^I know and I really don't care anymore. Pop girls don't use proper singing technique and they don't need to. They can falsetto the **** out of an entire song and no one will care, I get it now… it's been like this for as long as I've been born and longer and everything I thought I knew about female voices is a lie. I'm over it. I don't even know my own voice, what the **** am I doing using my theory knowledge for this ********…?
^I know and I really don't care anymore. Pop girls don't use proper singing technique and they don't need to. They can falsetto the **** out of an entire song and no one will care, I get it now… it's been like this for as long as I've been born and longer and everything I thought I knew about female voices is a lie. I'm over it. I don't even know my own voice, what the **** am I doing using my theory knowledge for this ********…?
I don't think people give pop artists as much credit for the stylistics things that they do. (not saying you are, just talking in general) I mean yeah proper technique is amazing and meant for long lasting vocal health. But if you sang with only perfect technique and no real medium of technique and style it'd probably fall flat with the public.
Actually, where your voice sits is your placement aka your "sits" is the biggest thing, your voice type is all about were you have the most ease. LIke I said, she mostly likely going to develope into a Mezzo-Soprano just from where her passagi are. It's shouldn't be an technical issue, she isn't Xtina and tries to bring her chest voice up too high. Colour isn't everything, Katy Perry sounds like a Mezzo but it actually a full lyric, Amy Lee sounds like an Soprano but is actually an Mezzo.
I'm confused about what you mean with her volume capacity, it's much larger then even a full lyric let alone Spinto? Okay here's some comparisons to do, here is Sohyang a Spinto Soprano compare her to Vanessa Amorosi(A Dramatic soprano in her upper register)from E5 as it's the best indication of difference as Soprano's will start to "bloom" around there, can you hear the similarity in brightness and ease. Then Compare Anastasia(Dramatic Mezzo) to Chaka from E5 again and you can hear the darkness and an almost husky whine. Afterwards Compare Sohyang's lower register(B3 down) to Chaka, Anastasia and Vanessa and tell me you can't here the difference between them?
You see I disagree there, because most things that I've read and people that I've asked have told me that tone color is the most definitive factor: a soprano should sound like a soprano and a mezzo should sound like a mezzo and so on I thought that was how you told two voices apart even when they exhibit the same amount of comfort singing in similar ranges. Mariah sings with what seems to be equal ease throughout most of her range, excluding her extreme lows (correct me if I'm wrong), but the bright color of her voice in the upper chest makes it clear that she is a soprano. I mean, of course I'm not saying tessitura or where the voice "sits" is irrelevant - the freedom of her upper chest register and head extension would also tip one off, so...
It is by my logic that I've decided you may be right about Chaka. Her tone is dark-ish and husky like a mezzo's. It is closer to Anastasia's than the other two. Her lower range is pretty expensive compared to SoHyang's too. But idk, her voice does not seem to be bigger than medium-sized. It's my understanding that a falcon voice is similar to a spinto in size.
Who is Michael Bolton? I didn't think spinto tenors existed in Pop music. Also, care to explain the difference between leggiero and light-lyric tenors, because 'leggiero' is literally Italian for light-lyric.
I agree with BLaCKPoWeR that you're a lyric tenor. If you don't mind me asking, what style of singing are you being trained for?
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Mariah uses falsetto and head voice. She uses head voice rarely because her nodules (which she's had since before her professional debut) make it hard for her to produce/sustain . With the nodules, her vocal folds can't fully adduct.
Definite soprano. Bright, warm, youthful, girlish tone. Lived in her head voice (and demonstrated songbird-like ease up there). Her voice truly bloomed higher. She did have an impressive lower extension though. I've been told that she would have eventually transitioned from soprano to mezzo-soprano had she lived longer, like Beyonce.
Listen to how GIRLY those E5s and F5s sound. Soprano no doubt. (I do realize the end of the video says lyric mezzo-soprano, but they're wrong - her lower extension, though...extensive lol, was too flimsy for that imo)
Nait I LOVE YOU AND THIS IS NEITHER A CRITICISM NOR AN INSULT, but there's no way you're a baritone lol. Your voice has like no type of bass resonance on it - it's SO soft It's beautiful