Word: vibrato
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...warm pink oval-softly lit, windowless and strangely familiar. A few paces in, the room narrows to a bright seam of a doorway that resembles the more unabashed works of Georgia O'Keeffe. "The entryway is a womb, and the door is a vagina," says Fonda in her startling vibrato. "I had it designed so that you're sort of delivered into the loft. Don't you love...
...part of this antique, dead-end genre? It's like dreaming of becoming a hat blocker or a Yiddish scholar. What kid in the hinterlands would even know that a clear, crisp Broadway vocal style exists, when "American Idol" teaches that pop crooning is a demonstration of wild vibrato work and orgasmic emoting? My friend, the distinguished actor George Grizzard, watches "American Idol" and shouts with exasperation at the TV screen: "Just sing the goddamn song...
...Lensky, John A. McMunn ’04 is, like Lynch, an exemplar of the talent that Harvard’s undergraduate community has to offer. His musical and expressive range is impressive and his execution is spirited. His pure love for Olga is discernible in the vibrato of his ample voice. Erin Baker’s Olga, on the other hand, had a far too guttural and nasal voice, and her Russian was incessantly garbled...
...demo tape he recorded a noble-masochism ballad called "I'll Never Stand in Your Way." (The cut appears on RCA's four-CD, 100-song set "Platinum: A Life in Music.") Here his voice is thin, nasal, with an attack of naked innocence and, yes, a feminine vibrato...
Creed is certainly better than just about any teen-pop act. Vocalist Scott Stapp, 28, has a vibrato like a mounted assault rifle, and guitarist Mark Tremonti, 27, who doubles as bassist on this record to replace ex-band mate Brian Marshall, bangs out tried and true arena-rock chord progressions with precision. But the canned mysticism of the lyrics almost inspires nostalgia for the professional, if dispassionate, songwriting of producer Max Martin and other behind-the-scenes teen-pop studio wizards. "Let's give love to all," Stapp intones on the final track, Lullaby. Let's give thesauri...