People are treating her like her "success" is such an unfounded anomaly. But the fact of the matter is, she isn't anything new or unique.
Her superflop/superhit "Friday" is only proof that people with semi-decent voices will often opt to use a nasal, bratty sounding, talk-speak style of singing instead of actually engaging their diaphragm, paying attention to their own lung capacity and the correct ways to use it, etc.
IT'S SUCH A SHAME!
At about 2:52 of that song, she starts singing some background vocals. Typical "oooooh yeaaah," "whooooaaa" type stuff. In what I'd call a mezzo-soprano range. And she sounds GOOD (I'd not go so far as to say "great" but good)! So where the heck was that voice for the first 2 minutes and 51 seconds of that awful song?!?!
It's not an awful song because she sucks at singing. It's an awful song because she chooses NOT to sing. That, and the lyrics border on being unforgivably bad, though that is probably a selling point for a lot of pop music these days. It's obvious the girl's a bit tone deaf (most people are to some degree or another), as is evidenced by her performance of The Star Spangled Banner on a TV news interview. But if she gets some training and learns how to use proper singing techniques to make up for what she lacks in raw talent, she could actually manage to be tolerable as far as pop culture standards go.
But she need to use her mezzo singing voice, instead of talking "melodically" through her nostrils. She needs to overcome her Ke$ha Syndrome.
Though I think it's obvious why, I will explain that I choose this name because Ke$ha is one of those big pop artists doing exactly the same thing and making people believe it's music. Ke$ha is not talented. Her producers are. The mixes, the beats, the catchy refrains in her songs (i.e., all the musicality within her songs) has nothing to do with her "singing." And again, most of her lyrics border on being unforgivably bad.
Rebecca, stop trying to be Ke$ha. She is nothing to aspire to.
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