RIP Whitney, RIP the "Oversinging" trend?

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12. Music has always had gimmicks

And I'll stick up for autotune (at least a bit of it) here. It was interesting the first couple of times Cher did it; but now it's overdone too.

It didn't take me too long listening to Whitney "oversinging" for me to want her to put a sock in it.

Before these gimmicks, there was the lounge singer gimmick. When the Rat Pack did it, it was still fresh. When Bill Murray did it on SNL it had become embarrassing.

Before the lounge singers, or maybe at the same time, there were the doo-woppers. Then that got tired.

Before the lounge singers and the doo-woppers, there were the scat singers and the crooners. But Cab Calloway and Rudy Vallee are dead, so no one needs to bring them back. If you want to see them, they are on YouTube.

There's only one singing style that will never go out of style -- opera. Something classic about it that will always be worth listening to