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  • Mar 17, 2021
    Da Bitches 2

    Phonte coined a term for them on Questlove’s podcast. Racially Ambiguous Whispering B****es (RAWB). Haven’t stopped calling them that tbh.

    Lmaoooo

  • Mar 17, 2021
    dr3am_weaver_479

    Aka Joe budden radio

    Maaann lmao

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  • Mar 17, 2021

    Because it's easy. Any basic b**** can do it

  • Mar 17, 2021

    “ I'd say billie eillish really popularised it again”

    Even beyonce hopped on the train for a while as early as 13/14

    That low-fi whisper ‘vocal fry’ singing has been at the forefront of pop AND RnB for close to a decade now

    The singing style never lost its popularity or prominence once it started seeing success from the alt-pop/folk stars around 2013/2014

  • THIB 🦌
    Mar 17, 2021
    Beers

    Phonte one of the most underrated ever tbh

    facts

  • Mar 17, 2021

    Because thats what the BIG MUSIC wants you to listen.

  • Mar 17, 2021

    Billie didn’t popularized s***.

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    Act like Selena Gomez, Lana and lorde hasn’t been snagging top 5s throughout the 10s coughing, breathing and whispering all over the mic

  • Niggamortis 👨‍🚀
    Mar 17, 2021
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    cut pablo juan his check

  • Mar 17, 2021
    Niggamortis

    cut pablo juan his check

  • Twigs pulls it off rly well

  • Mar 18, 2021

    iT's A vIbE

  • Mar 18, 2021

    Jai Paul invented

  • Mar 18, 2021

    Even the dance tracks in the mid-late 10s had white women telling mystic secrets on them

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    It popular because it doesn’t require any vocal ability and allows the artist to be carried by the production. Same reason why autotune and melodyne made it so easy for hiphop artists to sing their own hooks and makes it easier to be melodious

  • Mar 18, 2021
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    It popular because it doesn’t require any vocal ability and allows the artist to be carried by the production. Same reason why autotune and melodyne made it so easy for hiphop artists to sing their own hooks and makes it easier to be melodious

    billie is a good singer though

  • Mar 18, 2021
    snoozer

    billie is a good singer though

    She has a nice voice. It’s easy on the ears, pleasant and her emotive delivery is what sells the sentiment of the song. As far as actual vocal ability goes.. she’s in the same tier as the rest of the whispering artists vocally: lorde, Selena, Lana, Taylorshe got one of those bob dylan singer-songwriter voices..average. Someone I’d consider good is a jhene or a summer walker or sza. Billie ain even on that level

  • Mar 18, 2021
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    Bernie X

    Unless the production is really good what’s the point of not flexing great vocals

    sometimes they're not even singing just talking quietly

  • Mar 18, 2021

    I give Jhene Aiko the credit

  • Mar 18, 2021
    stream evangelion

    sometimes they're not even singing just talking quietly

    Exactly that’s when it’s just spoken word

  • Mar 18, 2021
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    can someone explain billies appeal? Not even joking

  • Mar 18, 2021
    Experiment626

    can someone explain billies appeal? Not even joking

    She’s quirky and relatable! Billie is depressed just like me

  • Mar 18, 2021

    still mad how that driver's license song horribly ripped off lorde on the bridge