WTF. This is what my kids do to *me*. (Even though they don’t actually say it, I know they think I’m the best.mother.ever.)

Pop music is the last place I look for non-repetition....

I’m not getting all the hard-rock references/comparisons. The thing is based on a heavy, fast, but pure dance beat. Sounds like dance to me, but maybe I’m stuck in the thumping beats of 80s/90s dance music. I can’t pull a good comparison of the singing style* from that genre (not Diana Ross...not Gloria gaynor... but…

Adele sounded much better on her first two albums. I think I read she had a conniption when someone suggested they auto-tuned her on the latest record, but tbh that’s how it sounds to me, too. I like the sound of her voice, but I think it’s squeezed down and lost in the accompaniment in the songs I’ve heard on this…

Even if she’s had it, she doesn’t have much of a voice at all to begin with, so I’m guessing that with or without serious training, it’s as good as it can get. Seriously - no one thinks she has a real singing voice, do they???

Thank you - this so helpful to those of us who sang a lot as a youth but never seriously enough to study it technically!

Starred for the Tori reference. 😀

I don’t think “shrill” is the correctly descriptive adjective at all for this. I don’t mind it stylistically, personally, but if you didn’t, I’d say “screeching” fits better than “shrill.” And also, because it is a word so often applied negatively to any woman who speaks intensely or animatedly (see, e.g., a…

Oh, ha, I thought you wrote “12-**50**” year old girls! I am 46, and I approved that message. :-). But on your actual 12-15 range, I think that’s too narrowed. I can’t decide how much I like the song (I think pretty well, especially after a second listening), but I happen to have both a 12- and a 15-yo daughter. I’ll…

Sorry, no: not interested in someone responsible for any part of raising or educating my kid to work out their psychological issues around them. This isn’t tough stuff; you don’t do this as a teacher. She either knows that and DGAF, or she doesn’t know that and isn’t developed as a human enough to be around kids, much…

This is an insane take. “Fuck you” is unprofessional in any workplace. It’s abusive from a teacher to a student. Any teacher who resorts to “fuck you” to a student is immature, losing it, unprofessional, and/or deeply troubled. And her various comments about body parts are like something a 4th grade boy would say. To…

I’m surprised how not-down the other commenters here are with the fact that these are, in fact, back and in-fashion. Proof: my teen and tween both insisted on a pair this summer, for the first time since they were in early elementary school,more or less. [All their friends have them. Just like all their friends have…

I knew I recognized that voice!