Do you agree that some modern singers overdo the emotion?

[Anonymous]

Of course soul and emotion are key to a good song, but these kids are taking it too far and it's cringe.
I don't have an example handy, but I've seen more than a few newer and upcoming artists basically breaking down or throwing a fit at the mic.

Eric Clapton's "River of Tears" is the perfect example of using the right amount of emotion. You don't have to scream and cry to make people feel something

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+1 y

I mean it's better than some of the stuff out there, but there has to be a happy medium

[drummerdude25]

There’s actually a lot of things about “good singers” that I personally don’t like… the “vibrato” sound… the overdone emotion, in some cases, as you said… or they almost project a “character” onto their voice sometimes, it doesn’t sound authentic.

And on top of all of that, a lot of “good vocalists” sound very average in that maybe they're classically trained, and that they just sound “dime a dozen.” Like a lot of the cable TV singing competition shows… there is rarely anything interesting about how those people sound.

They’re mostly always “just another good singer” without all of what makes a great artist a great artist. Hard to explain, but that’s all I got lol.

[Asker]

100% dude

[ibodi]

really too much

https://www.youtube.com/embed/Z_yFB8wJSWA

[Asker]

😂👍 Cringe!
She is super hot though. She can come to the studio any time

[Nikki1989]

Real singing is becoming a lost art. Nowadays, it is hit a preset option on a computer program and that is your vocal take.

[Asker]

Amen

[Anonymous]

Over-doing the "auto-pitch-correct" is what I've noticed in todays "music" that I've been forced to listen to from other people's radios. It doesn't even sound human. I only voluntarily listen to 60's and 70's REAL music

[Asker]

Absolutely. I agree with you there

[Opinion Owner]

... as far as over-doing the emotion, I would never listen long enough to even find out

[Asker]

Lol, that's a fair point