Female vocals


What is it about female vocals that so many audiophiles adore? Many, many speaker reviews talk about female vocals at some point as if that was the zenith of recorded music. It's the same at audio shows. Just about every room is playing some version of the same, bland music. Just once I'd like to be drawn to a room because they were playing Tool or Opeth, but nooooo, it's jazz or Norah Jones.

roadcykler

I like many female artists but not female vocalists. There are plenty of female artists who write, play and sing their music. I've mostly not been enamored by a vocalist with a few exceptions. I just enjoy the female pov and they mostly do not tend to write the juvenile songs that some male artists specialize in. 

I guess i must be a minority in the club of dudes sitting around in Bonerville enamored by "female vocals". I can play a couple of instruments, but, i can’t sing....I’ve always envied guys who can sing.

 

Geoff Tate (Queensryche)

(Diana Dumass Krall couldn’t write a song like this in several lifetimes, i bet).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-iIs9mK8VSg

 

Phil Collins

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zdTr3m8hXQs

 

Brendan Perry (play this at my funeral)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_u8DswywW7A

 

Vitas (Warning: this could fk with some of ya)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXeSWncoFi8

 

David Coverdale

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS4VxVFAmvQ

 

etc, etc, etc

oh, here’s more

SOHN (turn on your subs for this one)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xW6BvCrHp0

 

Eddie Vedder (Pearljam)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH4na8a5b9M

 

etc, etc, etc

Bye

 

I like female vocalists as Irena Kral , Or Billie Holiday , or Marie Nakamoto ....Joan Baez ...Etc

But most of the female vocalists i idolize are Persian/Iranian or Indian or classical and as those above mostly in Jazz and Fado ... Save some exceptions i stay in these styles ...

I did not even see names in these styles ...😊😁

 Natural emotions must rules over esthetical commercial constrainsts for me ...

Maria Callas as Billie Holiday are convincing before being  pleasant to listen ...

I dont criticize here , i throw an invitation to enlarge the window ...You will never regret it ...

 

A new style of music has his codes and must be learned by habit to be understood ...