Whitney Houston

[ivor4781]

is it just me or does anybody else think she had one god awful signing voice i have to turn right down the radio when she starts screeching and literally screaming the notes out,

[EcclesCake]

I think it would have been preferable had she been signing rather than singing......

;-)

[gingejbee]

Eccles...well spotted and well adapted !

[The Builder]

Never been forgiven for "Whitneying" all over that Dolly Parton tune in the 80s.

Actually, she had a great voice. It's just the way she used it :o(

I think this is the best, restrained thing she ever did..........

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kxZD0VQvfqU

[Old_Geezer]

I've not listened to her that much but her voice seems ok to me. Maybe you've just been watching "The Bodyguard" too much ?

[jamesnan]

I so agree with you, drives me mad!

[vulcan42]

I thought she had a good voice but as The Builder said, it was the way she used it. I've never been keen on singers who use six notes when the composer wrote one and I think she was one of the worst offenders.

[horseshoes]

I can't bear to listen to her.

[ivor4781]

never seen the film geezer why would with a singer i dont like in the female starring role i'm not a sadist.lol

[gingejbee]

....that'd be "masochist"....

[B00]

I'm no fan of Whitney's songs, however she was small fry compared to the queen warbler that is Mariah Carey, now she IS annoying!

[RandyMarsh]

i love whitney and Mariah

[Elina]

Ivor, I love her voice style.

[The Builder]

Randy .............. Triggs would never have admitted to that ;o)

[RandyMarsh]

Lol, he was far too uptight. :)

[237SJ]

I agree. She had a good voice but I don`t like her songs so I turn off the radio when she comes on. Likewise Beyonce.

[ivor4781]

gingebee
well shows what i know . :-)

[andy-hughes]

As a technical vocalist, Whitney Houston has few equals, but as advised, it is the use of the technique that betrayed her.

Her vocals were always a triumph of technique over feeling, of power over emotion.

The finest example of her lethal overkill is the gear change in I Will Always Love You – not present in either the original from Dolly Parton, or what is in my view the finest version, from Linda Ronstadt. Where Houston foghorns, apparently equating emotion with volume, Ronstadt’s voice weeps out of the speakers with barely withheld anguish. It is after all one of the greatest ‘lost love’ songs ever written, so to warble and trill and shriek all over it is to trample on the feeling and emotion it is deigned to communicate.

[soapnumpty]

I agree, a truly awful singer!

[paddywak]

I always thought of her as Wailing Whitney.