Aretha Franklin vs Whitney Houston

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i won't chose.

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The only one who managed to drag Taylor Swift 

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Aretha was a great great singer.  There are many singers voices I prefer over hers, including Whitney.  

Edited Sunday at 05:40 AM by MACATL

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Whitney is for me the best. I still love her songs and I think she has the very definition of classics. I Will Always Love You is a standard and also a fun game even kids can play. I Wanna Dance with somebody is I think the quintessential 80s song and probably one of the greatest pop songs ever made. How Will I Know is pure perfection too. She has so many. I’m don’t know as many Aretha songs. 

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14 hours ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

Who would you say you think are significantly better than Aretha and Whitney?

If we’re talking about technique, singers like Frank Ifield or Ghena Dimitrova immediately come to mind. Even the emotions actually. Sure, they’re not “pop”-oriented or mega famous like Whitney or Aretha, but actually I’d go as far as saying there’s probably hundreds if not thousands of vocalists that are Above those two

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3 minutes ago, AVeryGagaHolyDick said:

If we’re talking about technique, singers like Frank Ifield or Ghena Dimitrova immediately come to mind. Even the emotions actually. Sure, they’re not “pop”-oriented or mega famous like Whitney or Aretha, but actually I’d go as far as saying there’s probably hundreds if not thousands of vocalists that are Above those two

I mean, kind of shifting the goalpost because, yeah, once you step out of pop and into the world of classical, opera, musical theater, jazz etc. you’re going to find singers with genuine world class + pristine technique, but heard. 

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14 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

I mean, kind of shifting the goalpost because, yeah, once you step out of pop and into the world of classical, opera, musical theater, jazz etc. you’re going to find singers with genuine world class + pristine technique, but heard. 

I didn’t even partially shift the goalpost, it was always about being “the very best vocalists ever”

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18 minutes ago, AVeryGagaHolyDick said:

I didn’t even partially shift the goalpost, it was always about being “the very best vocalists ever”

I mean, the context is pretty clearly pop given the two examples given. 

Edited Sunday at 12:28 PM by Ladle Ghoulash

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At first I read Anne Frank vs Whitney Houston 

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49 minutes ago, Ladle Ghoulash said:

I mean, kind of shifting the goalpost because, yeah, once you step out of pop and into the world of classical, opera, musical theater, jazz etc. you’re going to find singers with genuine world class + pristine technique, but heard. 

2bh if we stay in the pop fields, I'd still say Florence Welch clears pretty much all of the pop girlies in vocal variety. Even in one single song like lets say Witch Dance or King the bitch displays a bigger range than most gals show in a lifetime. 

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2 minutes ago, princedeeblebleble said:

2bh if we stay in the pop fields, I'd still say Florence Welch clears pretty much all of the pop girlies in vocal variety. Even in one single song like lets say Witch Dance or King the bitch displays a bigger range than most gals show in a lifetime. 

Flo is great and I would definitely agree that she’s one of the better singers in pop rn. I’ll never forget how badly she gagged me when she delivered soulful realness on Lover to Lover when Ceremonials came out 

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Aretha is a b*tch

Whitney is a queen 

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27 minutes ago, princedeeblebleble said:

2bh if we stay in the pop fields, I'd still say Florence Welch clears pretty much all of the pop girlies in vocal variety. Even in one single song like lets say Witch Dance or King the bitch displays a bigger range than most gals show in a lifetime. 

I'd also argue she's the best emotive singer around at the moment. 

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1 hour ago, Bronco said:

I'd also argue she's the best emotive singer around at the moment. 

Especially live, like how do you bring even more emoticons live on the big stage?! Truly an enchating coven leader from the upper planes of existence.

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21 minutes ago, princedeeblebleble said:

Especially live, like how do you bring even more emoticons live on the big stage?! Truly an enchating coven leader from the upper planes of existence.

I think Sympathy Magic on the Everybody Scream tour was an actual ritual tbh