Poor Leann Rimes... Making Up Words And Changing Lyrics As She Goes Along

[arwalden]

WHAT IS WRONG with popular singers these days? I just finished watching Leanne Rimes (on the Today Show) completely massacre one of my favorite sings.

"How Do I Live Without You" becomes "Oww Doo High Ivv Without You"

Besides mumbling the words, she jumbled and transposed the words to the chorus.

And in her attempts to show off her vocal range, at times she completely abandoned the original tune and just wandered off to do her own thing with vocal gymnastics. Distracting and unnecessary. It contributed NOTHING to her performance.

She also had a difficult time in singing with the same tempo that her band was playing. It's obvious that her efforts to make dramatic tempo-changes or taking an extra beat (or two) before starting the next verse caught the band by surprise. They kept playing even though she was pausing for effect, and they kept the same tempo, even though she wanted to slow-down for effect. It was a train wreck.

Who's to blame for this? Mariah Carey? Whitney Houston? American Idol?

Whatever happened to good SOLID performances that were more about actually SINGING instead of "making it your own" and "over-interpreting" the melody. Whatever happened to holding a pure note instead of a roller-coaster ride of singing scales. In an obvious effort to show-off and out-do every other singer who does the same thing, it just gets worse and worse. They waver around and sing every note EXCEPT the right one!

Yuk! Does anyone like this? Who thinks this sounds good? Why?

Okay, rant over. Thanks for listening.

-- Allen

[russian33]

1. Your problem...watching the Today Show

:) That's where you went wrong :)

Personally, I'm listening to the best of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong right now, great CD.

[LDS Jock]

2. the great Julie Andrews never did that crap

just sing the damn song

[Butterflies]

3. Wow, I couldn't agree with you more!

I didn't see the Leann Rimes performance you're referring to, but I've had the same peeve for a long time now. A lot of singers make a mess out of the Star Spangled Banner before sporting events too.

[johnnie]

5. There was an episode of The Simpsons

Where they went to a baseball game and the singer sang the Star Spangled Banner and they made it go on for an hour or so..lol. The singer was doing all that acrobatic stuf..it was funny.

[johnnie]

4. That 50 syllable word shit drives me crazy

I have no idea where some singers get the idea that changing the melody of a song by throwing their voice into a tizzy is impressive.
If any of those singers ever sang one of my tunes like that I would sue the shit out of them (after getting my royalties of course).
I don't want to go as far as saying that there are no good singers out there today, but there are so many of these people who have such a low level of confidence that they have to throw their voice around like a vinyl record that has been left out in the sun for a few hours.
Don't they understand that it sounds like shit?

[BurtWorm]

6. I blame Bush!

Kate Bush? The British grunge Bush? No. George W. Bush!

Seriously, I hate that kind of singing too. Perhaps the single most irritating DU flame war I got involved with was here in the Lounge over that crap. One guy who's not around any longer was trying to convince me that my inability to appreciate Mariah Carey-like warbling made me like the old foagies in the 1950s who couldn't stand "that rock and roll racket." (Clue to anyone who really believes that: rock and roll was ANTI-conformity!) :eyes:

[terrya]

7. It almost makes you wish they'd just lip sync.

But, as we've seen, lip syncing can result in some really embarrassing moments....

T

[PROGRESSIVE1]

8. What problems/situations CONTRIBUTED to this.....

1)This is the "Today Show" (a.k.a Government Propaganda) so nothing they say on this show really makes any sense to start with.

2)This is Country "Music", so what did you expect. Honky Tonk that actually means something? :eyes:

3)There is a general lack of talent in today's pool of "singers".

[Aristus]

9. That stuff drives me crazy! Example: the "make-it-your-own"

Star Spangled Banner:


OOOOOOOOOOOOOOH-whoa-whoa-whoa-Oh-whoaoooooooooooooooooooooo-OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-who-awhoa-oHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH-OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO-whoa-whoa-whoa-whoa-WHOA..........

...say, can you SEEEEEEEEEEEEE!


Like the man said: Sing the damn song!