Country music is so whiny. How can people enjoy it?
You obviously havent really listened to it enough. Sure some songs can be sad, or slow but there are LOTS that are upbeat, fast and happy with lots of meaning to them. Country songs are not whiny, they are just wriiten and sang with lots of of meaning and heart behind them. Check these out. Seriously check them out :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyVs9y2-p... Jack Ingram http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijvrHrdHV... Luke Bryan http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jrUqwY4fE... Kenny Chesney and Tim McGraw http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QlQVF-_D7Iw Keith Urban http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSTPIUz_QY4 Easton Corbin http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYT6RkTe26M Jason Aldean http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QaOKbvpxnTo Lady Antebellum http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V0O0nzkESTI Little Big Town http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Pp66FNd54M Miranda Lambert
Country singer with a nasally voice?
Willie Nelson Jason Michael Carroll
Why does my voice sound beautiful when I sing, but when recorded, it sounds horrible?
An element worth noting in all of this is that you may be tuning your voice to what you're hearing, rather than to the acoustic of the room. When you sing, a certain percentage of the sound that you hear in real time is heard through bone, which can distort things. You may need to retrain your singing to ignore the effect of the bone, because it could be throwing you off.There's a cool trick that I love for doing this without having to record yourself all the time. Put your hand on each side up to the tragus of your ear (that little cartilage flap that's right on top of the ear opening) on each side. Put your hand there in the same position as though you were karate chopping, if that makes sense (but, obviously, gently). Then curve your fingers so that they outline the rest of your ear. You should look kind of like you're giving yourself Mickey Mouse ears if you're doing it right. Now try to speak. And try to sing, for that matter. Your voice should sound different but not THAT different. This is a pretty good approximation of what you sound like to people who aren't you. It's also a useful tool for where you should be recording your voice. Walk into a recording studio that you're thinking about using (or a room you're thinking of recording in), and try this out. If you don't feel good about the acoustic, record somewhere else!
Do you need a country accent to sing country?
You don't even have to bear any resemblance to "country music" to sing country anymore. All you have to do is call yourself country, whether you sing pop like Taylor Swift or rock like Kid Rock.
Shouldn't you be southern to sing country music?
I think you can be from anywhere and sing country music as long as it's got true soul and it comes from the heart, and of course it should sound country.You don't always have to have a southern voice to be a great country singer.There are many in today's country music who are from the south and are so far from country, they sound a lot more pop than they do country, most of them also have auto tuned voices these days which you can tell is fake. A lot of the southern accents are fake too.I'd lot rather hear someone from somewhere in L.A. sing a country song with their real voice, and true meaningful emotion than hear someone from from the south sing emotionless songs with no meaning auto tuned voices and pop tunes.Im not saying I don't like a southern voice because I do, but I also like true country singers without southern voices as long as they're singing true country music. I listen to mostly classic country because today's new country is just not country anymore. Julianne Hough like most all the new country singers, is not real country, but the state she comes from isn't the problem, it's the emotionless, pop, meaningless songs she sings that makes her soo not country.