Sure they served their purpose back in the day and gave the little guy a voice, and it worked.
Suddenly, young black British guys had a voice and a mainstream power that they never had before.
What's worse, really: a guy doing a voice, or the haunting, suffocating sound of everyone else laughing along?
"But I also stumbled out at intermission with Amy Morton and said, 'Wow, this is wild, but, man, this guy has a voice.' " For years now Mr. Letts has been a member of the Steppenwolf ensemble, and since "August" he has been its writer-prince as well.
"I hope now we can encourage other straight guys to have a voice as well," Jonas, who hasn't ruled out a Jonas Brothers reunion, said.
If modern violin playing is an undifferentiated carpet of sound, for this guy it was a voice of intimacy, a voice of drama.
In the feel-good-feel-bad movie "He's Just Not That Into You," Drew Barrymore's character wails, "I had this guy leave me a voice mail at work, so I called him at home, and then he e-mailed me to my BlackBerry, and so I texted to his cell, and now you just have to go around checking all these different portals just to get rejected by seven different technologies.
Hailing from Cincinnati, Ohio, this bearded swamp-rock quartet is fronted by Casey Gomez, a guy blessed with a voice that can wail, at times evoking Darius Rucker of Hootie & the Blowfish (Who has recently transitioned to country music himself. Coincidence?).
Guys, a forced low voice sounds terrible.
"The guys will go in," a voice says in Arabic.
