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It's been a hot minute since my college days, but I do remember learning about singing as one possible avenue of speech therapy in one of my classes. Something about using different parts of the brain I guess.
I wonder where the delineation between singing and rapping is in this case.
There's a Dutch rapper called Typhoon who can rap but speaks with a stutter
Everybody's saying that the Scatman stutters but doesn't ever stutter when he sings.
If the Scatman can do it so can you.
Ozzy Osbourne is nigh unintelligible when he speaks, but then sings incredibly well.
ETA: fixed intelligible to unintelligible
Really? From his work in sabbath, he sounds like a crackhead stuck in a well, which is basically what he is.
And I'm a fan of Ozzy era sabbath, precisely because he sounds like a crackhead stuck in a well, wheras Dio is the far better singer. Which took away from the atmosphere of sabbath. That and Iommi for some reason started to write a lot more in line with other people in the 80s.
I mean, his later solo stuff takes a lot of cues from classical music.
I used him a LOT in a classical music appreciation class in college.
At the end, I was asked why I didn't take the other music appreciation class - rock?
Because it was only offered at 7am. Really counterintuitive for the crowd who grew up on "I wanna rock and roll all night, and party every day!" You can't do that with a 7am class.
Sorry, who is the he in this case? Dio, Iommi or Ozzy?
My bad, sorry, Ozzy.
Don't get me wrong, respect for both Dio and Iommi for their contributions to the genre as a whole, but I was speaking specifically of Ozzy in this case.
Sure, no problems, the only issue was the ambiguous use of he.