male or female vocals in music

[Merci]

which you prefer to listen?
i think female vocals is more relaxing xd

[AdahnGorion]

Both?

This is pretty awesome
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjF1rmSV1dM

[Kamiyama]

female vocals are better. They are just better at singing and can also sing a lot more sexy when they want to.

Actually a lot of male vocalists are so bad I can't tell the difference between their singing voice versus if they were just yelling into the microphone. A lot of female singers actually have a clear difference between their talking voice and the way they sing.

[Scurrybt]

Depends on the genre.

[Vince ✟]

I like music without words for the most part

[kingjames488]

depends on the music I think...

if it's some kinda electronic-heavy music with a pumpin beat a "chick voice" is generally nice I think...

but if it's like something more soul-like or rap/hiphop I think a male voice is more pleasing.

rock is kinda hack way between, depends what the beat is.

[Mina]

Neither, depends on the sound alone

[AdahnGorion]

Originally posted by Kamiyama:

female vocals are better. They are just better at singing and can also sing a lot more sexy when they want to.

Actually a lot of male vocalists are so bad I can't tell the difference between their singing voice versus if they were just yelling into the microphone. A lot of female singers actually have a clear difference between their talking voice and the way they sing.

I guess it depends on whom you are and what you like. There are so many spectrums and good singers have many technics, but when you have someone that sings, plays an instrument and also writes the song themselves, then its much more powerful, than having 1 person just sing...

This comes to mind.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_E2EHVxNAE

I reckon most people would like this.. its also pretty fun to play and sing.

[the vampire of time and memory]

I listen to a lot more male vocals but that may be a genre thing

[Uncle Sam]

Originally posted by Jelly:

which you prefer to listen?
i think female vocals is more relaxing xd

Overall both are good, some vocalist be it female or male can be more iconic than others. Example whitney houston & michael jackson.

[Triple G]

Usually male, because female singers are more boring in the way they sing some song. It´s like some standard thing. There a e few exceptions though, and sometimes a female voice is nice to have.

May also have to do with the thing that i guess that more males sing their own lyrics, while more females will sing lyrics of someone else, to sell the stuff better. They´re then basically only the singers, not the artists who do the whole package.

[Puppet Pal Clem]

whatever sounds good

[GunsForBucks]

I like both.
I tend to listen to more music with male vocalists.

The whole wretched voice screamings of all the smashingpumking clone sounding bands was always horrible to me.

Pink Floyd
Roxy Music
King Crimson
NIN

Female stuff

There is some pretty awful female vocalists.
But there are some pretty great ones.

Happy Rhodes
10000 maniacs
Animal Logic
B52s
Bjork
Laurie Anderson
Kate Bush
Loreena McKennitt
Madonna
Sarah McLachlan
Sinead O'Connor

[Shiro♌]

In my case, it does depend a lot on the genre of the music and how their tone of voice fits the melody of the track.

I.e. female version of Linkin Park, Smash Mouth, or Breaking Benjamin?
Or a male version of Scandal, Nightwish, or.. Code Red?

That would've made their music lost its charm entirely.
While I can't deny that getting myself to listening to them was at first the melody, the vocals are very important factor for whether I keep listening or move on.

Depends, really.
There are and there aren't exceptions at the same time.
One of the best examples I do know is a track called No by Meghan Trainor. How I dislike the original one, while the male crossover just rocks and makes me all captivated..

[kingjames488]

I can't remember who it was, but there was some popular female singer who did covers of some classic songs somewhat recently and I listened to them and was like "nop. nop. nop."

it wasn't the same... it was also probably a different genre too which made it worse.

[Heitor Villa-Lobos]

Depends on the song, but I usually love when there are both. Like, hear this song, how heartwarming, even if you don't understand the lyrics at first:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJcnDgo5l10