Simone's cover of Strange Fruit is grotesque and melodic, sung with a powerfully controlled rage and gut-wrenching outrage at the crime of lynching.
Screamo: a combination of melodic hardcore punk and aggressive emo music, screamo is one of the more controversial and difficult-to-pin sub-genres, because it was commonly tagged to bands like Thursday, The Used, and Taking Back Sunday, bands that alternated high-pitched shrieking vocals with more melodic "sung" vocals.
It can be melodic, singing about something like romance; it can seethe with frustration; it can switch to jagged, stop-start dissonances.
We did not find any significant enhancements of connectivity specifically attributed to melodic singing, so we therefore conclude that similar patterns of functional connectivity are recruited during simple singing and melodic singing.
In a flash, his melodic, sing-song flow and famous verbal dexterity was gone.
Except for a single, miraculous week when I was sixteen, I've never rapped successfully, and melodic singing was inappropriate for the jumpy, polyrhythmic music we played.
("I hate musicals," the comedian Alan Carr whinged memorably. "Sing if you're gonna sing. Don't [breaks into melodic sing-song voice] taaaalk-like-this-for-four-houuuurs").
I finally met someone special last week, but when I tried buzzing at her she didn't hear me, because a human was making this super annoying melodic singing sound.
It's a revelation because it sounds simultaneously familiar and exotic, both the echoing, minor-chord synths and Fetty Wap's digitally enhanced, highly melodic singing, which is, incidentally, more interesting than his rapping.
Badu raps, "Children of the matrix be hittin' them car switches, seen some virgin Virgos hanging out with Venus bitches," and then uses melodic singing to explain what is going on: "They don't know their language, they don't know their God".
"Mouthwash," the best of them, follows the musical arc of "Foundations"; it begins with a crackling solo piano figure, expands into the sound of a full band, and barrels into a chorus in which Nash abandons her habitual sprechstimme for clearly melodic singing.
