After getting into marilyn manson over the lsat couple of weeks i've noticed how poor his breathe control is. He's out of breath on nearly every song and you can hear his heavy breathing WHICH IS DAMN ANNOYING AND SPOILS THE SONGS.

now you know why I don't buy marilyn manson records.

terrible breath control.

mikek1 said:

you mean his inability to actually be audible and coherebtly melodious doesn't ruin it for you??? what a shame.....

Xavier23 said:

i don't know about all that. don't start hatin on Mazza but what about janet jackson? i can never understand a damn thing she is singing in her songs. why is that?

mikek1 said:

i believe he does that deliberately

mikek1 said:

You're an idiot. If you bought a Marilyn Manson record and you expected to hear a beautiful singing voice, you're an idiot. Go buy a Celine Dion record if that's what you want. If Manson's voice WAS beautiful and trained, it would take away from the music and the message he's trying to get across. Listen to the lyrics then tell me that his voice doesn't work.

CHAKA.
I forget WHAT I saw her on. It was something on BET and she was just screaming in the damn mic like she lost her damn mind. So out of breath. And Rere ...

guitarslinger44 said:

HA!

his lyrics are interesting to an angsty suburban 15 year old.

maybe.

sallysassalot said:

christ where did you steal that phrase from entertainment tonight lol?

EmbattledWarrior said:

huh? which phrase?

Marilyn Manson is actually very intelligent and creative in his own right, lyrically, and the band's music kicks ass (I may be a 15-year-old saying this but since I don't listen to this kind of stuff to "emo" or "poseur" out to, I think I know what I'm saying).

Same with NIN. Trent Reznor's lyrics may sound like teenage goth poetry but they work because they're so raw and human, and the guy's musical sensibilities were seemingly endless once upon a time, so I dig NIN a great deal.

sallysassalot said:

his lyrics are interesting to an angsty suburban 15 year old.

EmbattledWarrior said:

that shit is true. not ET's words but my own.

EmbattledWarrior said:

give him credit. it's a little more sophisticated than Entertainment Tonight. Entertainment Weekly, maybe

Tessa said:

i'd like to think i'm much more of an "Us Weekly" kind of guy. you know...hot, rich, and fabulous with the occasional fashion faux pas.

sallysassalot said:

trendy with no brains, then? i was giving you more credit

Tessa said:

who needs brains when you've got brawn and a good surgeon?

Rudy said:

and i thought i was the only. .. .

I thought this might be an interesting post about the annoying habit of singers (usually R'n'B ones) breathing in the middle of a word (like "to" - "morrow"). Unfortunately not.

oh rufus wainwright does stuff like that all the time. big sloppy breathes right in the middle of a phrase i always felt the problem with most "r and b" singers these days is that they really can't sing at all so it's just over dramatic emoting and such.

maybe it's just me.

Poor breath control?
2 words...

Keisha Cole

Actually, excellent breath control can be annoying, too.

I remember listening to Julie Andrews singing Camelot or My Fair Lady or some other musical. She's an excellent singer and this was from her prime, but her breathing was so regular & audible on the recording that it was impossible to ignore.

I bet Marilyn uses some processing that makes him sound more breathy & spooky

i understnd what you mean about too much breathe control. i would rather hear some one who sings too precisely than i would the other tho.

I never even noticed it, I just loved the album.

However I was walking through the store the other day, and they were playing Santana's "The Game Of Love" which I can't stand because Michelle Branch yodles out every verse in that song.

Whitney takes the cake nowadays