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* [[Angelspit/Headscratchers|Angelspit]]

* [[Ayreon/Headscratchers|Ayreon]]

** [[John Lennon/Headscratchers|John Lennon]]

* [[Justin Bieber/Headscratchers|Justin Bieber]]

* [[The Birthday Massacre/Headscratchers|The Birthday Massacre]]

* [[Johnny Cash/Headscratchers|Johnny Cash]]

* [[Headscratchers/Kate Nash|Kate Nash]]

* [[Kid Rock/Headscratchers|Kid Rock]]

* [[Lady Gaga/Headscratchers|Lady Gaga]]

* [[Muse (band)/Headscratchers|Muse]]

* [[Musicians/Headscratchers|Musicians]]

* [[Nightwish/Headscratchers|Nightwish]]

* [[Panic! at the Disco/Headscratchers|Panic At the Disco]]

* [[Pink Floyd/Headscratchers|Pink Floyd]]

* [[The Protomen/Headscratchers|The Protomen]]

*** There was a recent Wired article that showed that some species of monkeys enjoyed music that had been made up of sampled monkey sounds.

** There's some research that suggests that the human love of music works with the same part of the brain that birds use when interpreting bird songs, and that our ability to sing came before our ability to speak. One theory is that humans once used mating and territorial songs to communicate with each other just like birds, and that, since civilization and language has done away with that need, we've cranked our musical ability way [[Up to Eleven]] and adapted it for a whole new purpose.

** [http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35880077/ns/health-kids_and_parenting/ "It remains to be understood why humans have developed this particular predisposition."]

*** The predisposition being talked about is ''dancing''.

* Why are albums released first in Japan, and only later in the rest of the world?

** What now?

* Why don't the backing bands for generic manufactured pop artists go off and [[Start My Own|make their own music]]?

** 1) They may well prefer just to earn a good buck making the music rather than risk going solo 2) Being a solid musician is not necessarily enough to make it in the pop music world. There is a reason why [[David Bowie]] made it as a a solo artist and Mick Ronson (despite his talent as a producer/instrumentalist/arranger) didn't.

** [[Sarcasm Mode|Possibly because they're]] [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?|butt]][[Hollywood Homely|-fugly]].

** Let's not forget two facts here: 1. Instrumental ability does not equal songwriting creativity, and 2. Mainstream music is 90% dictated by marketing. A lot of the time they're just not marketable enough.

* Why does almost every musician sing in an American accent? Why can't they change it up occasionally? It seems like people did used to sing in non-American accents regularly (the Beatles sang in English accents quite often, Syd Barrett sang for Pink Floyd with an English accent, Harry Belafonte even affected a West Indies accent even though he was American) but it fell out of fashion somehow.

** Speaking <s> out of my ass</s> as an American, I think it as has something to do with America being a very visible audience and having slightly xenophobic attitudes. Either that or perhaps many artists are simply influenced by [[Small Reference Pools|American singers]].

*** Ah, to hear a Canadian sing in a Southern accent...

**** Actually, it's been proved that the American accent is the easiest accent to sing in. To be honest, it's not really an 'American accent', it's more like a 'universal pop accent'. British singers who attempt to use their native accent tend to have to strain their voice more than they would need to if they were singing using the American-type accent. Think about it, the way you pronounce words tends to be slightly different when you sing, as your mouth and vocal chords have to move differently to produce different pitches and sounds. This is coming from a Brit who sings a lot, and I can tell you, singing 'My Heart Will Go On' while attempting to sound like Lily Allen is not fun in the slightest.

** Classical Music. Hey, it's ''[[Mathematician's Answer|true]]''.

** Alternative Music.

*** But what is it actually? It doesn't seem to have anything that defines it's sound other than being rock music.

* Why is it that Dark Neoclassical is listed as a subgenre of [[Darkwave]] on [[The Other Wiki]]? I know that a lot of groups use synths to create that sound, but what about groups who create this type of music with acoustic instruments?

* It's really not enough to warrant its own page but... ''It's Raining Men'' is a song sung by a group of women. As in, females. They're excited--soaking wet, even--about how many guys they can pick up. It's all about girls on the prowl. WHY IS THIS SONG NOW A GAY ANTHEM!? I'm bisexual myself and this ''still'' boggles the living crap out of me.

** It's not terribly uncommon for the male gay community to adopt female anthems, or to identify with the female's traditional role in romantic situations. See "I Will Survive" for a perfect example.

* Why do some classically trained singers have a hard time listening to singing by artists who... aren't (like a lot of Alternative Rock), but others have no problem?

** For the same reason most painters aren't impressed by stick doodles. It's still art, and you can't objectively say something as subjectively as art is ''bad'', it's just to someone who has spent years honing their skills it looks/sounds sloppy and amateurish.

** This article seems curiously appropriate to this discussion: http://www.invisibleoranges.com/2010/07/ask-a-real-musician-5-classic-male-metal-singers/.

** A given singer may be compared very favorably to Mick Jagger yet very poorly to Enrico Caruso. Probably there's a distinction between singers who are willing to appreciate other genres' vocal styles on their own merits, and singers who instinctively evaluate all music by (admittedly tried-and-true) classical techniques. File under [[Values Dissonance]], perhaps.

 

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