Weird! I don’t hear it at all. Maybe I feel as if she’s not singing but rapping? But she is singing, there are different notes. But I don’t hear it as bad singing, it’s just…MIA.
I also don’t know about “Louie, Louie.” I feel like that was proto-punk. I don’t expect any punk to sound in tune or intelligible. Actually if you go backwards from it into blues, I don’t expect guitar-driven blues to be intelligible either. Maybe “Louie, Louie” just throws us off because it comes during an era of crisp pop-rock.
It’s almost unfair referencing the Shaggs. I kind of like them, but, to this day, I still have no idea what to make of them. They’re certainly a cult favorite. Even Allmusic.com gives their one album 4 1/2 out of 5 stars.
How 'bout anything sung by James Young of Styx? Styx gets a lot of hate but Dennis DeYoung and Tommy Shaw are perfectly fine singers. James Young… not so much.
Here he is singing “Miss America.” This version was released on their Return to Paradise album. The studio version isn’t much better.
Y’all have mere runners-up at best. Behold the glory of The Sound Factory. Now granted they were Brazilian, but I don’t think switching to their native language would have improved things much.
Honestly, the only Bonnie Tyler song I can think of at the moment is “Total Eclipse of the Heart,” which distracts me so much with its freakin’ jingle bells that can’t really say for sure.
It’s so weird that you brought this up today. Taylor’s performance in this song came up on another message board I use, too. A contributor there called it “bored.”
This is what I came in to post. For years I thought she was just a terribly off-key little kid singing. I was with my Mom somewhere one time and that song came on and I said something about why didn’t they edit out that awful sounding kid. Mom looks at me and says, “You know that’s Yoko Ono, right?” I said that made it even worse!
…and when the singer came in too early after the solo, realised after a couple of words and stopped, and they kept it in! The drummer may have tried to cover it with a quick-thinking fill, but it still stands right out.
Yeah, she’s definitely … different. Never heard of her until your mention, but I kind of like Wikipedia’s very understated summary:
(Florence Foster Jenkins is one of the standard answers for “name the worst singer ever” much in the way William McGonagall is infamous for being the worst poet ever.)
I kind of like them, but, to this day, I still have no idea what to make of them. They’re certainly a cult favorite. Even 
