Stuff you hate (aka: the new f. you thread)

[erika]

Which female singers do you like?

I dunno, tons. Laurie Anderson, Astrud Gilberto, Billie Holiday, Kazu Makino, Roseanne Cash, Juana Molina, Isabellarah Rubella, Poly Styrene, Marnie Stern....

I know two people out of both those lists.

Yeah I havent a clue.

Sing-songy and breathy can also just be the way a woman with a higher pitched voice sings. It's not necessarily an affectation.

Stuff I hate: people bitching about women who have girly or high-pitched voices naturally. Seriously. Who's giving guys a hard time for how THEY sound?

[cutout]

Er, I didn't mean to start a fight. All the singers I named are borrowing from the same style that's popular right now. And it grates on me every time I hear it on cutesy commercials for the Gap, Apple, etc. But it's not some anti-woman conspiracy.

Who's giving guys a hard time for how THEY sound?

Male singers with low voices have been biting the Eddie Vedder mushmouth grunge sound for the last 20 years -- and everyone I know has loudly given them a hard time for it.

[erika]

No I don't think it's an anti-woman conspiracy. But I don't think that these folks are borrowing from each other... it's just a style of singing. I'm sure some are copying from one another, but to assume it's some sort of epidemic of people singing one way or another... I dunno.

Maybe it's that I try not to classify music like that. Grunge sound? What IS that?

Sorry I'm in a terrible mood.

Another thing I hate: Herniated discs. Even on other people! It's true!

[Sarah]

I bet you guys know three (I'm guessing the two you were talking about were Laurie Anderson and Billie Holliday):  Astrud Gilberto is famous for "The Girl from Ipanema."

I don't like light-voiced, breathy female singers, either.  And I loathe high-voiced, screechy male singers.  The Eddie Vedder clones are tiresome, but at least they don't hurt my ears.

[JonFromMaplewood]

The Hotels.com claymation guy.  I hate his smugness.  The one eyebrow raised like he's hip, young, and knows more than me.  How about I fire your smugness in a kiln, bitch?!

[yesno]

Old man, you'll never "get" claymation.

[wood and iron]

The Hotels.com claymation guy.  I hate his smugness.  The one eyebrow raised like he's hip, young, and knows more than me.  How about I fire your smugness in a kiln, bitch?!

Also, because Ed Helms is just reusing his character from the Office to portray that claymation guy.

[slipperyslope]

Which female singers do you like?

I dunno, tons. Laurie Anderson, Astrud Gilberto, Billie Holiday, Kazu Makino, Roseanne Cash, Juana Molina, Isabellarah Rubella, Poly Styrene, Marnie Stern....

I know two people out of both those lists.

Yeah I havent a clue.

Sing-songy and breathy can also just be the way a woman with a higher pitched voice sings. It's not necessarily an affectation.

Stuff I hate: people bitching about women who have girly or high-pitched voices naturally. Seriously. Who's giving guys a hard time for how THEY sound?

I know this guy who has a high pitch girly voice, and man does it piss me off.

[cutout]

I know this guy who has a high pitch girly voice, and man does it piss me off.

Crypto-Misogynist! 

[todd]

The Hotels.com claymation guy.  I hate his smugness.  The one eyebrow raised like he's hip, young, and knows more than me.  How about I fire your smugness in a kiln, bitch?!

Also, because Ed Helms is just reusing his character from the Office to portray that claymation guy.

Ed Helms has more than one character?

[slipperyslope]

Something else I hate:

This whole "let's pay a cable/satellite subscription so we can watch amateurs who don't know how to sing yet butcher songs other people wrote" fad. I'll never understand the American Idol fad. It seems like something you should be getting paid to watch, not the other way around.

Or, if you really are into memorized karaoke type stuff, go have some drinks and show off/have fun at a karaoke joint.

[buffcoat]

Something else I hate:

This whole "let's pay a cable/satellite subscription so we can watch amateurs who don't know how to sing yet butcher songs other people wrote" fad. I'll never understand the American Idol fad. It seems like something you should be getting paid to watch, not the other way around.

Or, if you really are into memorized karaoke type stuff, go have some drinks and show off/have fun at a karaoke joint.

I get some enjoyment out of the early shows in each season, because it's endlessly fascinating to me that some people think they have talent when they don't.  It's a phenomenon.

I wouldn't voluntarily watch the later shows, though, because they are as you describe.

[Sarah]

I hate it when people say "visualize" when they mean "see."  (It came up during a curling match today, but it was the multiple occurrences of "visualize the vocal chords" in ER that first got my goat.)

[Christina]

I am hearing "deep dive" and "back of envelope" a lot at Le Job lately.

[yesno]

What's the ask?