Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Joined: 12/31/69
#0Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:32pmFor me, it's Meredith Braun. I understand she has a good voice, and she must be doing something right to get cast in show after show in London. Yet, I still can't stand listening to her voice. For whatever reason, it grates on my nerves, and I want to scratch my eyes out when I hear it. Do you feel that way about any ***respectable*** musical theater performer?
Born2cthelightsofbway
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/30/04
#1re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:34pmBernedette Peters
"You alone can make my song take flight, it's over now, the Music of the Night!!!!!"
Stagedoor2
Leading Actor Joined: 8/1/04
#2re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:40pm
Ethel Merman
Mandy Patinkin
Funny Face
Broadway Star Joined: 7/6/06
#4re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:43pm
Bernardette Peters
Donna Murphy
and others...
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
#5re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:43pmMaria Freidman. Great Performer, but her vocal tone is so airy and thin.
"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish
#6re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:45pm
Mandy Patinkin.
I still love him. In a "quoi?" sort of way.
#7re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:49pm
Ethel Merman
Colm Wilkinson
Mandy Patinkin
I could name many others, but I wouldn't consider them to be respected singers.
"If this is going to be a Christian nation that doesn't help the poor, either we have to pretend that Jesus was just as selfish as we are, or we've got to acknowledge that He commanded us to love the poor and serve the needy without condition and then admit that we just don't want to do it." -Stephen Colbert
neddyfrank2
Broadway Legend Joined: 12/23/05
#9re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:52pm
Carol Channing
Ethel Merman
#10re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:54pm
Thespian Geek, that one hurt me.
"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish
#11re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:58pmSherie Scott has never sounded as good on cast recordings as she has in the theatre.
#12re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 3:58pmGwen Verdon and Ann Reinking
So I was sitting in my cubicle today, and I realized, ever since I started working, every single day of my life has been worse than the day before it. So that means that every single day that you see me, that's on the worst day of my life.~Office Space
#14re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:01pmDon't get me wrong GC, I really do think she's an amazing singer but it hurts MY ears to listen to. Does that make sense? I just can't stand her vibratto, in all honesty.
#15re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:03pm
... Er, what?
Updated On: 8/24/06 at 04:03 PM
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#16re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:04pmI love Bernadette but sometimes her voice makes the hair ont he back of my neck stand up
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
#17re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:06pm
Keaton says:
"Sherie Scott has never sounded as good on cast recordings as she has in the theatre.
Really? I've always felt the opposite. It seems to me that her voice has always seemed incredibly thin on recordings, but much fuller when you hear her live"
I think you both are stating the same, yet you said you feel the opposite way?
"People have their opinions and that doesn't mean that their opinions are wrong or right. I just take it with a grain of salt because opinions are like as*holes, everyone has one".
-Felicia Finley-
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#18re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:07pmgood catch muscle. that is kinda funny.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
#19re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:08pm
Ethel Merman
Michael Crawford
Sarah Brightman
Karmine Alers
"Who says you can't bend over backwards and eat bugs if you want to? I guess the bugs would probably say you can't do that that, but assuming that they are willing and consenting bugs, then there's no problem. Let's wig out eating bugs."
-RuPaul
#20re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:09pm
I think you both are stating the same, yet you said you feel the opposite way?
Pff. I must've read MB's message three times to make sure I had it right, and I still managed to misread it. Good catch.
#21re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:09pmI forgive you, Im just gonna need some time alone, thespian geek.
"The only way we live beyond our lives is to connect and carve ourselves into the souls of those we love." -Little Fish
ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#22re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:10pm
"Karmine Alers"
yeah, that girl cannot pronounce Candle.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
#23re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:11pmDo Rosie ODonnell and Harvey Fierstein count?
#24re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves
Posted: 8/24/06 at 4:12pm
Do Rosie ODonnell and Harvey Fierstein count?
I think referring to them as "respected singers" in the first place might be controversial. :) I suppose an argument could be made for Fierstein, but certainly not Rosie O'Donnell.
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