Stevie's "H" sound...
 

I SO love when Stevie sings words that begin with H. Not always, but sometimes she makes that little sound right before the word...I don't even know what to call it, it's like a higher pitch, or register, or something. Does anyone else have any clue what I mean? :distress:

Some examples:

The best one, IMO - BC "...your hands held mine, so few hours..."

SB "...first he took my heart then he ran..."

LDW "...but you're too hot to touch..."

I know there's more, but this is all that's coming to me right now. Am I the only one?

Paula

PS - also love when she really pronounces (couldn't think of another word) her vibrato (like in Fall From Grace "intensified" and Nothing Ever Changes "there's just one thing I'd....")

I know EXACTLY what you're talking about! And I've tried to point it out to people, but no one else but me has seemed to notice it. Yay! I'm not crazy. :)

:laugh:

I know exactly what you're talking about, too, Paula.
I love all of Stevie's quirky little vocal inflections like that. I especially love the way she always pronounces the word "man" with three or four syllables. :D

I LOVE the way she belts "Hauntingly Hauntingly familiar" on the Storytellers EO17. Her voice makes the H sound so cooolllll and intriguing IMO :cool:

Hee!

My friend, Bob, says that she says her H-es as K-s. I all denied it at first, then he told me to listen to SYW (the song) and everything else on the album, and I have to say - she does. I think I notice it most in song-SYW and DR.

Somethin' in yoooou put a kooold on my keaaaaart it's kaaard to believe noooooow. Keeeere in this plaaace that will nevah beee daaaahk I remembah thaaaat plaaaace.

LOL...I. Love. It. She totally does it and it's really something I think has to do with the way she shapes her mouth as she's singing AND how she breathes. Something else that makes Stevie, well....Stevie :D

"Dare my wiiild HHHeart..." :cool:

- Jake

I know "the 'H' thing"!

It's almost a very slight yodel-esque sound...stemming, we can assume, from her country roots.

I also love the little squeaky noise that comes at the end of ' follow those who pale in your shadoooow-uh'

I think she tries to do this in concert but it doesnt quite have the same effect IMO.

:nod:

Wow...I don't think I've ever noticed that!! haha..I'm going to listen to some songs with H's as soon as I get home!!!

I also love it when she pronounces one syllable words as several syllables. For example:

"Packin' up, Shackin' up's all you wanna doooowhoooo. If I could, baby I'd give you my world, open up everything's waiting for youwhoooo."

Yoohoo? :laugh:

JK, I know exactly what you mean. Good to know I'm not hallucinating the "H" thing too...

Paula

Bwah!!
 

Yeah, she just wants us to BELIEVE she drinks bottled water. ;)

- Jake

Didn't Sheryl Crow say it drives her crazy that Stevie pretty much never drinks water? That cracked me up.