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Originally Posted by Caged Great
The reason why people are freaking out is because her voice is on par with most if not all of the top professional singers that have ever lived. It is a very odd and strange thing to come out of nowhere and be able to do that.
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I'm speaking more in general than in regard to this specific situation. I'm not sure I'd agree that her voice is epic, either - she's certainly an excellent technical singer, but as I said that's far more common than people imagine.
It's like anything else where opinion and taste enter into the question; much of what we perceive as brilliance is dictated by the preferred style of the age. Just look at something that is evolving much faster than singing styles - acting.
Look at the style of someone like Cary Grant; the only person remotely comparable today is maybe Johnny Depp, but only in that both are charismatic and seem approachably ordinary in most of their films, but otherwise have few points of congruence. Even something like the type of voice is completely different - back then guys like Grant and Bogart could have those buzzy nasally croaky irritating-until-you-get-used-to-it voices and still make it big - nowadays that would be ruthlessly trained out by speech coaches.
While there are still a good number of people that like old movies with old actors and old actresses, there are also plenty of people who don't like those films because they don't conform to their ideas of what is good acting (or good filmmaking). Does this mean that these old actors just aren't as good as actors are today? No, it just means what people *think* is good acting is different than it used to be, just like the silent movie stars and their (what we think of as) overemoting were supplanted by the stars of the 30s and 40s.