Who has the most unexpected speaking voice in the music business?

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??? Get to it!

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 8 December 2002 19:58 (twenty-three years ago)

the falsetto guy from the King's Singers always freaked me out. My parents used to watch their specials (big Canadian Brass/King's Singers fans, them) on TV and he'd joke back and forth in this rotund baritone that was totally out of nowhere.

Also Busta Rhymes, because I expect him to not sound at all like his over-the-top rapping style, and then he does sound sort of like it, and you realize maybe he's not really fooling around and you wonder WTF his friends & family must have sounded like.

― Tom Millar (Millar), Sunday, 8 December 2002 20:08 (twenty-three years ago)

Bobby from Primal Scream

― , Sunday, 8 December 2002 20:24 (twenty-three years ago)

The reason I ask is that Pink in fact speaks like a cross between Peter Lorre and a drunken sportscaster.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 8 December 2002 22:04 (twenty-three years ago)

That's not really surprising is it?

― Tom Millar (Millar), Sunday, 8 December 2002 22:08 (twenty-three years ago)

I guess not.

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Sunday, 8 December 2002 22:15 (twenty-three years ago)

David Sylvian

― megan d, Sunday, 8 December 2002 23:05 (twenty-three years ago)

the manics 1st time i heard them -
in the press all fire articulate rage and vitriol
then on 'rapido' circa early 91 :
shy cute embarassed semi-apologetic altar boys.

― piscesboy, Monday, 9 December 2002 00:45 (twenty-three years ago)

David Beckham. (I'm sure he has made some single or something. They all have)

― , Monday, 9 December 2002 01:00 (twenty-three years ago)

David Coverdale

― Wyndham Earl, Monday, 9 December 2002 04:43 (twenty-three years ago)

And what about the voice of Geddy Lee— how did it get so high? I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy...

(sorry, couldn't resist)

― Nick Mirov (nick), Monday, 9 December 2002 05:30 (twenty-three years ago)

I know him, and he does

(aaaargh, I'm such a geek, someone stop me)

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 9 December 2002 09:43 (twenty-three years ago)

Luke Haines is unexpectedly Cockney-style.

― Mr Swygart (mrswygart), Monday, 9 December 2002 10:19 (twenty-three years ago)

Shaggy is quite polite and well-spoken...

― Jacob (Jacob), Monday, 9 December 2002 10:31 (twenty-three years ago)

(Sidetrack alert...)

Jacob! Get back to work on Fox's or COI or whatever it is you should be doing...

― Nordicskillz (Nordicskillz), Monday, 9 December 2002 10:38 (twenty-three years ago)

jimi sommerville, he's got a very gruff speaking voice

― leigh (leigh), Monday, 9 December 2002 11:12 (twenty-three years ago)

Missy Elliot sounded a lot more southern than I expected (I know, I should have thought about her being from West Virginia, but it was still a shock.)

Miss Kittin sounds exactly as she does on record. 'I 'ave dyed my 'air. [beat beat] It is blonde [falling intonation]. Do you like eet?'

it's not just the accent it's the intonation.

'I will 'ave the pasta. [beat] It's nice.'
'Do you know Fronk Sinatra. 'E's dead.'

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 9 December 2002 12:27 (twenty-three years ago)

Anyone remember Michellé? Throaty pop-alto singing voice, unbearably squeaky speaking voice? Download "No More Lies" and prepare to LAUGH (and dance like a fiend, of course).

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 December 2002 22:25 (twenty-three years ago)

(Missy is not from West Virginia, but Tidewater Virginia where there isn't much of an accent)

Michelle: the Iron Mike of pop?

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 9 December 2002 22:33 (twenty-three years ago)

ABSOLUTELY. And I spelled it wrong; it's Michel'le.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 9 December 2002 22:37 (twenty-three years ago)

Sorry Yancey, Brit geography. Okay, so it's even more surprising she sounded so southern.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 9 December 2002 22:50 (twenty-three years ago)

It's still not (I shoulda clarified this earlier) because that area of VA has a very specific and identifiable black accent. Very heavy and slurred, but with a lazy drawl. Not as heavy as, say, Georgia, but it's very pronounced. (I went to college there and I remember a black friend coming to visit from Philly and saying: "Jesus, I can't understand any of the black folks down here.")

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Monday, 9 December 2002 22:56 (twenty-three years ago)

I went to type many variations on 'that's interesting' but they all looked sarcastic, but that's what I mean. It was interesting. oh bollocks I'm going to bed.

― Anna (Anna), Monday, 9 December 2002 23:15 (twenty-three years ago)

I was always surprised by Freddie Mercury's speaking voice. he looked so butch, but his voice was so mincey.

― DV (dirtyvicar), Monday, 9 December 2002 23:41 (twenty-three years ago)

"Nicety" - Michelle`

Dre's most embarrassing moment ever (besides M&M)? (!!!)

― gygax!, Monday, 9 December 2002 23:47 (twenty-three years ago)

I wonder if he talks like an ordinary guy/I know him and he does....

― OCP (OCP), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 00:23 (twenty-three years ago)

he looked so butch

What?!?

― Sean (Sean), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 01:10 (twenty-three years ago)

I always expected Billy Corgan to sound like Carrot Top.

― Curtis Stephens, Tuesday, 10 December 2002 02:10 (twenty-three years ago)

If Julie Burchill can still be considered to be in the music business, she wins hands down

― Robin Goad (rgoad), Tuesday, 10 December 2002 09:24 (twenty-three years ago)

two months pass...

I WOULD TOTALLY HAVE TO SAY SHAGGY!

― Jessica Toddles, Sunday, 23 February 2003 20:45 (twenty-three years ago)

CC Deville. I mean, he sounds like Danny DeVito.

― mike a (mike a), Sunday, 23 February 2003 21:05 (twenty-three years ago)

I don't know enough to give a good answer to this one, but I remember hoping that Brian Johnson from AC / DC would have exactly the same voice speaking as singing. It was disappointing to me to find that it wasn't true.

― tom (a different one), Sunday, 23 February 2003 21:19 (twenty-three years ago)

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