We measured pop music’s falsetto obsession
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- Опубликовано: 12 авг 2019
- From Justin Timberlake to the Bee Gees, we charted the popularity of men singing high.
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It’s nearly impossible to turn on the radio and not hear a male artist singing really high. Likely he’s a tenor, and more often than not he’ll sing in falsetto. Think Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, Bruno Mars, Drake, Charlie Puth, Shawn Mendes, Adam Levine, Sam Smith ... the list goes on and on and on.
This isn’t a trend - it has been the status quo for decades.
Using the data diving know-how of The Pudding, and drawing on the expertise of Anthony Roth Costanzo, a professional opera singer, I dig into the world of the high male vocal range by tracking how pervasive it really is across the decades.
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The articles referenced in the video can be found here:
The Evolution of the Male Falsetto: frieze.com/article/evolution-...
What does it mean when The Weeknd hits a high note: www.washingtonpost.com/lifest...
Active Child, Prince, and the Science of the Male Falsetto: pitchfork.com/thepitch/794-ac...
Why Are There So Many Tough Guys Who Sound Like Ladies On The Radio?: www.npr.org/2016/02/15/466404...
Here's a Spotify list of 65+ songs that have some pretty fun falsetto moments: open.spotify.com/playlist/0nU...
And here’s the same Pandora playlist: www.pandora.com/playlist/PL:1...
And a list of all of the songs featured in this video by timestamp:
1:04 - Want to Want Me - Jason Derulo
1:09 - Sugar - Maroon 5
1:18 - Sorry - Justin Bieber
1:30 - Can’t Feel My Face - The Weeknd
1:32 - What Do You Mean - Justin Bieber
1:36 - The Hills - The Weeknd
1:42 - Hello - Adele
3:33 - Sleep, Baby, Sleep - George P Watson
3:47 - Ill Wind - Radiohead
5:37 - Redbone - Childish Gambino
6:10 - Rock of Ages - Def Leppard
7:10 - Get Lucky - Daft Punk
7:21 - Crocodile Rock - Elton John
8:23 - Killer Queen - Queen
8:55 - I Knew I loved You - Savage Garden
9:28 - Stayin’ Alive - Bee Gees
9:50 - Falsetto - The-Dream
10:17 - Cry Me A River - Justin Timberlake
11:52 - Sweet Child O’ Mine - Guns N’ Roses
11:55 - Two Hearts - Phil Collins
12:01 - Rocket 2 U - The Jets
12:19 - Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson
12:28 - Nite and Day - Al B. Sure
12:33 - You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
14:33- Me And Those Dreaming Eyes of Mine - D’Angelo
14:44 - So In Love - Curtis Mayfield
15:38 - Sherry - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
15:48 - Natural - Bloodstone
16:00 - Starboy - The Weeknd
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Thanks so much for watching the video! It was a challenging task figuring out the songs I wanted to feature in the story - there were thousands to choose from. So, I made.... a Spotify playlist (sorry Pandora). It's called "Give Me a Falsetto," and you can find it in the link in the description box above or by searching for it in the Spotify app. What's you favorite falsetto heavy song?
Clarification: Pandora's library is comparable to other music streaming services. 2 million refers to the number of songs that have been analyzed through their Music Genome Project
My favorites might be Curtis Mayfield's "Right on to the Darkness", Smokey Robinson and the Miracle's (Come round here) I'm the one you need, and also a lot of Brian Wilson songs.
guys what is the name of the type this video
no bro i mean the editting of the video not the animation but the type of video name not the title or the animation
The ones I thought of as I watched this video were Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - A Fork in The Road/ Ooh Baby Baby and Prince - Baby.
Anything from EWF!!!!
Snoop Dogg also sings high
Paritosh Singh ha-ha
always
aha ha
Perhaps higher than everybody else.
Ayyy
I laughed so hard when Adele's "Hello" was far more deep and masculine than any of the male's.
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You should hear "Goodbye Horses" by Lazarus Q or "Automatic" by The Pointer Sisters...
Same.. 😂😂😂
IKR? 😂
Falsetto males dominating the charts:
Adele: Hello, it's me
LoL
two words-
zayn malik
@Anonymous User 3 octaves vocal range with bad singing technique zayn's vocal range is 3 octaves too
😂😂😂
now the next question is do people really love falsetto this much or do mainstream artists just have a tendency to stick with something they've seen work
Man(i mean, woman), i f**ing hate falsetos... it makes my head hurts a lot this trend is terrible in my opinion
Great question. I think people naturally are drawn to the falsetto because they intuitively understand that they are observing a feat of vocal athleticism. So it would have been interesting for this study to also point out the exceptions to the falsetto trend, i.e. identify the outlier songs which were also unusually popular (assuming there were any) but which didn't use falsetto at all or very much, and then determine what musical elements made those outlying songs relatively successful anyway.
I don't know about you, but I love it!
Im ok with falsetto if it’s done right. If the notes align to be high it’s better then sudden bursts of high notes. I also love it if it’s to convey an emotion that goes along with the story of the song. If the main character (the singer for instance) is supposed to feel emotional suffering then they scream to let it all out.
Well if people didn't like it, it would stop selling, and then we wouldn't see it on the charts lol
I didn't know a streaming platform would readily give their data for this kind of study. Kudos to Pandora for democratizing data and allowing this to be possible!
Jeremy Mendoza Most of them are actually very open about their data; they benefit a lot from people doing their own studies and finding trends
you can get these data from their API
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i guess the tags are exposed anyway and they just avoided having to crawl all the tags
should I switch to Pandora though? I am currently using Spotify.
These guys really f***ing love data
not when it comes to politics
And they are really bad at interpreting it objectively
@@joshuawheeler3255 Data like this is just really hard to interpret. What do you base your opinion on, if there is little to no actual data on how it is perceived, no studies on the matter, no experts to talk to?
because...... algorithm, right?
It's pronounced data
And data it just makes my brain go "yes, this is good"
I thought this video was gonna attempt explaining why falsetto's are so popular
Yeah... Never expect too much from Vox
I feel like this happens a lot which is why it took me so long to watch this. They start out with an interesting question, do all this groundwork to answer it, then say "it really do be like it is" and end the video there.
How could they? It's way harder to measure sentiment and cultural shifts than just data sets with a programming language. What, they gonna go deep into the history of the castrati and try to explain why humans have been fascinated with people (especially men) singing high notes?
@@BedroomPianist ask them not us. They're the ones who chose the title and why they were looking for the data.
“We measured” that’s what the title said
Ain't no love for my basses & baritones. Shout out to the David Bowie ranged singers out there.
Who, at least in recordings, has a tenor range, actually. No mortal baritone I know can hit a B♭ like the one in Life one Mars. Though live, it seems he sang it at least two semitones lower.
GuyDandy And Prince for having a great vocal range.
David Bowie? How about Elvis?
My manz Frank Sinatra
They did mention a Guns N Roses song and Axl Rose's range is more than an octave wider than Bowie's was.
also smh how can they exclude the choir dude with a helium balloon
Joel Lim yoo for real. Mad disrespect 😤
'cause he essentially only did a cover of the choir song AND did not chart. But it would be nice if they mentioned him, or even better show the video of him whipping out the helium baloon.
Wht does smh mean
oooOOOOOOoooooooooh
Oooh 1k
This could've been a PhD thesis
@@Ryan-ee5lp Music students, physicists, sound engineers, singers...
@@Nadia1989 don't forget musicologists!!!! :)
More like the (really good) groundwork from which to develop one. You need a research angle for a good thesis. Something along the lines of why the use of falsetto in pop music has the spikes shown in this video.
Not really
its enough to start a phd level of work for a thesis.
but not an entire one . it would generate enough data to make figures for maybe 1 of 3 or chapters of a full 3-5 yr study.
youtube is small bites. phd is like an anaconda eating a hippo
Michael Jackson "don't stop till u get enough" is a classic and the track with Barry gibb and MJ is a great track showing there vocals.
They should have put I wanna be your lover by Prince
isn't there an opposite trend for women to have lower voices in their singing? just a thesis
This would explain why Toni Braxton, Sade, and Adele were/are so popular.
@@nagbo13 contralto is their natural range so they're not doing anything special with their vocals to achieve that tone, unlike falsetto requires
@@wayfaringspacepoet, good point. I think it's still (almost) as shocking as men's falsettos because it's "unexpected." In other words, we don't expect women to have low voices, just like we don't expect men to have such high voices.
Joye Holiday uP
High voices are praised across the board. People love high belts and whistle tones
me, a baritone, wanting to sing along to catchy radio songs:
*silent crying*
me too man, me too
buddy I'm a bass......big cri.....
Lets make a new trend 😎
@@juanpablo_san yesssssss
I'm a baritone and I sing pop music, not famous yet or made too much progress but it's possible. Come on out there and let's sing!
THAT'S A LOT OF RESEARCH FOR A 16 MINUTE VIDEO. AMAZING.
Now imagine, there also went work into producing the video. So even more work on top of the research.
Now imagine if this is what they did for their political videos
Imagine that they did all that research and added all that production value but actually made an interesting video
They also get a lot of money and brand recognition for a 16 minute video.
@@bluefirexde now imagine if this video went somewhere and actually had a point
whoever engineered the audio for this video is amazing.
6:24 "prove it" - "uuuoooouuuu" - "perfect"
the amount of work that went into this video>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Record companies with copyright claims: I’m gonna end this guy’s whole career
And yet it seemed to prove nothing. Only that men have been singing with high voices for a while.
Only that it's the 1600s all over again.
SansPeppaShrekterGrifpig _ 1. This falls under fair use.
2. Even then, I’m pretty sure they licensed these songs.
MysteryMii word
Pandora: How much data do you want?
Vox: yeeeeEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeSSSSSSsssssSSSS
Vox: All your data are belong to us.
I really appreciate that you put the research into an understandable video instead of publishing it in an academic journal
I need a 1970s falsetto playlist for my health!
Roger Taylor-
For true falsetto greatness, one must listen to....Philip Bailey, Smokey Robinson, Barry Gibb, Prince, Bobby Debarge (not El Debarge), Michael Jackson, Curtis Mayfield, Russell Thompkins Jr. (The Stylistics), Elton John's "Benny and the Jets"....
@@areguapiri Add the Moments, Dells, Tavares and the Deele.
As a data scientist this was a refreshing piece, seeing as very rarely things are properly quantified in the media. It also gives a pretty good peek into the everyday challenges of data analysis, complete from starting at a naiive question to having to qualify your data to defining sometimes somewhat arbitrary thresholds that can be the pitfall of any study. More like this please!
I'm a data analyst as well and though I think they could've made a better job at cleaning data/reducing "noise", I appreciated the use of a database to justify the perceived trends.
What are your opinions about becoming a data scientist? Are you happy with your job? Thinking about becoming one, so i'm looking for someone else's view on it.
@@aleksandarkatic2621 date scientist is the shittest job ever 😆😆
Also unrelated but i also would want to talk with you about the data scientist job , i'm also considering working in that field and i would really like to know more about that before choosing something related to this in my studies (engineering school)
Asap y GitHub links!!
The Bee Gees discovered their distinctive falsetto by accident while warming up their voices in studio. The rest is history :)
pretty sure they copied black artists like everything else they did lol
@@FlowerBoyWorld blacks copied English from whites like everything else they did lol
leonardo h this is the most white privileged comment ive ever seen, pure disgust
@@3spi227 I'm not white, though. Just wanted to show how ridiculous that "stealing" statement was.
leonardo h except in no way did you actually show that 😂 how would ambiguities surrounding the origin of singing techniques compare to long term colonization/assimilation/enslavement etc.
weak at best
Michael Jackson " Don't stop to you get enough " that's a 10 for sure!
Whoever worked on editing this video is a madman! Definetly deserves a raise :). Very well done if you're reading this just know that I have huge respect for you!
"this is a chart that has never been seen before"
*replays video*
liar
🤣🤣🤣
In 2019 she says this...🙄
U genius
Kssse music
But my lord, is that, legal?
Good guys over at Pandora, Thank you.
There’s something very pleasing about high frequencies.
High playing trumpet players like Doc Severinsen and Maynard Ferguson are considered legendary.
Heavy metal was also built on the falsetto likings of singers like Rob Halford and Bruce Dickinson.
How did you not mention Michael Jackson from the beginning
Manny heehee
Michael Jackson and Barry Gibb where best friends because of falsetto lol.
They should have mentioned prince in the beginning.... He sings the highest falsetto
I know right!
Michael rarely sung Falsetto that’s why. He is just a high tenor
So impressed with Pandora for data generosity. Great work on this one Vox.
Michael Graybill get a Pandora account for one month. Music choice isn’t as high as Spotify’s but their shuffle is amazing. When you mix two are more artist with one station they zero in on the sound and vibe you want to the t
I'm using pandora once again just because of that
@@carlitoxb110 But you can access any music company's data through their API or by asking. Spotify even has public tags for every song
For a while Black Artists were not allowed to chart on the Billboard Top 100. So you may be missing data on one of the Greatest Falsetto Voices ever Russell Thompkins Jr., from the Stylistics.
Love how they went from a yodeling to RADIOHEAD? A lot of missing data🤦🏾♀️
Dude caucasians are behind this video and the Stylistics did not really cross over.
I would just like to thank you. This comment just got me into the stylistics :)
This would be interesting as part of the 1619 project!
The first black artist to TOP the Hot 100 was in the '50s. I'm sure the Stylistics, from a few decades later, are in there.
Al Green (I'm Still in Love) , El D'barge (I like) and Prince (Adore and many others) the later two songs blew my mind
Philip Bailey (Reasons)
If I was your girlfriend... Prince
Everyone involved in filming this video was such a good teacher, man I don't think I've ever learned so much about vocals in my life!
6:24 “Prove it” “EEEEEEOOoooooOOOEEEEEEEEOOooooOO” “Perfect.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Anne Tan he got that vibrato though
Ladies love falsetto because we can sing along easier
That is how falsetto is regarded as. Lazy.
Ohhhhhhhhhh...............
and in males high falsetto range is easier to come by than high chest range
😂😂😂
Yeah with males falsetto is better for them to use than straight up chest belting.
Y’all missing out on alllllll the black artists in the 1960s and 1970s!
Aaron Pegg exactly they had SERIOUS FALSETTO! 🤷🏽♀️
All of the Vox videos are just whitesplaining.
elsongs tbh they showed a lot of black artist on this vid but yeah i agree with the statement pf not showing them from the 60s and 70s
Apart from all those times in the video they show black artists from that time?
They literally put Marvin Gaye on the thumbnail of the video, but no song of his is featured even once :/
I wish this video had talked about the widespread shift to FM radio over AM in the 80 and 90s. AM radio had much worse broadcasting and so singing high made it easier for artists to be heard among the interference and lower audio fidelity of AM broadcasting systems. I'm not surprised that the 90s saw falsetto falling, as that was the time when most radio stations that broadcast popular music switched to FM. I was pretty surprised that this video didn't mention it at all. Would love to see a follow up to this video that talks about that!
Men with falsetto: exists
Roger Taylor: hold my car
I don't know who that is
He’s the drummer for queen
Ziggurat Jones listen ‘in the lap of gods’ by queen
Galileo galileo...
Also Roger Taylor: If I go higher, only dogs will hear it!
How does vox escape from their videos being claimed with all these song clips.
Some animals are more equal than others.
Actually, this video currently has 7 songs claimed, so I wonder if they'd get any ad revenue from it in the end.. 💭💭💭
If i'm not wrong there's a limit of some seconds for songs to be used in YT videos.
Without being striked I mean.
Because it's used under fair use for educational purposes
They can use song clips of up to 8 seconds. Also as a growing media company you'd expect they contact the labels and companies that own the songs and probably ask for permission or provide royalties from the videos to the companies when they use songs for longer than 8 seconds.
I only watched this because I saw Marvin Gaye.
Rebecca Lee Mr too hahaha, and I expected to see Michael Jackson too.
Same
Rebecca Lee same
I love how much effort Estelle put into this!
I came here for those sweet smooth animations
Same here!
Estelle is the OG!!!
I always did think it funny how there are so many low voiced women compared to all the high voiced men
Katelyn Stewart that’s true. Almost like men try to sing like women and women try to sing like men😂
I wish more women had lower areas in their songs
There’s a certain “money spot” in the vocal range where the vocals cut the hardest. Both men and women aim for this same range.
I'm not an expert, but I think if a woman sung a lot of these songs with the same pitch, it would be considered 'low' (and same in reverse)
It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly
Virginia Woolf
Was waiting to hear a mention of Prince & Frank Oceans Falsetto in Bad Religion
Omg the work that was put into this, I will forever be in awe of. I love this series.
*RUclips'S COPYRIGHT ALGORITHM:*
Am I a joke to you?
"That's illegal people can't do that" 🤣🤣🤣💀💀
im sure they paid for all the songs
@@boogieg8763 i think since they use it for education they can use it for free
Yes
Giancarlo RC You really don't know how this works, do you? An established media outlet like Vox is going to take the proper steps and isn't going to get takedown notices on a piece of journalism, unlike that random guy in his living room with a single computer and webcam you're used to watching.
Thank you so much for explaining your reasoning behind your stats interpretations! It makes a much more complete story as opposed to just saying "These are the stats, trust me"
I saw Marvin Gaye on the cover and clicked real quick
You are right. Marvin Gaye to me has the sweetest falsetto in the whole world.
Okay i just love the fact that the graphics in this video use the same font and color scheme as the cover art of the musical falsettos. Someone really knew what they were doing:D
Next, do a study on "Autotune".
They already cover that
@@TomoyoYumemi - Oh...ok.
1930: 0 hits with auto-tune
1931: 0 hits with auto-tune
1932: 0 hits with auto-tune
1933: ......
......
*Cher has joined the chat*
T-Pain: How do I leave the chat..?
Jay-Z: Hold my vodka..
The data analytics that went into making this episode is truly mind blowing. Well done on a brilliant piece of work.
The fact that they used the Falsettos Broadway font in this video makes it that much better
The Bee Gees complete reinvention of their sound in the 1970s is I think something that isn't often examined. Before the Disco era they were a well regarded but kind of middle of the road group. Disco catapulted them into the stratosphere, and their distinctive falsetto sound definitely formulated into their success.
I’m a huge music buff. I’ve loved “to love somebody” for years and wondered how they pulled off that style during the disco era (I falsely assumed that they were a disco band that only lasted with the genre). Years later found out it was from the late 60’s not late 70’ when stayin alive, Saturday night fever etc came out.
What's even crazier is that the Gibbs wrote the songs for Saturday Night Fever "virtually in a single weekend", having never released a disco song before that.
@@dr.lyleevans6915
How can you be a music buff and assume that The Bee Gees were only around in the late 70’s?? 😢
@@lucasm4299 That was my entire point: it’s hard to believe I didn’t know that. To be fair I was probably still a teenager when I realized this (To love somebody was one of my favorite songs growing up, and it always made me wonder where the large difference in genre came from. I assumed it was an earlier period in the bands history, but not to the point where they were big in the 1960’s, which was a completely different era in music).
This stuff was all way before my time. Grunge was actually before my time if that helps
I've personally always been a big fan of lower voices in music and gravitate more towards that. From someone who has always wondered why so much music was sung so high this video was very interesting to me.
I wonder if country music focuses on bass to distinguish themselves from other genres.
@@LimeyLassen country music were always identical with baritone/bass vocal long time before high register obsession of modern pop music started. In the topic of distinguishing country music from pop music, these days the popular country music scene do the exact opposite of that, worst offender: Florida Georgia Line, Sam Hunt etc.
@@LimeyLassen I'm not sure, I dont listen to country personally but my family does and I'd say like the person above that modern country isnt really focusing in differentiating itself from pop music much at all these days.
But vocalists like Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode, Roland Orzabal from Tears for Fears, Ruki from the Gazette all have vocals that tends to be quite deep and I really enjoy it. That's not to say I dont enjoy high vocals at all, even the examples I just mentioned show range and maybe that's why low vocals are interesting to me because it's a range not often shown these days.
But the video doesn't explain the reason. It's expositive
I havent finished the video but metal is a genre that is dominated by high falsettos and low growls.
the fact that you've made these so well produced, music themed videos, even though all of them get copyrighted, astonishes me. THANK YOU!
I just love how much time they give in to analyse each and every subject on which they post video about.
I'm tone-deaf so music has never been my thing, but I like your videos because I can understand a whole side of music I would have never known and now I enjoy listening to different genres, it's not background noise anymore, thank you so much!
Thank you Pandora for letting this happen
And then they created a Spotify playlist and wrote sorry Pandora in the comment below.
This is so incredible. Thanks for all the work and effort that went into this piece - a great piece of original journalism.
Fantastic, smart and so beautifully put together. Thanks for making this, I really enjoyed it!
As an Italian, everytime I hear the word "falsetto" uttered here, this video instantly becomes more fun.
Ciao! Che vuole dire en Italiano?
@@gearoiddom La parola stessa è italiana. L'etimologia viene da "Falso" - The word itself is italian. Its etimology comes from the word "false". It's the way it's pronounced that's it's funny (at least to me)
Lol
@@mattiafioravanti8475 what is it??
Tell me tell me🤭
Don't enjoy alone.
@@actually4660 Fellow Italian here, I think what makes the word sound funny when uttered by native English speakers is that they tend to make the hard "T" sound of FalseTTo (it's a doubled consonant so it's quite prominent in the original pronunciation) into a softer D sound. This one difference makes the word sound super foreign and sort of funny to me.
By far my favorite study by Vox, much appreciation 🙏🏻
Loved how u explained d reasoning of each sample selection.. making it a credible research sample..
absolutely fantastic video!!! thanks so much for creating!
06:13 The audacity to tell an expert witness to "Prove It!". :)
Mark NC the audacity to believe all experts all the time no questions asked
Expert opinion is not good evidence. I may be an expert in cognitive neuroscience, but unless I can demonstrate through some type of rational argument or empirical data that my opinion is correct, it is considered the lowest form of evidence. Basically, in science, we don't want to hear the opinions of other experts. We want to see those experts' data.
Also, too often scientific progress is slowed because of old men who refuse to accept data over their own opinion. This is why Max Planck said something like science progresses one funeral at a time.
They didn't actually tell him that, they just edited it with the voiceover to make it seem that way...
That annoyed me too.
@@hcb0218 💀📝💀📝💀
Needed more "Kiss" by Prince. But I really appreciated this. Thanks!
eltiochusma - no doubt! ☔️
They most likely wanted to but couldn't... Prince's Estate is notorious for having comedically harsh policies when it comes to copyright infringement of Prince's work. For a while it was only available on Tidal, and it was made available on RUclips only after he died. That's too bad they took so long bc many younger people are unaware of his music bc it wasn't on the internet... Matter of fact I only discovered his music this year and I freaking love it !
@@itsmanew5994 Glad I'm not the only one who recently discovered Prince. I always knew he was talented but I feel bad I never sat down and listened to his albums until last year. Now I've fallen down the rabbit hole and have started purchasing his albums and I can't stop listening to his stuff now
This series is so amazing!
I’ve been saying for YEARS the men just haven’t been doing it since the 70s/80s. I wish men in mainstream music would play around with their ranges more so than they do today.
This is amazing! Earworm is the best series ever
I think BORDERS is the best. This one is great, too.
is nobody going to talk about how they used the iconic font from "falsettos"???
right, that’s what got me. someone probably knows what they’re doing haha
all the dot graphics and arrows remind me of the poster too...
WHAT DO THEY DO FOR LOVE???
@@yvngchildsupport9523 OOOH
You guys are the best and thee most informative!!!!
Found so many amazing old songs and artists through this video. Whoever clears all the copyright at Vox so you can use all this incredible music, is an angel and we're all in your debt!
I was kind of surprised you never mentioned the most popular singers from the world of early opera were all castrati with their artificially heightened voices
The whole point about castrati was that they did not sing falsetto.
They chose top 100 songs
This is about non classical music
Micheal Jackson’s butterflies.goes super falsetto at points
Josh Evans oh yes. Great example
Yep and Debarge - I like it....case closed
Sadly they mentioned Michael only ones in the whole video
his falsetto in that is impeccable
heehee
-Michael Jackson
truly enjoyed the video. the geeky research thru all that data must be quite daunting.
Amazing job Estelle, Dion, and Coleman. The video had some sweet animations and visuals.
This video makes me want to go listen to some Gallant now.
How does one make a 16-minute video about the rise/popularity of falsetto in pop songs and not mention Prince? 💜
I'm looking for some El DeBarge/DeBarge.
and Mika with not only falsetto but extremely wide range too. and until the end i was waiting for ma boys Mars Volta
Because they know nothing about music
Well - I'm 4 years late hahah - she didn't say it out loud, but Prince is right here: 11:24
@ Sharp! Four years or not, now I'm happy haha. 🤴🏾
"I'm surprised you didn't mention {insert name of favorite musician who sings in falsetto}." Sorry, just wanted to fit in on this comment board.
I know, how dare they not mention every single artist who’s ever sung in falsetto including the non-famous ones?!? 😂
Coldplay & Daniel Cesar
Prince seems left out on purpose. He has to have more number one hits in falsetto than nearly any contemporary.
Ricardo Siahaan they mentioned Chris Martin when listing the pop stars
💀💀💀💀💀
Such a fantastic video. So well done. THANK YOU!
These are the best videos on youtube by far! So well done
I now want nothing more, than to find out who is in the charts with a vocal range / register of zero.
Migos
Selena Gomez
Liam Gallagher is the only singer I can think of who's still relevant and has a low and limited vocal range. He sings within only about two octaves these days with his vices and illness having taken some his range away, and he often sings in lower keys than he did when he was in Oasis.
If you go back to 1991, "Losing My Religion" by R.E.M. is a good example of a chart hit with hardly any vocal range. The vocal melody Michael Stipe sings in that song has a range of only a perfect fourth with no chromatic notes.
@@reillywalker195 interesting. I didn't even notice!
The falsetto in Earth Wind and Fire 🌍 🌬 🔥 is my favorite
Nobody tops Phillip Bailey.
YES. I was thinking that through the whole vid. "Man, if they don't mention 'Reasons', I'm gonna..." 🤯💥 NOTHING beats Phillip hitting that "Reeee-sons!" like a woodwind instrument. 💖
Mighty mighty he hits the clouds!
❤️❤️❤️ i love this series! Thank you!
Thanks for the great show !
I'd expect Klaus Nomi and Bobby Mc Ferrin to be part of the highlights.
Michael Jackson's Fallseto was the best, he could pull out the entire song in Falsetto.
And Eddie Kendricks from the Temptations!
Lakshya Chaudhary dont stop till you
GET enough
Butterfly is a prime case
Is earth wind fire a joke to you?
Michael was chemically castrated by his father and a doctor.
How about Prince?! I can't belive you haven't mentioned him.
11:24
Thank you... From 1978 this guy's falsetto is so popular
Yesssss omg my mom used to listen to Prince's second album all the time when I was a kid. That album is 100% falsetto. When I first listened to When Doves Cry I was like whaaaat his lower range is sickening!!!
Yeru he shows up for not even half a second, and they never mentioned his name or his music specifically
@@acepaloma3887 Thank you!
Oh loved the beauty of this data analysis and research :)
Really stimulating and worthwhile
Omg I enjoyed keeping out on this data so much. Thank you!
This was a fantastic video. The quality and amount of work put into this project is worthy of a scientific paper publication.
Vox always brings quality content and so much work on one video
Vox>>>>>>buzzfeed
Edit : close to 13 subs
Jai nepal sarkar
Jai Nepal Sarkaar
@@raykin8633 Lol what does that even mean
Its an insult to compare them.
@@raykin8633 JAI NEPAL
Anthony!!! Saw him in the opera video and he is just the internet’s newest sweetheart. Bravo!
I've found myself watching a fair few of these videos. Really interesting stuff. Makes me look at music in a new way and also appreciate my music so much more. Awesome stuff! 😁👍🏾
neo soul and motown, what delicious genres 😭💓
Motown wasn't a genre.
Hibbs4Prez basically is with the way that label influenced its artists
"We need to match the songs and the names of the artists to whatever Pandora has."
"Wait, so you have to do that manually?"
Gurl, VLOOKUP.
John Garcia Depends you have the same value in both coloumns
@@humblefool ever heard of preparing the raw files when they come from different sources?
alright, yea, after preprocessing and importing into your spreadsheet software of choice
@@Gunth0r *laughs in R and Python*
This video is a piece of art. Literally blow my mind. Fantastic explaination, form, and data visualization. Thank you for this!!!:.
You guys never fail to put out BRILLIANT content BACK TO BACK. Hats off
I absolutely love how insightful this was. I’m a huge nerd for music history and I loved every minute of this!
Pandora’s shuffle is HIGHLY slept on
I don't like their library much. Spotify has a better one, and a better UI in my opinion. But even then, they're missing a huge catalogue of great music, and the state of the music industry is frustrating today.
@@nica2411 Pandora has less of a library, but they are way better at recommending music imo.
@@notnormalyet I don't doubt it. I gave up on them because of skip limits without premium though lol. Can't stand only being able to skip like 5 songs.
@@nica2411 Yeah, I had the same problem. Even with premium they limit the number of skips you get and only half of the songs let you listen on demand.
@@notnormalyet wow yeah, that's a huge deal breaker for me lol. I always joke that I have musical ADHD because I can hardly get through one song without feeling the urge to hear another
Love the emphasis on the data aspect. It goes unnoticed too often ^^
I’d like to thank the person who listed the songs with time stamps in the description