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Vocal strengths: What she lacks in technicality and power she makes up for in tone and the ability to play any part, vocally, a song calls for. Spears is not a singer in the classical sense of the word (though at the start of her career she was on that path). She is a vocal actress, capable of transforming her weak yet iconic voice into any particular role. Whether it's a babyish coo, a bratty nasal whine, reedy and deep or a girlish hiccup -- each is dynamically different from the other, yet still Britney. It's her timbre and distinctive enunciation that set her apart from the gaggle of legitimately vocally talented pop stars -- the girl put a “h” in her pronunciation of “baby” in “Unusual You”...and it worked! Simply put Spears can adjust and distort her voice in so many ways she is undoubtably the ultimate producer's muse.
Vocal weaknesses: Years of smoking, improper technique, poor breath control and lack of practice have rendered Spears as one of the poorer vocalists of her generation. Budding with enormous potential at the start of her career, Jive opted for that nasally voice heard on ...Baby One More Time. By her fourth album Spears vocal strength had clearly diminished and her belting stopped altogether, relying heavily on post production tricks like auto-tune and protools. An unfortunate crutch that has stunted any further vocal growth or development. Femme Fatale's co-executive producer Max Martin, commented, "When we do songs, there's kind of a nasal thing. With NSYNC and the Backstreet Boys, we had to push for that mid-nasal voice. When Britney did that, she got this kind of raspy, sexy voice".
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Agreed completely
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