From what I know or heard so far, she doesn't use the whistle note on any of the songs on My Everything. Why is that? Is she trying to avoid comparisons to Mariah Carey?
I think it's such a beautiful note and the ability to be able to pull it off is very rare, and she obviously can do it. So why not?
Well...stan politics aside, whistling can damage your voice...Mariah's been getting dragged recently and she used to whistle a lot.
Also, maybe she just plain didn't want to. She didn't really feel that a whistle note was needed on any of the songs on her album, and that's completely fine.
Um most of her "whistles" are just falsetto anyway(which is bad because you should never push it that high, but the strain she does in her mix is more damaging), she hasn't shown any consistency or control hence why she probably doesn't use it
And any form of head register strain isn't really that bad, especially at her age when even bad strain in chest placement won't do any permanent damage
Probably because it's one thing to get it right in the studio or in one video, but another to replicate it every time you perform the song--and that's difficult for Ariana since her singing isn't quite as good as she or her fans think.