*said like Mariah* Set the benchmark for which SINGING is judged! Patti LABEEEELLE

Xtina sets the Bar on current singers bracket with her vocals.

Im an Xtina stan and she has YET to set the bar @Small_Angel. Anyways people do tend to throw the word “legend” around. I think they get it confused with “icon/iconic.”

(lemme come back and comment on the topic at hand…)

The vocal performances and their delivery performances (no choreography and no back up dancers) all possess one thing Fred Gatson nor the latest go to producer can never touch, TALENT.

Christina Aguilera has an amazing voice, yes. But her decision to mask her talent with all this fuckery is just unbearable. Somebody turn on some water so she can rinse that shit away, pat dry, and try again.

Christina Aguilera is the one who come close to being
a legend from Todays singers. Beyonce and the Pop
singers have long way to go before I was consider the
legends.

that performance is why Whitney will go down as the greatest vocalist of all time

I’m saddened that the few singers today who can sing, have ugly tones. They don’t have the beauty of Mariah and Whitney. Kelly Rowland and Leona Lewis have beautiful tones, but there’s something missing in technique or live performance.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dqT_8f5vpw8

I think that Mariah had the best control out of these legendary singers. I will say one thing about Xtina… “My Kind Of Christmas” & “Stripped” made her a proper controlled vocalist. She clearly slayed her latest Christmas performance bcoz it was recorded as a controlled song, not all over the place like her new material.

I am extremely saddened that Beyonce was not mentioned (in a positive light). She is a performer and extremely talented vocalist. Her vocal runs (refer to the Beyonce Experience) are yet to be matched by any “modern” singer. She stands out as the BEST of this generaton.

I’m tired of you mention all of the time Mariah… Xtina and Beyonce are the only females, current, who sets the bar, as vocalists, and as performers… and yeah Mariah needs to proove herself too, much more than before!

Yea, Joss is right, cause ma girl Bey already proved she’s a legend when she got them grammy’s, and your faves never will, Nobody has as many Grammy’s as Bey, and you know it, and it kills you dont it, My girl runs the world without breaking a sweat, and she killed all those old bitches careers

I going to go for Queen Aretha because without her there would not have been patti, babs, chaka whitney, mariah, mary j., tina or adele and so many talented supreme songstress that get overlook by today’s music. Trent you did a wonderful Way Back as away. I enjoy coming to this site. I believe we all learn a lot something that other sites do not do.

I’m not goin into delusion agreein wit this Bey havin 7 octaves thing. & Grammys prove what? Even Macy Gray has won a Vocal Grammy against XTina. She wasn’t even the best in her own group. Kelly who often mirrored her vocals & on some songs even was mistaken for Bey never realized her full vocal potential & Letoya never got to shine. Hell even Michelle’s range shits on hers at times.

These are such legendary ladies. No one can compare to these women. All they needed was a mic and their voices and they set the world on fire.

Trent, I think that you should totally do a post on underrated singers from the last 60 years, such as Phyllis Hyman, Teena Marie, Minnie Riperton (although she inspired so many people, she is still underrated) and others. And I think a post on male singers is totally needed.

Out of these singers, Aretha, Whitney and Mariah really stand alone. Aretha is the representation of the expression of African American music: she’s fused the blues with gospel, with metric elements of jazz and made it the ultimate standard in great singing. She’s the Queen of popular music melisma, the reason pop singers are constantly riffing blues-based progressions or trying to belt above the staff. Everyone has truly been influenced by her, whether they know it or not.
Whitney’s flawless combination of pop and gospel sounds has been the architect of singing for the past 25+ years. Not just The Voice itself, but the singing. The sweet, beautiful smoothness of the melodic lines she sang, but with the gospel and R&B musicality and delivery.
Mariah creates probably the most unique vocal lines from any singer: uses the blues scale, but with jazz and classical rhythmic deliveries.

I see I got haterz just like Bey, but so what, both of us is fabulus and yall will deal. Bey is the standout bitch of all divas, none of them could ever do what she do, she is the best

@BEYFAN….200 million??….but 2million of her last cd worldwide— Beyonce would be a Lola Falana wannabe (google her) if she came out in the 80′s sit down!!

Beyonce has a 3 octave vocal range at MOST
She’s probably sold about 20-25 million albums
She has won 13 grammys as a SOLO ARTIST not 16, and the reason why she has so many is because now there are over 120 categories now back in the 90′s, 80′s, 70′s etc. there was only about 70 or 80 categories making it harder for people to win and there was a lot more competition Beyonce would NOT have stood a chance thats why mariah only has 5 and whitney and madonna only has seven and Patti, Diana and Tina have 0

Beyonce sells sex period!! 16 well deserved Grammys? Yeah right! You had to really put out ground breaking music back in the day to get more than one Grammy, but these days put out a few big hits that no one will remember in 10yrs, receive Grammys! “Single Ladies” anyone?

Didn’t understand how Mariah Carey can be a part of that that list but not Mary J. Blige who pushed a hundred more bounderies than Mimi but anyway. That’s YOUR site Trent !