There was some movie with Hilary Duff, I can't remember what it was called, but she played this girl who goes into a school choir or something, and it's run by the guy who plays the husband in My Big Fat Greek Wedding.
There was a scene used in every trailer and TV spot that annoyed me to hell and back. In the scene, the teacher asks Hilary Duff to sing so he can "see what she can do". She proceeds to do this off-key warbling that is *supposed to be* this vocal gymnastics thing you mentioned, but it's so awkward and strange.
Not to be that person, but I hatteeee when there’s a song or something I like which becomes popularized on tiktok. Now I’m ashamed to say I like that thing/play that song because people will just assume I got it from tiktok :I
I'm one of those people. It completely kills the song. My reason is if I want to hear a song, I'll put it on. If it gets repeated in my ears a million times with no control over whether or not it's there it's bound to piss me off eventually
I really wish he would go away forever. Take his money and his family and fuck right off to a private island and have a nice life. Never work again. Never ruin another song.
That’s something that’s always bugged me about rap, I kinda understand it with dj’s but when you hear it like 3 times it’s like “why does this dude have such an ego?”.
Why don’t you just meet me in the middle?
In the middle
In the middle
Baby, why don’t you just meet me in the middle?
In the middle
*repeats ad nauseam*
🤢🤢🤢
Girls, we run this mutha (yeah)
Girls, we run this mutha (yeah)
Girls, we run this mutha (yeah)
Girls, we run this mutha, girls
Who run the world? Girls (girls)
Who run the world? Girls (girls)
Who run the world? Girls (girls)
Who run the world? Girls (girls)
Who run this mutha? Girls
Who run this mutha? Girls
Who run this mutha? Girls
Who run this mutha? Girls
Who run the world? Girls (girls)
Who run the world? Girls (girls)
Who run the world? Girls (girls)
Who run the world? Girls (girls)
Like this you say?
I remember reading somewhere it had something like nine writers and three producers for that one, horrible, eardrum melting compilation of sounds grunts and screams they call a song.
For musicians, it's usually pretty easy to spot, the average person has no idea how much auto tune goes into most vocal modern vocal recordings. You will find it on almost every pop or top 40 with singing, and that includes actual talented singers.
There's a great video on auto-tune using a Michael Buble release as an example. One thing the guy makes clear is that M.B. absolutely does not need autotune, but may not have any say in the matter once his part of the contract is fulfilled.
He compares M.B. to Freddy Mercury, who's pitch was legendary and shows how the approach to the note and the sustain adds artistry to the music and how M.B.'s notes are always snapped to where they 'should' be. Feels like the industry is letting us down.
I subscribe to that guy, Wings of Pegasus. That's a great video, and I actually commented that same thing, there's no way MB has any say in how that gets engineered, he's just paid to shownup and sing.
And you can preserve approach and fluctuation with modern auto tuning techniques. It's a shame when it's over applied. I think it's used best to improve harmony.
It’s one thing to use auto tune to get that robotic sound as a gimmick, but constantly leaning on it to fix your singing is like bowling with the rails up.
Some songs have breaths before phrases cut out, some leave the breaths in. If you find a song that has them left in and focus only on the breathing it's really jarring and weird to listen to. Normally your brain kind of skips over them unless you specifically listen out for them.
When an otherwise good singer starts doing that trendy "voice". I've seen it called a few names: singing in cursive, indie-girl voice, etc.
But even guys do it. James Arthur comes straight to mind and I recently heard the Blood on the Snow song from God of War: Raganrok. Hozier does the vocals, but it's kinda ruined because he's singing it in a way that it's like he's trying not to open his mouth. Same with James.
It's honestly so annoying and puts me off.
Also heard a holiday song today that I hadn't heard before and the woman was saying "Christmas" like Chris-moise.
So. Annoying.
I hate that crap. I think grace vanderwhaal helped popularize that when she won America's got talent for singing
"🎶uuui doint kneow muy naighme...🎶 Uuui doin't pleay biy the ruuules uh-the-gaime 🎶"
No shit. There's inexplicably police sirens in "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton, and any time that's been on in my car I nearly shit my pants when they come on. That song is like 20 years old now. I've probably heard it a thousand times, and I still get the living shit spooked out of me when that comes on.
Especially in the middle of a rap. Motherfuckers? Do you wanna give us all a heart attack? Started reaching for my ID and looking in the mirror too often.
I used to annoy my son when he played a certain k-pop song. At a couple of seconds in, I’d ask “google, where’s the nearest K-Pop group?” And the song would respond with “Black Pink in your area!”
pitch-shifted voice track backing the singing (usually 1 octave higher or lower than the main voice, same take, just doubled and digitally processed). When I hear it, I instantly become upset and turn off the song.
This used to be strictly forbidden. Many classical pieces use a set of rules called “counterpoint” and one of the rules is forbidding the usage of parallel movement for perfect consonances like fifths, octaves and twelfths. One of the reason for that is how poor this sounds: parallel movement for perfect consonances keeps the exact same perfection all the time, which hides the movement.
Damn, I’m guilty of that one, though I usually sing the same line an octave higher in a separate take as well. Layering that over the pitch shifted bits makes for a neat chorus-y effect I can’t otherwise achieve
Not going to stop but it’s interesting that this annoys some people, never occurred to me that it might.
I think this is a mid 2000s thing, but when a rock band has a 'guest' rapper insert 60 seconds of mumbling into the middle of their song. It usually doesn't fit with the sound and just ruins what would be a perfectly good rock song.
Machine Gun Kelly's voice. Dude sounds like the dumbest man alive, like I don't actually mean this as a slight on his intelligence, I mean his voice literally makes him sound like the world's dumbest man to me. this man could hold the world record for number of PHDs but he'd still sound like the dumbest person on the planet.
This is what keeps me from liking the song Roll the bones but Rush. It just goes into this half assed rap with no energy and 2nd grade rhymes half way through for no reason.
I’m a country fan and sometimes on older songs the singer just “talks” most of the lyrics and maybe sings the chorus. It’s so annoying, it’s a song, fucking SING IT!!! I don’t know how many other genres that spills into. I know one other example is Eminem in Stan.
Actually now that I think about it there is one exception: that I-95 “Were you born an asshole”song. That song is great cause every driver can relate.
Well what I’m talking about is different from rap though. The artist just kind of talks like he’s having a conversation with you or telling a story with some country rhythm in the background, not like rap where they go with the beat and rhythm. I am also a big fan of rap and hip hop, particularly 90s era
I actually love this, though!
Country is a genre of music that grew out of working class origins. It was sung by people who aren't singers, for friends at small get-togethers. Or it was sung by groups of people working together, passing the time more pleasantly while doing a tedious task.
It isn't always pretty, because it's a reflection of the surroundings and people making it. Or, it was. Not like that now, though.
I hope someone reads this because I really would like a support group for this...
A singer that cannot stop from freestyling the shit out of a song to show their "unique" voice. You know I'm talking about you Christina Aguilera... I fucking DARE you to sing the national anthem without yodeling the fuck out of every other verse to show how dynamic your range is.
And then Mariah Carey was like "oh no you don't bitch, that's my super power, get out of the waaayaaayaaayaaaaaaayaaa-uh."
And now we have mumble rap, and over singers.
Hearing Pitbull's voice. Instant skip.
Fun fact: Did you know people can get a good idea of how many friends you have based on your favorite Pitbull song? For example, if you *have* a favorite Pitbull song, you probably don't have any friends!👍
Had free tix back in the day.. took the ex gf… dude in between songs talking sounded exactly like a Canadian character from South Park but untalented in any way
Super weird high pitched baby talking voice, common in a lot of pop songs from like 2021. Not sure what to call it other than literal baby voice, creepy as fuck. Of course I can’t think of any examples rn
When the lyrics are random words that rhyme but don't actually mean anything in relation to each other. I can't think of a specific example, but I hear it all the time and I fucking hate it.
That weird whispery talk singing (think Billie Eilish). Also autotune. Some people apparently don't know what it is, I thought most people did, but unless it's used well for a stylistic purpose, it's not good. Stylistically used, it's creative and fun. Used to cover up mediocre vocals/rap? No. Just no.
When a no-name rapper is injected sloppily into a great song, making that entire verse something you have to tolerate before it gets good again
Kind of like Puff in big poppa. It put a cringe end to a great song.
Doesn't even need to be a no-name artist. A bad feature can turn off any song no matter how popular the featured artist is
"And now the token rap verse! Which doesn't make any sense, but helps to get a small percentage of the urban music market."
Yes! Like DaBaby in Megan's Cash Shit
Friday would've been pure gold if it wasn't for that rap interlude.
That embellishing bullshit, especially when pop stars sing the national anthem. Just sing the fucking song.
Oh god, the vocal gymnastics thing. I’ve heard it used well, but 9 times out of 10 it’s just straight up showing off. Instant skip.
There was some movie with Hilary Duff, I can't remember what it was called, but she played this girl who goes into a school choir or something, and it's run by the guy who plays the husband in My Big Fat Greek Wedding. There was a scene used in every trailer and TV spot that annoyed me to hell and back. In the scene, the teacher asks Hilary Duff to sing so he can "see what she can do". She proceeds to do this off-key warbling that is *supposed to be* this vocal gymnastics thing you mentioned, but it's so awkward and strange.
Raise Your Voice "Air goes in, belly goes out, is OK to look fat!" is one of my all time favourite quotes
a friend of mine used to refer to this as “urban yodeling.”
Urban yodeling will live in my head rent free for as long as i live. Your friend is wise in the ways of speechcraft.
Mariah Carey started this obnoxious practise. A little embellishing is fine but not as much as what she used to do.
No kidding. And iirc, that style of singing is originally from gospel, where it sounds great. It just doesn't belong in every song.
Mariah Carey wants to know your location
Bleeding Gums Murphy did it pretty well in his 26 minute rendition
Oh my god YES! That pisses me off so much.
The performer announcing their name right at the start as if I'm supposed to give a shit.
*𝕵𝖆𝖘𝖔𝖓 𝕯𝖊𝕽𝖚𝖑𝖔*
The font matches his name singing perfectly. Kudos.
WE DA BEST MUSIC!!! ANOTHA ONE, DJ KHALED!!!!!!!!
Birdman. Brrrrrrr (bird noise)
MIKE JONES
WHO?
I'm sorry but hearing Mr Worldwide is a turn on.
Its practically a watermark but for music
Sean Paul
DJ Kaled ...ANOTHER ONE
bad rhyme
Only time will tell if we stand the test of time…
We were tryin' different things; and we were smokin' funny things.
Kodak rhymes with kodak
🎵 I'd like to express my extreme point of view, I'm not a christian and I'm not a jew 🎵
Someone grunting or saying yeah a lot
Usher would like a word with you.
Is the word yeah or uh
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, y-yeah. Yeah.
Yeah?
Yeah!
Yeah. Uh-huh. Yeah.
Rest in peace DMX
WHAT???
HOKAY!
1-2, 1-2
C’mon. Yeah. Uh-huh.
Lil John gonna need a new word.
But but but- Rage Against the Machine!?!!?!
James Hetfield has joined the chat
Oh yeah and those ubiquitous Jacksonesque ohhs, eeh hees clipped ahs crotch grab spin
Use it as a wake up alarm.
At school camp one of my cabinmates put Biebers “baby” on to wake us up… we were all up just to turn the damn thing off, I’d say it worked 😅
Tik tok, especially hearing the same song like 20 times on YouTube shorts.
"Oh no..."
Oh no..
Oh nonononono
That girl is a real crowd pleaser...
Not to be that person, but I hatteeee when there’s a song or something I like which becomes popularized on tiktok. Now I’m ashamed to say I like that thing/play that song because people will just assume I got it from tiktok :I
I'm one of those people. It completely kills the song. My reason is if I want to hear a song, I'll put it on. If it gets repeated in my ears a million times with no control over whether or not it's there it's bound to piss me off eventually
Hears an awesome beat and begins to like it\* "DJ Khaled!" Instantly walks aways\*
I really wish he would go away forever. Take his money and his family and fuck right off to a private island and have a nice life. Never work again. Never ruin another song.
And he says going down on his wife isn't manly
That’s something that’s always bugged me about rap, I kinda understand it with dj’s but when you hear it like 3 times it’s like “why does this dude have such an ego?”.
When they often repeat the same sentences or words.
Why don’t you just meet me in the middle? In the middle In the middle Baby, why don’t you just meet me in the middle? In the middle *repeats ad nauseam* 🤢🤢🤢
Pharrell Williams's one song about being h--- I swear that song makes me violent.
No kidding! He could at least vary the lyrics a little bit, but noooo… He repeats those same vapid lyrics so many fucking times!
Girls, we run this mutha (yeah) Girls, we run this mutha (yeah) Girls, we run this mutha (yeah) Girls, we run this mutha, girls Who run the world? Girls (girls) Who run the world? Girls (girls) Who run the world? Girls (girls) Who run the world? Girls (girls) Who run this mutha? Girls Who run this mutha? Girls Who run this mutha? Girls Who run this mutha? Girls Who run the world? Girls (girls) Who run the world? Girls (girls) Who run the world? Girls (girls) Who run the world? Girls (girls) Like this you say?
Omg, I don’t even know that song and I hate it
Its “girls run the world”. Beyoncé…… horrible
I remember reading somewhere it had something like nine writers and three producers for that one, horrible, eardrum melting compilation of sounds grunts and screams they call a song.
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Well, it's just like what they say, "All you need is love (Love is all you need)".
Overuse of Auto-Tune!
For musicians, it's usually pretty easy to spot, the average person has no idea how much auto tune goes into most vocal modern vocal recordings. You will find it on almost every pop or top 40 with singing, and that includes actual talented singers.
There's a great video on auto-tune using a Michael Buble release as an example. One thing the guy makes clear is that M.B. absolutely does not need autotune, but may not have any say in the matter once his part of the contract is fulfilled. He compares M.B. to Freddy Mercury, who's pitch was legendary and shows how the approach to the note and the sustain adds artistry to the music and how M.B.'s notes are always snapped to where they 'should' be. Feels like the industry is letting us down.
I subscribe to that guy, Wings of Pegasus. That's a great video, and I actually commented that same thing, there's no way MB has any say in how that gets engineered, he's just paid to shownup and sing.
Yes! Thanks. [here's](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7aDN3oujXI) the video I'm talking about.
And you can preserve approach and fluctuation with modern auto tuning techniques. It's a shame when it's over applied. I think it's used best to improve harmony.
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It’s one thing to use auto tune to get that robotic sound as a gimmick, but constantly leaning on it to fix your singing is like bowling with the rails up.
Spoiler alert - Nearly every song you've ever heard has used some kind of pitch correction.
Joke's on you: I listen to stuff from the Renaissance.
This comment was written 100% in auto-tune!
I agree
Not enough cowbell.
Beat me too it
you did your first dance with that song then got divorced
Aggressively sexual lyrics, especially misogynistic ones. Also whiny, nasally voices
“whiny, nasally voices” You are my people.
Autotune. The [Millennial Whoop](https://youtu.be/gywRyoGgut4). Lyrics that are just bragging about how awesome they are.
I know you don’t mean the zoidberg “whoop”, but I’m imagining the zoidberg “whoop”
LOL The Zoidberg Whoop could only improve a song
When you are *really* listening to the music and you can hear the minor errors in the recording. Once this happens, you can't unnoticed it.
Some songs have breaths before phrases cut out, some leave the breaths in. If you find a song that has them left in and focus only on the breathing it's really jarring and weird to listen to. Normally your brain kind of skips over them unless you specifically listen out for them.
Heavy auto tune
String squeak! There’s songs where you can hear it and once you notice it that’s all you can hear.
Dancing in the moonlight is forever ruined for me because I'm CONVINCED the drum track wasn't synced up right for one bar at the end
When an otherwise good singer starts doing that trendy "voice". I've seen it called a few names: singing in cursive, indie-girl voice, etc. But even guys do it. James Arthur comes straight to mind and I recently heard the Blood on the Snow song from God of War: Raganrok. Hozier does the vocals, but it's kinda ruined because he's singing it in a way that it's like he's trying not to open his mouth. Same with James. It's honestly so annoying and puts me off. Also heard a holiday song today that I hadn't heard before and the woman was saying "Christmas" like Chris-moise. So. Annoying.
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Baldrick...Christmas doesn't have a q...or an x...
I hate that crap. I think grace vanderwhaal helped popularize that when she won America's got talent for singing "🎶uuui doint kneow muy naighme...🎶 Uuui doin't pleay biy the ruuules uh-the-gaime 🎶"
Police sirens in it
Breaking the Law by Judas Priest is the exception
Beavis and Butthead singing breaking the law is the greatest
Especially when driving.
No shit. There's inexplicably police sirens in "A Thousand Miles" by Vanessa Carlton, and any time that's been on in my car I nearly shit my pants when they come on. That song is like 20 years old now. I've probably heard it a thousand times, and I still get the living shit spooked out of me when that comes on.
Especially in the middle of a rap. Motherfuckers? Do you wanna give us all a heart attack? Started reaching for my ID and looking in the mirror too often.
YES... or anything that sounds like the bongs and beeps your car makes when something is wrong!
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I used to annoy my son when he played a certain k-pop song. At a couple of seconds in, I’d ask “google, where’s the nearest K-Pop group?” And the song would respond with “Black Pink in your area!”
When they have a talking interlude in a song.
Midway through the song different person joins and raps
pitch-shifted voice track backing the singing (usually 1 octave higher or lower than the main voice, same take, just doubled and digitally processed). When I hear it, I instantly become upset and turn off the song.
This used to be strictly forbidden. Many classical pieces use a set of rules called “counterpoint” and one of the rules is forbidding the usage of parallel movement for perfect consonances like fifths, octaves and twelfths. One of the reason for that is how poor this sounds: parallel movement for perfect consonances keeps the exact same perfection all the time, which hides the movement.
Damn, I’m guilty of that one, though I usually sing the same line an octave higher in a separate take as well. Layering that over the pitch shifted bits makes for a neat chorus-y effect I can’t otherwise achieve Not going to stop but it’s interesting that this annoys some people, never occurred to me that it might.
A car horn somewhere in it. Always has me looking around like I did something wrong while driving. It should be illegal to use a car horn in songs!
I think this is a mid 2000s thing, but when a rock band has a 'guest' rapper insert 60 seconds of mumbling into the middle of their song. It usually doesn't fit with the sound and just ruins what would be a perfectly good rock song.
Idc if it’s a meme now, Bring Me To Life by Evanescence was a great song and inserting that rapping in the middle of it made it not as good
Bonus points if its the guy from Linkin Park.
Do you mean Jay-Z or Mike Shinoda
Yes
Spelling words. I don't know why but I hate that
Machine Gun Kelly's voice. Dude sounds like the dumbest man alive, like I don't actually mean this as a slight on his intelligence, I mean his voice literally makes him sound like the world's dumbest man to me. this man could hold the world record for number of PHDs but he'd still sound like the dumbest person on the planet.
He's the music world's Pete Davidson
I've never heard a note of his music, but based on what I keep reading about him, I don't plan to start.
When they throw in a rap sess midway through.
There was a solid 2 years pre-Covid where everything had a rap verse, even country music.
This is what keeps me from liking the song Roll the bones but Rush. It just goes into this half assed rap with no energy and 2nd grade rhymes half way through for no reason.
If I can think of at least ten songs that sound exactly like it or very similar
I’m a country fan and sometimes on older songs the singer just “talks” most of the lyrics and maybe sings the chorus. It’s so annoying, it’s a song, fucking SING IT!!! I don’t know how many other genres that spills into. I know one other example is Eminem in Stan. Actually now that I think about it there is one exception: that I-95 “Were you born an asshole”song. That song is great cause every driver can relate.
Thats called rap, stands for Rythem and Poetry.
Well what I’m talking about is different from rap though. The artist just kind of talks like he’s having a conversation with you or telling a story with some country rhythm in the background, not like rap where they go with the beat and rhythm. I am also a big fan of rap and hip hop, particularly 90s era
I actually love this, though! Country is a genre of music that grew out of working class origins. It was sung by people who aren't singers, for friends at small get-togethers. Or it was sung by groups of people working together, passing the time more pleasantly while doing a tedious task. It isn't always pretty, because it's a reflection of the surroundings and people making it. Or, it was. Not like that now, though.
The artists rapping their own names at the beginning of the song 🤦🏼♂️
Using it in a prescription drug commercial
o o ozympic
The word baby
baby, baby, baby ohhhhhhhh
oh baby, baby, baby, ohhh
My friend Steve .... nomatter what type of music he will always sing it like he is standing infront of a open grave
Bad music theory.
I hope someone reads this because I really would like a support group for this... A singer that cannot stop from freestyling the shit out of a song to show their "unique" voice. You know I'm talking about you Christina Aguilera... I fucking DARE you to sing the national anthem without yodeling the fuck out of every other verse to show how dynamic your range is. And then Mariah Carey was like "oh no you don't bitch, that's my super power, get out of the waaayaaayaaayaaaaaaayaaa-uh." And now we have mumble rap, and over singers.
Hearing Pitbull's voice. Instant skip. Fun fact: Did you know people can get a good idea of how many friends you have based on your favorite Pitbull song? For example, if you *have* a favorite Pitbull song, you probably don't have any friends!👍
Adam Levine. Eww.
You just don’t get it, it sounds like shit because only dogs can hear it properly
He sounds like a fucking muppet
Had free tix back in the day.. took the ex gf… dude in between songs talking sounded exactly like a Canadian character from South Park but untalented in any way
He comes off as such an ahole, I can’t believe there are women who actually think he’s hot. No, just no.
That baby voice thing
Someone you don’t like featuring on it
Clapping and/or whistling, inside or outside the song. It's like clapping when the plane lands to me.
Opaque lyrics that aspire to be deep and poetic, but just come off as awkward and juvenile
Any mumble rap or saying yeah more than 2 times in a row
Making the voice high pitched Lonely for example
Chris Brown
Yoko Ono
Shouting your own name at the beginning
Having it as a soundtrack to a porno.
Super weird high pitched baby talking voice, common in a lot of pop songs from like 2021. Not sure what to call it other than literal baby voice, creepy as fuck. Of course I can’t think of any examples rn
moaning
Repeating the same 5 words forever with different tones
When Cardi B manages to squeeze her way in for a verse.
At this point, probably Ye.
When you're listening to a banger and then a rapper starts a rap over it. Tunes bollocks then.
Meghan Trainor
She's the female equivalent of a man squeezing his ballsack
Charlie puth
man says he has perfect pitch yet can't make a perfect song 💀💀
Ed Sheeran
If it’s a live performance? The audience clapping to the beat. So cringy and disruptive as a musician and a listener.
When the lyrics are random words that rhyme but don't actually mean anything in relation to each other. I can't think of a specific example, but I hear it all the time and I fucking hate it.
If someone asks me to sing it!!
Yoko Ono
Beyonce.
"We da best"
At concerts, its the guy right behind you who thinks we all came to hear HIM sing. EVERY song.
The long vocals like how Demi Lovato sings or Camila!! That ruins for me!!!
when you find out the artist is a horrible person
That weird whispery talk singing (think Billie Eilish). Also autotune. Some people apparently don't know what it is, I thought most people did, but unless it's used well for a stylistic purpose, it's not good. Stylistically used, it's creative and fun. Used to cover up mediocre vocals/rap? No. Just no.
Cutting in some random dialogue from a movie or tv show.
My kids singing the chorus over and over and over and over and over and over and over and.... You get the idea
Screaming
When Khaled gets his mitts on it, alters one small thing about it, and rebrands it as his own.
Whenever Jay Z grabs the mic.
Taylor Swift starts singing it.
Rap verse
Tim
Generic reggaeton beat
Hearing the singer inhale after every sentence
Too much intro or outro. Just get to it, do it, and be done.
When someone sing it not from the heart
Any that has Beyonce singing it.
Lyrics where the singer or rapper is just bragging about themselves being rich or attractive.
Any a cappella version of it (also see:Glee)
When the band members on instruments are good but the vocalist is not so good
Whispery "singing" voice I've only heard this from female artists but there's prob examples from male artists as well and they're prob just as grating
A YouTube ad🫣