Any song where the singer insists on stretching two notes into ten, thinking that this proves her virtue (it is most often her) as a vocalist. It seems this is a recent fad, perhaps an extension of the beutiful gospel technique of putting octave stretches pausing at bluesy intervals in certain places, but now exagrrated until it sounds ridiculous, affected, unmusical and pretentious -- preee Teh-heh-heh-heeeeehn-cio-ou-ou-oussssss! Beepopwaaawadaaa!! Yuck!!

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