Do you generally prefer female or male singing voices?

[Arugula Latte]

Poll question: Do you generally prefer female or male singing voices?

I'm a female, but I'd say 90 to 95 percent of the pop music I listen to has a male lead singer. I've got some Annie Lennox, some Pretenders, some Norah Jones, some Nina Simone and some Sarah MacLachlan on my iPod, but there are not a whole heck of a lot more women on there. I consider myself a feminist, but, for some reason, I would rather listen to a man sing than a woman.

How 'bout you?

[ForrestGump]

1. Most of the singers I listen to and admire are male

I like many female voices, including some in gospel and country/country-rock that belonged to people I knew personally, but my music collection's overwhelmingly male-dominated.

[MrSlayer]

2. Male.

I have 900 songs on my .mp3 player and I think Joan Jett is the only woman singer on there. Three tunes.

[Omphaloskepsis]

3. Depends..

During the normal day I prefer male voices. If I want to go to sleep I will put on a band with a female singer.

[some guy]

4. definitely female

Joni Mitchell
Dar Williams
Lucinda Williams
Joan Armatrading
Annie Haslam
Annie Lennox
Emmylou Harris
Alison Krauss
Pretenders
Heart
Holly Cole
Ella Fitzgerald


...for starters

[Breeze54]

8. Bonnie Raitt!!!

Bonnie Raitt Love Me Like A Man lyrics

Love me like a man
The men that I've been seeing, baby
Got their soul up on a shelf
you know they could never love me
When they can't even love themselves
But I need someone to love me
Someone to really understand
Who won't put himself above me
Who’ll just love me like a man
I never seen such losers darlin’
even though I try…
…to find a mind who can take me home
’stead of taking me for a ride

And I need someone to love me
I know you can
Believe me when I tell you
you can love me like a man
Oh they want me to rock them
like my back ain't got no bone
I want a man to rock me
like my¦ backbone was his own
baby, I know you can
Believe me when I tell you
You can love me like a man
I Come home sad and lonely
Feel like I wanna cry
I need someone to hold me
Not some fool to ask me why
And I need someone to love me
Darlin’ I know you can

Don't you put yourself above me
You just love me like a man

Bonnie Raitt Love Me Like A Man lyrics

[MissMillie]

17. Shawn Colvin, Aimee Mann and Patty Griffin

:hi:

[Starbucks Anarchist]

5. No preference -- many great singers from both sides.

[Breeze54]

6. I prefer both and that wasn't an poll option!

I tend to gravitate to a male singing voice but I think that's because they
get the most contracts so that is all that I am exposed to on the FM. I like
a lot of female singers and I'm glad you brought this up because I've been
lecturting myself that I really should support female singers more than I have
been, now and in the past.

I have some CD's of female singers and some down loaded music too.

I like male rock singers because they seem to express my level of outrage.
I also like female singers for that too and for the emotional aspect of the lyrics.

[Zavulon]

7. Male preferring female singers.

Females might not be the best choice for some of the classic rock I like, but in today's music? Females, hands down.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

9. It depends. On a lot of things.

I for one am SICK AND TIRED of all the DAMN PUBLICITY HOUND TENORS!!!

It started with Pavarotti selling himself to the highest bidder, and people who think he's the best tenor in the world. He probably was -- back about 1970.

Basses and baritones often both sing Don Giovanni or his servant Leporello, both of whom are baritone parts (lower than a tenor and higher than a bass). Then they are called a bass-baritone.

Give me a studly baritone (Thomas Hampson -- whose nickname among groupies is Thomas Handsome)

Thomas Handsome singing "Shenandoah" on GMA:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTEiEvkl1KY

or a studly bass. Sam Ramey is the current reigning king of the heap, here doing "Ave Signor" from "Mefistofeles" (Same story as Faust, except that the Devil gets top billing):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=chTGdfrnWWY&mode=related&search=

but there have been previous ones that were better -- Ezio Pinza.

Pinza doing the Serenade from Don Giovanni:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_0N28eyk6U


In fact, Ramey and Hampson have done a CD of bass & baritone duets called "NTA: No Tenors Allowed".


Other good baritones: Thomas Allen, Dmitri Hvorostovsky.

You want a great tenor with thighs of steel, check out a very handsome and buff Franco Corelli circa 1960 doing a prison scene from Tosca: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzb9uwfgD1w

The greatest lyric tenor of all time in my opinion was Ferruccio Tagliavini. Very sweet voice.

Nowadays, as far as tenors, I prefer Placido Domingo, even though he's getting old like Pavarotti.
At least he hasn't sold out.

There are a few female singers I like a lot: Cyndi Lauper, Annie Lennox, The Bulgarian State Women's Chorus, Anonymous Four.

[lost-in-nj]

10. If the voice is pure.....

I can listen to male or female all day......



lost

[MysticalChicken]

11. I'm female...

"I'm a female and I prefer male singing voices."

If I were still in highschool, I would have clicked "female singing voices." And even the female singers I like usually have medium to low voices: PJ Harvey, KT Tunstall, Chrissie Hynde, Shirley Manson, etc. I think the highest-pitched voice I like is Carol Van Dijk from Bettie Serveert. But I currently like 434 bands (I have a list) and probably more than 400 of them are male-fronted. Ironically, I really like high-pitched male voices: Thom Yorke, Jeff Buckley, Tim Cameron (who fronts my second-favorite band, that nobody's ever heard of, Colours Run), Elliott Smith, etc. Basically I like singers who have pretty much the same range I have when I sing, so it's easy for me to sing along with them.

[CBHagman]

12. Not enough choices!

It depends on the music and the voice, and besides, why do we have to choose just one sex over the other?

I'm a choral person myself. :evilgrin: Bring on those Renaissance compositions by Tallis and Palestrina and and that lot.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

13. Oh Yeah!!

I've seen the Tallis Scholars live in a large church and I think it's the closest thing on earth to aural heaven.

[CBHagman]

24. For all we know, we were at the some concert...

I saw the Tallis Scholars at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester and at the National Cathedral in Washington, D.C. At the former event, the lutenist Paul O'Dette was sitting a couple of rows away from me.

[usaftmo]

14. Female ballads with little music gets my male heart thumping

Even if it's not in English I enjoy it. While stationed in Korea I bought several cd's of female singers. Last time I went there on vacation I took my cd of "old blue eyes" and played "My Way" for my (then) girlfriend. Even before the vocals began she cooed "ooooooo....Frank Sinatra"! :wow:

I told her that I was very surprised she heard of Sinatra, and she replied he is very famous throughout not just Korea but Asia. I asked why and she said his voice is so smooth and clear that it's easy to understand him, even if you don't understand English! :wow:

Overall, I guess that I've got a huge weak-spot for a female version of Sinatra. :blush:

[Lil Missy]

15. Yes. I definitely prefer female or male singing voices

[RushIsRot]

16. I prefer instrumentals.

[GirlinContempt]

18. Completely dependant on what I'm listening to.

No preference. Not possible.

[wildhorses]

19. i definitely prefer male vocals

or alto females. perhaps because i am a soprano and always wanting what i haven't got:shrug:

[bertha katzenengel]

20. It depends so much on the range and quality of the voice that I can't say.

But over solo voice, I definitely prefer choirs. Or even ensembles, trios, duets.

[Rob H.]

21. Most of my collection is dominated by male singers

The ones I like most, though, are singers like Jeff Buckley, who have a wide range. (What I wouldn't give to be able to sing like he did!)

[deepthought42]

22. I am female and I like both!

Loreena McKennitt
Enya
Jill Sobule
Disturbed
Breaking Benjamin
Nightwish
Lacuna Coil
Seether
Evanescence
Toni Braxton
Celine Dion
Weird Al
Dixie Chicks
Eminem
Hurt
Korn
Pink
Snow Patrol
Stone Sour
The Exies
Three Days Grace
various Broadway recordings

And that's just a small sampling of the music I listen to!

[AllegroRondo]

23. Im a Rush fan

so I would say female.

[Dr. Strange]

25. snicker! n/t