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You are seeing more and more musical "artists" running their voice through Auto-Tune and other digital enhancements, my question is, are there any mainstream musical acts anymore that can actually sing? You can go to a concert now and a lot of them are either enhancing their voice or they are using the recording and just moving their lips, pretending to sing. Is real musical ability dying?
Your answer is NO. They don't even try to sing. They just talk and attempt to rhyme with curse words. Here is the funny part. People listen to it and buy it. It's sad really.
How mainstream do you need? How contemporary do you need? Norah Jones has a pleasant voice I think. Although not precisely my thing I seem to recall Alicia Keys being able to sing. And although I know her first and foremost for having a train-wreck life when I actually heard an Amy Winehouse song somewhere I thought she was surprisingly good. Or at least better than I expected.
you gotta look across the pond. amy winehouse,adele,and joss stone all do damn good singing.and if you like blues rock,check out the white stripes and the black keys.
i am 15 and this the only modern music i listen to.so yeah,i've been spoiled by great voices like robert plant,jim morrison,and janis joplin.i like these modern artist though,and find them to be the most talented of the era.check em out.
There's also Metacritic's list of best non-indie musicians of the decade 2000-2009. Many of them have been around for decades, but presumably at least one of them is a young mainstream person who can sing.
The Best Music of the Decade - Metacritic (http://features.metacritic.com/features/2009/best-music-of-the-decade/ - broken link)
I have noticed though that young people, under 25, seem to often say they don't like contemporary music. Moreso than when I was young anyway and certainly moreso than my parents were young. If you think about it Janis Joplin died about 25 years before lukeo2194 was even born so in a way it's like a 15-year-old in 1975 loving Glenn Miller. I'm not saying that never happened, I listened to Miller as a 15-year-old in the 1990s, but it was probably rare. Rarer than kids I see today loving Hendrix, Joplin, or Morrison. It's interesting. Although maybe it's a good thing, like a sign the young respect the stuff before them more than maybe "youth" have in a long time. That they just don't reject things based on age alone.
Many good voices and musicsmiths as well; Sarah McLachlan, Alicia Keys, Eddy Veder..lots more maybe not the headliners because voice enhancement is "in".
Although maybe it's a good thing, like a sign the young respect the stuff before them more than maybe "youth" have in a long time. That they just don't reject things based on age alone.
I'm 28, and my generation has more in common musically with my parents' generation than my parents' generation did with my grandparents' generation.
Honestly, I can't blame young people for rejecting modern contemporary pop music. Standards for musicianship have gone way down to the point where it's hard to call some of the new "artists" musicians at all (Kesha - I'm looking at you).
You can hear some great, real singing on current/recent releases by the following.
Neko Case
St. Vincent
Sharon Jones
Sure, they're not as mainstream as Hannah Montana, but why would you listen to that garbage in the first place unless you're six years old?
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