Today's singers

[audioguru]

What is going on in music today?
The guys sing in high pitches like girls and they are not castratos (I don't think they all are). I can't sing so high.
The girls sing in falsetto to have a high pitch.
Many times a machine corrects their pitch.

 

[Mikebits]

Evolution of music. Many music mutations occur, the yucky music is weeded out through natural selection. The survivors remain and become classics, and hybrids form such as, country blues, Jazz blues, classical pop, etc...

 

[audioguru]

Maybe the guy singers develop strong throat muscles that stretch their vocal chords so they sound like sopranos. I can sing at one octave below them.
Small girls can sing at high pitch but today's girls are huge and sound butch.

 

[Torben]

This ain't exactly new. Ever heard the Bee Gees? Yow.

Antares Autotune is the most common example of a pitch-correcting system. It's available either as a software plugin for programs such as Pro Tools or Cubase for post-production or as a hardware rack unit for more live applications. I've played with it a few times. A very gentle touch is needed with it or you can hear weird little digital glissandos when the pitch is corrected.

You can also use it more heavily on purpose; i.e. controlling it with a MIDI keyboard as you sing, for a vocoder-like effect. I don't mind it used like that sometimes. Listen to the chorus of Cher's "Believe" for an example (note: I am not a fan of that song).

I've recorded punk singers before who shocked me by just wanting to do a take or too, after which they would say "can you fix that in Autotune?" I said "Sure", while thinking "Jeez. I thought the punk ethic meant you either nail it or don't care". Oh well.


Torben

 

[Nigel Goodwin]

I've recorded punk singers before who shocked me by just wanting to do a take or too, after which they would say "can you fix that in Autotune?" I said "Sure", while thinking "Jeez. I thought the punk ethic meant you either nail it or don't care". Oh well.

I think my daughter Melissa would tell them to sing it properly or get a singer who can!

However, as well as been a sound engineer she also teaches young bands (how to play, how to sing, how to perform, how to write songs etc.)

 

[Boncuk]

One of the reasons for those voices is certainly that everybody thinks he is a singer. Princess Caroline of Monaco also thought she is a singer. Her voice was the same as her bikini - very tiny.

If you want to hear real singing voices you better visit an opera.

For Torben: You're well off with Celine Dion. She has a voice as clear as a church bell. Try to get her CD "Deux". Even French people can learn how to speak French listening to her songs.

I don't enjoy that crap being "fabricated" these days.

Hans

 

[davidbball13]

if you want a guy with a high pitched vioce check out this band, the chiodo's they are beast
YouTube - There's No Penguins In Alaska

i saw them live it was crazy

 

[Mikebits]

So, is beast a good thing?

 

[HiTech]

if you want a guy with a high pitched vioce check out this band, the chiodo's they are beast
YouTube - There's No Penguins In Alaska

i saw them live it was crazy

That music is nothing more than punk, mosh pit, gutterel garbage IMHO. Often those kinds of performers end up in the Throat Specialist's office with complications that affect them for life. Yeah that music is called "head bangin" for more reasons than the obvious-- one minute of that aural chaos and most normal people either suffer a banging headache or want to bang their head against a brick wall out of frustration.
But that's just my 2¢ worth!

 

[audioguru]

The high pitch guy singers are only 12 or 13 years old! What do you expect, baritones?

The Bee-Gees are a family so maybe the high pitch is in their jeans, OOPs genes.

 

[davidbball13]

That music is nothing more than punk, mosh pit, gutterel garbage IMHO. Often those kinds of performers end up in the Throat Specialist's office with complications that affect them for life. Yeah that music is called "head bangin" for more reasons than the obvious-- one minute of that aural chaos and most normal people either suffer a banging headache or want to bang their head against a brick wall out of frustration.
But that's just my 2¢ worth!

I like that band a lot. it is "head bangin'". check out these guys
streetlight manifesto. its ska. i say them live too. nothing less then amazing.

YouTube - Streetlight Manifesto - Down, down, down to Mephisto's Cafe

and you skank to this music. and go into a skank circle.

 

[killivolt]

The high pitch guy singers are only 12 or 13 years old! What do you expect, baritones?

The Bee-Gees are a family so maybe the high pitch is in their jeans, OOPs genes.

I agree. I thought the same thing back then it must have been un-comfortable to wear jeans that are so tight.

I think girls looked great in them.

kv

 

[audioguru]

I think girls look great in mini-skirts

 

[davidbball13]

a lot of the guy's in my grade ware tight jean's i think its bogus.

 

[Boncuk]

a lot of the guy's in my grade ware tight jean's ...

... a good way of birth control.

 

[davidbball13]

... a good way of birth control.

no they smoke way to much weed...kid's these day's... i believe your count like doubles if its in your body.