I watched the video and still don't understand why she wants / wanted to get rid of yarling. She makes points but it's just a different sound overall rather than a "worse" sound IMO. It makes the bands she references feel iconic and unique.
Yeah she did say that but still it's just different, not bad. I don't understand why it would be bad. Lots of artists have unique differences and I appreciate that
Grifting Youtuber vs Eddie Vedder 😏 I think I know which one I prefer. This is yet another slight on the working class bands of the 80s and 90s. What's next, no more growls in death metal? Everyone has their schtick.
Because it kills the resonance and shrinks the sound.
How does she know that that is people's objective? Like, if your band is trying to have a Pearl Jam sound, it makes sense to sing like Vedder.
Like, you can say X, Y, and Z about what "good" singing sounds like, and yet Bob Dylan is one of the most iconic singers since the invention of recorded music.
My favorite band with the most distinctive vocal sound is The Blood Brothers… They stopped the band very young and it makes total sense why—you can’t vocalize like that for too long without completely frying your voices.
There's a lot of necessity there. Our natural speaking voices use the throat and lungs in a different way than any singing techniques. And, there's multiple ways of using them to get a desired sound.
So there's some degree of style involved, but past a certain point you have to change your voice to sing rather than just speak in tune (which is still a valid thing of its own)
The charismatic voice is working with the university of Alabama(I think it was) to understand metal and Rock singers vocal techniques. Chris Cornell has come up many times in those videos
She has done a lot of videos on them and, as professionally trained opera singer and vocal coach, is very much a fan of what that end of the vocal pool has done
Worth checking out some of her videos. Certainly better than whoever the hell this idiot is
Cornell fries his vocals(lightly) to reach high notes.
Cobain fries his vocals because he can't sing.
edit: ok, fine, cool off, I apologize. I didn't mention that Cornell uses a decent amount of falsetto, and exceedingly well, I might add. Best singer of the 90's for rock was Layne Staley, followed closely by Scott Weiland.
Still tho, love Cornell. Not even joking tho, Cobain works fine in a high intensity band and probably would've done great at hardcore. I just find him kinda forced on slow tracks.
Worst? Henry Rollins. Henry Rollins himself will tell you he can't sing and has on camera.
I absolutely hate the thing Eddie Vedder does and it was kind of a rift with my housemates at uni, who were too unsophisticated to understand The Jesus & Mary Chain like me. If everything is so emotionally intense that you might just die at any moment, then nothing is.
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scytale@piefed.zip · 53 pts · 254d
We just called it the Creed voice even though Pearl Jam came out first.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 35 pts · 254d
Creed is just the
dietChristian Rock version of Pearl JambEle7en7@lemmy.world · 41 pts · 254d
Ah yes, my favorite kind of door jamb, the pearl.
SirSamuel@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 254d
godDAMNIT
I'm leaving it up
KnitWit@lemmy.world · 19 pts · 254d
Pearl Jamb of God
maccentric@sh.itjust.works · 4 pts · 254d
I’d check it out
pwnicholson@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 254d
Ray Charles beat them all (kinda, sometimes)
MadTV did a good skit about this years ago
https://youtu.be/FhEpv14L-b0
mirisgaiss@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d
bunch of people I know have been calling it "underbite rock" for years, making the face and doing the voice just kinda go together
kambusha@sh.itjust.works · 1 pts · 254d
War leaf. War leaf. War leaf ayyy.
Hackworth@piefed.ca · 27 pts · 254d
I enjoy both hearing and performing the yarl, ya know, in moderation.
affenlehrer@feddit.org · 16 pts · 254d
One verse of yarl a day is okay. Might even be beneficial if it's red yarl.
DolphinMath@slrpnk.net · 5 pts · 254d
Agreed. If every song I heard had it, I’d grow tired of it, but that’s not been the case for a long time (if ever).
salacious_coaster@infosec.pub · 13 pts · 254d
When I was a kid, I called it "mumbly-whine"
shalafi@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 254d
Huh. I called it "singing through your teeth". That's how I karaoke 90s songs! Had no idea there was was a word for it.
victorz@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 254d
I'd say stop doing it, but since it's karaoke it's almost like you have to do it.
rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 254d
I watched the video and still don't understand why she wants / wanted to get rid of yarling. She makes points but it's just a different sound overall rather than a "worse" sound IMO. It makes the bands she references feel iconic and unique.
absentbird@lemmy.world · 7 pts · 254d
Because it kills the resonance and shrinks the sound. She explains the reasons with examples and everything.
rainbowbunny@slrpnk.net · 12 pts · 254d
Yeah she did say that but still it's just different, not bad. I don't understand why it would be bad. Lots of artists have unique differences and I appreciate that
verdi@feddit.org · 4 pts · 253d
Grifting Youtuber vs Eddie Vedder 😏 I think I know which one I prefer. This is yet another slight on the working class bands of the 80s and 90s. What's next, no more growls in death metal? Everyone has their schtick.
Fucking youtube grifters...
blarghly@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 252d
How does she know that that is people's objective? Like, if your band is trying to have a Pearl Jam sound, it makes sense to sing like Vedder.
Like, you can say X, Y, and Z about what "good" singing sounds like, and yet Bob Dylan is one of the most iconic singers since the invention of recorded music.
GeneralEmergency@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 253d
"Yeah but she's a woman" - Lemmites
Sunsofold@lemmings.world · 8 pts · 254d
'Don't do that thing that these several clearly successful musicians do because it'll make you sound weird.'
Having a word for it is fun but this woman is a dunce.
aesthelete@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 254d
"distinctive"
user1234@lemmynsfw.com · 5 pts · 254d
A buddy of mine called it emphysema rock back in the day and that term has stuck with me through the years.
ripcord@lemmy.world · 5 pts · 254d
But that doesn't make sense
interrobang@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 4 pts · 254d
I just thought I disliked most grunge
Turns out there's a name for exactly what I don't like about it!
200ok@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 254d
I wonder why some people seem to change their voices when they sing
tacotroubles@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 254d
I'd assume its to achieve a certain style that they the singer find pleasing or complementary to the rest of the bands signature sound.
Rai@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 2 pts · 254d
My favorite band with the most distinctive vocal sound is The Blood Brothers… They stopped the band very young and it makes total sense why—you can’t vocalize like that for too long without completely frying your voices.
200ok@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 253d
Oh fair, yeah.
athairmor@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 254d
So you’d rather they just talked?
agedcorn@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 254d
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 3 pts · 253d
Fashion. British acts go through eras of sounding American, then sounding as British as possible, then American again.
200ok@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 253d
That's a good point, yeah.
Miaou@jlai.lu · 2 pts · 254d
Often happens when speaking different languages too.
200ok@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 253d
That's a great analogy
southsamurai@sh.itjust.works · 2 pts · 254d
There's a lot of necessity there. Our natural speaking voices use the throat and lungs in a different way than any singing techniques. And, there's multiple ways of using them to get a desired sound.
So there's some degree of style involved, but past a certain point you have to change your voice to sing rather than just speak in tune (which is still a valid thing of its own)
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 3 pts · 254d
What's the style of singing Chris Cornell, Kurt Cobain, and some other grunge singers have called? 🤔
Would those also be yarling?
dontsayaword@piefed.social · 10 pts · 254d
I don't think those two yarl at all. Nor do they have similar singing styles at all really.
Rothe@piefed.social · 7 pts · 254d
The style of Kurt Cobain doesn't resemble Chris Cornells (and vice versa) at all though.
Jarix@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 253d
The charismatic voice is working with the university of Alabama(I think it was) to understand metal and Rock singers vocal techniques. Chris Cornell has come up many times in those videos
She has done a lot of videos on them and, as professionally trained opera singer and vocal coach, is very much a fan of what that end of the vocal pool has done
Worth checking out some of her videos. Certainly better than whoever the hell this idiot is
Wigglesworth@retrolemmy.com · 4 pts · 254d
Cornell fries his vocals(lightly) to reach high notes.
Cobain fries his vocals because he can't sing.
edit: ok, fine, cool off, I apologize. I didn't mention that Cornell uses a decent amount of falsetto, and exceedingly well, I might add. Best singer of the 90's for rock was Layne Staley, followed closely by Scott Weiland.
Still tho, love Cornell. Not even joking tho, Cobain works fine in a high intensity band and probably would've done great at hardcore. I just find him kinda forced on slow tracks.
Worst? Henry Rollins. Henry Rollins himself will tell you he can't sing and has on camera.
Kolanaki@pawb.social · 13 pts · 254d
Technically, niether one of them can sing. Anymore.
ohulancutash@feddit.uk · 2 pts · 254d
Cobain doesn’t fry. His voice naturally went there without being forced to.
_Nico198X_@europe.pub · 1 pts · 254d
my god, Weiland was beautiful. too bad he was a train wreck.
Jarix@lemmy.world · 0 pts · 253d
Henry Rollins + William Shatner.
It's excellent and shouldn't be.
Can't get behind that from the Has Been album
shalafi@lemmy.world · -1 pts · 254d
Yeah, I would say so.
NigelFrobisher@aussie.zone · 2 pts · 253d
I absolutely hate the thing Eddie Vedder does and it was kind of a rift with my housemates at uni, who were too unsophisticated to understand The Jesus & Mary Chain like me. If everything is so emotionally intense that you might just die at any moment, then nothing is.
He was good on Twin Peaks The Return though.
redhorsejacket@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 252d
DylanMc6@lemmy.ml · 1 pts · 252d
it's not a tv studio
certified_expert@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 251d
Isn't that like 100% of what Shakira does?