I don’t mean singing in a foreign language, I mean if they aren’t enunciating their words.

There is a style of singing where the singer rolls one word into the next word, or just cuts a word off. I find it distracting and I tend to skip the song very quickly when I realize what they are doing.

While it is a popular way to sing, I have never enjoyed it. I heard some of it in the 1980s but it wasn’t widely used. Today I find a lot more singers doing it.

  • CaseEnglish
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    15 hours ago

    Check out Cocteau Twins, they surely aren’t everyone’s cup of tea, but the vocalist has a lot of “lyrics” that aren’t actual words, but are used for their tone and percussive effects and shit, basically exploring what the mouth can do as an instrument without relying on language.

    I found them on some gothy playlist some years ago, wikipedia says they were the progenitors of shoe gaze, but I’m not sure what that entails but it might help others.

    • elaiden@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 hours ago

      Thanks, have listened a lot to Cocteau Twins. They’re great. Love shoe gaze and post rock. Beach house is also pretty influenced by them and are really good too.