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.

roadcykler10-26-2023 8:27pm

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mahgister Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 13,093 posts 12-06-2023 at 02:59pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete 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 ...
ossicle2brain Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 129 posts 12-07-2023 at 03:16pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete Caroline Polachek
ossicle2brain Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 129 posts 12-07-2023 at 03:24pm Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete And Grimes. Forget the association with Musk....
elliottbnewcombjr Details Discussions Posts This discussion Message User 5,461 posts 12-08-2023 at 12:53am Copy Comment URL Report Comment Edit Delete I just re-discovered Melissa Etheridge, 1st Album. All the way thru, awesome ability to write about and project pain, envy, longing, pure emotion. Music fits the material, musicians great, engineering terrific. When new artist on David Letterman, he said "Everyone Else Should Quit the Business" (something like that. just found her debut with Dave