Rachel Bobbitt — Remember?
Album: Swimming Towards The SandAvg rating:
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Walking the circuit across green miles
Soft sound, reassurance
I had to carry you through it
Fireworks of wet down your face
Hands like a mother
You're crying with the door closed
Hollowed inside, I know it
Up past the ceiling that you swore I'd never break
Love is not a feeling, but the choices that you make
I'll try to love you gently, how you did when I would wake
And when you're laid down
I'll busy myself 'round the house
Clean out your closet and make sound
Someone will carry me through it
Mile after mile
Hands like a mother
Up past the ceiling that you swore I'd never break
Love is not a feeling, but the choices that you make
I'll try to love you gently, how you did when I would wake
Remember the lake that you dove into
You said it was cold, but you needed proof
You swam to the bottom, pressure in your ears
Bringing back fistfuls of mud, year after year
The day that you dove in for that last time
I don't remember the words passed, yours or mine
I don't remember the eyes now, were they wide or shut?
I don't remember the last time you swam back up
Soft sound, reassurance
I had to carry you through it
Fireworks of wet down your face
Hands like a mother
You're crying with the door closed
Hollowed inside, I know it
Up past the ceiling that you swore I'd never break
Love is not a feeling, but the choices that you make
I'll try to love you gently, how you did when I would wake
And when you're laid down
I'll busy myself 'round the house
Clean out your closet and make sound
Someone will carry me through it
Mile after mile
Hands like a mother
Up past the ceiling that you swore I'd never break
Love is not a feeling, but the choices that you make
I'll try to love you gently, how you did when I would wake
Remember the lake that you dove into
You said it was cold, but you needed proof
You swam to the bottom, pressure in your ears
Bringing back fistfuls of mud, year after year
The day that you dove in for that last time
I don't remember the words passed, yours or mine
I don't remember the eyes now, were they wide or shut?
I don't remember the last time you swam back up
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hjhlarsen wrote:
You should probably get your ears checked - she's not whispering.
It always amuses me the way people with a narrow range of experience and tolerance believe that anything which doesn’t fit into their cramped preferences is just going to go away someday.
You should probably get your ears checked - she's not whispering.
It always amuses me the way people with a narrow range of experience and tolerance believe that anything which doesn’t fit into their cramped preferences is just going to go away someday.
sfoster66 wrote:
You should probably get your ears checked - she's not whispering.
More breath-y whisper singing. I'll be happy when this particular trend dies out...
You should probably get your ears checked - she's not whispering.
Choked back the powerful urge to immediately hit PSD.
Listened 2-3 minutes, clicked PSD.
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Listened 2-3 minutes, clicked PSD.
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dlaumor wrote:
I sort of agree with this criticism, it's almost like spoken word, not singing. Got no real guts to it.
sfoster66 wrote:
And utterly boring to boot. Not to mention the crackly distortion that's put in intentionally.
More breath-y whisper singing. I'll be happy when this particular trend dies out...
And utterly boring to boot. Not to mention the crackly distortion that's put in intentionally.
"Love is not a feeling, but the choices that you make."
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More breath-y whisper singing. I'll be happy when this particular trend dies out...
You should probably get your ears checked - she's not whispering.
Love when someone's disagreement instantly devolves into misplaced medical advice instead of discussing actual audio trends. A massive wave of successful contemporary artists embraced or built their signature sounds around quiet, close-miked, or breathy vocals, including Gracie Abrams and Phoebe Bridgers. Or am I also mishearing those as well? And how's about the whole "you're stupid" comments get left in the 5th grade school yard, k?
"Whisper pop" isn't an accident or bad technique. It's a deliberate, highly engineered stylistic choice that's defining a decade of modern pop production. And that's reality, whether you believe it or not. The pendulum is already swinging back with high energy vocals already becoming the main driver recently.