Scenery chewing vocals

Any time you fail to sell it.

 

I know when "Job for a Cowboy" was all the rage. Man, I'm showing my age. Anyway, on their first EP the singer was accused of showing off, and well, he did. Is there a vocal counterpart to shredding? Whatever it is, that's what I would call chewing the scenery...

 

I think it crosses the line when it seems that the singer is only doing it to compensate for a lack of real skill.

It's Patti LaBelle's schtick to "chew the scenery," but she can easily tone it down and still be a great singer.

 

She's supa freaky, yow!




Gotta have it......

 

Very, very often in my opinion. A lot of people over-sing. It's pathetic.

 

There are people out there like Patti who just can't be touched. She can do whatever she wants and it's all good, because she knows how to sell the feel. That's what matters.

She's a pro, and a lot of people out there singing are not pros but they think they can do that.

 

While I'm sure I can come up with better examples, a quick brain scan produced this:



By the end of this song I don't want to ever hear about his bad feeling again.

 

And that's the problem with something like singing. Because it's subjective, people can talk themselves (and let friends talk them into) thinking they're good. It also doesn't help that so many mediocre singers have become stars.

Say what you will about sports, but you can think you're an NBA-caliber player until you take your lil' sorry behind out on the floor and get destroyed. Subjectivity or opinion will NOT get you on an NBA, MLB, NHL, MLS or NFL roster!

 

People aren't honest. It's hard to be honest. At what level do you burst someone's bubble? I know singers who are pitchy and shrill but if they sing the right kind of song to a drunk enough audience they get huge accolades on the strength of a couple of sustained notes at the end. And I suppose if everyone had fun that night, it's not my place to say "well, but..." to anyone.

I guess if there's hard money riding on it, you can't afford to not be honest. But if it's someone in a local pub living out their adolescent fantasy, just let it ride. But yes, it does give some people an exaggerated sense of what they're bringing.

 

Yep. And that's why our TV is always muted for any singer before a sporting event.
I'm too old to have to put up with such annoyance.

 

George Thorogood and others of his ilk.


I'm not sure when people decided that blues had to be sung in a rough growly voice. Even the old cats that sang that way used the growl sparingly for effect. I used to hear it a lot, mostly at blues jams by guys that were not serious musicians but just liked to get up and blast thru a 1-4-5 change, spewing as many notes as possible on their solos.



We referred to this as "biker blues".

 

I will always love yo-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-o-u.

But there's a long trad, and in rock, from Li'l Richard to Daltry, Plant to Rose, Cornell, etc. ...

 

I'm only here to compliment the photo of kira

 

When some dude sings "looooooonatic."

 

I dig Patty!!

 

A force of nature.

 

Every time Bon Jovi opens his mouth?

 

There is a guy here in town, Joey Fender, who I caught at a couple blues jams recently and he is definitely a scenery chewer but in a very good way - the man is a total showman with guitar chops to match his vocals. When he fronts the band he takes them with him and he really commands attention, fantastic frontman.