I don’t mean singing in a foreign language, I mean if they aren’t enunciating their words.
There is a style of singing where the singer rolls one word into the next word, or just cuts a word off. I find it distracting and I tend to skip the song very quickly when I realize what they are doing.
While it is a popular way to sing, I have never enjoyed it. I heard some of it in the 1980s but it wasn’t widely used. Today I find a lot more singers doing it.
I find language in songs has taken a turn for the worse in the last 15 years or so. It was rare and nuance to hear a swear word in songs when I was young. I know I’m being an old man here btw 😂
But now Spotify with it’s “explicit” tag shows that most popular songs have swearing now. Music tends to influence society greatly and I find that now swearing is just common place and I think we’re worse off for it.
Listening to the radio, with the song having the swearing muted makes it hilarious as there are so many gaps in the lyrics.
Right, swearing became too common. There’s none of the shock value many singers may expect. Usually it’s a meaningless distraction in the song, just lazy writing. I definitely appreciate the few who are still able to get impact, or find meaning in it though