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.
Very subjective. I don’t care for heavy metal and growling, but in the last scene of 8mm, it fit perfectly. It created a very tense scene near perfectly. But I wouldn’t listen to that song anywhere else.
Music usually has it’s place, even bad music.
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
For me it heavily depends on the genre.
If it’s supposed to be understandable and they cut off words or mumble through multiple words, it really annoys me. Although I don’t really have a problem if I don’t understand all the words of a black metal song.
Billie Eilish did this when she first came into the industry. She sounded drunk all the time. I stopped listening. But lately she learned to use her lips or something and it’s much more tolerable
Same, kinda. Not a fan of super heavy metal that employs that “demon growl” yelling kind of singing. It doesn’t sound enjoyable, even though the lyrics for a lot of those songs are dope as hell when you look them up.
On the other hand, I am a huge fan of grunge. I can actually understand the words through the mumbling. 🤣
I think that just takes a lot of skill to enunciate and hold pitch. It took me a while to hear past the “noise” when I was first introduced to heavier metal and acquire the ear for it. Theres definitely vocalists that don’t do it well, but like architects’ latest song “blackhole” has incredible range and is catchy as fuuuck
Well there goes shoegaze lol
I saw a video about a videogame that used Don’t Fear The Reaper and how the lyrics reflected in the game and I was just spending the entire video wondering what he was talking about because every time I heard that song all I heard was “huuuuuu duuu huuu muuu buuu”
Prey (2006)!
it was returnal 😔
So what are the real lyrics there?
Still not sure.
I switched genres for this. I grew up on classic rock and I still like listening to it, but when I started going to live performances, I couldn’t understand the words. All too often bands substituted volume for the words, and i ended up in pain while not enjoying it. Then I started going to blues clubs. Similar catchy beat but I could usually understand the words, hear what they were singing about and the volume generally wasn’t as painful. Now it’s my biggest genre
You should listen to Scatman John.
Have you considered trying to think of the vocals as another music element rather than lyrical? Like if a musician scats, can you enjoy that? And if so, can you not just consider the poor enunciation a sort of scatting and stop trying to pull words out of it?
Not saying you’re right or wrong, just curious where the limits on this are
Tried. Failed. But good thoughts
So, does that mean you’re not into metal or opera? They both technically have lyrics, but a casual listener will have no idea what they say.
Listen to this https://youtu.be/nEh10iBzgvU
I think a casual listener can understand it
That’s a good point. I totally forgot that clean vocals also exist. When I think of metal, all that comes to my mind is RORRORRO GRRROGRRO!
Depends on the type of metal.
Hair metal bands from the 80’s most were easy to understand. Most of AC/DC was easy to understand.
Opera is that rare exception. Not much into it. But once in a while there is something there that I do enjoy
Radiohead
you would have HATED living in the 1990s then
Actually most of the music I listened to in the 90s were easy to understand. There were a few bands that were hard to invested but nothing like now.
maybe it’s just me or some people like me, but i learned a TON of shit i got wrong once it became easy to look up lyrics online. you wouldn’t even believe what 14-year-old me thought the lyrics for beck’s ‘loser’ were when i could only hear the song on fm radio…
What about songs that don’t have any singing, do you enjoy those?
That is fine.
I just get annoyed with people that don’t enunciate
Other then the short bit where he purposely mumbled to do a parody of Kurt. The rest was basically fine. Well that and when he has literal marble in the mouth.
The lyrics are "if you want a white horse "
But she sings “if you wan a whi hor”. This is one of the the things that bothers me.
excuse me while i kiss this guy.
it sound’s like you’d get a good bit of entertainment if you look up “mondegreens”
edit - i just typed “sound’s”. i’m not gonna fix it - i’ll just let it fester. sound’s.
