Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves- Page 5

[Elphaba3]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#100

Posted: 8/25/06 at 5:32pm

Carol Channing
Angela Lansbury
Mary Martin
Bebe Neuwirth
Ann Reinking
Chita Rivera
Gwen Verdon

^Great performers, bad singers
Updated On: 8/25/06 at 05:32 PM

[Elphaba3]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#101

Posted: 8/25/06 at 5:32pm

sorry, double post Updated On: 8/25/06 at 05:32 PM

[inlovewithjerryherman]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#102

Posted: 8/25/06 at 6:01pm

I'm really stunned so many people don't like Audra.

I think a lot of the performers mentioned thus far are among those performers that "you just have to see". For example, I could NEVER. EVER. listen to the Hello, Dolly! OBC because of Carol Channing, then I saw her on tour and I can't stop listening to her. Performers with a great "uniqueness" to their voice, such as Merman, Channing, LuPone, Patinkin, and Liza I think don't always transfer well to record - part of their magic is their skill as a performer, rather than just as sheer singers. (note: I love all of those I mentioned above - there are very few people I don't like, actually, as whom I mentioned before.)

[Elphaba3]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#103

Posted: 8/25/06 at 7:26pm

Alan Cumming is yet another one. I used to hate Sarah Uriarte Berry's voice, but it's grown on me.

[CurtisTaylorJr2]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#104

Posted: 8/25/06 at 7:37pm

Liza Minelli

[Becoz_i_knew_you21]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#105

Posted: 8/25/06 at 7:42pm

"Julie Andrews
Kerry Butler
Norbert Leo Butz
Kristin Chenoweth
Victoria Clark
Patti Cohenour
Erin Dilly
Eden Espinosa
Hunter Foster
Sutton Foster
Judy Garland
Hugh Jackman
Shirley Jones
Ted Keegan
Lorna Luft
Idina Menzel
Liza Minnelli
Marni Nixon
Bernadette Peters
Sherie Rene Scott"

Was that poeple you did or didn't like?

[Unknown User]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#106

Posted: 8/25/06 at 7:44pm

Marisa Jaret Winokur

I don't know if you would consider her respected, but that voice-- gosh.

[smiles]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#107

Posted: 8/25/06 at 7:48pm

kristin Chenoweth

[musicaltheater1]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#108

Posted: 8/25/06 at 8:05pm

Bernadette Peters
Ethel Merman
Judy Garland
Hugh Jackman
Liza Minelli
Carol Channing
Bebe Neuwirth
Ann Reinking
Chita Rivera
Mandy Patinkin

"I love acting. It is so much more real than life." Oscar Wilde
"After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music." Aldous Huxley

[RubyRose]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#109

Posted: 8/25/06 at 8:12pm

Mandy Patinkin
Michael Crawford
Occasionally Sarah Brightman depending on the song
And Eartha Kitt

[Elphaba3]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#110

Posted: 8/25/06 at 9:19pm

Becoz_i_knew_you21, those are the people I do like.

[smiles]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#111

Posted: 8/25/06 at 9:31pm

oh and I forgot....the girl who plays the original "Kate Monster" in AVE. Q

[afaye11]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#112

Posted: 8/25/06 at 10:16pm

Two Words...

Ethel Merman

[mustard]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#113

Posted: 8/26/06 at 2:00pm

People like Ann Reinking and Gwen Verdon are DANCERS, not singers. They wouldn't be classified as "respected singers."

[Janelle188]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#114

Posted: 8/26/06 at 4:48pm

Sarah Brightman.

Granted, I am more annoyed by watching her sing than just listening, because I can't stand her blank, wide-eyed gape, but her voice still just annoys the crap out of me.

[HeartandMusic]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#115

Posted: 8/26/06 at 4:52pm

Ethel Merman.

[JustABroadwaybaby2]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#116

Posted: 8/26/06 at 7:26pm

Sutton Foster when she does an "ooooo" sounds like Grace Adler singing. All of you that watch will and grace will understand.

"I'm thinking about how if you took the W in answer, and the H in ghost, and the extra A in aardvark, and the T in listen, you could keep saying WHAT but no one would ever hear you because the whole word would be silent." Please support BC/EFA at goodsearch.com! Search for anything, and your charity will get a cent!

[dancingthrulife04]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#117

Posted: 8/26/06 at 8:25pm

Carol. Channing.

http://www.beintheheights.com/katnicole1 (Please click and help me win!) I chose, and my world was shaken- So what?
The choice may have been mistaken, The choosing was not... "Every day has the potential to be the greatest day of your life." - Lin-Manuel Miranda "And when Idina Menzel is singing, I'm always slightly worried that her teeth are going to jump out of her mouth and chase me." - Schmerg_the_Impaler

[everythingtaboo]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#118

Posted: 8/27/06 at 12:17am

Chenowith. No particular reason.

Hugh Jackman. Just because he always seems a little off-key.

"Hey little girls, look at all the men in shiny shirts and no wives!" - Jackie Hoffman, Xanadu, 19 Feb 2008

[broadjay]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#119

Posted: 8/27/06 at 2:23am

It was u don't like, lol
r u crazy, the list you made is some of the best! (-:

[Funny Face]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#120

Posted: 8/27/06 at 12:05pm

Heather Headley. While she doesn't greate my nerves per se, I just don't get it. Besides on "The Gods Love Nubia", she's never impressed me too much.

[EganFan2]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#121

Posted: 8/27/06 at 12:23pm

Kristin Chenoweth and Ethel Merman tie for #1. I don't know who annoys me more.

[My Fair Lady]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#122

Posted: 8/27/06 at 12:39pm

Have to add Marissa Jaret Winokur to my list.

Wait...take back Patty Cohenour Updated On: 8/27/06 at 12:39 PM

[Mattbrain]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#123

Posted: 8/27/06 at 12:42pm

I'm ready for any possible death threats when I say:

Elaine Stritch!

Butters, go buy World of Warcraft, install it on your computer, and join the online sensation before we all murder you. --Cartman: South Park ATTENTION FANS: I will be played by James Barbour in the upcoming musical, "BroadwayWorld: The Musical."

[TennesseeTwang]

re: Respected singers whose voices grate your nerves#124

Posted: 8/27/06 at 12:54pm

I'm really stunned so many people don't like Audra.

I think a lot of the performers mentioned thus far are among those performers that "you just have to see".

I don't think not having seen a performer in person is the reason why some highly regarded singers' voices drive some people batty. What is or isn't pleasing to the human ear is always highly subjective.

When someone says they don't care for a particular person's voice, they are merely stating their opinion. And because it's nothing more than an opinion, it's neither right nor wrong.

So stating , "I don't see how anyone can't like ________'s voice", misses the point.