On the whole I prefer a singer who can keep in tune but I also like a singer that is interesting and can entertain. It depends on personal taste and sometimes age, what is one man's meat is another's poison. My parents who are in their 80s for example cannot stand it when a singer has to shout, whereas there are times when it goes with the song and it has to be expressed with that kind of emotion from time to time.

The kind of singing that I am getting increasingly tired of is the assembly line of young female singers who sing in a middle tone who insist on playing with the notes in Mariah Carey/Whitney Houston mode to hit the notes. Instead of interesting it makes each one sound exactly the same as the last even if the singer is talented there is nothing unique about it.