Pre-internet, I had a song on tape by Chunky, Novi and Ernie with a completely androgynous lead vocal. The singer being named "Chunky" didn't provide a lot of guidance either.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 21 May 2022 11:55 (one year ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4JQ37KsdAs
I would have seen this video in 1984, and apparently I thought it was more likely that a man would perform in a dress (and, um, have breasts) than that a woman would be "allowed" to sing a song about another woman being her "gal".
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 21 May 2022 12:08 (one year ago) link
Keith Jarrett tells a great story of how Ornette Coleman says to him "you just have to be black" and Jarrett replies, "I'm working on it."
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, 21 May 2022 12:43 (one year ago) link
I used to think Nellee Hooper was a woman.
― MarkoP, Saturday, 21 May 2022 14:22 (one year ago) link
I first thought both Babe Ruth and Amon Duul II were fronted by men singing in Plant/Anderson/Lee register.
I thought for the longest time that Sandy Denny's parts in "Battle of Evermore" were a second Plant track, and I still have a bit of difficulty not hearing it that way.
― jmm, Saturday, 21 May 2022 14:29 (one year ago) link
Also like many people, I assumed Nick Gilder was a woman when listening to "Hot Child in the City".
― MarkoP, Saturday, 21 May 2022 14:38 (one year ago) link
For many years, I thought Irene Cara was white, and while posting this I figured out I've been wrong for many years further in assuming she was black - she's biracial!
― Vinnie, Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:48 (one year ago) link
Haha I think I heard it that way until I read otherwise at 13 or so. It was a little disappointing; I'd been really impressed by how he could just flip into such a pure tone in that register. Conversely, my friend asked "who's the babe?" when Peter Hamill switched to his pure falsetto voice on "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" (ironically, first on the line "I am a lonely man").
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Saturday, 21 May 2022 15:54 (one year ago) link
lol Sund4r ...
xp re kd lang : definitely heteronormativity probably plays a major role in some of this for when we were kids and mis-gendering based on lyrics
― sarahell, Saturday, 21 May 2022 18:09 (one year ago) link
None of my friends believe me that “goodbye horses” was sung by a woman.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 22 May 2022 02:42 (one year ago) link
Conversely, my friend asked "who's the babe?" when Peter Hamill switched to his pure falsetto voice on "A Plague of Lighthouse Keepers" (ironically, first on the line "I am a lonely man").
this part always confounds me too, his falsetto never sounds that uh...pure elsewhere
― frogbs, Sunday, 22 May 2022 02:46 (one year ago) link
Peter Hamill switched to his pure falsetto voice
My friend didn't believe that Hammill was doing the high background vocals on "Hemlock".
― Halfway there but for you, Sunday, 22 May 2022 02:48 (one year ago) link
Keith Jarrett tells a great story of how Ornette Coleman says to him "you just have to be black" and Jarrett replies, "I'm working on it."― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, May 21, 2022 8:43 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
― joni mitchell jarre (anagram), Saturday, May 21, 2022 8:43 AM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink
holy shit. i have seen many pictures of keith jarrett for many years and STILL thought he was black. i am in serious shock.
― Lavator Shemmelpennick, Sunday, 22 May 2022 14:10 (one year ago) link
I always thought the lead singer on the We Five version of "You Were On My Mind" was a man...but it was Beverly Bivens.
I still hear her voice on that song as "male" somehow.
― gjoon1, Sunday, 22 May 2022 21:24 (one year ago) link
Been listening a lot to an album by an artist with what seems like a normal woman’s first and last name. Just found out it’s a trio of dudes. The music is still excellent but can we stop doing this?— clipping. (@clppng) May 22, 2022
― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, 22 May 2022 21:28 (one year ago) link
That woman’s name: Zeze Topp
― Bob Dylan's iconic Ray Ban sunglasses (morrisp), Sunday, 22 May 2022 21:40 (one year ago) link
Alice Cooper
― Siegbran, Sunday, 22 May 2022 21:45 (one year ago) link