RIP Whitney, RIP the "Oversinging" trend?

[DonCoquixote]

46. The problem

was not in her voice, the problem is that actual songwriting is discouraged, and therefore, songs where such voices would be anything but an obstacle.

Take Madonna. Now, she does not have the worst voice, but her range is nowhere near people like Mariah, Whitney, or Aguilera, heck, it is barely equal to Spears before Spears started imitating Madonna (hear Britney when she was on Star Search, singing Broadway tunes, and compare it to her current crap.) The fact is, pop music is just not written for people with ranged voices. Trying to put in skill ruins it, and indeed, people hate you for it. However, being able to prove you can do the trick is enough to get people looking your way, so people throw in some gymnastics to show they can sing, even though their producer would hit them if they did. For example, take Milli Vanilli. The lip syncing did not happen because those guys could not sing. One of them was trained in Opera, but, the producer realized that for a pop sound, mediocre voices were better.

Whitney made ther mistake of marrying an addict named Bobby Brown, but it should not have been a capital offense. Whitmney oversang at times, but at least she was trying to do something interesting, as opposed to people like Madonna who frankly use art the same way Catholic Bishops use religion, a means to keep a bunch of sheep ready for fleecing and lamb chops.