RIP Whitney, RIP the "Oversinging" trend?

[TheDebbieDee]

51. Whitney oversang ONE song! ONE!

Whitney cut loose in "I will always love you........." and she sounded great doing it!

But I think that was the only song in which she actually demonstrated her full musical range and let us hear what she sounded like as she put herself through vocal gymnastics. And Whitney sang it beautifully (Dolly Parton WISHES she could have sang the song like that!).

Otherwise, Whitney did not waste time stretching a 3-minute ditty into a 7-minute aria by shoe-horning in numerous, nauseatingly-long miasmas. Whitney did not yodel (Beyonce, I'm looking at you). Instead, Whitney just sang the damn song. And she sang it so well.

I think that is what was most FUN about Whitney's early music (her first three albums) - a listener had a reasonable chance of being able to hit SOME of the notes she sang and could pretend to be singing along with her. You never have the feeling that you're yodeling....er, uh, singing with Beyonce, Mariah (listening to her hit those notes, sometimes I thought my ears would start bleeding), Cristina, etc.....These highly-talented, low self-esteem skanks re-inforce their belief that they can sing well by OVERSINGING EVERYTHING!

The only contemporary singer I can think of (off the top of my head) who could come close to singing like Whitney, that is, sing a song without oversinging the hell out of it, is a singer named Tamia and the song was "You put a move on my heart".

RIP, Ms. Houston.........