Name 3 of the blandest, dullest, Pop singers with major hits of the last 100 years

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Mrs. Miller was never bland or dull...

Pat Boone

Dido, James Blunt, Ed Sheeran

Fuck you, OP!

Pat Boone was not a Pop Singer. Never sang a standard in his life, and the white motherfukker ripped me off. Faggot ofay

Cindy Lauper

Oh, but Edie....you are a singer!! Fantastic voice. Very underrated. Ten thousand times better than your hubby

R3 nails it.

And R3's daughter, Debby Boone.

It’s Eydie. EYDIE, you fags.

That hussy Diane Ross.

Brittany... Madonna... Carly... Shania...Ariana... Rihanna...

[quote]Cindy Lauper

C-Y-N-D-I

Perry Como is great. I find him very soothing but not boring. On a technical level, I love listening to his phrasing.

Kenny Chesney is the correct answer.

Jack Jones. Being boring was part of his appeal, like Como.

R11, you made me laugh. One of the best uses of the Matt Damon post in ages.

Como = slo mo for me. How he got a primetime network show still baffles me.

Andy Williams wasn't quite as milquetoast as Perry, as I recall.

Lawrence (b. Sidney Liebowitz) was best in a duet.

My vote for blandest-dullest goes to Vaughn Monroe. He tops Perry for voices that put me to sleep.

Mel Torme

They didn’t call him the “Velvet Fog” for nothing.

Josh Groban. Michael Bolton.

Andy Williams had a voice like butter, literally. Smooth and silky and warm. He was my first favorite. Maybe my first crush.

Taylor Swift.

Como only got where he was because of his looks and all the females swooning over him. He wasn't really that special a singer. Executives smelled ratings, sales, moolah, and a star was born. He also probably sucked pole or presented hole for the right men. I've heard he was actually quite an asshole who thought himself on the same level as Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin.

Taylor Swift. As I once described her career, she’s Madonna doing “True Blue” over and over and over. She makes music for girls who want to be forever 17 writing in their diary. People can claim her “folk” albums were maturity, I say they were just acoustic versions of her “True Blue”. And she’s BORING.

Celine Dion. She was just a white answer to Whitney Houston. Whitney wanted to do R&B music and Celine swooped in.

Adele. Boring and predictable. Piano ballad hitting the same notes over and over again.

Lana del Rey. Every song is a remake of “Video Games”.

R3 Give Pat Boone some credit for his metal standards album.

Adele!

If you want to talk about bland and dull.

If you can make it last 30 seconds, this is Adele’s cover of George Michael’s “Fast Love” and put her “style” on it.

She sucked the soul, the mood, the flavor, the life out of the song and it sucked so bad, she had to start it over live on TV, it was so horrible.

Sorry, but Barbra Streisand

You're not going to change my mind here:

Karen Carpenter - in all the songs I've ever heard her sing - sounds like she's about to nod off into a heroin-induced nod fest.

I'm in my mid 50s and I've always thought this. I won't necessarily turn off a song that I might come across when she's singing, but I certainly don't have a nostalgic feeling about her at all and would never include her in my music library. She personifies the elevator music sound to me.

I know, i'm about to get a thousand bitch slaps and verbal smack-downs from all of you.

I can't stand the sound of Jon Bon Jovi's voice. In the car I listen to a classic rock station and when he comes on, I mute.

Let's keep to Pop singers, not rock singers.....Wayne Newton my choice

Pick any three singers of today. They virtually all suck

Elton John

Billy Joel

Adele

90% of Paul McCartney's solo material.

Totally agree about Billy Joel but I don't think Elton is boring at all. Annoying, yes. But not boring.

Elton John. So overrated.

Was Perry Como a HOMO?

He seemed like someone who might have been a connoisseur of COCK.

Andy Williams is one of the best male singers ever.

I loved SCTV but 50%of tge show was spoofing late night tv commercials. There seemed to be hundreds of sketches based on Columbia Record Company ads.

The show would make no sense to young people today.

Jesus I was afraid Wayne Newton was going to break into Jefferson Airplane’s Somebody to Love

I always liked Vic Damone's voice (among the '40s-'50s crooner types.)

Trailor (all versions)

Wtf is Brittany, R13?

I was trying to make a list of 1960s crooners, pop singers who had top songs in the 1950s and 1960s some were very mainstream, others were more “rock” than the older stars.

Bobby Darin was a good singer with perfect pitch. He was identified as more “rock” by the media. His first hit was written by the mother of radio DJ Murray the K.

Bobby Darin, Paul Anka, Bobby Rydell, Bobby Vinton, Fabian, Frankie Avalon were identified more with the younger generation.

Jack Jones, Steve Lawrence, Anthony Newley, Dean Martin, Al Martino, Vic Damone, Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, Steve Allen, Perry Como were older generations.

I wonder what that group of singers can be called. They’re not really pop. They were mainstream and disappeared when rock took hold in late 60s/early 70s. Burt Bacharach, like Elvis, was in his own field.

It took a really long time for the Grammys to award best album to rock and roll singers. For years rock groups and Motown were outselling guys like Andy Williams and Perry como but they wouldn’t win any awards.

I would very much like to be excluded from this narrative, R23 and R25.

Someone said Barbra Streisand upthread? JFC - one of the most original and astonishing singers of the 20th century. You’re too fucking stupid to live.

Taylor Swift

Neil Sedaka

Anne Murray

R1 Mrs. Miller had a face like Brillo but a body like Dawn.

What’s happened to Kenny Chesney?

Harry Stylezzzz

r15: come sit next to me. I also find Perry Como's voice very soothing and warm, with impeccable phrasing. He was Richard Rodgers' choice to make the first hit recording of "Some Enchanted Evening" right before the opening of SOUTH PACIFIC.

[quote]Jack Jones, Steve Lawrence, Anthony Newley, Dean Martin, Al Martino, Vic Damone, Frank Sinatra, Andy Williams, Steve Allen, Perry Como were older generations.

Steve Allen was not a singer.

Uh, Pat Boone was the quintessential, and exceptionally popular, Pop singer, r6.

Apparently the genre of "Crooner" is herein the equivalent of "bland and boring." Just say it, then, and be done with it, rather than enumerating Como, Monroe, Williams, etc.

I loved those smooth tenors and baritones of yore. I would watch their TV shows weekly, and look forward to their Christmas specials. I would "follow the bouncing ball" with Mitch Miller and his orchestra. Yes, and Lawrence Welk as well, with the great Irish-American tenor Joe Feeney.

Came here to say Taylor Swift. I will never understand her meteoritic rise to success.

Judy fucking Collins. EVERY SONG IS THE SAME.

Billie Eilish. Boring, overweight, whispercoo trashbag.

Sorry, R29. Barbra Streisand is irritating, not bland.

Barbra’s pop career was pretty dull but not in general as an artist.

What “pop career”?

Richard Marx

BARRY MANILOW!

Suck my ass!

No one is suggesting Steve Allen was a singer, R53. But he did discover and push Steve and Eydie

Great phrasing, are you fucking kidding me?? This is the dullest, blandest piece of shit, that's ever assaulted my ears

I don’t understand how H.E.R has won 5 grammy awards and 1 Academy award?! I don’t know a single person who listens to her music and I can’t name any of her songs. Her persona is meh at best.

I don't know H.E.R.

Mel Torme is plug ugly too

I love Perry Como. FU, OP

I seriously don't know who most of the singers posted in this thread are! Y'all must be 100 or older.

Both Simon & Garfunkel thought Andy Williams was THE voice. Listen to this. Not his usual style. I get that you may not like his style or material choice but this is proof he could sing anything and outdo almost anyone. Simon & Garfunkel didn't do this for anyone else. Listen to how effortlessly he adjust his voice to THEIR limitations. Though I truly love S&G just to be clear. This gives me the fucking chills.

Tony Orlando...with or without Dawn...

DL fave Lena Horne, and frequent musical co-star of Perry Como's, wrote that off-stage Perry had a "quiet intensity" and a bit of a temper underneath the reserve.

“Bland” is Taylor Swift’s middle name…

I'll be crucified for this, but I truly don't understand why Linda Ronstadt was such a big deal in the 70s. I'd rather listen to Perry Como.

Besides Taylor Swift?

Adele fat. Adele mid weight. Adele thin.

R6, as R54 said, Pat Boone was a Pop sensation. Here's one of my favorites.

Sheryl Crow

I love it. Linda Ronstadt -freely acknowledged by great musicians and singers (Emmylou, Dolly, Bonnie Raitt, Jackson Browne, Don Henley, Joni Mitchell etc etc) as one of the great voices/singers of our generation - citing the power and nuance and clarity of her voice as well as her ability to sing in almost every conceivable genre - dismissed at the DL. JFC.

I can't believe you bitches haven't mentioned me yet!

Melissa Manchester and Rita must have had the same vocal coach

R82 I disagree on Melissa Manchester.

r75 Allow me to contribute the first nail, Syl.

How can any fan of popular music not enjoy Happy Heart?

R75, I agree. Another thing about Ronstadt, I never understood why so many thought she was “beautiful.” She’s very ordinary looking imho.

OP- I can name one of the DUMBEST BLANDEST actors in the last 100 years

the bottom with the SCRAWNY ass

Ben Affleck

R75 Listen to "Long, Long Time." Put your iPods in and drown out everything else.

I love that she's wearing a T-shirt that says "Rock Queen" in the video for the sleepiest song imaginable.

R86 For me, Ronstadt is one of those "great voice, bad material" singers like Celine Dion. What in dentist office hell is "Blue Bayou"?

Linda's "hits" are the least of her music. What else have you heard from Simple Dreams, Sylvia?

Linda made me uncomfortable. She was always one fried bean away from obesity.

Judy Collins, ironic that she gifted Sondheim with his biggest pop hit.

There was a girl named Mary MacGregor who had a #1 hit with Torn Between Two Lovers. It was the most nondescript vocal performance imaginable. This video got 14M views!

To name Ronstadt is ridiculous, IMO, but you can put Nicolette Larson on the list.

R91 Why would I make the effort to seek out the other album tracks when I don't even like the hit singles?

r95 Because they're better, generally speaking. I don't like "Blue Bayou" any more than you do, Syl. Or, from that album, "Tumbling Dice," which I believe are the singles. I love every other song on Hasten down the Wind besides its hit, "That'll Be the Day." Same with "Heat Wave" on Prisoner in Disguise. I usually skip these songs when they pop up.

And I can't stand "You're No Good."

But Linda Ronstadt, generally speaking, is my favorite singer. Except for the "hits," she picks out really great music most of the time (she doesn't write her own music 99% of the time).