Gotta post the good T-swizzle

Untouchable:

Innocent:

Safe and Sound:

Enchanted:

Eyes Wide Open:

The Lucky One:

Begin Again:

Thug Story:

And the P4P:

There are those in this life- mongrels, madmen, who would spread verbal filth. Take away the words and all their meaning, stitched lips, and rusted chains crossing one derelict thought to another. She is everything wrong with the world, yes. And yet, at least one very important thing right. Hallowed is the lanky blonde goddess, wavy hair speaking sorrows that only occur because she, in all her tragedy, wills them. Human. Aren't we all?

At least post a good quality Ashley Monroe link.



The only Swifty song posted above that sounds right is Begin Again. Eyes Wide Open sounds like a Katy Perry song and would probably be better done by her. Swift has too much air in her voice for my taste, but I do give her credit for not lip syncing. She is reasonably in-tune and doesn't do a lot of wild improv on tour, which I hate. I prefer her less-country sounding songs, but don't listen to her if I have the choice of something else. She has good depth, but is inconsistent during her songs most of the time. Still has a lot of work to do, IMO.

Ashley Monroe has a bit less depth, but crushes Swift on basically everything else, especially the technicals. Due to how her voice works, I don't think she'll ever have as much depth as Swift, but as long as she plays away from that aspect, she'll be great. That said, I wouldn't listen to this very often due to it being mainstream country. I can appreciate the voice, but don't like the music it's displayed in.

Kacey Musgraves is the complete package. I can't find any flaws at all. Consistent top to bottom, excellent intonation, right balance of air to voice, great depth but her voice doesn't change when she pushes it like many female vocalists. Sounds effortless, beautiful. ()

Sarah Jarosz really does not have a good voice, she should stick to songwriting, at which she is amazing.

Natalie Maines can only do loud and louder, why is she even on this list?

Interestingly I checked out that Begin Again video then noticed the album version on the right so I listened to it as well. The live at NY version actually is much better recorded than the album version. Kudos to sound engineers at that venue. Live version has much more space and her voice is slightly more prominent where the album version sounds compressed and she's a bit muffled and blended into the instruments. The mic on the album version sounds pretty bad too, it sounds slightly harsh with an edge, where the live version is much smoother and natural.

Taylor is Saber from Fate Stay Night. Which also, if I remember right, makes her an iteration of King Arthur.