The WORST Female Voices of All Time!

Rhianna

Britney could sing well until about 2001 (see Mickey Mouse Club vids). Replace her with Hilary Duff

Oh please. Britney can't sing for shit.

Billie Holliday is amazing. Bette Midler can sing also. Your list is ridiculous.

Macy gray doesn't sing.

Carole King squawks

Jennifer Lopez hands down the worst "singer" to actually turn it into a career.

Mrs. Smith

Ke$ha has never sang a note that wasn't run through a computer to hit the correct pitch.

Billie Holiday may be a good singer, but that doesn't change the fact that she has an ugly voice.

And Bette Midler's voice is WOBBLY.

Selena Gomez, Paula Abdul, Ethel Merman, Fergie,

I would also add Jennifer Hudson and Christina Aguilera to the list, because they both do the same caterwauling on every single song with no sense of nuance or phrasing.

Idina Menzel is okay when she's not pitchy, but she's pitchy most of the time.

Seriously? No Taylor Swift? I have to leave the room if she comes on...

And what was I, chopped liver?

fergie what a blast from the past.

JENNIFER ANISTON

Fergie actually can sing quite well, R10.

R11. I'm with you. Swift is utterly unbearable in every conceivable way. Are her 15 minutes ever going to be up?!

Demi Lovato Selena Gomez Rihanna Britney Kesha Meghan Trainor Rita Ora Taylor Swift & almost every other stripper that calls themself a singer today

Here is Fergie singing "Barracuda" with Ann Wilson!

Damn! Fergie is so talented, she can sing and do cartwheels at the same time!!

Taylor Swift actually sounds kind of like Susanna Hoff from The Bangles.

Susan "I Dreamed a Dream" Boyle

R10, Fergie's been singing since she was a little kid.

Fergie is old and done. Move on Frau!

Cassie

Vanity

Latoya Jackson

Katy Perry's voice makes me run out of a room (or a store) screaming.

you're an idiot, OP.

Madonna (no talent, no artistry)

Christina Aguilera (no taste)

Nicki Minaj (no range, no artistry)

Britney (sucking noise of a black hole)

Courtney Love (horrific)

Yoko Ono

Marianne Faithfull

Madonna

I have to say that people like JLO and Fergie may have very weak voices but when singing within their limited range they are pleasant sounding.

It funny to see how old people reveal themselves to be by their choices in bad singers.

I like Kesha. Oh well.

Maria Muldaur

Alicia Keys. Her singing on the abominable "No One" and "This Girl's on Fire" makes me want to push my grandmother down the stairs.

R34, Old!

Barbara Streisand.

You could spin Helen Keller with a bow and arrow around multiple times and there's a better chance of her hitting a target's bulls-eye than of Midler ever hitting a note on pitch.

When I was growing up the local record store would give out a bottle of sea sickness pills with every one of her albums.

OP, you're a fucking asshole. Bette Midler can sing quite well. What can you do well? Nothing but sit around and jerk off.

Minaj is horrible all auto tuned and her speaking voice is like nails on chalkboard. Jlo had a thin sound can't sing shes a joke . Rihanna has a crappy voice but still kind of like her.

R3 = Madonna fan dying of AIDS

You're a horrible person, r41.

Because of the Madonna, R42, or the AIDS?

Britney Spears did have a good voice.

R44 = deaf ears

Elaine Stritch

R32.....You think that's funny? I think it is pathetic that you are obviously caught up in ageism. Oh, wait, this IS datalounge.

Adele, she sounds like a dying goat.

i think adele is boring as hell. she can sing though. macy gray isn't a singer. i don't know what you'd call her. a 'recording artist' barely?

[quote] Britney Spears did have a good voice.

When?

Rihanna is auto tuned to fuck, Madonna has always been more of a self promoter than a singer, I feel like I'm kicking a sick puppy for saying Britney but she's just not good, Liza, poor Liza can't carry a tune with the aid of three Louis Vuitton cases and a wheelbarrow and Lauryn Hill is like nails on a chalkboard, I really have to switch it off when I hear her.

It's all just personal taste of course.

R39, a wobbly voice is not a GOOD voice.

I know I'll get trashed for this, but: Stevie Nicks. She's simply terrible, with that nasally scratch and slurring words so that I, even thirty years later, still have no idea what the lyrics to "Stand Back" are.

Why isn't The Great Screaming Idina Menzel not on the list?

Excuse me, bitches....

I'm fucking Jenny from the fuckin' Block.

And DON'T even try to blame me for the blood coming outta yo' fucking ears.

I would say Janet Jackson, but whispercoos aren't really vocals.

Could never stand Britney Spears "singing."

Janet's weak vocals suck too.

I don't think Stevie Nicks voice is real bad, but her style of singing can be annoying.

The worst female voice has to Katrin whatever her last name is that lipsynched to Martha Wash's vocals. When she got caught singing along on live mic it was so bad it could make glass break.

Almost every pop diva who are currently famous are awful and can't sing and that includes Beyoncé , Katy perry ,Taylor swift , Rhianna ,Minaj, Britney , Jlo it goes on and on they are all awful studio created shit!

Beyonce. Her tone is ear splitting.

Taylor Swift is just so bland, nothing to her voice at all. Rhianna is pretty bad as well, sounds so robotic and autotuned.

Hearing Stevie Nicks gurgle through Silent Night was enough to make sweet baby Jesus shit his swaddling clothes full. Worse than all those mentioned above are those singers who can hit the notes but still sound annoying as fuck. Whitney Houston is the prime offender. She could not emote for shit - sang like she was reading the song from the autocue for the first time.

This guy.

Janet Jackson can barely sing. She sort does breathy whispers. How the hell she got so famous is beyond me.

Roseanne Barr

When I saw Stevie Nicks on American Horror Story, I was really surprised by how off she sounded. So, I agree with the above. I liked the episodes she was in, though...and I like her voice from earlier time periods (e.g., Landslide)

Nicks was interesting until her solo career. Then her lack of taste and hard living make it mostly horrible.

I don't know if you have to suffer through it in the US, but Australia loves female singers who have this raspy, whispery, clenched teeth style of singing that makes me want to rip out my ear drums. There must be at least a half a dozen who sing in the same way.

Here's an example - Julia Stone, absolutely unlistenable. And this is classed as excellence in the Australian music scene.

Stevie Nicks

And of course Rhianna etc.

Renata Scotto

I hate that Britney is on this list she can sing, I love the b sides and demos. Katy Perry & Taylor Swift are bad. Selena Gomez sings like a fart trapped in a mitten.

It seems like there are quite a few people who hate Stevie's voice, but I like it and always did; from her solo career too. It has definitely changed a lot probably due mainly to her age and smoking (although she supposedly quit several years back). I will admit there are a few of her songs on which I don't like the way she sings/sounds though.

Forget about Rihanna, Taylor, Katy Perry, Selena Gomez, etc. I don't know if I consider them true singers because they all use auto tune except maybe Taylor. Does she use it?

carole king. good song writer, terrible singer.

hate all of them

Shakira - braying goats in the field follow her siren call.

yes, shitkira sounds like she's got shit in her mouth.

Nicole "My solo career never happened" Scherzinger

Gwen Stefani is pretty bad

What am I chopped fried chicken licer or do whispercoos and giggle breaks not count as simging?

You bitches arw PRESSED.

Bonnie Tyler.

I quite like Bonnie Tyler r79. I find her far more listenable than anyone else on thus thread.

Adele.

Most overrated singer of all time. How in the fucking hell did she get so successful? Her voice is so dull and flat.

I love all those voices that were truly unique, back in the day when that was still allowed, many of whom you guys elect as the Worst: Stevie, Debbie Harry, Bonnie Tyler, Chrissie H., Melanie, Dale Bozzio, Faithful, yes even Shakira.

I am much more apt to run when it is a traditional voice amped up by Autotone and/or squealy or both: Taylor Swift comes to mind. Any girly voices, actually, especially as I get older.

But nothing is worse to me than caterwauling. I was just in a store a few hours ago and Hudson was screaming that "Dreamgirls" song with no melody whatsoever and I had to run out of the joint. Technically brilliant, sure, but just a fucking headache waiting to happen. It's something but I don't consider it singing.

Some of the names being mentioned here are... bizarre!

Some of the most obvious and objectively worst female voices of all time off the top of my head

Madonna (the queen of basic ass vocals)

Spears (right up there with Madge)

Rihanna (average but not horrible at least, well she is terrible when live)

Cheryl Cole (terrible)

Danii & Kylie Minogue (Kylie has great songs but her voice is grating)

Kesha (does she even count as a singer?)

Janet (the whisperer in darkness)

JLo

And how could I forget Stevie Nicks, he vocals will truly put you under a spell... one that will make you want to rip your ears off

I was Vocal Fry before Vocal Fry was cool!

R83 I'd forgotten about the Minogues. Truly horrendous voices, emaciated silicone stuffed bodies and weird alien faces. Years ago a friend told me he'd seen both of them at a café in Sydney, eating lunch with their mom. All three were sharing one tiny baked potato, no filling. There was a tomato in the vicinity but didn't seem to be taking part, maybe they were saving it for dessert.

lol, r86

Katy Perry doesn't sing, she YELLS.

[quote] Here's an example - Julia Stone, absolutely unlistenable. And this is classed as excellence in the Australian music scene.

Several American female singers sing like that. When I first heard her I thought "she sounds exactly like Lana Del Rey, who sounds the same as all the other current whisper-singers."

Taylor Swift and Katy Perry are really the worst. Jlo and Britney don't actually sing. Aguilera, Beyonce and Rihanna can sing, sorry but they can. Their tone is what puts a lot of people off. Yes, Rihanna has learned to sing. I never get why she is lumped in with the non singers. Miley Cyrus can sing too.

I love old (young) Stevie Nicks but she should have hung it up about 15 years ago. Midler does have a wobble but her voice had a nice warm tone, that little tear in it. I love a good church influenced singer but Jennifer Hudson's huge voice is too sharp and screechy for my taste. Alicia Keys is the biggest let down, because she could sing, but now she can't. A personal peeve of mine is Tori Amos. Yes she can sing, but I can't stand her vocal affectations.

Beautiful young but never innocent Stevie Nicks could definitely sing.

I taught Stevie everything she knows about singing.

R92's favorite female singer.

Whorhianna the coke whore cannot sing for crap without Autotune, like most Pop 'stars' nowadays. They get record deals because they use their pussies on important men and women, and is paid well.

Watch 'This is The End' where Whorhianna sings a line to Craig Robinson. It's horrific. Horrid. My cat sings better.

Plus, she's a disease-ridden coke whore.

I don't know about coke whores but at least crack whores can sing.

carole king

That lawyerrrrrrrrr who was onnnnnnnn Jeopardeyyyyyy last weeeeek? Herrrrrrrrr?

Grace jones

My dog's squeak toys are more pleasant to listen to then Gwen Stefani. Truly atrocious voice.

Whitney Houston in her last few years. She lost it.

Madonna, if only because so many female singer after her had that awful nasal whine she used on her earliest albums.

Janet J is just mediocre, not really bad, just forgettable.

Belinda Carsisle sounded awful at times, but I loved Jane Wiedlin.

No one touches Kate.

[quote]I don't know if you have to suffer through it in the US, but Australia loves female singers who have this raspy, whispery, clenched teeth style of singing that makes me want to rip out my ear drums. There must be at least a half a dozen who sing in the same way.

Those generic twee faux-indie chicks are a dime a dozen these days. I can't stand that style either. Lorde, Feist, etc.

Kim Carnes

[quote]Macy gray doesn't sing

The noises MACY makes when she's scratching her pubic lice has been mistaken for music more than once. It's the world in which we live.

"yeah, here bitches !"

Susan Boyle

I've never even heard of Belinda Carsisle R101 but based on name alone she MUST be someone to avoid!

I agree with all of these nominees who should have their combined recordings buried in a mass grave with my dead husband.

May he rest in peace until I get there!

The worst female voice is not that of the singer.

The worst female voice is judge Judy.

Judge Judy's voice makes the older Lucille Ball sound like Leontyne Price.

R100 is right. It seems heresy to say it but her voice was shot.

I cannot stand Mariah's warbling. Just sing the fucking song, don't take seventeen notes to get out "the" and "or". It's annoying.

Agreed, Lourde, Feist, both awful.

And that singer that did that song, "Blow-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh-oh away!" She has some stupid contrived stage name.

R10 is truly cuckoo, mentioning ETHEL MERMAN in the same breath as Selena Gomez, Paula Abdul and Fergie. Jesus, what an idiot!

Helen Keller. I can barely her her!

Yoko Ono

Yoko Ono

YOKO ONO!

R112, whatever do you mean?

It's weird...Yoko and Deborah Harry now reasonable each other! Though Yoko has a bit of Paul Williams added to the mix.

i love me some yoko ono.

*sorry, "resemble" instead of "reasonable."

Oh, and Macy Gray does not belong on this list

From the list, Ashley. All the rest at least have a distinctive voice.

Wait I missed Paris, who is surely the worst, not being an actual singer at all.

Lady Day, really? That's the really egregious inclusion. OP says she's a good singer but has an ugly voice. It's a gritty voice, and gritty singers who do it to perfection, as Billie did, have a beautiful voice. People under 60 aren't that likely to be very familiar with her, but she's a favorite of one of my sisters, and she played her CDs on a road trip last year and I was impressed. Bessie Smith was amazing too.

I saw Rihanna on Regis and Kelly before she got famous and she was so bad that I wondered how she even got on that show. Imagine my surprise when a few years later she became a "superstar". That's when I really realized that you didn't have to be talented to be a star anymore.

That Umbrella song was pretty cool though. It caught my ear a lipsynch song on RuPaul a few years ago. And if I like that one, I'd probably like more of hers.

Ok forget Umbrella, I'm listening to it on YouTube right now, horrible! But I know I loved a song on RuPaul, looking it up now.

It was "Only Girl In The World," I do love this. Any Ri fans want to point to some other equally good club tracks?

Maybe she was having a very "off" day then. Um, isn't that auto tune I hear at R123?

I'm sure there were many girls who could have blown Rihanna off the stage with their singing ability. So why did the powers that be make HER into a star?

I don't give a shit about autotune, if she can consistently rock as hard as that, I'm there. Stunningly beautiful woman too.

Listen to 2:10 on. Horrible.

Whoever plays Theresa on DOOL.

I think Beyonce and Rihana have horrible voices. Their tones are not pleasing. However Beyonce is technically a great singer.

R53, I sooo concur! I heard Stevie Nicks sing "Silent Night" last Christmas season, and I had to leave the room. What that woman did to that song should be punishable by law!

Caitlyn Jenner should train her voice.

Oh wait she has yet to castrated.

Still when it happens the authentic music movement will be finally authentic.

Two freaks for the price of one.

r3, you were saying, cunt?

I get most of these noms, but why is Nicki Minaj listed? She raps first and foremost, and she's good at it too, hard as that may be to admit.

Go to 2:20 if you want to see her rhyme, her freestyling is sick.

Liza 2010 on

R101 you can't be the Kate Bush Troll, that would be me.

Madonna

Shitney

Elaine Stritch

Marianne Faithful

Courtney Love

Macy gray wins this contest.

Katy Perry's speaking voice is just as annoying as her "singing" voice. She sounds like a 35-year-old woman with a 4th grade education. She used to be a spokesperson for tome acne cream--she sounded like an idiot.

Adrienne Frantz (?), the bobble head who played "Amber" on Y&R and Bold and the Beautiful a decade ago. She had a voice like a steak knife scraping grooves into your finest china.

Beyonce has a rotten tone to her voice.

Out of everyone listed Selena Gomez is by far the worst

Anyone that has to use any type of "auto tune" devise is in my book is not a singer, therefore "worst male/female voices of all time".

R135 is Shitney meant to be Britney or Whitney

Lady GaGa sounds like a coked out cat dying live.

Shitney is always Britney. How could anyone interpret that as meaning Whitney, let alone type it?

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Miley Cyrus owns this thread!

all melisma singers

all autotuned singers

That Four Non-Blondes lead singer. It doesn't get any worse.

Yoko Ono is the worst of all time.

Go to YT & listen to her do Walking on Thin Ice.

18 cats stuck under a rocking chair

Also Janet Jackson. If you can call that singing. She'd be better off doing slam poetry.

Carol Channing, Ethel Merman

[quote]I don't give a shit about autotune

Then you're what's wrong with music.

Frankie Grande

The Pet Shop Boys' remix of "Walking on Thin Ice" is a classic indeed. I'll take a Yoko over a screeching Jennifer Hudson any day. Artist vs. Technically Good but Ultimately Boring any day.

Britney's voice is fine. Bitches just be jealous.

I'm relieved OP left me off his lisht.

Celine Don's voice is like nails on a chalkboard for me. Just dreadful.