Voice-off: early Mariah or contemporary Christina?

christina really does sound like she's singing through a megahorn, but she also has that kind of voice that if you're in the right mood can sound fantastic

then again, when doesn't mariah sound fantastic? although sometimes she uses too much head voice

mariah still

Yes indeed.

then again, when doesn't mariah sound fantastic?

When she goes from whispery to loud to whispery to loud in the same sentence/word/syllable even. Can't stand it.

Old Mariah had a lighter tone than Xtina, which is where the "trying too hard" comments against Xtina are coming from. Both of them were/are ridiculously talented.

Nope, Aguilera.

Acrobatics are one thing, and they can both do them. Singing like you're not an emotionless robot is quite another, and Christina's got this in spades.

Vision Of Love is good.

i dunno about this emotionless claim about mariah -- random to me. i fuckin hear emotion.

aguilera needs to learn to use some head voice sometimes. she's all chest.

Random? This is a very common criticism of her singing.

Aguilera isn't all chest, actually.

chest VOICE (tho the former stands too)

i know, it is a common criticism! whch i didn't realize until i was reading her wiki recently... but it's random to me

i dunno sometimes i wish i could hear more falsetto from christina. sometimes she belts too much for me.

She still can, and hasn't gone through an extended period of having to sing whisper-voice-style like Mariah has been doing for what, seven years?

i know sometimes it's bizarre how much mariah sports that. she's heralded for her voice but she's really done the whisper thing for a while now.

i gotta say tho, it sounds good to me.

Buy one Isobel Campbell album, you'll be in heaven.

Mariah's whisper-voice has this harsh, grating edge on it that makes it nigh-unlistenable for me.

thanks for the recommendation!

i just love that she gets away with the whisper, and scores hits with it!

mariah's whisper vs. janet's whisper

Well, Mariah's.

Although I realize we are talking about EARLY Mariah here, so the whispering thing isn't AS relevant.

it's true. EARLY mariah navigates her head voice with her chest voice really, really beautifully. she even pulls of this slightly whispery feel with her alto voice that is SO PRETTY.

I almost never hear her using her "head voice" in her early stuff. She is as shouty as anything. Now she is all head voice, of course, because she can no longer belt anything, from abusing her chest voice!

haha.

no she DOES use it early on tho, just on very few tracks. but for instance the Music Box single, is mariah's head voice at its BESTTTTT. so fucking beautiful.

okay so i'm listening to Shake It Off (of course), and mariah's voice is INTENSELY WHISPERY on this track, but i FUCKING LOVE IT LIKE THIN SPAGHETTI WITH MEATBALLS

thin is right

hahahahahahahahahahaha

it's funny how MUCH they work with her breathy voice. i mean the production TOTALLY embraces it. especially during those sections where they use her breathiness as a lush backdrop for the melody (like she'll just be singing "aaaahhhhh" behind the words" -- it's so crackly, i love it - it's like an airy synth pad)

Mariah. All Mariah. I hate Aguilera, I find her voice really annoying and it pisses me off whenever I see her. It might be irrational, but it just is.

Mariah's falsetto really makes me want to tear off my ears.

I wish Christina would back off the chest voice.

As much as I like Christina I gotta go with Mariah on this.

what up surmounter!

seriously! hi =P

BIG HOOS aka the surmounter

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