Most overrated female vocalist

[cherish44]

Stevie Nicks in my opinion. She wrote some exquisite songs but I've never liked her singing voice.

[XemaSab]

1. Britney

Duh. :P

[Common Sense Party]

2. I don't recall ANYONE ever praising her voice.

Here other...assets are responsible for her fame.

Hell, how COULD anyone praise her voice? You can't even hear it, it's been so overdubbed and modified to cover up the embarrassing fact that SHE CAN'T SING.

[Orrex]

8. I agree with you, but...

A few years back I saw some sort of Entertainment Tonight story on her, and it featured clips from her childhood. Back then, it seemed, she had a terrific voice. I wonder what happened to it and when we last heard it!

[Beer Snob-50]

17. Maybe it is due to the type of shit she "sings"

Instead of the overly augumented crap she does, if she did something simplier (and maybe took better care of herself) it would improve.

[blue_onyx]

37. The reason she sounds different is because

her record company got her a vocal coach when they first signed her to help her sing in a higher pitch. They wanted her voice to be more "pop."

I'm a Britney fan and I do think she can sing. She's no Celine Dion but I think people are overly hard on her.

[blue_onyx]

38. She can sing

I don't think it's overly modified. When she sings live (which she did more often when she first started out), she sounded pretty much like she does on the CD. She is more known as an entertainer not so much a singer but there's nothing wrong with that.

[MrsBrady]

6. never thought of her as a singer nt

[Robeson]

3. Well, you pretty much took the wind out of my sails with your choice.

[jobycom]

4. Ann Coulter's. She has nothing to say, really. Can't people see that?

[denem]

5. Madonna - with or with out all the voice training .

[PassingFair]

13. Madonna is all bluster...

but the one who really makes me CRINGE is
Ashley Simpson.

She is a SYMBOL of mediocrity excelling
with hype.

She can neither sing, nor dance, she
went under the surgeon's knife to conform
to the current "beauty" trends, her hair
color changes every week, and NOW she
is famous for HAVING A BABY, that she
named Bronx Mowgli.

I should not have to know ANYTHING
about this woman.

Don't know if she qualifies for this
thread, because she TECHNICALLY isn't
over-rated, just famous.

I don't know any one who likes her, except
for my husband, who felt sorry for her after
she exposed herself for the complete talentless
sham that she is on Saturday Night Live.

[Glorfindel]

7. Celine Dion - WAY overrated

She has some talent, but attacks every song she sings as if it's a foe she needs to vanquish. Most underrated? Judy Collins. She has the voice of an angel.

[Bertha Venation]

10. + 1 on both counts

[Orrex]

9. Jewel

I once heard someone opine that at any gathering of 50 random people, at least two of them will sing better than Jewel. I don't know that she's ever really tried to pass herself off as a great singer, but she's not that great a lyricist, either.

[TNDemo]

11. Stevie Nicks, Cher and Reba McIntyre.

Of course with Cher if you slow down her music she sounds like Mr. Ed.

[Symarip]

12. Gwen Stefani

She has an alright sounding voice, but she has no range or dynamics. When she sings high, she sounds like a goat. In the super early No Doubt days (pre Tragic Kingdom), they would hide her shortcomings behind the horn section and keys. When they made the switch to a more pop/rock sound, it became pretty apparent Gwen can't sing very well at all. And she's as dumb as a box of rocks.

I might be a little biased considering she threw a beer in my face when I was 16.

[Rob H.]

28. I always think of "Family Guy" now whenever I hear her

Brian: I don't know what a 'Hollaback Girl' is--all I know is that I want her dead.

And she threw a beer in your face? How'd that happen?

Edit: spelling

[Symarip]

31. It's weird saying this in public: In 1991 I was a huge No Doubt fan

I don't know why. They were actually quite spectacular back then. I think my club first show was No Doubt and Sublime at the World Beat Center. They were this really great Ska band. Huge, too. They had 10 people on stage. Just this great wall of sound.

So some years go by, and I had seen them some 10 to 15 times. Then, they went dark for 9 months or so. They finally came back and did a series of shows the beginning Summer of 93 at the LA Troubador. It was the beginning of the 'I'm Just a Girl' phase. Gone were the Rude Boys, Punks, Skinheads and everything else that made their shows exciting. Her brother had departed and though Gwen was always the leadsinger, in the years prior you always got the feeling it was Eric's band. Now, they were just a pop band.

It was horrible.

So. I told them so. In the middle of their set.

Here's a transcript of what was said:

Me: Hey. You suck.

Gwen: Uh, what?

Me: Don't play stupid. You heard me and you suck.

Gwen: Oh, you're a real cool guy, aren't you?

Me: Thanks for noticing :)

Gwen: FUCK YOU PRICK RAWR

And then she dumped a beer on me, a fight broke out (oddly enough, I wasn't involved) and I was ejected.

~fin

[cherish44]

47. I'm with you on that one

She's mediocre

[Pool Hall Ace]

14. I'm going to get pelted for this, but

I'm going to say Whitney Houston. Lots of people loved her rendition of the Star-Spangled Banner, but it made me cringe. x(

[SoxFan]

21. I'm with you

She's a showboat, more interested in showing off her chops thatn with making the song work.

Compare her histrionic version of "I Will Always Love You" to Dolly Parton's beautiful original. Dolly owns her.

[Rob H.]

25. Absolutely right

She needs to be told that yelling is not the same as singing.

[JCMach1]

42. No soul in her voice... in retrospect it was the coke

:(

[no name no slogan]

48. Agreed.

I always thought of Whitney as being more of a "vocal stylist" than a singer. It seems time has borne this out, too.

[Pool Hall Ace]

57. Then I guess I was wrong about being pelted!

So many people I spoke with seemed to think her rendition of the National Anthem was so wonderful. And I Will Always Love You -- aye yi yi!

[MadMaddie]

60. Well she wasn't too bad before the crack years...

[Captain Hilts]

62. I've got your back on this one. nt

[HughBeaumont]

65. Pelted? Not on your life.

"AND IIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIYYYYYYYYIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIII . . . WILL ALLWAYS LOOOVE YOUUUUUUUUUUOUOUOUOUOUOOUUUUOOOUUU"

DAMN I hate that rendition of that song and I really really REALLY really hate her voice. She went from being a merely tolerable R&B singer to a wailer that stomps the hell out of every note after tossing it in the air for half a dozen flips. Spine seeking and not at all listen-worthy. Bad bad BAD.

[Auggie]

15. Cher

[dembotoz]

26. she can't act either

[soleft]

64. Snap out of it!

[KansDem]

50. I agree...

Her "fall offs" drove me up the wall!
________
"fall off" is a term used in pop music to denote a singer or instrumentalist ending a note by executing a glissando downward...

[OmahaBlueDog]

16. Amy Winehouse

[Zomby Woof]

18. Mariah Carey

Yeah, she can do vocal loop-de-loops and gymnastics, but so what? She is so utterly devoid of soul, and her music so devoid of lasting value, that it renders her voice a triumph of form over content.

[SoxFan]

19. She's the reason God created the mute button

That damn high-pitched squeal thing of hers makes my teeth hurt.

Very easy on the eyes, though.

[mitchum]

29. Agreed; she is also the queen of the punch in...she can hit those notes...

just not in sequence or in real time

[SoxFan]

20. Whitney Houston

All technique and showboat chops.

Compare Dolly Parton's understated "I Will Always Love You" to Whitney's yowl fest, and you will see what I mean.

[Zomby Woof]

22. Agreed

She got the ball rolling on the over-enunciating, ever-quavering vocal diva phenomenon that gave us Carey, et al.

[no name no slogan]

23. Dolores O'Riordan from the Cranberries

Her warbling sounds like a goose getting dismembered with a chainsaw. And the fact that she made some choice racist comments about blacks in the early 90s just seals the deal.

I still maintain that the only reason the Cranberries ever had success was because the record companies were looking for the next Sinead O'Connor.

[MrCoffee]

27. Yes, yes, a thousand times yes.

[nytemare]

24. Beyonce.

If they play that damned "Upgrade" commercial again once football season arrives, I may have to pull an Elvis on my TV set.

Shitty lyrics, no melody, just over-embellishment. That's Beyonce. And the girl in the cubicle next to me sets her radio to a station that only plays 8 songs every 40 minutes, and that stupid "Oh oh oh oh oh oh, oh oh oh Uh oh oh" song it in it. I am going to have to ask her to get ear plugs because all the 8 songs are irritating.

[blue_onyx]

54. If I had to pick one overrated singer

it would Beyonce too. She really isn't that great of a singer. She's a good singer but nothing special. I'm not a fan of her music either. Plus, it annoys me that she claims to write her own music which she doesn't.

[nytemare]

56. Even if she did write it....

it's not much of an accomplishment. Not like the lyrics have a lot of thought put into them.

I mean, really...


Cause if you liked it then you should have put a ring on it
If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it
Don't be mad once you see that he want it
If you liked it then you should have put a ring on it
Wuh Uh Oh Uh Uh Oh Uh Oh Oh Uh Uh Oh
Wuh Uh Oh

That's some stellar songwriting, there.

[merh]

30. Jessica Simpson

that "gasping for air" sound she makes in an attempt to be sultry is awful.

[Shell Beau]

33. She is terrible, and her singing face...

:puke:

[merh]

35. looks like we aren't alone

her country music record label dropped her this week.

[Shell Beau]

36. Really? Tough road ahead for Miss Simpson!

I guess she can't live off of her reality show forever.

[MrPerson]

40. Does she sing? I had no idea.

[blue_onyx]

41. When she released her first song

the media compared her to Mariah Carey. She is nowhere near that level of singing talent. I think she's tries to be a Mariah type singer which ends up making her sound weird.

[Shell Beau]

32. I don't care for Stevie's voice myself. Not to say she isn't a fine

musician, but South Park almost ruined me on her, bbaaaahhhh!

[Lydia Leftcoast]

34. Charlotte Church

She has a good voice, but her technique is terrible, and you can hear her straining.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

43. It's because she should have been studying with someone when

she was being booked as "the voice of an angel" and making her fortune.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

49. Yep. Too nasal and too young.

I saw her on Oprah's show and was APPALLED.

The Teenaged Tonsil Terror.....yuck.

Also Mariah Carey, Madonna and Britney and Stevie Nicks.


OTOH, Celine Dion is technically quite good (Don't laugh, I took voice lessons (opera) for two years and studied Italian) and so is Cyndi Lauper.

[GoddessOfGuinness]

53. Celine Dion's got the chops, but she leaves me cold.

It seems like her dynamic range consists of loud and louder, and I just don't hear any emotional depth. Maybe I'd feel differently if I heard her without acoustic enhancement products.

[TheMightyFavog]

39. Macy Gray.

Her voice sounds like the bastard child of Isabel Sanford and Donald Duck.

[cherish44]

45. Amen to that!

Her voice is awful

[GoddessOfGuinness]

55. ...

:spray:

[cherish44]

44. I agree with Cher, I don't like Alanis Morrisette's voice either.

Sarah MacLaughlin's voice is very flat in my opinion. (I'll get flamed all to hell for this but I'm not one for the breathy type of singers, I like girls who can wail on it)

[TZ]

46. Damn. I think Landslide is a fantastic vocal

But I seem to like singers that don't have conventional sounding voices..(Geddy Lee).
I LOVE Stevie Nicks

[KansDem]

51. Mrs. Miller

Greatest Hits

From Wikipedia--
Elva Ruby Connes (October 5, 1907 – July 5, 1997), who recorded under the name Mrs. Elva Miller (and usually simply called "Mrs. Miller"), was an American singer who gained some notoriety in the 1960s for her versions of popular songs like "Moon River", "Monday, Monday", "A Lover's Concerto", and "Downtown" rendered in an untrained, Mermanesque, vibrato-laden voice, often out of tune and off the beat. Her whistling, which was equally wobbly, also featured on a number of her records. According to Irving Wallace, David Wallechinsky, and Amy Wallace in The Book of Lists 2, her voice was often compared to the sound of "roaches scurrying across a trash can lid."

[blondeatlast]

52. Beyonce. nt

[bbernardini]

58. Sheryl Ho.

RIP Kevin Gilbert.

[mvd]

59. Here's a list

Bjork (sorry, bif, we agree on lots of other things,) Celine Dion, Mariah Carey, PJ Harvey (pretty good voice, just overrated,) Pat Benatar, Jessica Simpson, Christina Aguilera, Santigold, Lily Allen, Barbara Mandrell, Lady GaGa, M.I.A...

BTW, Stevie is one of my favorite singers.

[Xipe Totec]

61. Barbra Streisand. No Contest.

She's good, bu not THAT good.

[applegrove]

63. I like Stevie Nicks cause I can sing some of her songs. Other than that I'm tone deaf.