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Since I'm having a moan about stuff anyway...
As mentioned in my last rant about an irritating song, they play Radio 1 in the BHF storeroom, where I'm often spending my day cataloguing the electrics before they go to Pat Testing. And Radio 1 seems play a lot of rap[1].
I'm not keen on rap. Never have been. I grew up in the eighties thinking "Yes, okay, they can talk in rhythm and maybe that's a bit clever, but it's not music". But there are several rap songs amongst the twelve records that comprise Radio 1's playlist, all day every day, which do feature someone singing. In each of them, in between the talking-guy gibbering about his amazing gangsta lifestyle (another reason I don't like them; what I can make out of the lyrics suggests they're seriously self-obsessed), there's a chorus by a female singer. They aren't usually anything amazing, but hey, at least they know what a tune is.
And if they're very lucky, they might get credited as "Featuring..." No, she's the one who's actually singing. The only time it's reasonable to have the name of the person who isn't singing first is if it's a novelty single and they're a comedian or fictional character. Most of the time the singer doesn't get credited at all (see above under "seriously self-obsessed").
Maybe it wouldn't irritate me as much if I wasn't already irritated by the actual genre. But I am and it does.
[1]Rap, drivel by people I assume won Britain's Got The X-Factor and maybe one decent song a month. This month's is that Scouting for Girls one about people who've won Britain's Got The X-Factor.
As mentioned in my last rant about an irritating song, they play Radio 1 in the BHF storeroom, where I'm often spending my day cataloguing the electrics before they go to Pat Testing. And Radio 1 seems play a lot of rap[1].
I'm not keen on rap. Never have been. I grew up in the eighties thinking "Yes, okay, they can talk in rhythm and maybe that's a bit clever, but it's not music". But there are several rap songs amongst the twelve records that comprise Radio 1's playlist, all day every day, which do feature someone singing. In each of them, in between the talking-guy gibbering about his amazing gangsta lifestyle (another reason I don't like them; what I can make out of the lyrics suggests they're seriously self-obsessed), there's a chorus by a female singer. They aren't usually anything amazing, but hey, at least they know what a tune is.
And if they're very lucky, they might get credited as "Featuring..." No, she's the one who's actually singing. The only time it's reasonable to have the name of the person who isn't singing first is if it's a novelty single and they're a comedian or fictional character. Most of the time the singer doesn't get credited at all (see above under "seriously self-obsessed").
Maybe it wouldn't irritate me as much if I wasn't already irritated by the actual genre. But I am and it does.
[1]Rap, drivel by people I assume won Britain's Got The X-Factor and maybe one decent song a month. This month's is that Scouting for Girls one about people who've won Britain's Got The X-Factor.
