It is simple nonsense to speak of the fixed tempo of any particular vocal phrase. Each voice has its peculiarities.
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I think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.
The voice is something very mysterious. It's difficult to say what is inside a voice that moves people.
I've always felt, even as a songwriter, that the rhythm of speech is in itself a language for me.
Instead of thinking that's a nice tune, you start thinking is it the right pace, is it the right tempo? That is the death nell for artists.
It's also crazy how Shakespeare has that cadence, and it's about locking into the jazz of the language, just like locking into the rhythm in N.W.A's lyrics.
I've had a wordless phase, and that's still not entirely over: what I sing is not always literally meant that way, and you can hear that in the way it is sung.
It may not necessarily reflect my current frame of mind. Sometimes I have to put myself at the point in time of the voice that I'm trying to sing with.
The tempo is the suitcase. If the suitcase is too small, everything is completely wrinkled. If the tempo is too fast, everything becomes so scrambled you can't understand it.
Since I started composing I have always worked with series of tempos, even superimposed the music of different groups of musicians, of singers, instrumentalists who play and sing in different tempos simultaneously and then meet every now and then in the same tempo.
All music has to speak in some form or other.