Answer: Lana Del Rey got too far into her 30's and we're an age-ist society who places too much value on being young.

I don't think you actually know what auto-tune is. Auto-tune is purely pitch correction.

You're sick of other sound softwares with effects. I'm sure.

Awe, I'm so glad to make a new fan out of someone <3

It always feels good to meet someone with mutual appreciation for something or someone. :)

Would love to hear what songs really suck you in sometime.

She's definitely a boss. Glad if you like her. :)

If you like GRAND stuff you probably want to go with the 2nd album's stuff.

If you want more of a rustic 60's-70's Fleetwood Mac-ish vibe? Go for the 3rd album.

If you want Simple, go for the 4th album.

1st album is refreshing and different EVERY song.

and the 5th album which is the most recent is also pretty diverse but . . . I don't think it's for everybody? but if it is for you, it's AMAZING. :)

I don't really know what you like . . . or I'd make suggestions but that kind of guide should at least help you. Because Florence + the Machine is NOT a band where you can listen to even 3-4 songs and get what they do because she is VERSATILE.

The new album has a folk song that goes into spoken word and also a Disco track if that tells you anything.

I'm going to share mine since everyone is sharing theirs.

I'm absolutely in love with Florence Welch's voice and I KNOW, some people loooove to say it's an acquired taste. I love the flourish, I love the fluctuation and her process of thinking of climaxes. She uses texture, she plays with winding notes, beautiful sustainment. She can add and subtract that fluttery vibrato that is entirely controlled and make it sound wild and free.

I love how she can ASSAULT notes and has an entirely contrasting heady falsetto. I love her dark chesty notes and mid-ranged belting. I've never seen someone use their voice the way she does.

Examples:

Example 1 : Unique Vocal Perspective

Example 2 Her Fearless Vocal delivery

Example 3 Her heady falsetto

I've not seen anyone blend in and out of genres in a single song how she can. Classical, Soul, Rock, Pop, folk music.

That definitely is a bold statement, especially when you're mentioning Aretha Franklin in the same comment . . .

But I applaud you for selecting someone who isn't just some " High tier singer " on some non-existent Technique-based scoreboard where people think technique and range is all that matters in singing.

The same bland people list Whitney Houston - Mariah - Celine Dion and Freddie Mercury on repeat. Like, undeniably strong techniques but fuck are you all drinking the same Koolaid where you think only one type of voice sounds good?

So it's cool that you actually picked someone you felt deserved some appreciation.

Some people like group-gathering chill still. I mean it's not everyone's cup of tea but some people like it.

That said she isn't in my top 50 for people to see live. But I'd at least enjoy the music.

No order , is it controversial? Stay mad, I don't care. Go be defensive somewhere else.

1. Whitney Houston - The woman could rise from the dead and give me free front-row tickets and I'd turn it down. I always found her so bland and lacking of any interest. There is nothing creative there.
2. Poppy - Terrible person, worse singer and given everything she has done that says something?
3. Lady Gaga - Terrible person, don't support. Can't stand her fans. Songs like " Born This Way " give me nausea and indigestion. Very pretentious, recognize she is vocally talented on a technique level but nothing special about her voice beyond that? Every school choir has 2-3 girls that sound somewhere between her - Demi Lovato and Lea Michelle. Terrible writer.
4. BTS - I just can't do K-pop and I like foreign music. Everything I've heard is just a repackaged version of something I didn't like the English version of already but then used to sell poorly made lipbalms and bodypillows?
5. Magic! - No one has thought about them ever, they're not relevant but god I hate what they do. If " Rude " could be erased from my memory I'd be relieved of some PTSD I'm sure of it.

Mmmm..... her music doesn't really go for vocals though?

I like some of her music. I never thought I would, but then I heard it. I think she has nice STYLE. But it's not party music. It's very chill in your bedroom music.

Better than Taylor Swift or something.

I'm at a "Kardashian in a library " level of being lost right now.

Ah you definitely gotta.

" Choreomania " - " Daffodil " - " Cassandra " and " Dream Girl Evil " are greaaaat.

" Heaven is Here " and " My Love " too.

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Other people love " King " and " Free " but they're on the bottom of the song list for me. But other people swear they're the best songs on the album. The ONLY song that was a miss for me was " Back in Town "

I don't see Florence + the Machine's album, list is inaccurate.

Honestly I agree. I think she needs someone who is like her but different to add a little mayhem or someone to take her under their wing.

I think KIMBRA would be the perfect person. KIMBRA is a fucking madwoman when it comes to production, versatility, mixing it up, remixing herself live, using technology. She's a genius. I think Billie could learn a LOT from her.

I kind of have to agree. She has moments . . . like she or her brother find good beats and again she finds little ways to pivot and use her voice in a way that is really emotive and pretty . . .

BUT she relies so heavily on the same vocal tone and the same limiting range that when it's the entirety of the song and is MULTIPLE songs it just . . . loses the appeal. She doesn't mix it up enough.

Not everything can be sort of monotoned like that and not have ways to give it flourish. I know she isn't a belter but there are ways to inflect or add texture that she just hasn't figured out yet that would give her more dimension musically.

It's like when Lana Del Rey hit that bump for a while and released stuff like "High By The Beach " because it was just a formula that worked.

I've got a few . . .

Kate Bush showed me that music could be feminine, ethereal, magical and literary and full of story. That music didn't have to just be something catchy or happy. She defined what it meant to be an artist to me.

Old Nightwish with Tarja showed me grandeur and story telling. and escapism.

Florence + the Machine was DEFINING for me and showed me how sounds and genres can combine and merge and really widened my taste as well. Also how to craft music in a DIFFERENT WAY. Rather than just going for highnotes the shifts in texture, vocal placement, how you approach notes? I think she has mastered methods of how to use a voice rather than just typical approaches / technique and it interests me.

Kimbra gave me so much respect and curiosity towards how people can pioneer and create with technology in music.

Utada Hikaru - Was my introduction to any non-English music. She gave me an appreciation for simplicity when done right and that not everything needs belted to have impact. She has mastered warm, cozy, nurturing sounds along with that etherealness at times that I just love.

Antony & The Johnsons was REALLY important for me because they showed me what trans and LGBTQ+ people can do in music and that we don't have to be fitting into a mold to do what we do. I thought what she was doing as a transwoman was groundbreaking and still do.

My judgment is that there isn't enough Florence + the Machine wink-wink

But no I love a lot of the bands.

" You Got The Love " - Florence + the Machine

" Plain Gold Ring " - KIMBRA

" Halo " - LP

" MacArthur Park " - Donna Summer

" Across the Universe " - Utada Hikaru

Let's be real. No one thinks anyone does a better version of " Jolene " than Dolly.

I will say . . . it's not a remake and actually is the original but . .

" I Will Always Love You " is superior as a Dolly song to the Whitney version.

Sorry, the Whitney version just hits me as a cheesy 80's powerballad, which it is. It's cheesy crying in the rain movie music. Also why does she sound happy while singing it?

No, Dolly's is timeless and classic. Better technique doesn't mean you understand the assignment.

I think women are still not taken seriously and are severely underestimated in music.

They've done a lot of legwork in shaping what music is.

This modern folk-pop and Indie style everyone is trying to do right now? Wouldn't exist without Kate Bush's major success but, the US sort of cockblocking her success taking over there makes them ignorant to realize the waves in music she has made.

Kate was really the first person to SUCCESSFULLY in the MAINSTREAM break from music formulas as largely as she did and include things like spoken word and high classical headvoices in POP mainstream?!? She was using literary references and pioneering usage of the farmlight CMI back when people were not using technology to further music and sound very widely. She is the reason for the Indie uprise and also arguably started the heavy synth use and exploration of the 80's.

and she isn't the only one.

Tina Turner shifted the expectations of how women were supposed to sound MASSIVELY. She did follow in the footsteps of men but her doing that in the 60's brought range into music expectations of what women could do. She broke the frilly mold. Because back then all successful female acts were in knee length or longer dresses singing about " OH my boy, he loves me I love him so " not ripping skirts off to show their legs and singing about dancing and where they came from.

and then Cher? Cher is the only majorly successful ALTO to ever happen and again PIONEERED USE of the vocoder. Without her doing that? Will.iam and T-Pain wouldn't have careers. She is also the only PERSON to have a major hit in 6 different decades. Not even The Beatles did that.

Women shape music just as much if not arguably more than men do.

I mean " Gay AF " isn't an insult like they want it to be.

Like, cool you limit yourself from liking things you may consider feminine? Good on you for being a follower and seeking out approval from other men? Like no, fuck off.

If women like an artist more often than men it doesn't mean it's bad and that idea is ridiculous.

I do think people can have BLAND music taste? Like if you only listen to mainstream-mainstream music it's very formulated. I like some of it too but like . . . at some point it feels less like a person's taste and more like " SAFE JAMS for your dentist office / kid's party " in pop music.

and I feel like a lot of rap is starting to sound the same especially in male rappers. Very few are mixing it up and doing something where they don't sound like 20 other guys who make it to mediocre success because they're a dime a dozen.

" Worst Meat Pies in London " ?

I think she hasn't had one like it since,

BECAUSE she has gotten better and outgrown it.

It's not a style that fits her as well and is the only song of hers that I feel like . . . has a time capsule element to it? To where you HAVE to be in that Pop-punk era mood for it and that's just NOT my genre.

I thought I absolutely hated Paramore because that era had such bad music for the most part. ( I found out I like SOME Paramore songs but that's another story )

But yeah I think it's easily at the bottom. I like it but it's definitely the worst, but I'd still give it a 7.5/10

To be honest Florence + the Machine hasn't put out a song I don't like in SOME capacity but there is always one on the bottom of the totem pole and for me that is " Kiss With A Fist "

It's from the first album and it's a nod to her time in a different band before she started her own and found her own sound? It was definitely more pop-punk inspired and that's not usually my thing.

I do like hearing it every now and again but it's usually left out of my rotation.