I think he has some potential, once he gets older and maybe loosens up a little so he doesn’t sound so robotic. I think he could be pretty good with a lot more musical experience. He looks really young. [/QUOTE] He’s 25 according to his profile. ---
**Author:** ![Ogre](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/ecb155/32.png) [@Ogre](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ogre)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/8 "2007-07-26T22:03:11Z")
Chocolate Rain" - An eternal masterpiece of awful, cheesy music. ---
**Author:** ![pool](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pool/32/4152_2.png) [@pool](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pool)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 10:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/9 "2007-07-26T22:03:31Z")
> [@](#): > > Originally posted by **pulykamell** > He’s 25 according to his profile. Well I guess that blows my theory out of the water. ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 10:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/10 "2007-07-26T22:07:46Z")
I don’t feel qualified to comment on his singing abilities, but I did laugh pretty hard through most of “Chocolate Rain.” ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 10:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/11 "2007-07-26T22:08:04Z")
Sounded pretty awful to me. (Unless the OP is really the singer, trying to fish for honest compliments, in which case it was really… unique! Shows a lot of potential! Keep working at it!) Worse, I now have “CHOC-olate _RAAAAAAAAIN!_” going through my head, even though I only listened to 30 seconds or so. Curse it. ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [July 26, 2007, 10:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/12 "2007-07-26T22:10:52Z")
Although I will admit that it’s one of the catchier songs about diarrhea I’ve heard. ---
**Author:** ![11811](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/1/9d8465/32.png) [@11811](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/11811)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 12:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/13 "2007-07-27T00:56:35Z")
[QUOTE=pulykamell] Personally, I don’t care for his phrasing. It sounds a bit unnatural and calculated to me, like somebody who is trying way to hard to hit everything exactly right at the right time. [/QUOTE] Agreed that he’s overenunciating. He may come from a choir background. I remember in junior high chorus and also in church choir having the enunciation emphasized. I think it matters more when a group of singers are singing the same thing. All by your lonesome, it’s too wierd. ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/14 "2007-07-27T01:18:34Z")
😃😃😃😃 THAT WAS BRILLIANT!!! It was a joke right? Seriously, am I an asshole for laughing really, really hard at this? Okay, I only watched the first one and have a few observations: -Loved the long shot of the awesome keyboard work -What was that song about? Really. “dirty secrets of economy”, “flipping cars in France the other day”? -You know how sometimes you watch something that is hilarious at first, but then it keeps going and isn’t funny anymore…then it goes on for another several minutes and becomes hilarious all over again because of its absurd length. It did that. A few times. I am so excited to see the other video now! ---
**Author:** ![pulykamell](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pulykamell/32/3166_2.png) [@pulykamell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pulykamell)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 1:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/15 "2007-07-27T01:25:31Z")
I hate to admit it (and for all I know I may have the ethnicity wrong) but I couldn’t help but [think of this sketch](http://youtube.com/watch?v=UJlmuCOxaqE) when I saw that video. ---
**Author:** ![Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/54ee81/32.png) [@Kneepants\_Erasmus\_the\_Humanist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kneepants_Erasmus_the_Humanist)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 1:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/16 "2007-07-27T01:26:48Z")
Oh god. I watched the other one. He \*is \* serious, isn’t he? And I laughed all the way through it as well. He had some problems staying in tune, eh? Oh, and if that was the OP…um…I was laughing about something else. Um. Good job. 🙂 Yeah. _snerk_ That was one great joke, **11811** …about something…_completely_ unrelated to this. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![BoBettie](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/4af34b/32.png) [@BoBettie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BoBettie)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/17 "2007-07-27T03:44:54Z")
OK, the original song of Chocolate Rain made me kind of laugh, this this remix of it by DARTH VADAR made me pee my pants laughing. I beg you to watch. [![](https://img.youtube.com/vi/_gDGXI2ZjGE/hqdefault.jpg "Chocolate Rain - Darth Vader remix") ](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_gDGXI2ZjGE) (I found it by googling that term. I thought maybe Chocolate Rain was some phenomenon I just had never heard of and was missing out.) ---
**Author:** ![Shamozzle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/9f8e36/32.png) [@Shamozzle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shamozzle)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/18 "2007-07-27T04:36:44Z")
[QUOTE=Vinyl Turnip] Sounded pretty awful to me. (Unless the OP is really the singer, trying to fish for honest compliments, in which case it was really… unique! Shows a lot of potential! Keep working at it!) Worse, I now have “CHOC-olate _RAAAAAAAAIN!_” going through my head, even though I only listened to 30 seconds or so. Curse it. [/QUOTE] Good God, no, that’s not me, lol. That first clip is emerging as the new “Rickroll” over on the Warcraft forums. Don’t know what a Rickroll is? Here you [go](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0). You’ve just been Rickrolled OMGROFLMAOLAWLSWTFPWNED (as they say over in WoWLand) ---
**Author:** ![some\_white\_dude](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b487fb/32.png) [@some\_white\_dude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/some_white_dude)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/19 "2007-07-27T05:17:06Z")
[QUOTE=Kneepants Erasmus, the Humanist] -You know how sometimes you watch something that is hilarious at first, but then it keeps going and isn’t funny anymore…then it goes on for another several minutes and becomes hilarious all over again because of its absurd length. It did that. A few times. [/QUOTE] That’s it. It’s the Sideshow Bob rake scene of YouTube videos. ---
**Author:** ![Otto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/bbe5ce/32.png) [@Otto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Otto)\ **Post date:** [July 27, 2007, 5:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274/20 "2007-07-27T05:26:34Z")
No, he is not a good singer. Good singers have some idea of thei vocal range and the songs they can sing without sounding like complete dipshits. Since this guy sounds like a complete dipshit (actual singers don’t sound like Sideshow Mel) he is not a good singer. [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/so-is-this-guy-a-good-singer-or-not/413274.md?page=2)