Pop Female Singers' Most Serious Vocal Flaws | IS YOUR FAVE PERFECT? 

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Just realized that we rarely hear Gaga singing in her head voice.

I like how you are a big fan of Christina Aguilera but you criticized her the most. It shows that you aren't biased

I WISH I was Jojo where my main issue was whistling lollllll queen

ariana flaw: cant understand a word when she sing

imagine Christina with Jojo's belting technique. Queen x1000

Underrated channel

haha when you worst flaw is "whistle register" which likie 1% of people have i'd say you're pretty well off! lol Go Jojo

These type of concepts are my favorite. You explain the flaws with good examples.

Can I just say that Tori Kelly singing Don't You Worry Bout' A Thing at the Sing premiere really solidified her for me as an amazing vocalist. She was singing for her LIFE up on that stage omggg. Amazing runs, great mid belts, killer transition at the end, she was going IN

Adele HAS to improve.

i'm so mad at ariana, SHE HAS SO MUCH POTENTIAL. she has the potential to at least consistently support up to eb5 since that's when she starts to raise her larynx. but then she has tension that unables her to support those mid belts. but then for her upperbelts, they dont have very much tension but she raises her larynx which obviously blocks support. her and demi have the potential to save this generation if they just work on thier technique ;(

Demi's major technical issue is really the other issues you mentioned (high larynx, nasality etc.) her vibrato is an issue but not major enough for the masses to take notice... JoJo's main issue is her mix in belting; it sounds quite tense a lot. Great video!

Two words: Excellent job! :)

I wonder if their vocal coaches don’t tell them what they should be doing and work to correct it? Or maybe the singers themselves aren’t applying what the vocal coach says

My vocal chords hurt when I watch Adele live.

Honestly I really do like Demi's vibrato as it's iconic but if it hurts her it's not worth it. Plus her open voice is gorgeous.

I love this video and your channel so much!!! Thank you for doing unbiased critics! ❤️

Lady Gaga sounds honestly great.

thank you for saying what you said about Kelly! as much as it sucks to admit your fav has some vocal flaws, it needs to be said. most of Kelly's throatiness came from after her pregnancies so it's been an adjustment to a lot of us. she's been getting better, but yes! thank you! also you are so right on these other singers too!

I would disagree with Lady Gaga’s head voice and what you said about her mix. She had shown to do both very well in her jazz music. I think what you hear in her pop music with head voice is just a creative decision.

I'm new to such topics, vocal terms or stuff and I am trying to learn. Your videos are very helpful to me. Thank you! Thank you for this video! Love you ❤

Taylor Swift has improved SO much over the past few years, technically and vocally.

some people think Adele is overrated as a vocalist but i feel she needs to find confidence and expand her vocal range bc if you hear her live performances she has a lot of hidden vocal moments. IDK what do you think???

i really want Gaga to use her head voice more, she’s supported A5s often in Applause and i think it could easily improve if she spent a little time on it, i think it sounds pretty

Ailee doesn't sing with a high larynx, she is just bringing an excessive amount of weight up the scale which causes her to strain. Jojo is also too chesty for her own good which causes strain and fatigue.

Gaga is honestly so excellent. Out of all of them, she's the one who improved the most. Her Head voice during the Super Bowl national anthem was flawless and and well supported. Just give it a little time and i'm sure she'll be able to use it properly

I'm just so proud of how much Ariana dand Demi improved. Ariana in her SWT was so much more healthier and Demi in general sounds way more trained etc. Im so rpoud of themmmmmm

Demi- Yes, but I would probably expand this to the overall tension in her vocal tract, which underlies the vibrato issue as well. Christina- Agree. The B4 in Lift Me Up is high larynx, though. Her larynx is seldom stable. Most of the notes labeled as "breath support" weren't really supported but I'm assuming you mean general diaphragm engagement rather than supported singing. Ariana- Yes, all over the place too. Throat, tongue, you name it. Gaga- No, her head voice is underwhelming but it's not going to cause her problems. Her overly chesty mix and lack of proper mixing coordination above C5, however, will. Adele- Not sure what you mean by mixing, are you referring to her mixed register overall or her mixing ratio?? In any case, both would work as she is way too chesty and lacks support above A4. Ally- Agree. Jojo- Unless she overuse her whistle a lot this isn't an issue. Her mix is her issue, she is too chesty and often over-compresses her sound which blocks her resonance from blossoming fully. She can get quite tense when tired. Kelly- No, this is wrong. She isn't throaty, she lacks proper openness (often, not always) and overuses tension for drive. This is why we seldom hear her resonating above a C5 these days. Her belting above F5 is also a big issue, especially because she overuses it. Tori- Anything above C#5/D5 is a huge turn off. Poor placement, constricted sound, raised larynx, nasal, etc. Ailee- No, I must disagree. Sure, she is lacking above F5, but she doesn't go up there enough for it to be pressing. Far more serious is the fact that she refuses to balance her mix and fix her 5th octave vowels, which creates a whinny, constricted sound.

Do a second part with Mariah, Celine, SoHyang and another singers please!!!

Do with Beyoncé, Jessie J, Whitney Houston and Celine Dion

Another good video in your collection! Nice work. I'd argue that Jojo's main issue is her mixing, because her chestiness can lead to fatigue and therefore consistency issues, but her flaw is not significant enough to drastically affect the quality of her singing overall. The same can probably be said about Ailee, if she tries to use a heady mix, or perhaps just switch to a headier placement, she will get better above F5. I also feel that Gaga's head voice is slowly improving since C2C era; she now needs to work on her volume control and projection, then she'll have three excellent, connected registers. =)

I’ve never heard of Ailee in my life BUT DAMN IM IMPRESSED 😍 you go girl!!

Wait what!? Ailee's issue isn't a high larynx, but her pushing approach

Honestly,i had no idea demi could sing like that. Stunning!

Demi C5 is so amazing

GREAT video, but i’d like to add nasality to Adele. Nasality is everywhere from G#4 on, like EVERYWHERE. I think it’s as important as Adele’s mix

I think Jojo’s biggest problem is her mix. She’s very chesty and needs to lighten her mix more and use more of a mask resonance instead of focusing her resonance through her nose making her more nasal than normal.

Everyone knows that Gaga dosent use her head voice that much she isn't comfortable with it yet. Her strong points are her lower register her chest voice her mixing. Her belting technique and resonance.

So hyang's vocal flaw: None sis, why do you think she isnt in this video?? Aint nobody gon' forget about her

Gaga could be a star rated vocalist her blows are excellent, she is excellent at belting, she has excellent near flawless technique, she has pretty good agility but she needs to showcase it more and she has a very powerful and beautiful tone. The only thing that holds her back is her head voice. She has so much potential in her head voice she has reached a C6 in head voice. I think she can go higher if she worked on it more and get more comfortable with using it. That being said she has improved a lot in her head voice.

Ari has improved a lot now and her jaw tension isn’t rlly an issue anymore her technique has improved and she has support upto A5 just look at any of the improvised A5’s in ntltc on the swt and her vevo performances from last year

When you brought up Kelly, I felt my claws come out. I'm a total Kelly stan; a "Kellebrity", if you will. HOWEVER, after reading your analysis of her and then HEARING what you said, I see now why you brought it up, I can also hear some tension and a bit of strain in her higher registers, particularly around E5 and up,

Ariana's rendition of I Have Nothing has NO resonance at all. Heady belts that lack a lot of volume -- not strong enough. She has a nice girly tone and ease at mixing, but zero power.

holy shit! i was never a fan of demi’s voice but hearing those non-vibrato notes, i got goosebumps! if she fixes this problem i might listen to her

I think the reason why Lady Gaga doesn’t use her head voice as much is simply because she doesn’t need to and also for self preservation. She can last longer in the music industry with songs that don’t have the use of head voice than having to be able to hit high notes later down the line in 10, 20, 30+ years

Finally someone highlights Kelly Clarkson, she's so underrated

I think for the girls like Kelly & Tori... they cannot hit certain ranges... thats why they always sound straining to hit their own notes in their own songs. Many want that vocal ability that the Christina's, Gaga"s, and at some points the Ariana's. Its tough to follow those acts. But great video!

Kelly’s throatiness is more of a natural rasp she developed over the years and/or a stylistic choice

i particularly love demi’s vibrato... just give me some emotions

Thank you for including Ailee! I hardly ever see her in these kinds of videos

I like your videos because you are one of the few people who don't ignore diaphragmal support even if there is some kind of tension present. Like for example, in Christina's case, most (if not all) of the notes you posted here had some kind of stress but the support was there. Most people here in RU-vid would automatically say they were unsupported though, while they're not completely lost. About the video, Lady Gaga has a nice head voice, besides some of her flaws because she seems to take less serious the singing when "performing" (being this while dancing or whatever) she has shown decent diaphragmal support up to G#5 which is fairly good by any standards. On the other hand, I would fix Adele's "mixing" for "belting" in that part, since she has shown supported phrased mixed notes up to I think B4, but her belting technique is that atrocious that she strains anything above A4. Oh and I wouldn't say Ally's D5 is supported by the way lol it was just brighter and less tense than the second one.

THANK YOU FOR POINTING OUT ARIANA! I love her to death but I always wondered why she sounded nasally live and she seems to move her jaw a lot during runs. People never believe me though when I say she has not great technique.

Xtina might have a lot of vocal flaws but she truly shines because she has that voice that no other divas have. One and only.

Christina Aguilera ❤️😍 Her voice omg 🤩🤩🤩

Thanks for this! Now, I know what not to do,educational. I think it's important to find your voice. That way you know what works for you.

Ailee my baby

Idk but I was hoping Sohyang will come up just like Ailee lol

OMG!! I LOVE THIS!! Please make a second part with more singers 😍😍😍

I have never been able to stand adele's voice. She constantly just sounds like she's yelling. Nasally, scratchy yelling. Everyone raves about her but her voice is like nails on a chalkboard to me. Because of this video, now I understand why!!! She's just straining the whole way thru.

Demi's vibrato improved a lot this year. Proud of her

Beyoncé: ***Flawless

Their flaws make them unique. If they have perfect techniques then they would all sound too perfect and maybe they'll all sound similar.

My biggest problem with Ariana grande isn’t strain, but rather her tone. I actually think most of the time she’s mixing pretty well and giving a balanced chess/ head voice sound. Other female vocalist would have a much harder time hitting notes above an E5 and would probably sound a lot heavier and strained. Personally I just don’t find her tone interesting or special, Christina Pink Mariah all have very unique tonal qualities. Christina can go from a very pretty airy tone to powerful pop rock raspy vocals. Pink has a very bright yet powerful raspy tone. Mariahs voice is very unique in that it has this airy quality yet it’s very well supported and pretty. But I feel like Ariana voice is quite plain in terms of texture, sure she has a wide range but her vocals just don’t sound interesting to me.

Ariana's jaw tension comes from jutting her jaw forward to muscle through transitions.

I love his this video is done in a kind way some people get mad if you say there favorite singer has bad technique

I live for these videos. You did a wonderful job! You could have included Miley Cyrus too in my opinion but it's still fine :)

Great explanation, those issues can really damage their vocals. But I personally believe that those flaws makes our singers more unique, it puts character to their voices.

Christina is a straining queen everyone knows that. She strains her larynx way up so that it dosent sound much singing to me more like yelling. All so fun fact. Christina Aguilera and Lady Gaga had the same vocal coach. Tough I love Gaga's technique more.

I really like the concept and quality of your video! It’s really frustrating cos literally every singer you mentioned here has SO MUCH potential and yet their vocal technique hindered them from improving. Once they all get pass this bottleneck they will all be true vocalists!

You did a wonderful job with this. I'm surprised it's taken me this long to find your channel. Keep up the great work.

Totally agree with agree with most of this. But I did dig Demi's vibrato as an artistic choice - seemed like she was using it to differentiate between sections of a song or make a repeated section feel fresh

i love how this video isn’t biased. good video & analysis. 🖤

props to gaga to using her head voice way more, especially for A Star Is Born

I love a good music debate that goes beyond "Beyoncé/Britney/Mariah is the queen, everyone else sucks". Thanks for elevating the conversation with factual arguments and examples. I'll sub for that ❤

I REALLY LOVED AILEE SO PROFESSIONAL SINGER REALLY LOVED HER VOICE

So Hyang: *BEING PERFECT*

Ailee is such a queen ♥️

DEMI!!!! I really love her!

I don't understand any of these. They all sound fantastic to me lol

Kelly's problems started after her pregnancies but I believe she will get back on track cause she used to sing operatic style before and when she started singing pop rock she would always use upward tone placement which made it very natural and applied vibrato.

I really understood each part of this video. Well explained!

I don’t think Christina has bad technique. She sings exactly how she wants to sing. Whenever she’s explaining her singing she does it with great technique. Her throatiness, no matter how much I can’t stand it sometimes, is something she wants to do. She does what she has to do to achieve that sound.

i’m happy ariana improved lots this year. 2019 is her prime til she gets to her ACTUAL prime in her 30s. she’s: - less shouty - less nasal - less tension - less high larynx (starts at F5 but oh well) - improved falsetto - IMPROVED BELTS - ease equal to HMT - IMPROVED LOWS - improved head voice - WHISTLES - improved breath control - improved tone (subjective tho) - IMPROVED SUPPORT (she supports at least 1 C5 / C#5 every night) [not to mention, she’s been supporting the D5 in fake smile lately which is INSANE. lol HMT unsupported B4s can’t relate]

How many times was tori gonna tell us not to worry??

beyoncé flaw: won’t let the other girls breath

Judging from this video I would love to hear the maker of this video sing since they have such a great ear.

Demi has been battling addiction for awhile too. So that could be a contribution to it.

- Demi should get singing lessons ASAP. Not to learn how to sing, they know how to, just learn to use their voice but not kill it, learn proper techniques. - Christina (sigh) get a vocal coach before you destroy your beautiful voice please. - Holy F, Ariana can do almost anything with her voice, just maybe use more enunciation? - My issue with Lady Gaga is her early growling/screaming (remember Poker Face live?) whatever. However, she has improved a lot. - Adele is great, but I wish she'd knew her limitations, that example was like girl. - I think Jojo should learn how to control her whistle because that was all over the place. I really can't speak more on her, since I've only heard Too Little Too Late (still awesome) - Kelly, I love you and you are amazing, did that raspiness come with age? Sounds great. The singers who I have not mentioned are so because I don't know them lol Very educating video by the way, I really enjoy your channel. ❤️

i love that you used, not one, but two JoJo songs throughout this video. love that

Ailee

I'm pretty sure Kelly does that because she wants a raspier sound. Im a huge gaga fan but you're right. Still adore her voice and her improvement over the years. Thanks for the video.

Is anyone not bothered by how new singers do runs by dropping and lifting jaws (gospel jaw?) Like what Ariana likes to do?

I don't know to many technical terms when it comes to singing, but thanks for the visuals and explaining what they're doing wrong descriptively

Love this ! I hope that you will do a second part I really enjoyed it :)

ok so... .christina’s ‘supported’ notes were throaty(especially that i will always love you one) .gaga supports her HV up to A5 as a MEZZO; that is hardly underdeveloped .high larynx isn’t an issue for ailee

G5 of Demi is so open!

Thank you for this video!!! ❤️❤️ Your channel is so underrated, and you videos are so good 😊 I follow you from 🇫🇷 and I learned a lot with you, so thank you 🙏

My vocal chords hurt when I watch Adele, Christina and Demi live.

So Hyang's not here, I guess she is indeed flawless 👀