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Old 3rd January 2017, 09:48 AM
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I still appreciate her latest releases but it didn't have as much impact on me as her older ones. I didn't listen BON VOYAGE (it's probably her worst album for me) or WOML that much, they were pretty meh imo

Her voice tends to get nasal really easily and it seems in some of her newer songs she loses control of her voice and it really distracts me. I love DITR for example but everytime she screams RAAAAAAAAAAIN I get chills down my spine lol when she "talks-raps" she can get really nasal too (and she's being doing it a lot also in her latest songs).
She's definitely exploring how she can use her voice, that's true. But for me it seems she's doing that on purpose and not that she's losing control.
In DITR she IS screaming in the chorus. But imo it fits the strentgh and anger, literaly screaming her sadness she's singing about in the face. It's at least not unpleasent to listen to.
Sometimes her experimentation works (also e.g. in Lippy), sometimes not ( e.g. in HOTEL).
But I can totally see, why it is off putting for some fans.
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