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I like rhythmically "tightness" in pop songs, but U.S. pop music doesn't (on the whole)

glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
edited 2012-05-16 20:33:01 in Media
Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

I'm not exactly sure how to explain this, but I like it when the lyrics "snap" to the rhythm of the melody/harmony very neatly.  This applies to both rhythmically intense fast songs as well as relaxing slow songs.


However, it seems that the U.S. pop music audience has a much greater taste for "loose" singing.  Y'know, the kind where you might have a beat going on in the background, but the singer just kinda, freely throws up the words whenever, without much regard for the rhythm.  What's the term for this?

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  • All NinesAll Nines
    Has friends besides tanks now
    I don't know if there's a term for it. I also can't see how it fits slower music. But music taste is funny like that.
  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    How what fits slower music?  I think that sort of improvisatory rhythmic freedom is more prevalent in slower music, because there's more room for it.


     


    I also think it's probably derived from jazz/blues, which probably explains its prevalence in U.S. pop.

  • BeeBee

    I'd call it "bad singing" just to be an asshole, but I actually like it in jazz, so yeah.

  • CountryPumpkinCountryPumpkin
    I clench my fists and yell "anime" towards an uncaring, absent God, and swear solemnly to press my thumbs into Chocolate America's eyeballs until he is blinded, to directly emasculate sporting figures, to beat the shit out of tumblr users with baseball bats, and to quietly appreciate what Waylon Smithers being gay means to me.

    Could you provide some examples? I'm not as privy to pop music and I'm not sure exactly what you mean. 

  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    Well, I don't like it much, but apparently it's well-regarded stylistic element in certain styles of singing.

  • CountryPumpkinCountryPumpkin
    I clench my fists and yell "anime" towards an uncaring, absent God, and swear solemnly to press my thumbs into Chocolate America's eyeballs until he is blinded, to directly emasculate sporting figures, to beat the shit out of tumblr users with baseball bats, and to quietly appreciate what Waylon Smithers being gay means to me.

    Like this?


  • glennmagusharveyglennmagusharvey
    edited 2012-05-16 21:16:29
    Creature - Florida Dragon Turtle Human

    Yeah, like that.


     


    Curiously, rap, despite also being a music style of African-American origin, doesn't have any of this, instead opting for very, very strong rhythmic tightness (albeit without much of pitch).

  • CountryPumpkinCountryPumpkin
    I clench my fists and yell "anime" towards an uncaring, absent God, and swear solemnly to press my thumbs into Chocolate America's eyeballs until he is blinded, to directly emasculate sporting figures, to beat the shit out of tumblr users with baseball bats, and to quietly appreciate what Waylon Smithers being gay means to me.

    I was under the impression that there's not much popular music sung like that nowadays. I guess "We Are Young" is. 


    (That song has grown on me.) 

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