I don't know the exact technical term but I believe it might be croak, the not quite warble but a wavering interrupted breath is pretty good, and and also some vocal fry makes for a pretty rich and emotive experience and the melody and rhythm makes it.
It is an interesting discussion about how do you perform if you don't like to show your face or are aloof. That idea is kind of like Adams family meets modern dance.
REM's michael stipe famously just used bull horn/megaphone to cover his face. He was asked to mime on Top of the Pops. He had no clue how to mine, didn't want to do it, so he came up with that idea and has since become a motif of the band.
Whole genres like shoegase epitomise aloofness. Jesus Mary Chain and My Bloody Valentines for example.
There is the Irish band God is an Astronaut, who performs mostly unlit, or use light to push themselves into he background and often using projected images, with a very prog/ethereal sound of then with no or limited lyrics.
I think there were always different vocal styles, Freddie Mercury, Enya, Bowie, Kate Bush, Nina Simone, Whitney Houston, etc. Not sure what a normal sing would be apart from perhaps relative to a western classical or operatic tradition.
A lot of what we consider standard pop and rock singing styles came out genre like gospel and blues. Elvis being a key example he even had a gospel a capella group do his backing.
The issue I have today is lack of dynamics, and melody in commercial music, it is almost frowned upon, so don't like vocal styles the purposely clip or avoid dynamic.
I was never in to warbling or super contrived vocals, but really the skill is in treating the voice as in instrument within the composition, so it is all possible as long as it fits the music.
I'll admit to being old fashioned. Joan Baez,Judith Durham, a young Joni Mitchell, Sandy Denny, Mary Travers are the kind of female vocalists that I like.
I'll admit to being old fashioned. Joan Baez,Judith Durham, a young Joni Mitchell, Sandy Denny, Mary Travers are the kind of female vocalists that I like.
Ah that makes sense folk including counter culture beat styles tended to focus on straight vocals and american "song book".
To a certain extent country and blue grass but hat has its own twang.
I think there were always different vocal styles, Freddie Mercury, Enya, Bowie, Kate Bush, Nina Simone, Whitney Houston, etc. Not sure what a normal sing would be apart from perhaps relative to a western classical or operatic tradition.
If you want an "interesting" (female) vocal style, here's one from Ukraine (She sings in English) - I'll note (as a warning) that this one often pops up on "reaction" videos for a reason :)
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