I Hear In My Mind All This Music, And It Breaks My Heart... Seriously Though.

I like to collect things. I collect Snapple lids. I collect show tickets. I collect pennies. I collect photos I find on the ground. I collect little plastic alien figurines from Boomers (won "Best Of Show" at the fair in 2004 :)). I also collect folk singers that all sound the same. So far I have:

Anna Nalick
Dido
Feist
Fiona Apple
Ingrid Michelson
Kate Nash
Lily Allen
Regina Spektor
Sinead O'conner

I posted a Facebook note about this a couple years back, but the list has only gotten longer. My friend made a very valid point:

"when music sounds "all the same" to us, it's because we just haven't listened to enough of it. It's kinda how the generation gaps in music happen. The music we carefully pick out for ourselves is just a nameless stream of BLAAH to our parents when they overhear us listening to it."

And she listed all the differences between the artists. So... with that in mind... I STILL can't really distinguish one voice from another. Their styles may have some variation, but still, if you lined them up and had them all sing the same note, it would probably sound like a single entity. Their voices all seem to come from the same place.

That's not to say I don't enjoy the music these ladies produce. Well. Sort of. I'm not a total folk-freak, but I don't hate the music. I just prefer a little more variety.

So I'm going to post a string of videos here (Facebook users... view original post) and perhaps we can all... oh hell, I don't even know what my objective is. It's mostly just an observation. Maybe these videos will disprove it? Let's find out.

Dido:


Feist:

(For the record I'm obsessed with this song and this video)

Sinead O'Connor:


Anna Nalick:

I really do like this song.

Ingrid Michelson:


Lily Allen:


Kate Nash:


Regina Spektor:


Fiona Apple:


Discuss.