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We measured pop music’s falsetto obsession

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2019 ж. 12 Там.
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From Justin Timberlake to the Bee Gees, we charted the popularity of men singing high.
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It’s nearly impossible to turn on the radio and not hear a male artist singing really high. Likely he’s a tenor, and more often than not he’ll sing in falsetto. Think Justin Bieber, The Weeknd, Bruno Mars, Drake, Charlie Puth, Shawn Mendes, Adam Levine, Sam Smith ... the list goes on and on and on.
This isn’t a trend - it has been the status quo for decades.
Using the data diving know-how of The Pudding, and drawing on the expertise of Anthony Roth Costanzo, a professional opera singer, I dig into the world of the high male vocal range by tracking how pervasive it really is across the decades.
The Pudding: pudding.cool/
IG: @the.pudding
Twitter: @puddingviz
The articles referenced in the video can be found here:
The Evolution of the Male Falsetto: frieze.com/article/evolution-...
What does it mean when The Weeknd hits a high note: www.washingtonpost.com/lifest...
Active Child, Prince, and the Science of the Male Falsetto: pitchfork.com/thepitch/794-ac...
Why Are There So Many Tough Guys Who Sound Like Ladies On The Radio?: www.npr.org/2016/02/15/466404...
Here's a Spotify list of 65+ songs that have some pretty fun falsetto moments: open.spotify.com/playlist/0nU...
And here’s the same Pandora playlist: www.pandora.com/playlist/PL:1...
And a list of all of the songs featured in this video by timestamp:
1:04 - Want to Want Me - Jason Derulo
1:09 - Sugar - Maroon 5
1:18 - Sorry - Justin Bieber
1:30 - Can’t Feel My Face - The Weeknd
1:32 - What Do You Mean - Justin Bieber
1:36 - The Hills - The Weeknd
1:42 - Hello - Adele
3:33 - Sleep, Baby, Sleep - George P Watson
3:47 - Ill Wind - Radiohead
5:37 - Redbone - Childish Gambino
6:10 - Rock of Ages - Def Leppard
7:10 - Get Lucky - Daft Punk
7:21 - Crocodile Rock - Elton John
8:23 - Killer Queen - Queen
8:55 - I Knew I loved You - Savage Garden
9:28 - Stayin’ Alive - Bee Gees
9:50 - Falsetto - The-Dream
10:17 - Cry Me A River - Justin Timberlake
11:52 - Sweet Child O’ Mine - Guns N’ Roses
11:55 - Two Hearts - Phil Collins
12:01 - Rocket 2 U - The Jets
12:19 - Smooth Criminal - Michael Jackson
12:28 - Nite and Day - Al B. Sure
12:33 - You Should Be Dancing - Bee Gees
14:33- Me And Those Dreaming Eyes of Mine - D’Angelo
14:44 - So In Love - Curtis Mayfield
15:38 - Sherry - Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons
15:48 - Natural - Bloodstone
16:00 - Starboy - The Weeknd
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  • Thanks so much for watching the video! It was a challenging task figuring out the songs I wanted to feature in the story - there were thousands to choose from. So, I made.... a Spotify playlist (sorry Pandora). It's called "Give Me a Falsetto," and you can find it in the link in the description box above or by searching for it in the Spotify app. What's you favorite falsetto heavy song? Clarification: Pandora's library is comparable to other music streaming services. 2 million refers to the number of songs that have been analyzed through their Music Genome Project

    @Vox@Vox4 жыл бұрын

    • My favorites might be Curtis Mayfield's "Right on to the Darkness", Smokey Robinson and the Miracle's (Come round here) I'm the one you need, and also a lot of Brian Wilson songs.

      @themroc8231@themroc82314 жыл бұрын

    • guys what is the name of the type this video

      @DoDo.444@DoDo.4444 жыл бұрын

    • no bro i mean the editting of the video not the animation but the type of video name not the title or the animation

      @DoDo.444@DoDo.4444 жыл бұрын

    • The ones I thought of as I watched this video were Smokey Robinson and the Miracles - A Fork in The Road/ Ooh Baby Baby and Prince - Baby.

      @TheJayWay@TheJayWay4 жыл бұрын

    • Anything from EWF!!!!

      @fajarsetiawan8665@fajarsetiawan86654 жыл бұрын

  • Snoop Dogg also sings high

    @paritoshsingh588@paritoshsingh5884 жыл бұрын

    • Paritosh Singh ha-ha

      @TrumanStalls18@TrumanStalls184 жыл бұрын

    • always

      @hdihiiehei@hdihiiehei4 жыл бұрын

    • aha ha

      @dinglemccringleberry6258@dinglemccringleberry62584 жыл бұрын

    • Perhaps higher than everybody else.

      @jaga9394@jaga93944 жыл бұрын

    • Ayyy

      @lalakuma9@lalakuma94 жыл бұрын

  • I didn't know a streaming platform would readily give their data for this kind of study. Kudos to Pandora for democratizing data and allowing this to be possible!

    @jaymendoza4616@jaymendoza46164 жыл бұрын

    • Jeremy Mendoza Most of them are actually very open about their data; they benefit a lot from people doing their own studies and finding trends

      @andrewpridmore1803@andrewpridmore18034 жыл бұрын

    • you can get these data from their API

      @JoshHoPersonal@JoshHoPersonal4 жыл бұрын

    • +

      @amanatee27@amanatee274 жыл бұрын

    • i guess the tags are exposed anyway and they just avoided having to crawl all the tags

      @MrTheSmoon@MrTheSmoon4 жыл бұрын

    • should I switch to Pandora though? I am currently using Spotify.

      @damsapollo@damsapollo4 жыл бұрын

  • Falsetto males dominating the charts: Adele: Hello, it's me

    @DannySullivanMusic@DannySullivanMusic3 жыл бұрын

    • LoL

      @cedrickvidal1362@cedrickvidal13623 жыл бұрын

    • two words- zayn malik

      @namjesus1998@namjesus19982 жыл бұрын

    • @Anonymous User 3 octaves vocal range with bad singing technique zayn's vocal range is 3 octaves too

      @namjesus1998@namjesus19982 жыл бұрын

    • 😂😂😂

      @kitsothemotifvideos4702@kitsothemotifvideos47022 жыл бұрын

  • now the next question is do people really love falsetto this much or do mainstream artists just have a tendency to stick with something they've seen work

    @rosemfall6717@rosemfall67174 жыл бұрын

    • Man(i mean, woman), i f**ing hate falsetos... it makes my head hurts a lot this trend is terrible in my opinion

      @99temporal@99temporal4 жыл бұрын

    • Great question. I think people naturally are drawn to the falsetto because they intuitively understand that they are observing a feat of vocal athleticism. So it would have been interesting for this study to also point out the exceptions to the falsetto trend, i.e. identify the outlier songs which were also unusually popular (assuming there were any) but which didn't use falsetto at all or very much, and then determine what musical elements made those outlying songs relatively successful anyway.

      @nagbo13@nagbo134 жыл бұрын

    • I don't know about you, but I love it!

      @absoluteanarchyproductions8432@absoluteanarchyproductions84324 жыл бұрын

    • Im ok with falsetto if it’s done right. If the notes align to be high it’s better then sudden bursts of high notes. I also love it if it’s to convey an emotion that goes along with the story of the song. If the main character (the singer for instance) is supposed to feel emotional suffering then they scream to let it all out.

      @closedacc5321@closedacc53213 жыл бұрын

    • Well if people didn't like it, it would stop selling, and then we wouldn't see it on the charts lol

      @stefannita3439@stefannita34393 жыл бұрын

  • I laughed so hard when Adele's "Hello" was far more deep and masculine than any of the male's.

    @npip99@npip994 жыл бұрын

    • +

      @ChrisPollitt@ChrisPollitt4 жыл бұрын

    • +

      @troliskimosko@troliskimosko4 жыл бұрын

    • You should hear "Goodbye Horses" by Lazarus Q or "Automatic" by The Pointer Sisters...

      @GVike@GVike4 жыл бұрын

    • Same.. 😂😂😂

      @acharich@acharich4 жыл бұрын

    • IKR? 😂

      @tylerhackner9731@tylerhackner97314 жыл бұрын

  • the amount of work that went into this video>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

    @makiyahadams2892@makiyahadams28924 жыл бұрын

    • Record companies with copyright claims: I’m gonna end this guy’s whole career

      @gqh007@gqh0074 жыл бұрын

    • And yet it seemed to prove nothing. Only that men have been singing with high voices for a while.

      @buttonpusher3786@buttonpusher37864 жыл бұрын

    • Only that it's the 1600s all over again.

      @frien_d@frien_d4 жыл бұрын

    • SansPeppaShrekterGrifpig _ 1. This falls under fair use. 2. Even then, I’m pretty sure they licensed these songs.

      @MysteryMii@MysteryMii4 жыл бұрын

    • MysteryMii word

      @gqh007@gqh0074 жыл бұрын

  • I thought this video was gonna attempt explaining why falsetto's are so popular

    @TheBirdThatWhistles@TheBirdThatWhistles4 жыл бұрын

    • Yeah... Never expect too much from Vox

      @Lucas-DX@Lucas-DX4 жыл бұрын

    • I feel like this happens a lot which is why it took me so long to watch this. They start out with an interesting question, do all this groundwork to answer it, then say "it really do be like it is" and end the video there.

      @TheMightyBattleSquid@TheMightyBattleSquid4 жыл бұрын

    • How could they? It's way harder to measure sentiment and cultural shifts than just data sets with a programming language. What, they gonna go deep into the history of the castrati and try to explain why humans have been fascinated with people (especially men) singing high notes?

      @BedroomPianist@BedroomPianist4 жыл бұрын

    • @@BedroomPianist ask them not us. They're the ones who chose the title and why they were looking for the data.

      @TheMightyBattleSquid@TheMightyBattleSquid4 жыл бұрын

    • “We measured” that’s what the title said

      @JadetheGoober@JadetheGoober4 жыл бұрын

  • Ain't no love for my basses & baritones. Shout out to the David Bowie ranged singers out there.

    @GuyDandy@GuyDandy4 жыл бұрын

    • Who, at least in recordings, has a tenor range, actually. No mortal baritone I know can hit a B♭ like the one in Life one Mars. Though live, it seems he sang it at least two semitones lower.

      @andriusgailiunas3307@andriusgailiunas33074 жыл бұрын

    • GuyDandy And Prince for having a great vocal range.

      @autumnhomer9786@autumnhomer97864 жыл бұрын

    • David Bowie? How about Elvis?

      @YumiVanherck@YumiVanherck4 жыл бұрын

    • My manz Frank Sinatra

      @Zoronii@Zoronii4 жыл бұрын

    • They did mention a Guns N Roses song and Axl Rose's range is more than an octave wider than Bowie's was.

      @multiwebinc@multiwebinc4 жыл бұрын

  • As a data scientist this was a refreshing piece, seeing as very rarely things are properly quantified in the media. It also gives a pretty good peek into the everyday challenges of data analysis, complete from starting at a naiive question to having to qualify your data to defining sometimes somewhat arbitrary thresholds that can be the pitfall of any study. More like this please!

    @icydeadcrusher@icydeadcrusher4 жыл бұрын

    • I'm a data analyst as well and though I think they could've made a better job at cleaning data/reducing "noise", I appreciated the use of a database to justify the perceived trends.

      @MultiWilliam15@MultiWilliam154 жыл бұрын

    • What are your opinions about becoming a data scientist? Are you happy with your job? Thinking about becoming one, so i'm looking for someone else's view on it.

      @aleksandarkatic2621@aleksandarkatic26214 жыл бұрын

    • @@aleksandarkatic2621 date scientist is the shittest job ever 😆😆

      @papimew2672@papimew26724 жыл бұрын

    • Also unrelated but i also would want to talk with you about the data scientist job , i'm also considering working in that field and i would really like to know more about that before choosing something related to this in my studies (engineering school)

      @aazdu03@aazdu034 жыл бұрын

    • Asap y GitHub links!!

      @RoofBeamsCarpenter@RoofBeamsCarpenter4 жыл бұрын

  • me, a baritone, wanting to sing along to catchy radio songs: *silent crying*

    @fomalhaut_the_great@fomalhaut_the_great4 жыл бұрын

    • me too man, me too

      @andrewstaley7672@andrewstaley76724 жыл бұрын

    • buddy I'm a bass......big cri.....

      @noname-es4cy@noname-es4cy4 жыл бұрын

    • Lets make a new trend 😎

      @juanpablo_san@juanpablo_san4 жыл бұрын

    • @@juanpablo_san yesssssss

      @DuckReconMajor@DuckReconMajor4 жыл бұрын

    • I'm a baritone and I sing pop music, not famous yet or made too much progress but it's possible. Come on out there and let's sing!

      @juniorlove5804@juniorlove58044 жыл бұрын

  • Michael Jackson "don't stop till u get enough" is a classic and the track with Barry gibb and MJ is a great track showing there vocals.

    @triggahappyyt5420@triggahappyyt54204 жыл бұрын

    • They should have put I wanna be your lover by Prince

      @cocopops4974@cocopops49744 жыл бұрын

  • whoever engineered the audio for this video is amazing.

    @AP-sm2uq@AP-sm2uq4 жыл бұрын

  • These guys really f***ing love data

    @winfieldmozlington1546@winfieldmozlington15464 жыл бұрын

    • not when it comes to politics

      @-ivan@-ivan4 жыл бұрын

    • And they are really bad at interpreting it objectively

      @joshuawheeler3255@joshuawheeler32554 жыл бұрын

    • @@joshuawheeler3255 Data like this is just really hard to interpret. What do you base your opinion on, if there is little to no actual data on how it is perceived, no studies on the matter, no experts to talk to?

      @eckhart5443@eckhart54434 жыл бұрын

    • because...... algorithm, right?

      @larahill82@larahill824 жыл бұрын

    • It's pronounced data And data it just makes my brain go "yes, this is good"

      @ROBOMAN9110@ROBOMAN91104 жыл бұрын

  • THAT'S A LOT OF RESEARCH FOR A 16 MINUTE VIDEO. AMAZING.

    @aileincortez94@aileincortez944 жыл бұрын

    • Now imagine, there also went work into producing the video. So even more work on top of the research.

      @bluefirexde@bluefirexde4 жыл бұрын

    • Now imagine if this is what they did for their political videos

      @CVerse@CVerse4 жыл бұрын

    • Imagine that they did all that research and added all that production value but actually made an interesting video

      @BeastlyAnteater@BeastlyAnteater4 жыл бұрын

    • They also get a lot of money and brand recognition for a 16 minute video.

      @JorgeGeorgeD@JorgeGeorgeD4 жыл бұрын

    • @@bluefirexde now imagine if this video went somewhere and actually had a point

      @johnames6430@johnames64303 жыл бұрын

  • I really appreciate that you put the research into an understandable video instead of publishing it in an academic journal

    @villainoir@villainoir4 жыл бұрын

  • 6:24 "prove it" - "uuuoooouuuu" - "perfect"

    @danieleckert5008@danieleckert50084 жыл бұрын

  • also smh how can they exclude the choir dude with a helium balloon

    @joel-cx7hm@joel-cx7hm4 жыл бұрын

    • Joel Lim yoo for real. Mad disrespect 😤

      @mushi251@mushi2514 жыл бұрын

    • 'cause he essentially only did a cover of the choir song AND did not chart. But it would be nice if they mentioned him, or even better show the video of him whipping out the helium baloon.

      @fonsineknshr@fonsineknshr4 жыл бұрын

    • Wht does smh mean

      @xoxy-_-3401@xoxy-_-34014 жыл бұрын

    • oooOOOOOOoooooooooh

      @456bulgogi@456bulgogi4 жыл бұрын

    • Oooh 1k

      @brianwong7347@brianwong73474 жыл бұрын

  • Pandora: How much data do you want? Vox: yeeeeEEEEEEEEEeeeeeeeSSSSSSsssssSSSS

    @yashvadapalli7658@yashvadapalli76584 жыл бұрын

    • Vox: All your data are belong to us.

      @MrTomaat23@MrTomaat234 жыл бұрын

  • Y’all missing out on alllllll the black artists in the 1960s and 1970s!

    @aaronpegg1985@aaronpegg19854 жыл бұрын

    • Aaron Pegg exactly they had SERIOUS FALSETTO! 🤷🏽‍♀️

      @caramelkisses8857@caramelkisses88574 жыл бұрын

    • All of the Vox videos are just whitesplaining.

      @elsongs@elsongs4 жыл бұрын

    • elsongs tbh they showed a lot of black artist on this vid but yeah i agree with the statement pf not showing them from the 60s and 70s

      @theendofnge9583@theendofnge95834 жыл бұрын

    • Apart from all those times in the video they show black artists from that time?

      @AfferbeckBeats@AfferbeckBeats4 жыл бұрын

    • They literally put Marvin Gaye on the thumbnail of the video, but no song of his is featured even once :/

      @coffeewentcold@coffeewentcold4 жыл бұрын

  • isn't there an opposite trend for women to have lower voices in their singing? just a thesis

    @joyeholiday4789@joyeholiday47894 жыл бұрын

    • This would explain why Toni Braxton, Sade, and Adele were/are so popular.

      @nagbo13@nagbo134 жыл бұрын

    • @@nagbo13 contralto is their natural range so they're not doing anything special with their vocals to achieve that tone, unlike falsetto requires

      @wayfaringspacepoet@wayfaringspacepoet4 жыл бұрын

    • @@wayfaringspacepoet, good point. I think it's still (almost) as shocking as men's falsettos because it's "unexpected." In other words, we don't expect women to have low voices, just like we don't expect men to have such high voices.

      @nagbo13@nagbo134 жыл бұрын

    • Joye Holiday uP

      @ADeeSHUPA@ADeeSHUPA4 жыл бұрын

    • High voices are praised across the board. People love high belts and whistle tones

      @Nonyah123@Nonyah1234 жыл бұрын

  • This could've been a PhD thesis

    @dolphinoegglet7263@dolphinoegglet72634 жыл бұрын

    • @@Ryan-ee5lp Music students, physicists, sound engineers, singers...

      @Nadia1989@Nadia19894 жыл бұрын

    • @@Nadia1989 don't forget musicologists!!!! :)

      @a0nima@a0nima4 жыл бұрын

    • More like the (really good) groundwork from which to develop one. You need a research angle for a good thesis. Something along the lines of why the use of falsetto in pop music has the spikes shown in this video.

      @gerdforster883@gerdforster8834 жыл бұрын

    • Not really

      @Atomrofl42@Atomrofl424 жыл бұрын

    • its enough to start a phd level of work for a thesis. but not an entire one . it would generate enough data to make figures for maybe 1 of 3 or chapters of a full 3-5 yr study. youtube is small bites. phd is like an anaconda eating a hippo

      @Dan_d00d@Dan_d00d4 жыл бұрын

  • Good guys over at Pandora, Thank you.

    @Louis-zy4xp@Louis-zy4xp4 жыл бұрын

  • I need a 1970s falsetto playlist for my health!

    @driziiD@driziiD4 жыл бұрын

    • Roger Taylor-

      @crappymoodstuff3922@crappymoodstuff39223 жыл бұрын

    • For true falsetto greatness, one must listen to....Philip Bailey, Smokey Robinson, Barry Gibb, Prince, Bobby Debarge (not El Debarge), Michael Jackson, Curtis Mayfield, Russell Thompkins Jr. (The Stylistics), Elton John's "Benny and the Jets"....

      @areguapiri@areguapiri3 жыл бұрын

    • @@areguapiri Add the Moments, Dells, Tavares and the Deele.

      @yecart5691@yecart56913 жыл бұрын

  • There’s something very pleasing about high frequencies. High playing trumpet players like Doc Severinsen and Maynard Ferguson are considered legendary. Heavy metal was also built on the falsetto likings of singers like Rob Halford and Bruce Dickinson.

    @THRASHattack66@THRASHattack664 жыл бұрын

  • The Bee Gees discovered their distinctive falsetto by accident while warming up their voices in studio. The rest is history :)

    @WoWMalazar@WoWMalazar4 жыл бұрын

    • pretty sure they copied black artists like everything else they did lol

      @FlowerBoyWorld@FlowerBoyWorld4 жыл бұрын

    • @@FlowerBoyWorld blacks copied English from whites like everything else they did lol

      @Pantano63@Pantano634 жыл бұрын

    • leonardo h this is the most white privileged comment ive ever seen, pure disgust

      @3spi227@3spi2274 жыл бұрын

    • @@3spi227 I'm not white, though. Just wanted to show how ridiculous that "stealing" statement was.

      @Pantano63@Pantano634 жыл бұрын

    • leonardo h except in no way did you actually show that 😂 how would ambiguities surrounding the origin of singing techniques compare to long term colonization/assimilation/enslavement etc. weak at best

      @DrP225@DrP2254 жыл бұрын

  • So impressed with Pandora for data generosity. Great work on this one Vox.

    @MichaelGraybill@MichaelGraybill4 жыл бұрын

    • Michael Graybill get a Pandora account for one month. Music choice isn’t as high as Spotify’s but their shuffle is amazing. When you mix two are more artist with one station they zero in on the sound and vibe you want to the t

      @Samuraiwavy@Samuraiwavy4 жыл бұрын

    • I'm using pandora once again just because of that

      @carlitoxb110@carlitoxb1104 жыл бұрын

    • @@carlitoxb110 But you can access any music company's data through their API or by asking. Spotify even has public tags for every song

      @dyslexicstoner2408@dyslexicstoner24084 жыл бұрын

  • Michael Jackson " Don't stop to you get enough " that's a 10 for sure!

    @williejr71williams22@williejr71williams224 жыл бұрын

  • Whoever worked on editing this video is a madman! Definetly deserves a raise :). Very well done if you're reading this just know that I have huge respect for you!

    @LeoneBeats@LeoneBeats2 жыл бұрын

  • For a while Black Artists were not allowed to chart on the Billboard Top 100. So you may be missing data on one of the Greatest Falsetto Voices ever Russell Thompkins Jr., from the Stylistics.

    @mlandry052209@mlandry0522094 жыл бұрын

    • Love how they went from a yodeling to RADIOHEAD? A lot of missing data🤦🏾‍♀️

      @sharstarg2414@sharstarg24144 жыл бұрын

    • Dude caucasians are behind this video and the Stylistics did not really cross over.

      @jsamc@jsamc4 жыл бұрын

    • I would just like to thank you. This comment just got me into the stylistics :)

      @iheartsanman@iheartsanman4 жыл бұрын

    • This would be interesting as part of the 1619 project!

      @sayhiku@sayhiku4 жыл бұрын

    • The first black artist to TOP the Hot 100 was in the '50s. I'm sure the Stylistics, from a few decades later, are in there.

      @colonelpharoahsanders9128@colonelpharoahsanders91284 жыл бұрын

  • "this is a chart that has never been seen before" *replays video* liar

    @KungFuPanda1223@KungFuPanda12234 жыл бұрын

    • 🤣🤣🤣

      @Sheshe661972@Sheshe6619724 жыл бұрын

    • In 2019 she says this...🙄

      @sharstarg2414@sharstarg24144 жыл бұрын

    • U genius

      @321123Nelly@321123Nelly4 жыл бұрын

    • Kssse music

      @JJ-zn3vt@JJ-zn3vt4 жыл бұрын

    • But my lord, is that, legal?

      @alvarohernani6645@alvarohernani66454 жыл бұрын

  • Everyone involved in filming this video was such a good teacher, man I don't think I've ever learned so much about vocals in my life!

    @whitelightsheddinweedsmokin@whitelightsheddinweedsmokin4 жыл бұрын

  • I love how much effort Estelle put into this!

    @SianaGearz@SianaGearz4 жыл бұрын

  • 6:24 “Prove it” “EEEEEEOOoooooOOOEEEEEEEEOOooooOO” “Perfect.” 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

    @BarelyNoticeable@BarelyNoticeable4 жыл бұрын

    • Anne Tan he got that vibrato though

      @aclavero2181@aclavero21814 жыл бұрын

  • I came here for those sweet smooth animations

    @CuriosityCulture@CuriosityCulture4 жыл бұрын

    • Same here!

      @renzpaoloogena1900@renzpaoloogena19004 жыл бұрын

    • Estelle is the OG!!!

      @ShartinScorsese@ShartinScorsese4 жыл бұрын

  • Al Green (I'm Still in Love) , El D'barge (I like) and Prince (Adore and many others) the later two songs blew my mind

    @christhedemocrat@christhedemocrat4 жыл бұрын

    • Philip Bailey (Reasons)

      @calebdouglas7622@calebdouglas76223 жыл бұрын

    • If I was your girlfriend... Prince

      @keithpereira3739@keithpereira37393 жыл бұрын

  • I wish this video had talked about the widespread shift to FM radio over AM in the 80 and 90s. AM radio had much worse broadcasting and so singing high made it easier for artists to be heard among the interference and lower audio fidelity of AM broadcasting systems. I'm not surprised that the 90s saw falsetto falling, as that was the time when most radio stations that broadcast popular music switched to FM. I was pretty surprised that this video didn't mention it at all. Would love to see a follow up to this video that talks about that!

    @carolinebaker6807@carolinebaker68074 жыл бұрын

  • Ladies love falsetto because we can sing along easier

    @annibobonnie@annibobonnie4 жыл бұрын

    • That is how falsetto is regarded as. Lazy.

      @kotosqoposrly@kotosqoposrly4 жыл бұрын

    • Ohhhhhhhhhh...............

      @mjtubeme@mjtubeme4 жыл бұрын

    • and in males high falsetto range is easier to come by than high chest range

      @EpicStuffMan1000@EpicStuffMan10004 жыл бұрын

    • 😂😂😂

      @acharich@acharich4 жыл бұрын

    • Yeah with males falsetto is better for them to use than straight up chest belting.

      @tylerhackner9731@tylerhackner97314 жыл бұрын

  • Men with falsetto: exists Roger Taylor: hold my car

    @poggergamer3919@poggergamer39194 жыл бұрын

    • I don't know who that is

      @zigguratjones6458@zigguratjones64584 жыл бұрын

    • He’s the drummer for queen

      @poggergamer3919@poggergamer39194 жыл бұрын

    • Ziggurat Jones listen ‘in the lap of gods’ by queen

      @thiccwalrus5602@thiccwalrus56024 жыл бұрын

    • Galileo galileo...

      @swarnalidutta887@swarnalidutta8874 жыл бұрын

    • Also Roger Taylor: If I go higher, only dogs will hear it!

      @meinherzbrennt9007@meinherzbrennt90074 жыл бұрын

  • The data analytics that went into making this episode is truly mind blowing. Well done on a brilliant piece of work.

    @mrspelljammer1591@mrspelljammer15913 жыл бұрын

  • Was waiting to hear a mention of Prince & Frank Oceans Falsetto in Bad Religion

    @Yo_Bentley@Yo_Bentley4 жыл бұрын

  • Thank you so much for explaining your reasoning behind your stats interpretations! It makes a much more complete story as opposed to just saying "These are the stats, trust me"

    @Emily-ce7hd@Emily-ce7hd4 жыл бұрын

  • How did you not mention Michael Jackson from the beginning

    @MANNYISTHERE@MANNYISTHERE4 жыл бұрын

    • Manny heehee

      @misapon.9184@misapon.91844 жыл бұрын

    • Michael Jackson and Barry Gibb where best friends because of falsetto lol.

      @triggahappyyt5420@triggahappyyt54204 жыл бұрын

    • They should have mentioned prince in the beginning.... He sings the highest falsetto

      @cocopops4974@cocopops49744 жыл бұрын

    • I know right!

      @jakegargiulo5101@jakegargiulo51014 жыл бұрын

    • Michael rarely sung Falsetto that’s why. He is just a high tenor

      @lisacox3750@lisacox37504 жыл бұрын

  • Omg the work that was put into this, I will forever be in awe of. I love this series.

    @ElectraJade74@ElectraJade744 жыл бұрын

  • I always did think it funny how there are so many low voiced women compared to all the high voiced men

    @Nova_the_starcatcher@Nova_the_starcatcher4 жыл бұрын

    • Katelyn Stewart that’s true. Almost like men try to sing like women and women try to sing like men😂

      @speakshh.1302@speakshh.13024 жыл бұрын

    • I wish more women had lower areas in their songs

      @aggarius2944@aggarius29444 жыл бұрын

    • There’s a certain “money spot” in the vocal range where the vocals cut the hardest. Both men and women aim for this same range.

      @connorwilde1471@connorwilde14714 жыл бұрын

    • I'm not an expert, but I think if a woman sung a lot of these songs with the same pitch, it would be considered 'low' (and same in reverse)

      @elineverstraeten1872@elineverstraeten18724 жыл бұрын

    • ​It is fatal to be a man or woman pure and simple: one must be a woman manly, or a man womanly Virginia Woolf

      @Loufi303@Loufi3034 жыл бұрын

  • *KZhead'S COPYRIGHT ALGORITHM:* Am I a joke to you?

    @giancarlo_rc@giancarlo_rc4 жыл бұрын

    • "That's illegal people can't do that" 🤣🤣🤣💀💀

      @arunsooknarine4738@arunsooknarine47384 жыл бұрын

    • im sure they paid for all the songs

      @boogieg8763@boogieg87634 жыл бұрын

    • @@boogieg8763 i think since they use it for education they can use it for free

      @jacobduran8256@jacobduran82564 жыл бұрын

    • Yes

      @mjtubeme@mjtubeme4 жыл бұрын

    • Giancarlo RC You really don't know how this works, do you? An established media outlet like Vox is going to take the proper steps and isn't going to get takedown notices on a piece of journalism, unlike that random guy in his living room with a single computer and webcam you're used to watching.

      @wellesradio@wellesradio4 жыл бұрын

  • Amazing job Estelle, Dion, and Coleman. The video had some sweet animations and visuals. This video makes me want to go listen to some Gallant now.

    @mr559@mr5594 жыл бұрын

  • Fantastic, smart and so beautifully put together. Thanks for making this, I really enjoyed it!

    @RunRoss@RunRoss3 жыл бұрын

  • How does vox escape from their videos being claimed with all these song clips.

    @penguin5096@penguin50964 жыл бұрын

    • Some animals are more equal than others.

      @davidpaulnormanmusic@davidpaulnormanmusic4 жыл бұрын

    • Actually, this video currently has 7 songs claimed, so I wonder if they'd get any ad revenue from it in the end.. 💭💭💭

      @acharich@acharich4 жыл бұрын

    • If i'm not wrong there's a limit of some seconds for songs to be used in YT videos. Without being striked I mean.

      @crepperwlp@crepperwlp4 жыл бұрын

    • Because it's used under fair use for educational purposes

      @kylie2461@kylie24614 жыл бұрын

    • They can use song clips of up to 8 seconds. Also as a growing media company you'd expect they contact the labels and companies that own the songs and probably ask for permission or provide royalties from the videos to the companies when they use songs for longer than 8 seconds.

      @jorgeeduardodussanvillanue46@jorgeeduardodussanvillanue464 жыл бұрын

  • I've personally always been a big fan of lower voices in music and gravitate more towards that. From someone who has always wondered why so much music was sung so high this video was very interesting to me.

    @BradyHargettOffical@BradyHargettOffical4 жыл бұрын

    • I wonder if country music focuses on bass to distinguish themselves from other genres.

      @LimeyLassen@LimeyLassen4 жыл бұрын

    • @@LimeyLassen country music were always identical with baritone/bass vocal long time before high register obsession of modern pop music started. In the topic of distinguishing country music from pop music, these days the popular country music scene do the exact opposite of that, worst offender: Florida Georgia Line, Sam Hunt etc.

      @ezzong@ezzong4 жыл бұрын

    • @@LimeyLassen I'm not sure, I dont listen to country personally but my family does and I'd say like the person above that modern country isnt really focusing in differentiating itself from pop music much at all these days. But vocalists like Dave Gahan from Depeche Mode, Roland Orzabal from Tears for Fears, Ruki from the Gazette all have vocals that tends to be quite deep and I really enjoy it. That's not to say I dont enjoy high vocals at all, even the examples I just mentioned show range and maybe that's why low vocals are interesting to me because it's a range not often shown these days.

      @BradyHargettOffical@BradyHargettOffical4 жыл бұрын

    • But the video doesn't explain the reason. It's expositive

      @rosacastellanos3071@rosacastellanos30714 жыл бұрын

    • I havent finished the video but metal is a genre that is dominated by high falsettos and low growls.

      @leetorry@leetorry4 жыл бұрын

  • the fact that you've made these so well produced, music themed videos, even though all of them get copyrighted, astonishes me. THANK YOU!

    @sonyaliinomebarlow100@sonyaliinomebarlow1003 жыл бұрын

  • I've found myself watching a fair few of these videos. Really interesting stuff. Makes me look at music in a new way and also appreciate my music so much more. Awesome stuff! 😁👍🏾

    @tensaichigo2@tensaichigo24 жыл бұрын

  • The Bee Gees complete reinvention of their sound in the 1970s is I think something that isn't often examined. Before the Disco era they were a well regarded but kind of middle of the road group. Disco catapulted them into the stratosphere, and their distinctive falsetto sound definitely formulated into their success.

    @gbrading@gbrading4 жыл бұрын

    • I’m a huge music buff. I’ve loved “to love somebody” for years and wondered how they pulled off that style during the disco era (I falsely assumed that they were a disco band that only lasted with the genre). Years later found out it was from the late 60’s not late 70’ when stayin alive, Saturday night fever etc came out.

      @dr.lyleevans6915@dr.lyleevans69154 жыл бұрын

    • What's even crazier is that the Gibbs wrote the songs for Saturday Night Fever "virtually in a single weekend", having never released a disco song before that.

      @JaredJTan@JaredJTan4 жыл бұрын

    • @@dr.lyleevans6915 How can you be a music buff and assume that The Bee Gees were only around in the late 70’s?? 😢

      @lucasm4299@lucasm42993 жыл бұрын

    • @@lucasm4299 That was my entire point: it’s hard to believe I didn’t know that. To be fair I was probably still a teenager when I realized this (To love somebody was one of my favorite songs growing up, and it always made me wonder where the large difference in genre came from. I assumed it was an earlier period in the bands history, but not to the point where they were big in the 1960’s, which was a completely different era in music). This stuff was all way before my time. Grunge was actually before my time if that helps

      @dr.lyleevans6915@dr.lyleevans69153 жыл бұрын

  • I'm tone-deaf so music has never been my thing, but I like your videos because I can understand a whole side of music I would have never known and now I enjoy listening to different genres, it's not background noise anymore, thank you so much!

    @niacortes@niacortes4 жыл бұрын

  • This is so incredible. Thanks for all the work and effort that went into this piece - a great piece of original journalism.

    @donnab0518@donnab05183 жыл бұрын

  • Okay i just love the fact that the graphics in this video use the same font and color scheme as the cover art of the musical falsettos. Someone really knew what they were doing:D

    @justignoreme@justignoreme3 жыл бұрын

  • Needed more "Kiss" by Prince. But I really appreciated this. Thanks!

    @eltiochusma@eltiochusma4 жыл бұрын

    • eltiochusma - no doubt! ☔️

      @tea397@tea3974 жыл бұрын

    • They most likely wanted to but couldn't... Prince's Estate is notorious for having comedically harsh policies when it comes to copyright infringement of Prince's work. For a while it was only available on Tidal, and it was made available on KZhead only after he died. That's too bad they took so long bc many younger people are unaware of his music bc it wasn't on the internet... Matter of fact I only discovered his music this year and I freaking love it !

      @itsmanew5994@itsmanew59944 жыл бұрын

    • @@itsmanew5994 Glad I'm not the only one who recently discovered Prince. I always knew he was talented but I feel bad I never sat down and listened to his albums until last year. Now I've fallen down the rabbit hole and have started purchasing his albums and I can't stop listening to his stuff now

      @gabriels1869@gabriels18694 жыл бұрын

  • As an Italian, everytime I hear the word "falsetto" uttered here, this video instantly becomes more fun.

    @mattiafioravanti8475@mattiafioravanti84754 жыл бұрын

    • Ciao! Che vuole dire en Italiano?

      @gearoiddom@gearoiddom4 жыл бұрын

    • @@gearoiddom La parola stessa è italiana. L'etimologia viene da "Falso" - The word itself is italian. Its etimology comes from the word "false". It's the way it's pronounced that's it's funny (at least to me)

      @mattiafioravanti8475@mattiafioravanti84754 жыл бұрын

    • Lol

      @superduperjoi6800@superduperjoi68004 жыл бұрын

    • @@mattiafioravanti8475 what is it?? Tell me tell me🤭 Don't enjoy alone.

      @actually4660@actually46604 жыл бұрын

    • @@actually4660 Fellow Italian here, I think what makes the word sound funny when uttered by native English speakers is that they tend to make the hard "T" sound of FalseTTo (it's a doubled consonant so it's quite prominent in the original pronunciation) into a softer D sound. This one difference makes the word sound super foreign and sort of funny to me.

      @themaknaeli@themaknaeli4 жыл бұрын

  • This video is a piece of art. Literally blow my mind. Fantastic explaination, form, and data visualization. Thank you for this!!!:.

    @CataGutierrezM@CataGutierrezM4 жыл бұрын

  • Thanks for the great show ! I'd expect Klaus Nomi and Bobby Mc Ferrin to be part of the highlights.

    @michange3141592@michange31415923 жыл бұрын

  • This is amazing! Earworm is the best series ever

    @WickedPlaysChannel@WickedPlaysChannel4 жыл бұрын

    • I think BORDERS is the best. This one is great, too.

      @azouachili@azouachili4 жыл бұрын

  • Thank you Pandora for letting this happen

    @akinmytua4680@akinmytua46804 жыл бұрын

    • And then they created a Spotify playlist and wrote sorry Pandora in the comment below.

      @raspas99@raspas994 жыл бұрын

  • Such a fantastic video. So well done. THANK YOU!

    @BeCatholicNotBogusOrdo@BeCatholicNotBogusOrdo4 жыл бұрын

  • Oh loved the beauty of this data analysis and research :) Really stimulating and worthwhile

    @viktriuscherokee2419@viktriuscherokee24193 жыл бұрын

  • By far my favorite study by Vox, much appreciation 🙏🏻

    @HighPriestessAngelique@HighPriestessAngelique4 жыл бұрын

  • 06:13 The audacity to tell an expert witness to "Prove It!". :)

    @marknc9616@marknc96164 жыл бұрын

    • Mark NC the audacity to believe all experts all the time no questions asked

      @erden02@erden024 жыл бұрын

    • Expert opinion is not good evidence. I may be an expert in cognitive neuroscience, but unless I can demonstrate through some type of rational argument or empirical data that my opinion is correct, it is considered the lowest form of evidence. Basically, in science, we don't want to hear the opinions of other experts. We want to see those experts' data. Also, too often scientific progress is slowed because of old men who refuse to accept data over their own opinion. This is why Max Planck said something like science progresses one funeral at a time.

      @hcb0218@hcb02184 жыл бұрын

    • They didn't actually tell him that, they just edited it with the voiceover to make it seem that way...

      @bleensteen9331@bleensteen93314 жыл бұрын

    • That annoyed me too.

      @nnnnnn496@nnnnnn4964 жыл бұрын

    • @@hcb0218 💀📝💀📝💀

      @acharich@acharich4 жыл бұрын

  • truly enjoyed the video. the geeky research thru all that data must be quite daunting.

    @FARID1870@FARID18704 жыл бұрын

  • absolutely fantastic video!!! thanks so much for creating!

    @LuckyLifeguard@LuckyLifeguard4 жыл бұрын

  • The falsetto in Earth Wind and Fire 🌍 🌬 🔥 is my favorite

    @haitileblanc3075@haitileblanc30754 жыл бұрын

    • Nobody tops Phillip Bailey.

      @AM-hk9wl@AM-hk9wl4 жыл бұрын

    • YES. I was thinking that through the whole vid. "Man, if they don't mention 'Reasons', I'm gonna..." 🤯💥 NOTHING beats Phillip hitting that "Reeee-sons!" like a woodwind instrument. 💖

      @cuterpooter@cuterpooter4 жыл бұрын

    • Mighty mighty he hits the clouds!

      @shinykafkaesque13@shinykafkaesque134 жыл бұрын

  • Vox always brings quality content and so much work on one video Vox>>>>>>buzzfeed Edit : close to 13 subs

    @Sbjung58@Sbjung584 жыл бұрын

    • Jai nepal sarkar

      @raykin8633@raykin86334 жыл бұрын

    • Jai Nepal Sarkaar

      @youngjlennon@youngjlennon4 жыл бұрын

    • @@raykin8633 Lol what does that even mean

      @factsverse9957@factsverse99574 жыл бұрын

    • Its an insult to compare them.

      @mat_v@mat_v4 жыл бұрын

    • @@raykin8633 JAI NEPAL

      @Sbjung58@Sbjung584 жыл бұрын

  • Loved how u explained d reasoning of each sample selection.. making it a credible research sample..

    @gracel7840@gracel78404 жыл бұрын

  • These are the best videos on youtube by far! So well done

    @notAustinGreen@notAustinGreen4 жыл бұрын

  • Next, do a study on "Autotune".

    @Simba______@Simba______4 жыл бұрын

    • They already cover that

      @TomoyoYumemi@TomoyoYumemi4 жыл бұрын

    • @@TomoyoYumemi - Oh...ok.

      @Simba______@Simba______4 жыл бұрын

    • 1930: 0 hits with auto-tune 1931: 0 hits with auto-tune 1932: 0 hits with auto-tune 1933: ...... ......

      @esterhammerfic@esterhammerfic4 жыл бұрын

    • *Cher has joined the chat*

      @rumpleforeskin1226@rumpleforeskin12264 жыл бұрын

    • T-Pain: How do I leave the chat..? Jay-Z: Hold my vodka..

      @acharich@acharich4 жыл бұрын

  • is nobody going to talk about how they used the iconic font from "falsettos"???

    @zoenash1447@zoenash14474 жыл бұрын

    • right, that’s what got me. someone probably knows what they’re doing haha

      @charliecocroft4764@charliecocroft47644 жыл бұрын

    • all the dot graphics and arrows remind me of the poster too...

      @irvinegaby@irvinegaby4 жыл бұрын

    • WHAT DO THEY DO FOR LOVE???

      @yvngchildsupport9523@yvngchildsupport95234 жыл бұрын

    • @@yvngchildsupport9523 OOOH

      @dottyContrarian@dottyContrarian4 жыл бұрын

  • Omg I enjoyed keeping out on this data so much. Thank you!

    @olwenpuralena4576@olwenpuralena45763 жыл бұрын

  • The fact that they used the Falsettos Broadway font in this video makes it that much better

    @petrajetra4614@petrajetra46144 жыл бұрын

  • How about Prince?! I can't belive you haven't mentioned him.

    @pandishpandie@pandishpandie4 жыл бұрын

    • 11:24

      @yeru737@yeru7374 жыл бұрын

    • Thank you... From 1978 this guy's falsetto is so popular

      @cocopops4974@cocopops49744 жыл бұрын

    • Yesssss omg my mom used to listen to Prince's second album all the time when I was a kid. That album is 100% falsetto. When I first listened to When Doves Cry I was like whaaaat his lower range is sickening!!!

      @moyo6606@moyo66064 жыл бұрын

    • Yeru he shows up for not even half a second, and they never mentioned his name or his music specifically

      @alice3468@alice34684 жыл бұрын

    • @@acepaloma3887 Thank you!

      @ehercj@ehercj4 жыл бұрын

  • This was a fantastic video. The quality and amount of work put into this project is worthy of a scientific paper publication.

    @JulienNeel@JulienNeel4 жыл бұрын

  • I only watched this because I saw Marvin Gaye.

    @rebeccalee8081@rebeccalee80814 жыл бұрын

    • Rebecca Lee Mr too hahaha, and I expected to see Michael Jackson too.

      @jakegargiulo5101@jakegargiulo51014 жыл бұрын

    • Same

      @exosvocals2526@exosvocals25264 жыл бұрын

    • Rebecca Lee same

      @MiamiPush2theLimit@MiamiPush2theLimit4 жыл бұрын

  • This was one of the best videos about data wrangling I've seen so far. It doesn't matter whether you work with political, sociological, or musical data, the steps you see here are very much what scientist are doing a lot of their time. Coming up with an idea, scratching together different data, merging datasets, making a decision where cutoff points should be, and then plotting/analyzing results. Great job!!

    @MN-yy4pj@MN-yy4pj4 жыл бұрын

  • Vox's work is as precise and amazing as always. Keep up the good work! I always learn something from these videos ^^

    @jessicazhang8075@jessicazhang80754 жыл бұрын

  • I was kind of surprised you never mentioned the most popular singers from the world of early opera were all castrati with their artificially heightened voices

    @corinnedejong@corinnedejong4 жыл бұрын

    • The whole point about castrati was that they did not sing falsetto.

      @gerdforster883@gerdforster8834 жыл бұрын

    • They chose top 100 songs

      @Lettuceiscool@Lettuceiscool4 жыл бұрын

    • This is about non classical music

      @mssha1980@mssha19804 жыл бұрын

  • I just love how much time they give in to analyse each and every subject on which they post video about.

    @shubhmandalia6330@shubhmandalia63304 жыл бұрын

  • This series is so amazing!

    @darksidehero@darksidehero4 жыл бұрын

  • Honestly, Vox, I give you a round of applause for making this video and put on it so much effort and data! Well done! Out of the channels that I'm subscribed, this is the best one! Cheers from Portugal!

    @crazyoung007@crazyoung0074 жыл бұрын

  • These kinds of videos are just absolutely amazing! So well done. So restive. So good looking. I love the graphics, the playfulness and above all the information presented!

    @MarvinNeumannOfficial@MarvinNeumannOfficial4 жыл бұрын

  • I liked the solid effort & i appreciate the exploration of this unique topic but I really wished this video could have mentioned the DeBarges, especially El DeBarge.

    @tiarabrice3187@tiarabrice31873 жыл бұрын

  • Wow! That's so much effort into gathering data and beautifully using it to craft a video. Thanks for Estelle and Vox for this content.

    @DinomadeAventura@DinomadeAventura4 жыл бұрын

  • Micheal Jackson’s butterflies.goes super falsetto at points

    @joshevans1176@joshevans11764 жыл бұрын

    • Josh Evans oh yes. Great example

      @shanettequao9043@shanettequao90434 жыл бұрын

    • Yep and Debarge - I like it....case closed

      @thespiritualartofwar@thespiritualartofwar4 жыл бұрын

    • Sadly they mentioned Michael only ones in the whole video

      @2law2be@2law2be4 жыл бұрын

    • his falsetto in that is impeccable

      @yingyang2838@yingyang28384 жыл бұрын

    • heehee -Michael Jackson

      @kenzamadhi8835@kenzamadhi88354 жыл бұрын

  • This video is freaking amazing. Hoping to see more of these plzzz

    @stephen_l1474@stephen_l14744 жыл бұрын

  • After viewing this great video we want the two hour version of the analysis by decade, with each of the spikes in the charts explained thoroughly. Kudos to the team doing this: great stuff.

    @GabrielNaranjoC@GabrielNaranjoC4 жыл бұрын

  • This is really good vox! Nice choice. I'm glad to see you guys talk about things that are historical.

    @matthewpriest5329@matthewpriest53294 жыл бұрын

  • neo soul and motown, what delicious genres 😭💓

    @no7puppetcollection@no7puppetcollection4 жыл бұрын

    • Motown wasn't a genre.

      @Hibbs4Prez@Hibbs4Prez4 жыл бұрын

    • Hibbs4Prez basically is with the way that label influenced its artists

      @johnrodriguez5872@johnrodriguez58724 жыл бұрын

  • I absolutely love how insightful this was. I’m a huge nerd for music history and I loved every minute of this!

    @Xan1120@Xan11204 жыл бұрын

  • ❤️❤️❤️ i love this series! Thank you!

    @Sophie-db1ko@Sophie-db1ko4 жыл бұрын

  • Thank you so much for the work you put into this video!

    @niksmi22@niksmi224 жыл бұрын

  • Absolutely INCREDIBLE journalism. These are the videos we need more of on the internet! Great work, super interesting.

    @EmilyCanSwim@EmilyCanSwim4 жыл бұрын

  • That song Rocket 2 U by The Jets is actually really good 😭. Great video Vox!

    @Jacnix1535@Jacnix15354 жыл бұрын

  • Found so many amazing old songs and artists through this video. Whoever clears all the copyright at Vox so you can use all this incredible music, is an angel and we're all in your debt!

    @chantalbellmont6937@chantalbellmont69374 жыл бұрын

  • Anthony!!! Saw him in the opera video and he is just the internet’s newest sweetheart. Bravo!

    @heatheralfano1871@heatheralfano18714 жыл бұрын
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