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How does Florence get away with it
This girl is so out of tune all the time it is painful trying to listen to her. Tried to watch her doing a live performance on C4 singing 'you've got the love' but she was so out of tune had to mute the sound. Shame because she is a beautiful looking woman.
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Some of my favourite acts don't have traditionally perfect voices, but I think they're amazing... such as Bjork, Karen O from YYYs and Beth Ditto from Gossip.
Beth Ditto is technically a very good singer.
However, she has sounded really bad recently at the festivals. Not sure why that is. Perhaps it's the sound system and she can't hear herself to stay in tune. Perhaps she's been ill.
She used to be a lot better, so maybe her voice is just exhausted after a year of touring and promoting.
I agree. She's consistently out of tune and off key. She just shouts most of her music and I can't believe some people claim her version of You Got The Love is better than the brilliant original.
She stays in tune and can hold a note to some degree but she's not a traditional singer, which is the type of sound people associate with "good" singing. You know the older Whitney, Christina... those type of clichéd voices.
But I think she often gets away with it because her music is widely respected
She is a lovely person and has great energy on stage but she is not a singer.
That was from her album launch last year and she was ill at the time (well, that and it was the Rivoli which is cramped and gets really warm). I'm a huge fan and that was the second worse performance of hers I've ever seen (the worst been this years T in the Park where she was smashed).
Unfortunately, the fact that her vocals have been a bit off at most of her recent festival appearances hasn't helped with people who say she "can't sing" when the majority of the time her vocals are decent.
Some decent performances (based off a quick search, there's a lot more if you look through):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1j07TL2Cxcg
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=re3VspwcKCM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tOy6aMJMHfo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOyDXlf2qkM
Its got nothing to do with Whitney, Xtina et al.
If your going to choose a career in music, you are going to need to be able to sing properly, simply as.
A singer needs to be able to stay in tune, if you can't achieve this basic function, your in the wrong job.
All singers need good vocal coaches, just like all tennis players need good coaches whatever level your at.
What is annoying is the way anybody can be made to sound good in the studio nowadays with this autotune.
She reminds me of Kate Bush and Annie lennox.
because her target market isn't just for pretentious, up market musical taste.
I can't believe how hollow some people can be.
Florence's voice is quite folky in a way, almost yodelling in places, and this grates with some people. It's very much a Marmite thing as you either love it or hate it.
It's a bit stupid to say 'how does she get away with it'. You could say that about a lot of artists, but they have their fans, and that's fine. Was this thread really necessary?
So what if people say her voice is good? It's all personal opinion, go and find something else to listen to.