I’m beginning to think there are not many women singers I like to listen to; I can appreciate how talented they may be, understand what tremendous voices they have but I just don’t like many of them.
Amy Winehouse? No thanks. Duffy/Adele/Emily Sandé/Paloma Faith/Ellie Goulding/Gwen Stefani/Lady GaGa… no thanks. it’s not just modern singers, really well-respected women singers just set my teeth on edge Etta James/ Ella Fitzgerald (yes I know it’s heresy) Nina Simone/Janis Joplin/Joni Mitchell/Barbra Streisand… it’s not just particular songs, or style of music, it’s their voices I can’t stand. What a curmudgeon I am!
I do like some women singers, Billie Holiday, Buffy St Marie, Grace Slick… hey wait, they’re old, what about current singers… er… er… Debby Harry, Chrissie Hynde … oh and just about every Tamla Motown, Stax and other black label singers, Diana, Tina, Dionne, Aretha, Candi…
… but new singers, modern women singers… I just don’t like their voices!
In case you’re wondering, the featured image is of poor sweet-voiced Tammi Terrell who died just twenty-four years old.
Lois Elsden 
Strange, isn’t it? There are some women’s voices I don’t enjoy listening to but I don’t think my list’s as long as yours! Having said that, when I think about it I realise that I do usually choose to listen to male voices.
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Try some Eva Cassidy–“Over the Rainbow,” “Tall Trees of Georgia,” It’s a Wonderful World.” Sadly, she died quite young.
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Tragic… unfortunately ‘Wonderful World’ is a song I’m curmudgeonly about… I really don’t like it! But I’ll find some of her other tracks and give her a listen – thanks for the suggestion!
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I do not believe you are curmudgeonly at all. Some songs are worn out, and we all have different tastes.
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Thank you, Alice!
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