Please use force!

[matrixmann]

Why the heck has later Vocal Trance picked up so many monotonous sounding voices and especially so many milksop-sounding male voices, if there had been any used at all? Hadn't there been any powerful ones around or what kind of fashion was / is that?

Comments

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

I think it is lately a trend everywhere. Some Broadway influence?

[matrixmann]

Can't say. The trend was already active by 2010.
I think, it might have started with the rise of Electro House about at the ending years of the last decade... But, I think there was also a trend like this already in songs of the Trance genre by the middle (!) of that decade.
During these days, I think it still keeps being active - with little exceptions being made from that scheme.

Well, in this time episode now, monotony seems to be quite a fashion anyway 'cause, look at pop music, is it so much different there? Powerful voices, especially male voices which don't sound like Narcissus in person, are really rare.

[onb2017.livejournal.com]

That's I agree. All these sugary sweet voices make you freaking nauseous. It seems like there is nothing anymore that makes you stop and listen.Because it is powerful and different. It used to be though.

[matrixmann]

As I heard it someone put it: "Those girls (and boys too) singing sound like they should just put a few ages onto their counter and then try again." ('Cause they don't sound like grown-ups, but rather like teens.)

I wouldn't complain if something is used on purpose, like you want to cause a certain effect, like you want to create a certain scenery. But I see what the industry and scenes across all genre borders do, and that's no acting on purpose, it's just copycatting one other.
Okay, you don't need to keep yourself in that megalomania to find the next best undiscovered Kurt Cobaine-ish voice or a new Chester Bennington - that's surely very much off valuing yourself higher than you actually are worth as a producer or composer.
But just even trying to do anything differently, that would be worth something...
It's no miracle that people surrender to some retro-mania across all genres because the current culture doesn't satisfy what you want to hear.

When that's the state of things all arts are supposed to be like...
...then it's pretty boring, in my opinion.