Mariah's chronic singing

[crisgal]

Is it me?
I've just heard a Mariah song on the radio. I can't STAND her awful voice.
I know she has millions of fans and I wondered..
am I hearing it different to everyone else? To me her voice sounds weak and and has an awful, whispery noise to it - but is that the sound that others find so appealing?

[andy-hughes]

I'm with you crisgal, I find her voice utterly without merit, emotion, feeling, or anything approaching appeal.

My firm belief is that there is a massive market - the majority in fact - of people who don;t really enjoy and appreciate music on any level of emotional interaction. They don't like anger, passion, feeling, a rush, a connection, with the sounds they hear and the artists who make them. They like the equivalent of elevator music - it has all the highs and lows smoothed away, all the rough edges removed, and preoduced as an amorphus mass that can be background on the radio, at a dinner party, what ever.

The majority buying public who like this kind of thing enjoy -

Whitney
Mariah
Buble
Young
X-factor winners

and so on.

There is nothing to get excited about, becaause there is nothing there, it's a ttriumph of style over content, but as i say, the market is massive, and well catered for.

For the rrest of us, there is masses of fine uplifting music to hear and get excited about, but obviously the all-pervading masses-pap inpacts on our lives from time to time.

I advocate deep breathing and a quick burst of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers to make yourself feel better.

[Robinia]

I can't stand her voice either....or the warbling Whitney

I do love Will Young though, one of the best people to come out of tv talent shows.

[B00]

Totally agree, I can't stand Mariah's screechy warbly voice either. I aknowledge that she does has a lovely singing voice when, on the rare occasions she actually sings normally, but as soon as she starts warbling she utterly ruins the whole effect.

Coupled with the fact she's an alledged diva makes her a really unpleasent person to see and hear.

[Mortartube]

I quite like her, but being a bloke I am probably swayed more by the way she looks than the way she sings. Her early stuff like "Emotion" showed a great voval range. I quite like some of the R n B stuff she has appeared on, which is odd, as generally B n B is not my sort of thing.

[ALTHEPAL]

Did you here her sing on the Michael Jackson tribute bash..............terrible!

[Gnawer]

Sorry im way too busy being lost in her beauty to notice her singing voice!

[andy-hughes]

I don;t think she's that attractive either.

In the same vein is Katie Melua, whose mind-watering beauty is matched only by the sheer torture of the banality of her recorded output.

"Eight million bicycles in Bejing" ... aaaaaarrrggghhhh!!!!

[Greedyfly]

I agree she is overrated and a tad skanky - yeah she reach a ridiculous high note but the doesnt mean we want to hear it!

People do love her though, each to their own I guess