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RE: Well, Grohl's wrong. If you remove the extreme emotion and

Posted by RGA (R) on June 27, 2021 at 01:49:59

In Reply to: RE: Well, Grohl's wrong. If you remove the extreme emotion and posted by rivervalley817 on June 26, 2021 at 10:07:09:

This is where we agree - I am not a fan of mumblers - but then Bob Dylan is a mumbler and people love him and most of the grunge music - you would need to read the liner notes to understand a god damn thing they're singing.

I usually understand what Billie is singing - the young 20-year-olds who dig her still have their hearing. No hope for the 60 years olds on this board. WHAT? Speak Up? I can't hear what you're singing? You're wispy and I can't HEAR IT!? Bah - get off my lawn these kids with their green hair and their melancholy - What's it all about?

She is technically good at what she does - but her voice, I get, is not everyone's cup of tea. It's not my cup of tea because I am a bit older school and I prefer a more traditional kind of singer like Eva Cassidy or Ella Fitzgerald, Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, or Whitney Houston, Heart etc. It's not easy to be someone who grew up with the big ballad vocals (the belting vocals) to get into someone like Billie Eilish. You have to search the net pretty hard to find her belting vocals.

And they do exists so she frustrates me a bit - especially when her inspiration is the singer Aurora who has a sublime voice - much MUCH better than Billie's and I like her songs much more and yet almost no one knows Aurora.

And as an English teacher in Hong Kong using music to teach the language I appreciate more clear singing voices with annunciation. So I prefer Aurora and even Avril Lavigne who is crystal clear and easy to understand. And almost always is fully dressed unlike most of what is out there. No gyrating butts and songs about tits.

I would listen to Aurora over Billie Eilish all day every day. Billie to me is more of a combination of Visual Artist/Singer. So for me, Billie needs to be appreciated in the modern music video world.

Aurora sells tickets standing on a stage singing.

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ncG9zTzsisE   (Open in New Window)

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