"singer tendencies"

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So I was chucking some emails around with a musician friend of mine who's in quite a successful band that are on a break at the moment, and he's working on a couple of projects, one of which is producing a young band's demos and giving them some studio experience and so on.

Anyway, he was telling me that they're very good and they rock and that "the singer has star quality and a strong voice (though he has singer tendencies which is tiring)" and the phrase "singer tendencies" jumped out at me, largely because the singer in my friend's band definitely demonstrates "singer tendencies".

Then it struck me that, like true love, "singer tendencies" is something that I think I recognise instantly but don't actually have a codified, linear list of qualities for.

So... what are "singer tendencies"? Which singers in which bands are typical of them? Who avoids them?

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:15 (nineteen years ago)

I'm imagining a certain kind of damaged egotism, a rashness of judgement, a general lack of attention to detail juxtaposed by too much attention to some detail (that may not be relevant)...

― Scik Mouthy, Thursday, 17 May 2007 09:18 (nineteen years ago)

Though, to be fair, they are golden gods.

― Binjominia, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:48 (nineteen years ago)

I think that emo-esque gracenoting and/or preachy cocksure laddishness are the two major blights upon most modern male pop singing. He probably needs to discover a more individual voice.

― Just got offed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:51 (nineteen years ago)

!!!!!! lj really really otm there

― lex pretend, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:52 (nineteen years ago)

Through my job on the music committee of my radio station I'm being exposed to a hell of a lot of chart pop, and things are becoming rapidly apparent. That most of them can't sing in anything approaching an interesting way is perhaps the most painful.

― Just got offed, Thursday, 17 May 2007 20:54 (nineteen years ago)

so are we just talking about divas/prima donnas here?

we could probably categorize "singer tendencies" into two columns here: one who's a singer because they have the best voice in the band or have 'the look' or some kind of star quality/ego/charisma, and one who's a singer because they're the bandleader/songwriter/auteur and have a bunch of tortured artist issues.

― Alex in Baltimore, Thursday, 17 May 2007 21:02 (nineteen years ago)

High Tendencies------>Low Tendencies

Bono------>Mark Lanegan

― MC, Thursday, 17 May 2007 21:10 (nineteen years ago)

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