(...)if you were singing 'good' over two notes it's easy to naturally change the second sound as you lift the pitch?
This is basically all I hear happening in the Selena G. song (which is not to deny the existence of this "indie girl singer" affectation, or whatever it may be).
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:03 (five years ago) link
I'm no singer; but just trying it out here in my quiet office, I don't know how I would stretch "go-od" into two syllables and not change the pitch on the 2nd one.
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
xp ^^ yeah the chorussy bit of that is what I was referring to. But earlier on (around 25s in) there are more grating 'guoid's (and 'toech')
― kinder, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:17 (five years ago) link
Immediately thought of the way Carly Rae Jepsen sings the word "got" in the line "I've got 'em too" in Boy Problems.
― J. Sam, Tuesday, December 11, 2018 10:25 AM (five hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
me too! she makes it three syllables long in the part at the end!!
― crüt, Tuesday, 11 December 2018 22:18 (five years ago) link
It is completely possible to sing a melisma without changing the vowel sound wtf.
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:41 (five years ago) link
I am completely able to sing two pitches on "good" without turning it into "goo-yid".
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:42 (five years ago) link
You are very likely a better singer than me!
― underqualified backing vocalist (morrisp), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
Not that I'm a singer but xp ha
― Locked in silent monologue, in silent scream (Sund4r), Tuesday, 11 December 2018 23:44 (five years ago) link
Eyyyem ah veyrr guoid singehhhh
― frame casual (dog latin), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 10:11 (five years ago) link
Hah this thread has set me off on a Rickie Lee Jones voyage of discovery, and damn - how the fuck did I miss her for 36 years?
― It's like an Christian pop (thewufs), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 11:03 (five years ago) link
she's the greatest :)
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 12 December 2018 12:29 (five years ago) link