Taking Back Sunday on New Podcast

I haven't heard Adam interviewed in a while. This confirms that his stage voice is completely a "show" voice. I'd love to know why he thinks it's appealing to fans. It makes him seem so fake. Not sure why he started that. He definitely didn't have it when I saw them supporting Louder Now an embarrasingly long time ago.

 

Interested in hearing the interview, but honestly shocked he's still singing live / touring. I'm all for singers not hitting notes 100% of the time and keeping it "real" but...damn lol

 

Someone on here put it well—if you treat their show like karaoke and basically enjoying the music with the crowd, you'll have a good time. If you want a good performance from the band, you won't.

 

Tom returned to his pre-breakup voice so I imagine Adam can return to his younger self voice as well. As for his style of singing today, it’s him trying to evolve and be like The Killers or Tv On a the Radio but not quite being able to pull it off authentically.

 

I feel so alone in liking how Adam sings now, both new songs and old.

 

I don't think he's quite as bad as people make him out to be. I think the showman voice turns people off. But I will say that seeing him in like 2006 after Louder Now came out, that show was phenomenal. But I get that was a long time ago.

 

I think the voice is fun

 

I will say, he sounded much better in 2023 than he did in 2021-2022. He also lost a good amount of weight so maybe a healthier lifestyle has slightly better singing.

I had made a comment in another thread that if you’re singing along loudly in the crowd at the show, you don’t really notice and you have a great time. Watching videos back the next day doesn’t sound the same.

 

Agreed. 2023 was much better for me vocal wise. post COVID was r o u g h.

 

I genuinely wonder if he saw The Hives live while TBS was playing a festival and thought "I wanna be like that guy".

Pelle has a similar "southern preacher" style schtick but I think it works better because he's so goddamn charismatic and the Hives have a very OTT, exaggerated aesthetic anyway. Plus he's Swedish so it doesn't feel like he's 'faking' the accent as much as it's so obvious he's playing a role - with Adam you're not quite sure if it's real or not...which somehow makes it feel even more fake.

 

I feel like he’s done it for so long at this point, I forget it’s not real. He did it a tiny bit back in the Louder Now and New Again times but it really seemed to take off when when they started touring after the OG lineup reunited and by TAYF10 it was just the thing.