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As a male singer/songwriter I can tell you that women songwriters tend to, for unknown reasons, write their songs around female vocal capabilities, which are ob
by fwungy 3y ago
As a male singer/songwriter I can tell you that women songwriters tend to, for unknown reasons, write their songs around female vocal capabilities, which are objectively higher than men's in terms of range and fluidity.
Women cover male songwriters frequently, but who are the great female songwriters? Joni Mitchell, Billie Holiday, Kate Bush, and so on. They all tend to be excellent vocalists who write stuff that the average man simply can't match. While the great male songwriters are often weak to average singers: Bob Dylan, Leonard Cohen, Lennon/McCartney. Women kill on those songs, with barely an effort sometimes.
As for modern Top40. It sucks. Who cares?
- wizofaus 3y ago> female vocal capabilities, which are objectively higher than men's Not actually all that much among pop singers though. Most successful male artists tend to have quite high natural singing voices and females fairly low. And at any rate most music can easily be transposed as necessary. But I do agree there is a tendency by many male singer/ songwriters to stick to less vocally demanding melody lines. I'm less convinced that would be much of a deterrent for dedicated female songwriters hoping to pen tunes that were well suited to male voices.
- fwungy 3y agoIf you look at net worth as a measure of success women singers absolutely dominate men, especially when you consider that the high achieving men tend to be well past their prime or dead.
- oneTbrain23 3y agoI assume you have that data? Not just some anecdoctal preference? Anyway, that might be true for western side but not so in Asia, especially east Asia.
- wizofaus 3y agoOops, just re-read this and realised I'd misread the comment I was replying to, it wasn't taking about range at all, so feel free to ignore the first part of my reply!
- dekhn 3y agoBob Dylan might not "sound good", but he was an excellent singer. I would single out Hurricane as a great example.
- fwungy 3y agoHe's got a compelling voice, but it's not an objectively good singer.
- craig1f 3y agoAlthough, Maxwell’s cover of This Woman’s Work is outstanding.
- majikaja 3y ago>female vocal capabilities, which are objectively higher than men's in terms of range and fluidity. Why even bother trying as a man then