Each person must over-enunciate, and hit all consonants at the exact same time. The clash between the style of the singer and the style of the song is very jarring.Ĭomprehension of lyrics gets trickier in both opera & pop, when you have multiple people singing together. You can really hear the difference between opera & pop singing when an opera singer tries to sing a popular song. In popular & Broadway singing, amplification is used to carry the sound to the back row, so the voice is meant to be more crisp & clear, coming through the teeth, so that the words can be understood. I suspect that the widespread use of Auto-Tune nowadays to give singers’ voices a weird robotic sound, has the same effect. That sound is very different from the sound we’re used to hearing in everyday speech-which means the brain has to work harder to understand the words. In opera, the voice is meant to resonate in the chest and in the “mask” of the head, producing very round, full tones, which can be heard in the back row of the balcony, without amplification. Opera lyrics are tricky to understand, even in English, because the vocal technique is more about producing a particular vocal sound, than being understood. Usually I compare 2 or 3 different sites.īTW – Bob L – that’s a device used by Luke Skywalker if I recall……… – and found that most people simply do not know, or they FAKE IT, pretending to know because they don’t want to appear “dumb”.ĪDD may make it worse, I can’t say for sure, but I find that often I tell my friends what the lyrics are, other times, I simply GOOGLE ’em, and hope the lyrics sites are right. I used to be really into music, and be really intent on knowing the proper lyrics, etc. If you ask the general population you’ll get a mix of “interpretations” from people. I’ve seen lyrics incorrect in album liners, too. Many artists don’t care if you get the lyrics or not, and how often have lyrics made sense in songs from when some of us grew up? Some are regional things, have meaning where they were raised, but mean little elsewhere.Ĭheck out some of the lyrics sites and see just how wrong many of them are. I know non-add folks who have the same problem, some of it’s the song mixing itself, and some singers just suck at “enunciating” – of course to do so takes from the song. On a separate note: do you ever find yourself looking for somthing that is right in front of you, yet you don’t see it?įrankly, I don’t think it’s limited to ADD. Im a early 40’s Electrical Engineer (I really feel like a smarter and better looking version of Forrest Gump), and have managed to be successful by beingh petrsistent and using a brute force approach to studying and getting assignments done. Have you tried closing your eyes when on the phone taking the ames/numbers? That might help(as teh brain temporarily shuts off visual stimulation and may divert the effort to the auditory stream?). But I can multi-task at an alarming rate. Not sure if that makes any sense, but thats exactly what happpens.Īlso, i’ve been told “you’re not listening!!!!” when i get some instructions like “”Get the system activated on Thursday “, I’ll then ask “When do you need this done by?”. However, there are times when in a simple one on one conversation with my wife (or anyone else), the words will whizz by totally over my head, and although i heard the words, my braid did not process them. Its as if my brain is processing auditory stuff so quickly that i can do this stuff with not that much effort. In a crowded room, I can manage to have a converstaion with a person while simultaneously able to hear other conversations going on and understand the jist of everything going on in the room. When it comes to rapid talk, i can somehow manage to absorb the info and can handle it.
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