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Your cursive singing is tearing this family apart!

Switched on Pop

CHAPTER

The Backlash to the Britney Spears Vocal Fries

Charles thinks the backlash is part of a larger trend in society whenever young women who are always the innovators of vocal style and language create a new sound. He says it filters through this California vowel shift valley girl sound of the 80s into these California emo bands of the 2000s becoming this indie girl persona that then becomes associated with this cursive singing style. Charles: Even if tones and I dance monkey represented the apex of cursive singing, maybe we're not going to hear that particular vocal style is much on the top of the charts.

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