Five singers who ruined pop music

[Spector_Ray]

Pop music has been ruined?

Touché!

 

[TL5]

That article has a failed premise..


OTOH, I think one of the main offenses to music in the last 20 years is the over-singing and trills that female singers seem obligated to throw into their music.. Women, take a lesson from Ella Fitzgerald, Aretha Franklin, Tina Turner and hundreds of other female singers - LEARN how to sing, and then do so, straight up. Forget the trills.

Did you realize that your second point agrees with the article's "failed premise"?
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The guy has a point. Their quirks that made them unique became abused by those that followed.

yep.
Bowie is the only one on the list that I liked. Even there, I need small doses. I never 'got' Morrison's (or the Doors) appeal - ever.

 

[Vic Winters]

Let's be fair here. Who among you doesn't silently curse T-Pain every time a new song comes out with heavy auto-tune/vocoder on the vocals?

 

[Pilgrim]

Did you realize that your second point agrees with the article's "failed premise"?
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Yeah, I do - but I don't agree that blaming an artist for their capabilities makes sense when others have copied them unsuccessfully.

As our friends in Deutschland say, "Mixed nuts".

 

[jmccain]

I think the article is cool - I get it. Those folks mentioned started trends which he didn't care for.

Me, too. I didn't care for them either.

 

[Eric Perry]

That list is only 1/5th correct. Paula Abdul can't sing at all.

While I love her and would do a wide array of dirty things to her (my ex looked a lot like her from her '80's heydays), I agree she can't sing to save her soul!

 

[Eric Perry]

Let's be fair here. Who among you doesn't silently curse T-Pain every time a new song comes out with heavy auto-tune/vocoder on the vocals?

That's EVERY new song! :scowl:

 

[lunarpollen]

What about the early 90's Seattle throat virus that everyone was catching?

+1000

The whole underbite/yarling thing...

 

[Jim Campbell]

Pop music has been ruined?

oh yeah,for decades.......can't say that only five singers are to blame tho.....coulda had 'em whacked and saved the day.........

 

[boing]

If David Bowie did ruin pop music, he did it on purpose and for a good reason.

I'm a-stealin' this.

 

[JTE]

The author does a very poor job of supporting his premise, but I wouldn't call it a failed premise. I read the article as these five people created popular music which other vocalists attempted to emulate. The pop music audience accepted and even embraced the short-comings of the emulators. So, while Bowie's theatrical and chameleon-like personas, Abdul's eye-candy and dance at the expense of vocal ability, Marriot's screech, Houston's "chops before content" (which is curiously accepted among guitar players BTW), and Morrison's homage to Sinatra et. al. worked for those particular artists, it's the impact those sales had on the pop music audience, and the general music biz. That impact made even more obvious lack of singing ability (Ashlee Simpson), over-blown production, etc. part of the entertainment biz.

It's like what I see as Garth Brook's fatal impact on country music, and SRV's impact on what passes for blues these days. Those two artists are not to blame, but the totally uncreative followers who aped the general outlines without grasping the underlying authenticity, and the promotoers, fans, purchasers who embraced the pathetic copycats of Brooks and Vaughn are the one who ruined both blues and country music.

jte

 

[BassChuck]

Stupid article. Innovators cannot be responsible for the jerks that try to immitate them.
What about pitch correction software?

 

[BassyBill]

Stupid article indeed. How can you discuss dreadful singers without mentioning Bob Dylan?

 

[Munjibunga]

Steve Perry.
Britney Spears, and four more like her.

 

[Jim Campbell]

Steve Perry.
Britney Spears, and four more like her.

though she is a product of popular music ruination,it was ruined long before britney was born......the britneys mariahs,abduls,boltons,mcdonalds,et al just keep driving more nails into the coffin

 

[xxpigxx]

I think you all are just getting old and pulling the whole "music sucks now-a-days" thing just like your parents, and their parents did.

 

[Chipsonfire]

Didn't read the article, but is Mariah *dog-whistle* Carey on the list?

She's mentioned as a Houston impersonator.

 

[Chipsonfire]

I think you all are just getting old and pulling the whole "music sucks now-a-days" thing just like your parents, and their parents did.

Music does suck nowadays. Has for several years at least. I guess 24 is considered "getting old" these days as well. That's a scary thought...

 

[Munjibunga]

I think you all are just getting old and pulling the whole "music sucks now-a-days" thing just like your parents, and their parents did.

Really. Ever listen to Miley Cyrus?

 

[rarbass]

If you guys actually read the article, its not saying that these guys were the worst singers in pop music, its that they "ruined" it somehow. I don't know if I buy that, but he seems to praise every one of the individual artists (except Abdul), then go on to explain that people copping their style lead to "ruined" pop music.

Exactly. The author praises the good vocalists but claims that imitators did their thing poorly. I don't the artists listed can be blamed for the ruining of this music though...