Ask a real musician: opera singer dissects top 5 metal singers

Re:Ask a real musician: opera singer dissects top 5 metal si... by mhd on Monday August 23, 2010 @07:57PM (#1628467)

I was a bit scared about what she'd consider the "top 5", but that's actually pretty okay, although I wonder how King Diamond got in there. Not the one known for his singing, and I don't think he's in the best-selling or longest-running band. But it was a different style, and one that at least contains a bit more than sheer endurance (c.f. most growlers).

I was surprised at the high marks Dickenson got. Not that I don't hold him in high esteem personally, but he's the only one where I know of a direct connection to opera singing. It must've been a Freddy Mercury tribute, where he sang Bohemian Rhapsody with Montserrat Cabbalé. And as opposed to her previous duet with Freddy ("Barcelona"), those voices didn't mesh at all.

Really nice article, I always thought that trained opera singers tend to look down upon those doing less "serious" work. Just shows you that there's more than one way to skin a cat, which is why this actually fits nicely into HN.

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Re:Ask a real musician: opera singer dissects top 5 metal si... by frossie on Monday August 23, 2010 @10:39PM (#1628758)

I was a bit scared about what she'd consider the "top 5"

She didn't rate them as "top 5". She got sent 5 unlabeled samples by the OP and was asked to assess their quality.

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Re:Ask a real musician: opera singer dissects top 5 metal si... by mhd on Monday August 23, 2010 @10:41PM (#1628760)

Well, I couldn't know that before I clicked. The headline here just said "top 5".

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Re:Ask a real musician: opera singer dissects top 5 metal si... by Deestan on Tuesday August 24, 2010 @04:50AM (#1629322)

Can anyone please let me know their reasons for downvoting this comment?

Lately I've seen a lot of what appears to be mindless pile-on downvoting of perfectly on-topic, polite, informative comments. It is making me wonder if there's some bot behaviour going on, or if something in the site's comment system is broken.

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Re:Ask a real musician: opera singer dissects top 5 metal si... by barry-cotter on Tuesday August 24, 2010 @05:14AM (#1629347)

The people who downvoted are expressing disapproval of a failure to closely read the article. He says he was scare d to see who she chose to critique before clicking, but we infer from his discussion that he did in fact click and read. Therefore, the fact that he was ignorant of how the singers to be rated were selected implies skimming.

It was a way of saying:RTFA

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Re:Ask a real musician: opera singer dissects top 5 metal si... by Robin_Message on Tuesday August 24, 2010 @05:11AM (#1629343)

I didn't vote on the comment, but I can imagine it was downvoted for slightly rude tone "Well, I couldn't know that" and claiming not to read the article but only "the headline".

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Re:Ask a real musician: opera singer dissects top 5 metal si... by Deestan on Tuesday August 24, 2010 @06:01AM (#1629379)

Thanks for the answer.

I must have read it in a different light then; to me it looked like a complaint about a misleading submission headline.

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Re:Ask a real musician: opera singer dissects top 5 metal si... by mhd on Tuesday August 24, 2010 @08:52AM (#1629598)

Thank you, that was what I actually meant. When I saw the headline here regarding the "top 5", I didn't know if my inner fanboy could handle e.g. having the singer of Slipknot amongst that set. I thought that my initial comment was evidence enough that I did RTFA.

And I actually inserted the "Well" to make it sound less harsh, but apparently that made it look a bit arrogant to a few people. The nuances of written language…

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