Britney Spears Can’t Sing
Could she ever? *rimshot* Loving the mangled english in that YouTube video, it’s perfectly fitting for some reason.
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ITS CALLED PROCESSING PEOPLE SHE’S BEYOND FAKE.
Very interesting video. I noticed that as she tried to evolve a ‘cute sexy pop’ sound she started pitching her voice up into the nose to create a nasal sound like early Madonna and Gwen Stefani. The natural place for the voice to be is in the mask and neither up in the nose area nor deep in the throat.
Britney used to sing from deep in her diaphragm which saves the throat and gives bellows like propulsion to the voice, but she changed the power belting sound she had as a child into a different product. This damages the voice, causes laryngeal spasm, etc.
I didn’t realize what she sounded like before. She’s damaged her voice. Also, I read recently she has been bulemic for years since about 16-17. This can also injure the voice hurting the larynx and dis-coordinating the diaphragm. She may have acid reflux. She’d literally have to retrain breathing and voice placement with a professional.
It seems to be a combination of these factors with alcohol and then changing her speaking voice to a ‘fetish baby whispery sex voice’ which was not her natural voice. People also hurt their voice trying to pitch their voice into a deep sexy/powerful voice. Even men do this trying to sound macho and virile. They can lose their voice or develop spasmodic dysphonia.
When you are hoarse from vocal abuse, you should never whisper. This makes the vocal damage worse tightening the vocal chords to get a strangled sound and feel to the throat. Better to be silent and then hummmmmm, bringing the voice up to vibrate in the mask of the face.
There is a doctor in LA who might be able to help Britney, but she’d have to abandon the fetish sex baby Lolita vocal image she has cultivated and try to reclaim her true voice (literally and figuratively, it seems). His name is Dr. Morton Cooper.
For those who are interested in learning more about his work, he’s worked with entertainers and presidents, his web address is http://www.voice-doctor.com He is the author of several books on the subject of voice.
She was also a very focused and serious little girl.
Yup, the breathy, weepy singing style she’d adopted by 2000 “Oh, baby baby, what was I supposed to do?” damaged her voice. Her label’s solution of a ‘mature’ actually fetish baby sex vocal image with a breathy voice further damaged her voice reducing her range. She had nothing left but her baby sex kitten image and the increasing feeling she was a fraud. No wonder.
Her insistence on maintaining this breathy nasal voice as her speaking vocal image retrained her voice lowering her vocal range. It’s almost as if she was afraid of her power, where Christina embraced hers (literally and figuratively) even if people slung mud at her.
In many situations, Britney has given her power away to try to gain love and acceptance. This is a common mistake of women. This leads to disassociation and finally meltdown and rage. The shaving of the head and umbrella rage comes to mind.
Perhaps in working to reclaim her true voice, she would find her way back to the person she seems to have lost track of with everyone defining her, telling her who she is and who she needs to be in order to sell/be loved. I think I understand the unconscious desire to smash the false construct which was strangling her and burying her alive. It begins with the vocal Lolita product that was created. Unfortunately, she has a long road back and she’ll have to find a way back to the discipline and focus she had as a child - but for herself, not her parents, not her ‘fans’ and certainly not her kids.
I would suggest she leave the image aside for a moment and work to reclaim her voice. Perhaps then in doing so, she will find a way back to being the expressive natural artist she used to be. She was a child prodigy.
Helena– great posts– if this is link-jacked cut n paste, you suck. Otherwise, very enthralling and educational. Honest.
You reminded me to intone the OM. Being serious on THIS site? Amazed.
Britney still has a beautiful voice.
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