nrXic Junior Member
Canada
117 posts Joined: Feb, 2002
Posted - 2009/04/16 : 00:30:30
I'm ok with male vocals and I like a wide variety of them.
To me, it has much more to do with the song itself than the vocalist. Some of the lyrics are odd, and that puts me off moreso than the voice of the singer.
The thing with Styles' Feel Love is that half of it seems sung and half spoken. That throws a lot of people off.
95_was_the_time Advanced Member
United Kingdom
1,285 posts Joined: Oct, 2005
Posted - 2009/04/16 : 01:39:53
i like both male & female vocals as long as it doesn't have autotune on them, and prety much all tunes after 2000ish had autotune, it loses its edge imo.
bridson10ak Junior Member
United Kingdom
82 posts Joined: Nov, 2008
Posted - 2009/04/16 : 14:08:55
iv started recording my own vocals and im a male.its 50 50 when comes to vocals male or female.depends what lyrics your singing and does the vocal fit the music,.
dantheman Junior Member
United States
82 posts Joined: Dec, 2007
Posted - 2009/04/19 : 09:55:29
Oh hey Jackol.
I still think Male vocals are "gay" when it comes to Happy Hardcore.
Like many in this thread have said Re-Con has some real talent and Styles is hit or miss.
Feel Love would have been better w/o his voice.
S3RL.. well you already know my opinion on him. It's not very high whatsoever.
Agree with some people on no vocals at all. But isn't that why there's freeform?
Female vocals are always better than Male. If some guy is singing about love it better be good.
Sharkey is a DJ/MC not a singer.
Storm isn't the same guy he used to be see Smooth Operator vs Aint Seen Nothing Yet. And Whizzkid seems to be coming up with some good vocals. MC Marley is great and should do more tracks.
Did we all forget Bang!, Triple J, Kelly, Lisa Abott, Bluemchen, Dune, and the hardcore of the late 90s already?
Alert moderatorEdited by - Quicksilver on 2009/04/19 11:44:39
latininxtc Advanced Member
United States
7,307 posts Joined: Feb, 2006
Posted - 2009/04/19 : 19:44:40
quote:Originally posted by dantheman:
Did we all forget Bang!, Triple J, Kelly, Lisa Abott, Bluemchen, Dune, and the hardcore of the late 90s already?
C'mon people. Sort yaselves out.
no one needs sorting here we are all fine.
and those artists that you named, with the exception of lisa abbott and Bang!, have long been gone and the tunes you are refering to were done during the years when you had hhc anthems. very few tracks out there, although still amazing, don't stick to our heads as much as those classics have, regardless of vocals.
and I still love the old stuff and listen to it every now and then, but i'm not about to be an ignorant twat like 95 just stick listening to the old stuff. so i welcome the vocals no matter how crappy they are so long as they dont think they're good enough to sing live when in actuality they sound like mules in heat
dantheman Junior Member
United States
82 posts Joined: Dec, 2007
Posted - 2009/04/20 : 09:31:16
quote:Originally posted by latininxtc:
and those artists that you named, with the exception of lisa abbott and Bang!, have long been gone
Bang!'s still around? WHERE?
quote:Originally posted by latininxtc:
and the tunes you are refering to were done during the years when you had hhc anthems. very few tracks out there, although still amaz/ing, don't stick to our heads as much as those classics have, regardless of vocals.
Really now? there are plenty of anthems to be had. Are you kidding?
All off the top of my head:
Lost Without You
Angels
Silver Water
My Direction
You're Shining
All I wanna Do
Night Life
Promised Land
Lovesick Crazy
Power of Love
Piece of Heaven
More and More
etc. etc. etc.
They might not stick out in your head if you've listened to late 90's HHC and got really into it but they definitely stick out today in people that don't know the older stuff's heads.
quote:Originally posted by latininxtc:
and I still love the old stuff and listen to it every now and then, but i'm not about to be an ignorant twat like 95 just stick listening to the old stuff. so i welcome the vocals no matter how crappy they are so long as they dont think they're good enough to sing live when in actuality they sound like mules in heat
Does this statement even make sense?
I went through my late 90's HHC phase (Thanks Eurolove 2007) and have come to accept it's dead. BUT, like I said very few males can actually pull original HHC vocals off. Re-Con being the only person right now IMO. Let's just hope Squad-E doesn't start singing now.
quote:Originally posted by latininxtc:
i have no problem with male vocals, with the exception of Darren Styles and some MCs. Darren Styles just kept getting worse and worse, and Feel Love was absolutely terrible as far as vogals go! and MCs in some tracks tend to overdo it
I feel your pain dude. I'm an MC & even I think they overdo it. It's becoming a boring generic sound now. When I get in the studio it's something I plan to change.
Posted - 2009/04/23 : 03:16:54
I think male vocals work better for some tracks and female vocals work better for other tracks. Really just depends. My best friend is a male vocalist that I use for my tracks pretty frequently, and I usually take that into consideration when writing a track.
Otherwise if it doesn't fit, I'll just play around with it and turn his voice into a female one... Kinda like mind.in.a.box
Because sometimes it's just really fun to take a track and head the opposite direction you were originally planning.
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