Female vocal songs where their voice breaks/cracks?
June 17, 2020 6:26 PM Subscribe
I love the vocal breaks in songs like Wherever Is Your Heart by Brandi Carlisle when there’s a vocal solo and she sings ”God forgive my mind...”. Janis does it a lot too and you can hear it in Zombie. Can you recommend other songs like this? Thank you!
The Distillers (eg Seneca Falls)
If Love is a Red Dress
The Muffs (eg Sad Tomorrow)
The Cranberries (eg Dreams)
posted by SaltySalticid at 6:57 PM on June 17, 2020
If Love is a Red Dress
The Muffs (eg Sad Tomorrow)
The Cranberries (eg Dreams)
posted by SaltySalticid at 6:57 PM on June 17, 2020
Fiona Apple (e.g., Fetch the Bolt Cutters) does this to great effect.
posted by matildaben at 7:03 PM on June 17, 2020 [4 favorites]
posted by matildaben at 7:03 PM on June 17, 2020 [4 favorites]
Heart's "These Dreams" was recorded when vocalist Nancy Wilson was sick.
posted by mkb at 7:04 PM on June 17, 2020
posted by mkb at 7:04 PM on June 17, 2020
Amy Ray of the Indigo Girls does this. Off the top of my head, a good example is Kid Fears.
posted by Pallas Athena at 7:15 PM on June 17, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by Pallas Athena at 7:15 PM on June 17, 2020 [2 favorites]
Something like this? (I'll just add that I'm blown away that she can just toss that off in a tweet. Of course her albums are good too.)
posted by Winnie the Proust at 7:31 PM on June 17, 2020
posted by Winnie the Proust at 7:31 PM on June 17, 2020
I’m not sure if it’s voice cracking per se, but the lead singer of Hopalong has a very interesting delivery you might enjoy.
posted by sacrifix at 11:21 PM on June 17, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by sacrifix at 11:21 PM on June 17, 2020 [2 favorites]
In Sandcastles, Beyonce's voice cracks with emotion - not sure if this is what you're after as it's not a vocal technique so much as raw emotion coming through, but worth mentioning. (I'm sure you could posit that she's using it as a technique, but she also goes out of tune at the same time so I find it difficult to believe that she left it in as a flex).
In this video of the song it happens around the 2:55 mark. It's not my favourite song on that album but I find that moment very affecting.
posted by greenish at 2:07 AM on June 18, 2020 [1 favorite]
In this video of the song it happens around the 2:55 mark. It's not my favourite song on that album but I find that moment very affecting.
posted by greenish at 2:07 AM on June 18, 2020 [1 favorite]
In the Rolling Stones' Gimme Shelter, the singer Merry Clayton's voice cracks at one point with the intensity of her singing . You can hear Jagger in the background cheering her performance.
posted by vincebowdren at 4:25 AM on June 18, 2020 [5 favorites]
posted by vincebowdren at 4:25 AM on June 18, 2020 [5 favorites]
Marianne Faithfull's voice is a truly noble wreck, constructed almost entirely of cracking. I could listen to her forever. Listening to Faithfull is like sipping slowly on a really really good old red that's been in the cellar a couple of decades too long; so, so many stories behind what remains.
posted by flabdablet at 5:28 AM on June 18, 2020 [2 favorites]
posted by flabdablet at 5:28 AM on June 18, 2020 [2 favorites]
This live cover of Working Class Hero is just stupendous.
posted by flabdablet at 5:34 AM on June 18, 2020 [1 favorite]
posted by flabdablet at 5:34 AM on June 18, 2020 [1 favorite]
No-one's voice cracks like Joanna Newsom.
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 10:31 AM on June 18, 2020
posted by Jessica Savitch's Coke Spoon at 10:31 AM on June 18, 2020
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posted by aspersioncast at 6:30 PM on June 17, 2020 [1 favorite]