Random Music Musing

[jennythereader]

Has anyone else noticed how male singers in mainstream pop and pop-ish country all seem to be tenors? All the basses and baritones seem to end up in other genres.

Comments

[nounsandverbs]

Yep. Last bass I heard singing even slightly pop music was Leonard Cohen. Baritones ae more common -- the guys from Hootie and the Blowfish and Smash Mouth leap to mind. But for that real rock 'n' roll voice you need a tenor -- or, often, a baritone trying to sing tenor. :)

[jennythe-reader.livejournal.com]

See, when I posted this I was thinking of it as a recent trend, but upon consideration I realized that tenors have been the "star" male voice for a long time. Heck, look at opera.

Country seems to attract lots of the deeper voices these days.

[nounsandverbs]

Everyone's trying to emulate Johnny Cash. Which is not at all a bad thing.