b'Recently while scrolling twitter we saw a clip from American Idol of judge Katy Perry admonishing an auditioner on the show to \\u201cEnunciate!\\u201d\\n\\nThe video went viral because of Perry\\u2019s incensed reaction, but also because the contestant\\u2019s performance of Amy Winehouse\\u2019s \\u201cValerie\\u201d offered a crystalline example of a popular style of singing that has produced reactions of love and\\u2014like for Perry\\u2014hate.\\xa0\\n\\nIt\\u2019s a style that features elongated vowels, clipped consonants, and runaway phrasing associated with contemporary singers like Halsey, Jorja Smith, and Shawn Mendes, and like many things in the 21st century it got its name from a tweet\\u2014specifically by the user @trackdroppa who boasted in 2009, \\u201cVoice so smooth it\\u2019s like i\\u2019m singing in cursive\\u201d\\n\\nIn this episode we speak to vocal coaches and journalists to to ask: Where did this cursive style come from? What are the vocal techniques used to create this sound? And why does cursive singing create so much backlash?\\n\\nSongs Discussed\\n\\n\\nShawn Mendes - Stitches\\n\\nZooey Deschanel, M. Ward - Winnie the Pooh\\n\\nMick Jagger - Strange Game\\n\\nSelena Gomez, A$AP Rocky - Good For You\\n\\nFrank Zappa, Moon Zappa - Valley Girl\\n\\nMark Ronson, Amy Winehouse - Valerie\\n\\nbenny blanco, Halsey, Khalid\\t- Eastside\\xa0\\n\\nJorja Smith - Teenage Fantasy\\n\\nTones And I - Dance Monkey\\n\\nSia - Cheap Thrills\\n\\nCorinne Bailey Rae - Put Your Records On\\n\\nBlink-182 - All The Small Things\\n\\nSZA - Kill Bill\\n\\n\\nMore\\n\\nAshaala Shanae\\nhttps://www.themahi.com/founder\\n\\nJumi Akinfenwa\\nhttps://www.vice.com/en/contributor/jumi-akinfenwa\\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices'