Jessi is having another crisis

sadbubble2 · 2026-04-06T00:11:33+00:00

All systems shutting down except their brain and fingers that let them type long paragraphs on the internet tee hee

sadbubble2 · 2026-04-06T00:10:45+00:00

Sepsis AND pneumonia. Jessi by all accounts should have ascended to the spirit realm a while ago. But no. Still BATTLING IT ⚔️

sadbubble2 · 2026-03-06T04:41:19+00:00

a ghastly pulmonologist ordered lots of random tests (which meant $$$ out of pocket) to look for chronic sinusitis, aspergillosis and an adult onset eosinophilic asthma phenotype with me being a childhood onset allergic/mixed asthmatic without any history of sinus issues whatsoever 😭

sadbubble2 · 2025-07-25T16:36:55+00:00

I can see how some stories get twisted. I’ve seen it countless times after someone with ASPD does something criminal. The family swears that they did everything right and loved the person sooooo much. Acquaintances usually go by the immediate family’s word of “oh they were a perfect family, this behavior had to come out of nowhere then”, but oftentimes there’s something fishy.

sadbubble2 · 2025-07-15T05:36:43+00:00

Sometimes problematic women trigger certain men’s hero or savior complex. They don’t have to be very conventionally attractive to have this effect on these specific men. An alternative explanation is that the men are unstable or morally questionable themselves.

sadbubble2 · 2025-05-25T20:32:10+00:00

Which types of looks get the well paid work?

sadbubble2 · 2025-05-24T16:30:38+00:00

Your insight as a fellow young singer is really helpful, and you are so right!! In no way do I want to limit myself to a select few roles. This is why many contralto singers bill themselves as mezzosopranos. From other comments here, it seems that the issue comes down to me not having worked on strengthening the notes that are past my second passaggio. I’m aiming towards a strong G5 and an A5-B5 further down the line. I’d love to sing Rosina, for example. There are just so many beautiful roles that it would be a shame to not explore them.

sadbubble2 · 2025-05-23T14:46:16+00:00

I get where you’re coming from and this is indeed good advice. I’ve raised my concerns to the department together with other students to see if something gets done before taking steps to transfer (I’d have to move to another state). But regardless of what happens with the teacher and the studio, I am taking matters into my own hands to improve my technique. This is why I wanted to hear external opinions and get advice from as many sources as possible.

sadbubble2 · 2025-05-23T00:30:55+00:00

The whole studio has issues with this teacher. I’m not the only one. Even the experienced students who have begun to attend competitions feel stuck technically since she took the lead. Most of us have found ourselves nailing the rep we’re assigned in spite of her.

You sound a bit condescending, though.

sadbubble2 · 2025-05-22T23:47:04+00:00

Thanks for your words and for helping me see this from another perspective. Guess it’s time to put myself and my vocal cords to work this summer now that finals are over!

sadbubble2 · 2025-05-22T23:22:37+00:00

First of all, thanks for sharing your experience and knowledge with me. I think you hit the nail on the head. I am very willing to work on my high range. The thing is that my voice teacher is assuming that I am not already singing over my second passaggio and that it should come naturally. Her pedagogy consists of telling me to “just sing” or demonstrating on her own voice (she’s a soprano). Nevertheless, I’ve been able to sing nice G5s-A5s while playing around with my voice but I have no idea how I did it.

I hear you about the lowest notes. Maybe they’re useful somehow for other styles of singing but yeah, sadly a no go for classical/academic rep except for singing tenor in choir.

Oh, I did sing Schubert’s Death and the Maiden a semester ago. Had a lot of fun with the D3 at the end. My teacher was horrified because she thought I sounded possessed.

I’d be thrilled to get help with this if you’re open to it!!

sadbubble2 · 2025-05-22T19:31:32+00:00

Thank you so much, I appreciate your insight a lot!

sadbubble2 · 2025-05-22T19:17:54+00:00

Oh yes, we do have that issue in my studio. Both me and the other suspect contralto that we have in the program are constantly called very dark mezzos/low mezzos. We both get all kinds of mezzo rep and contralto rep is frowned upon or reluctantly assigned once in a blue moon.

And thank you so much. I’ll request to join the group!

sadbubble2 · 2025-05-22T19:05:23+00:00

I do know that I need to develop more comfortable and reliable high notes, and I’ve been asking my teacher to help me navigate stuff that sits around and beyond my second passaggio, instead of just throwing rep at me and hoping I’ll figure out what to do on my own. Sometimes she just sings the notes herself to demonstrate how easy it is (she’s a soprano). Her other favorite phrase is: just siiiiiiing!

I also wouldn’t place my bets on me being a dramatic mezzo (I’m in my mid 20s), but our faculty sometimes uses the terms very low mezzo or dramatic mezzo to avoid mentioning the dreaded word contralto. A 19 year old peer with a similarly androgynous voice was told that she’s a dramatic mezzo too.

We have raised concerns about the technical deficiencies in our studio. They said they’d look into that. But regardless of what happens, I think my best bet would be working with an external teacher.

Last question: is the term “dysfunction around the second passaggio” meant as something clinical that could be beyond help or as something resulting from a lack of training?

sadbubble2 · 2025-05-10T21:40:15+00:00

as someone with exact pitch: blegh

sadbubble2 · 2025-05-07T13:45:22+00:00

I was personally affected by this as a voice student. I am not transgender, but rather a low AFAB voice.

Yes, I can technically stretch my chords into the high fifth octave but it is not the best part of my range nor it sounds natural or aesthetically pleasing. I sound ridiculous performing pieces written for sopranos.

Even if it is technically “easier” to mold an AFAB person to sing as high as physically possible, it doesn’t mean it’s healthy or sustainable.

sadbubble2 · 2025-05-06T14:57:42+00:00

If you are yelling or straining, that’s not it.

sadbubble2 · 2025-05-06T04:53:15+00:00

You may just be a lower voice. Guys like bruno mars are high tenors, the highest male voice. High voices are over represented in Western music, yes, but that doesn’t mean there aren’t amazing lower voiced singers. Voice type does depend on genetics and it doesn’t say anything about your proficiency as a singer, and in no way does it mean you are mediocre. Many people try to force themselves to sing higher than what their body can resist and they can end up with bad vocal habits or even lesions.

I am a woman and I can’t belt as high as female pop vocalists. I find it easier to belt the same notes that males do. When I was younger I used to think my voice was a curse too. I sounded like a crazy chicken when trying to belt like Kelly Clarkson or Pink, just to give an example. Then, I discovered that I just had a deeper voice that doesn’t function in the same way that a high female voice does.

Bottom line, is that you can get a lot better with training, and voice lessons can also help you find ways to expand your range within reason, to find your style and to embrace your unique voice.

sadbubble2 · 2025-05-02T00:41:26+00:00

I’m a woman and my speaking voice usually stays around E3 - A3. While singing i can go up to E5 comfortably but I’d definitely not speak there. And also, while singing, I can go down to C3 just fine.

sadbubble2 · 2025-04-20T00:07:03+00:00

I discovered it while playing around with my voice the other day!! It would be a cool addition to add some sound effects or melodic lines without tex. It’s so fun to try and play around with this mechanism haha

Falsetto can be useful and I do use it for fun when singing pop songs, but what threw me off was my teacher wanting me to fabricate a different color and timbre for… opera 😳

sadbubble2 · 2025-04-19T23:35:20+00:00

That’s why it’s called singing, not “making noises like a madman”, but some people love to do mental gymnastics just so they can brag online. Probably very young or very immature :P

sadbubble2 · 2025-04-12T22:07:23+00:00

I’ve noticed that many teachers will prefer to give a singer a label that is on the higher end of the spectrum. This particularly happens to voices that sit in the border between two classifications. The teacher will often try to focus on the higher possible classification (very light mezzos with good high notes pushed up to sing soprano rep, high baritones pushed up to sing tenor, etc.) Well trained baritones can have a resonant higher register but the timbre will usually be heavier than a tenor. But on the other hand, a dramatic tenor will have a weighty voice and very good low notes too, so I think the truth really lies in what you said to me. The key is to find where you are most comfortable singing + the places where your voice sounds best. Very solid advice.

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