#pop singers

[glitchyybynature]

Man Down by Rihanna will always be my favorite song from her.

[dumpitos]

pop girlies only

[glitchyybynature]

Bruno Mars - I Just Might [Official Music Video]

I love the 70s feel to the song and video.

[apolloillustrates]

I haven’t actually watched K-Pop Demon Hunters yet, but I was inspired anyways— so I drew myself and my two best friends as Pop Singers / Monster Hunters ‼️

I may or may not make an animatic in the future to ‘How It’s Done’? But I want to finalize the designs first since these are just first draft ideas ✌🏻✌🏻

[chuckonsportsandentertainment]

Rachel Platten before the multi-platinum #1 singles.

[dorianbrightmusic]

Britney Spears is not a Soprano

Confession: the most frustrating thing I hear in pop music is the claim that Britney Spears is a soprano.

She's not – even when she's doing the very affected, fry-laden baby voice, she sounds noticeably comfortable in her lower range. While part of this is passaggio stuff, old recordings show that she didn't use to have major passaggio issues, even if her pre-fame voice is quite pushed at times. As of fame, her affected voice involves a deliberate chesty mix + compression... and possibly also a tense tongue. Honestly, it sounds pretty tense, unless she goes into her high, breathy mode, in which case she seems to be deliberately using a vocal registration flip. We don't get to hear much straight head voice – but when she sounds relaxed, she has this gorgeous low resonance. (Backup vocals in the last chorus of "If U Seek Amy" prove this nicely.) She's not a sop in the slightest – the only time she sounds remotely soprano-ish is when she's doing the deliberately flipped high stuff, which is just alto forced not to use a healthy mix and held back from working on head voice. That is not a soubrette tone! Or a lyric tone! It's just technique!

Even when people talk about her having a high voice, while I know range does not define voice type, listen to most of her big hits. She tends to sing pretty low – "Baby One More Time" has regular Eb3s, the verses of "Womanizer" sit around G#3/below, and while "Gimme More" is in a much more moderate range, the pre-choruses are still low. Britney sounds best and most relaxed below the stave, and is naturally resonant down there, even when the nasality turns off. (Note, again, that when she goes low, she sounds more relaxed, and often less affected.) She's not just a not soprano – she's not even a mezzo, but a genuine contralto.

Also – some of those supposedly bright tones in Britney's voice aren't actual vocal noises – they're post-processing. Specifically, there seems to be a very specific EQ tone involved – boosts probably around 1k and 4k, then a high-shelf boost from 10k up, as well as some rather aggressive low-shelving, all preceded by a crap tonne of compression. That, alongside autotune, makes her voice sound terribly robotic and nasal, never mind that it's actually just tonnes of mixing stuff. Her songs starting from Blackout onwards are a product of the loudness wars, and as such, that specific EQ is very consistent until her early-2010s output. But we also hear similar (if slightly less processed) stuff earlier on, especially on "I'm a Slave 4 U" and "Toxic". This means that a lot of her supposed vocal tone has been mixing all along. It's not soubrette, because it's not real resonance – her real resonance is audible only on those backups and improvs as of 2003 onwards.

[ravenoclock]

ClairI Rosinkranz’s voice is the perfect combination of Olivia Rodrigo, Maisie Peters and Tate McRae.

[stone-cold-groove]

Linda Ronstadt.