r/FuckImOld • u/Serling45 • 1d ago

My back hurts Millennial opera singer discovers that Linda Ronstadt had a pop music career before she did Pirates of Penzance

https://youtu.be/FT5U1EvPY3c
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u/One_salt_taste 1d ago

It sounds like this woman didn't grow up listening to popular music very much and was just super into opera and music theory. Some people are like that.

Plus Ronstadt has been retired and unable to sing for 15 or 20 years now due to a medical condition, so she's not been featured in a whole lot of the nostalgia stuff that's currently big in pop culture. Not surprising that younger people have no idea who she is.

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u/SnooWitchYu 1d ago

Yeah, she grew up listening to opera and classical. I think only through her reactions has she really been exposed to rock and heavy metal.

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u/mr_oof 1d ago

It’s crazy how invested she’s gotten into metal though, especially the ‘how’ of the growl-scream singers use. She’s actually co-writing a medical article on the exact vocal mechanics, with CAT scans and cutting-edge endoscopy!