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"Someone's vocal characteristics are not meaningfully creative" This is absolutely not true. You might think when you hear someone singing that it's just their

by ajb 4y ago

"Someone's vocal characteristics are not meaningfully creative" This is absolutely not true. You might think when you hear someone singing that it's just their natural voice, but in fact they have trained their voice over years or decades to produce that particular sound. The human vocal system is extremely more flexible than people think. Most people produce a particular sound out of pure habit and imagine that they can't produce any other. The most identifiable singers have invented a new sound (and then immediately get a bunch of copycats who don't do it as well)

musicale 4y ago
> The most identifiable singers have invented a new sound (and then immediately get a bunch of copycats who don't do it as well) The Weeknd does a pretty credible Michael Jackson-style vocal, and has noted that Jackson's Off the Wall was the album that inspired him to start singing. Bruno Mars is famous for doing impressions of other singers as well as songs in various musical styles. (He even had a singalong (sting-along?) with the actual Sting at the 2013 Grammy awards.)