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Waffle was a weblog that ran for nine years and five days from 2003 to 2012.
The last post has been written and comments will be closed by the end of March 2012.
The author of Waffle, some guy in Sweden, also occasionally writes stmts.net.

(If anything will ever succeed or revive Waffle, it will be announced in this location, and in the feeds.)

So That’s What It’s Called

2012.02.15 22:54

BBC:

An early “I” in Whitney Houston’s I Will Always Love You takes nearly six seconds to sing. In those seconds the former gospel singer-turned-pop star packs a series of different notes into the single syllable. The technique is repeated throughout the song, most pronouncedly on every “I” and “you”.

The vocal technique is called melisma, and it has inspired a host of imitators.

This is great; knowing the name of something like this makes it much easier to proclaim how fucking horrible it sounds and to please stop.

Comments

  1. I think melisma is a hack-ish overkill version of appoggiatura.

    By mick · 2012.02.17 06:45

  2. I’m not entirely opposed to slight appoggiatura. It’s the reeling across the octaves like a drunken cyclist checkering a forest path that I’m having trouble with.

    By Jesper · 2012.02.18 13:34

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