Dylan James Mulvaney / Days of Girlhood / Day __ of Being a Girl - Dylan Explains It All, a gay man interprets 'girlhood' in all glorious technicolor.

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ByffyloByll2 said:
My ears are bleeding and now yours will too

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do you suppose he's just oblivious to how he looks like a fucking clown and sounds like a factory whistle?

I think you'd have to be face-blind and tone-deaf to believe that *anybody* would find this abomination watchable or listenable. It's as if the dude wants to be Priss from "Blade Runner," except he's a dude so no
 
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scathefire said:
Doesn't constantly singing outside of your natural range damage your voice at some point? He sounds abnormally high-pitched, it can't be good.
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From the looks of it, he was definitely trying to force the higher sounds that weren’t natural. Men can develop a good falsetto, but it takes more practice than what Dylan would be willing to do. Falsetto for men is like whistle notes for women. But like with many things, just because you can, doesn’t mean you should.

Voice type also can help deduce how possible it is to get to those higher ranges. Dylan is definitely a tenor, so it would be more realistic for him to just sing songs in a woman’s alto range as opposed to the soprano range. There’s a lot of popular songs out there that are meant for an alto voice. Maybe Dylan thinks singing in an unnaturally high pitch helps him “pass” more, but to me, all it does is emphasize how manly his voice is. Women singing the same high pitch sounds a lot different. If Dylan does insist on singing, he should learn to take songs down a few keys or just not try to sing like he’s a soprano.
Yeah, this is just my sperging on Dylan’s vocal strain. The key he is singing in is the biggest issue, as when it gets to the higher parts near the end, he is struggling. If you look at the video, his eyes seem to be popping out of his head like he isn’t anticipating those higher notes. Also, with higher notes, the mouth needs to be shaped in a certain position to achieve the sound safely. Dylan doesn’t open wide enough or leave enough space in his mouth to raise the soft palate, so the sound ends up a bit flat.

The ill fitting key also creates vocal control issues, so in the video, you see the high notes sounding louder regardless of the lyrics. The song itself is very mellow, so it’s unpleasant for the listener to have those high notes be extra loud in comparison to other elements of the song. The lyrical interpretation of this song would be much better if he just sang at a lower key. Billie Eilish doesn’t even have a super high voice herself, so I don’t get that decision of his to sound even higher than her.

Tl;dr the improper key, leading to more falsetto use, is giving Dylan vocal strain because he isn’t trained well enough to sing in it. Although, singing falsetto isn’t a requirement to be a good singer.
 
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Considering how Dylan singlehandedly destroyed one beer brand and made other companies go "fuck the ESG score we want to earn MONEY!" should we perhaps give him the coveted "Man of the year" award?
I mean what other man can claim to have achieved so much with just one little sponsor clip?
 
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ByffyloByll2 said:
My ears are bleeding and now yours will too

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scathefire said:
Doesn't constantly singing outside of your natural range damage your voice at some point? He sounds abnormally high-pitched, it can't be good.
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Ain't that what happened to Miley Cyrus?
 
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Baraadmirer said:
Wait, women with lower voice registers are not as womanly as sopranos? Sounds pretty misogynistic to me.
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Lower registers sound beautiful. Stevie Nicks is one of my favorite alto singers. Don’t get why Dylan can’t embrace a lower register.
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So wait, now they're telling me that if somebody identifies as a heckin' valid good singer, I have to fucking support THAT delusion as well?
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I got annoyed with that one comment that was all, “you can’t criticize Dylan because he was on Broadway once.” Being on Broadway doesn’t mean you have perfect technique at all times. It was objectively a bad key for Dylan to sing in, and he went even higher than how the original is supposed to sound. For someone with a musical theater background, you’d think Dylan would be more aware of how bad the falsetto sounds.
 
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NoReturn said:
Stevie Nicks, Dar Williams, who else?
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Nina Simone, Ella Fitzgerald, Cher, Adele, Sade, Billie Holliday, Tracy Chapman, Oleta Adams, Patsy Cline, Annie Lennox, Anita Baker, Toni Braxton, Bonnie Raitt, Amy fuckin Winehouse, Liza, Judy, Etta James, Fiona Apple, Diana Krall, Patti Cathcart (of Tuck & Patti), Colbie Caillat, Karen Carpenter, Lana Del Ray, Courtney Love, Shirley Manson, Carly Simon, Nico, Florence Welch....
 
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I had the dubious pleasure of seeing an all male rendition of The Mikado a few weeks ago and while it was very well done on the whole I was just cringing the whole time at these men singing in that high soprano that Gilbert and Sullivan require of all their ingenues. You could tell they were exhausted by the end of it as it took so much vocal control and concentration only for it to be 2 hours of ear-bleeding grate. Just because you can doesn't mean you should.

Anyway I've talked about Dylan's singing before and while he was never a bad singer (good enough to tour with BOM after all) I think he was primarily a dancer in his theater days. For someone who must be the center of attention at all times being in the dance corps with only the occasional solo line in a group number doesn't cut it. Hence the pivot to prima donna/pop star.
 
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JambledUpWords said:
Maybe Dylan thinks singing in an unnaturally high pitch helps him “pass” more
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It's absolutely that: he has to sing in his fake woman voice, so that involves an additional layer of complexity which doesn't leave a lot of room when the song suddenly shifts gear.

V-tubers who sing professionally drop their cutesy anime voice to avoid exactly this sort of problem, or the entire song is constructed from the ground up to accommodate their effects box.

The producers of Barbie probably paid him to delay releasing that clip "No, please Dylan, we're struggling to conceal how shit this film is without you broadsiding it..."
 
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JambledUpWords said:
Lower registers sound beautiful. Stevie Nicks is one of my favorite alto singers. Don’t get why Dylan can’t embrace a lower register.

I got annoyed with that one comment that was all, “you can’t criticize Dylan because he was on Broadway once.” Being on Broadway doesn’t mean you have perfect technique at all times. It was objectively a bad key for Dylan to sing in, and he went even higher than how the original is supposed to sound. For someone with a musical theater background, you’d think Dylan would be more aware of how bad the falsetto sounds.
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A lot of Broadway singers are shit with shit technique. Even the good ones fry their voices regularly because they don't know how much they're straining on songs they're not suited for.

Some men have absolutely beautiful falsettos. Dylan doesn't.
 
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