Your cursive singing is tearing this family apart!
Recently while scrolling twitter we saw a clip from American Idol of judge Katy Perry admonishing an auditioner on the show to “Enunciate!”
The video went viral because of Perry’s incensed reaction, but also because the contestant’s performance of Amy Winehouse’s “Valerie” offered a crystalline example of a popular style of singing that has produced reactions of love and—like for Perry—hate.
It’s a style that features elongated vowels, clipped consonants, and runaway phrasing associated with contemporary singers like Halsey, Jorja Smith, and Shawn Mendes, and like many things in the 21st century it got its name from a tweet—specifically by the user @trackdroppa who boasted in 2009, “Voice so smooth it’s like i’m singing in cursive”
In this episode we speak to vocal coaches and journalists to to ask: Where did this cursive style come from? What are the vocal techniques used to create this sound? And why does cursive singing create so much backlash?
Songs Discussed
- Shawn Mendes - Stitches
- Zooey Deschanel, M. Ward - Winnie the Pooh
- Mick Jagger - Strange Game
- Selena Gomez, A$AP Rocky - Good For You
- Frank Zappa, Moon Zappa - Valley Girl
- Mark Ronson, Amy Winehouse - Valerie
- benny blanco, Halsey, Khalid - Eastside
- Jorja Smith - Teenage Fantasy
- Tones And I - Dance Monkey
- Sia - Cheap Thrills
- Corinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On
- Blink-182 - All The Small Things
- SZA - Kill Bill
More
Ashaala Shanae
https://www.themahi.com/founder
Jumi Akinfenwa
https://www.vice.com/en/contributor/jumi-akinfenwa
Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
- Datum:
- Duur:
Gerelateerde podcastafleveringen
/https%3A//megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/f5d5f7fa-5103-11f0-8bc0-c37616395587/image/3108009637cd21587ba7fc2890c44504.jpg%3Fixlib%3Drails-4.3.1%26max-w%3D3000%26max-h%3D3000%26fit%3Dcrop%26auto%3Dformat%2Ccompress)
/https%3A//megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b14a09a0-3010-11f0-b1c4-cf52ebca6ec9/image/0aa1ce98ecca3129ad79fb1f44243941.jpg%3Fixlib%3Drails-4.3.1%26max-w%3D3000%26max-h%3D3000%26fit%3Dcrop%26auto%3Dformat%2Ccompress)
/https%3A//megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b133acd2-3010-11f0-b1c4-67dbfaa26788/image/495d1026878ee80c587ec3809fd3b18d.jpg%3Fixlib%3Drails-4.3.1%26max-w%3D3000%26max-h%3D3000%26fit%3Dcrop%26auto%3Dformat%2Ccompress)
/https%3A//megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/b11d8574-3010-11f0-b1c4-6b890699f220/image/480b4454ae0da27669d80972d0ee0c6d.jpg%3Fixlib%3Drails-4.3.1%26max-w%3D3000%26max-h%3D3000%26fit%3Dcrop%26auto%3Dformat%2Ccompress)
/https%3A//megaphone.imgix.net/podcasts/664983b6-801d-11ef-aeb1-e3473fef67e1/image/184a1c94e910b81888ad2ead2ef5f5aa.jpg%3Fixlib%3Drails-4.3.1%26max-w%3D3000%26max-h%3D3000%26fit%3Dcrop%26auto%3Dformat%2Ccompress)
Meer afleveringen van Switched on Pop
-
Can Recession Pop predict the market?
Why does the economy look great on paper but feel terrible in your wallet? There might be a more revealing economic indicator hiding in your Spotify queue. "Recession Pop" first emerged during the Great Recession and exploded into... -
How Americana helped mainstream country find its soul
As we've been examining over the course of Country Week, country music has found a larger audience, in part by widening its sonic palette. For the final episode of this series, we take a look at a genre on the outskirts of country –... -
Country music is Mexican (Fuerza Regida and Grupo Frontera)
More often than not, country music is seen as an "American" genre – meaning that the music is seen as strictly from the United States. In some ways, that's true; but the genre's iconography, sound, and ethos can actually be traced to...