Singers you can’t listen to.

Bjork

Yoko Ono

Dennis Day (and any Irish tenors)

Doris Day.

Whichever one of the singers in Kings of Leon that whines on "Use Somebody".

Fergie

Beyonce

Miley Cyrus

Hozier

Lady Gaga

Billie Eyelash

Demi Lavato, screaming wench, I ❤ Florence.

Ethel Merman and her hiccups.

Dinah Shore

Macy Gray

Liza

Vapid, talentless, stupid Katy Perry. This person CANNOT SING.

All of them.

Bob Dylan (just stick to writing the songs, bruh)

Beyonce (except for "Irreplaceable")

Almost all male country singers (and most of the female, save maybe Dolly and a few other legends)

Anyone clearly autotuned

Macy Gray (said above) is one I had completely forgotten about!! LOL She was awful!

Nearly anything after 2001 or so.

Chris Martin, Adam Levine, Bad Bunny

Erika Jayne

Florence Welch sang with a dying teenager in hospice. I will always love her for this, pitchy or not.

Here’s another angle with more context. Poor girl. Wonderful Florence.

Can someone revoke r10 ‘s Gay card please

[quote]Will someone revoke r10's Gay Card please

Done. 👮‍♀️🌈

Florence Welch has NOTHING on the Divine Miss M. Anna died of a rare adult onset rhabdomyosarcoma 3 days later. Ironically she worked for the American Cancer Society.

Sometimes a painless lump on your leg isn't just a lump.

Will someone explain what "pitchy" means? I may be musically ignorant, but I can't listen to Florence either. My reaction to all of her songs is, "Stop yelling at me!!"

R19 and R20 my gay card was revoked years ago. Conversely I am enthralled with Eurovision this week, so there's that.

R22 my understanding of “pitchy” is when a singer can’t stay on pitch. Singing off-key, in other words.

There may be a nuanced difference between pitchy and blatantly off-key, though, not sure.

Katy Perry. She’s like if you selected a random loaf of white bread and gave it a 5 Hour Energy drink-pod and a $$$$ production budget.

Natalie Merchant. I cannot stand her off-key warbling.

R26 I transform into The Hulk whenever I hear her voice. I get overwhelmed with rage and want to destroy everyone and everything in my path.

R22 - ‘pitchy’ means they are either flat (the pitch is too low), or they are sharp (Florence).

It’s not uncommon for singers to be slightly flat. But it’s rare to be sharp. When she hits a note that isn’t on-pitch, I want to run for the nearest emergency exit. It’s very jarring.

Adam Levine - Irritating nasal voice

Cristina Aguilera - Oversinging, uncontrolled runs and the horrible growling

Beyonce - Don't like her tone and the higher she sings, the squeakier she sounds

Ed Sheeran - Whiny voice

Adele - Find her voice grating. No sweetness

John Legend - Something about his voice or singing style that just sounds so artificial

r26 and r27, I feel your pain, but that really hasn't been an issue for several decades now, has it?

That weirdo, Sia. That’s not singing. That’s more like straining your throat to force air through your nostrils, and adding a bizarre pitch to the sound it makes.

I happen to LOVE Florence and the Machine...And she is terrific live in concert.

Tom Waits

Olivia Rodrigo. She always sounds like she's trying to sing with a mouthful of gum.

Billie Eilish. But I guess I wouldn't call her stuff "singing" as much as I would "whispering into a microphone."

Lara Trump

Beyonde

Eyelash

Joni Mitchell, nails on a chalkboard.

[quote] I get overwhelmed with rage and want to destroy everyone and everything in my path.

That's me and Morrissey. KILL KILL KILL!

Patti LaBelle - nasal-screech vocal gymnastics - just way too much. ALL. THE. TIME.

I've never understood the status she has been elevated to.

Also Aretha always sounded like she needed to clear her throat.

Mariah has never done anything for me either.

Florence Foster Jenkins.

She’s all over the place, pitch wise.

Space Woman Katy Perry. She is the worst live singer I've heard.

The Spice Girls. Solo or as a group. So little talent for ten tits.

R43 Fuck you! I was doing back flips three decades before that 'mo Benson Boone!

A few of the Grunge-era gravelly, raspy vocalists: Vedder, also-ran Rossdale. Dated, but still played on the radio.

Ditto, some years later: Adam Duritz of Counting Crows

Agree with the person above who said Morrisey. His voice, appearance and personality are constantly competing to see how offensive he can possibly be.

Britney. Vocal fry gone amok.

Her voice is akin to frog croaking ^^

R45 - omg, I had forgotten about Counting Crows! AD's voice and physical appearance repulsed me (and their songs were everywhere for a good solid year in the earlyish '90s).

[quote]Billie Eilish. But I guess I wouldn't call her stuff "singing" as much as I would "whispering into a microphone."

Huh?

I find Florence mostly insufferable but not because of her voice—it's more her bohemian pixie witch persona that I find grating and obnoxious. I've read a lot of criticism of her pitchy singing being like nails on a chalkboard, but I honestly don't mind her vocals. This footage of her visiting a teen girl who couldn't attend her concert because she was dying on hospice sort of warmed me to her a bit. It was very wholesome and the fact that she took the time to do it demonstrated that the woman has a heart. Most pop stars and musicians would never do something like that.

Ed Sheeran

Sam Smith - not necessarily because of his singing but because he’s Sam Smith - one of the most annoying people on the planet.

Adele, Celine Dion, Joe Cocker, Tom Waits, Aaron Neville, plus many of those already mentioned. Also any of those croaking twee indie vocal fry singers a la Lorde.

Bing Crosby. His private life of cruelty to children puts me off though I find him a boring singer anyway.

Any of the screechers but I don’t pick up any radio stations where I live so I don’t have to listen to them.

Shirley Bassey. She has a 4-note range and a single volume setting - LOUD.

Lady Gaga

I love his songwriting, but Leonard Cohen’s voice was not meant for public consumption.

Sammy Hagar

[quote]I love his songwriting, but Leonard Cohen’s voice was not meant for public consumption.

Only he could make "Famous Blue Raincoat" sound like the saddest song ever written. Yes, that includes Jennifer Warnes.

Miley Cyrus

JLo (does she count as a singer)?

Gaga

Christina

Beyonce

Eilish

Miley

Bruce Springsteen. He's aged like fine wine but I never understood the appeal for his music. Adele for me too.

I hated Ed Sheeran's "Galway Girl" from the first time I ever heard it (I do know I'm not the target audience).

Rod Stewart

Adele

Billie Eyelash. 🤮

Annie Lennox

Natalie Merchant

Billie Eilish is a perfect representative of Gen Z. She's fat, queer, untalented, difficult to look at, and constantly being awarded for mediocrity.

Two Oscars for this bitch? Really??

Mariah Carey after 1994.. just awful

Macy Gray

Amy Lee- whiniest voice ever

Lady Gaga- simply nothing special in her voice. She tries way too hard. Annoying voice.

Bruce-can’t sing

Bob Dylan- worst voice ever

Billy Corgan- jeezus what a horrible voice.

Jennifer Nettles.....her tangy voice is like fingers on a chalkboard to me.

Like Nettles, I'm Southern but her sound is too rural for me.

Gaga actually can sing. Not on that train. She can play instruments too.

R73 Her voice is nothing special. Many os us hate it .

Ooooo she can play………….INSTRUMENTS???????? FOR REAL? WOOOOOWWWWW.

Taylor!

MJ-whiny. His vocal ticks are nails on a chalkboard.

Jess Glynn...i cannot stand her voice and songs.

Dwight Yoakam.

The lead singer of the Barenaked Ladies.

Craig Finn (The Hold Steady).

Remember when many of us would instantly switch off the radio whenever James Blunt's "You're Beautiful" came on?

I love Tom Waits.

That mushy mouthed, somnambulic style of singing Billie Eilish made so popular. It seems that it has spawned a whole wave of pop girlies dominating the charts these days. I can take someone with a less than perfect voice if they connect with the material, infuse it with some emotion or passion but this is just like listening to a dispassionate drone, half awake, slurring its words over generic electronic backing.

This guy:

r82, not wrong, but that was sort of the point.

In a similar vein, I listen to both Alt-J and Clap Your Hands Say Yeah despite finding their lead singers borderline unlistenable. It's just part of the package.

Judy Collins. She hits the right notes about as frequently as Lady GaGa's movies hit the box office.

Britney Spears--she sounds like Baby Bop and a chipmunk prostitute had a baby.

Bob Dylan

Ed Sheeran

Fergie

Yoko Ono

Faith Evans

Mary J Blige--no idea why she's a legend. She sounds terrible. I love how Chaka Khan insults her!

Adam Levine--he sounds terrible on almost every song that came after the second album.

Miley Cyrus--the only thing worse than her singing voice is her SPEAKING VOICE

Sia--she invented the "seal voice" type of singing that seemed to dominate in the '10s. Rihanna has a similar voice but MUCH more appealing. That's why she sounds good on "Diamonds", a song Sia wrote.