Songs that had you incorrectly guessing the singer's sex….

[Grand Eeezus Maxwell]

This, and the first joint on the The Internet's "Ego Death" album(the title escapes me at the moment).

 

[KlinicalCynic]

When TLC first dropped and I only heard them on the radio, I didn't know the lead singer was a girl til I saw the video

 

[Lucky Me]

how was this not posted?

 

[jwall123]

So I'm watching GTA Vice City gameplay vids on youtube…..and decided to listen to some of the individual songs……

One of the songs I listened to was 'Automatic'…and for some reason I got curious as to who the male singer was that was singing along with the Pointer Sisters (all these years I just assumed he was just some random uncredited breh or some shyt)…..

So I searched for a video of them singing the song live, to see if I could see the dude singing with them…

I literally made the face at the 0:36 mark



I've heard a few other Pointer Sister songs and NONE of them ever sang that damn deep

I made the same mistake a while back when I first caught this song on the radio ….



For a short while I coulda sworn it was some Mary J. Blige-type female singer…until I listened closer to the lower-sung parts and the lyrics….Neyo sounded mad feminine on this one

And who could forget this classic….I can't be the only one who initially didn't know the 'female' part was just the dude rapping with the audio sped up




Any more song gender fukkery like these?

I just knew automatic wa a debarge song...

Pointer Sisters? I can t wait to tell my brother. Yo gonna flip!

 

[XII]

I legit thought he was a woman until their third album came out

 

[You_Ugly_on_Skype]

Same here breh.... Miguel got me with the gender bender vocals too ... Never heard of him before this. I left VH1 on the TV loud enough to hear while was cooking breakfast. I hear this boom-bap hip-hop beat with J. Cole spittin over it , :flames: I thought to myself, then all of a sudden I hear Sade come in singing the R&B portion. I left the eggs in the pot to go see. As I'm walking to the TV, I'm thinking to my self: 'how the hell did J. Cole get Sade on his record?!?! Jay-Z had to pull some of his Illuminati strings to make that happen, J. Cole must be the truth if he got Sade ridin' with him. I look at the TV... Who bytch this is?!? [It was the video model] then I see the marshmallow soft, Prince looking, El DeBarge and Jet Li love child, big-head-face doo-doo stain ass singin' nikka I'm watching like meanwhile my eggs are in the pot like ... then this.. and thats how Miguel cause me to burn up my Gorden Ramsey Style Scrambled Eggs

Before i knew who Miguel was i always thought the singing part was a female

 

[Yung Dirt]

Both men.

 

[Dafunkdoc_Unlimited]

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[Somewhere For Me]

It's the various voice types. I think the deepest for a woman is Contralto and the highest for a man Tenor?

Of course, that doesn't include all that other complex stuff in music that contributes to a singing voice.

 

[DaKidFromNoWhere]

I just remembered another good one.....you couldn't tell me this wasn't some lil hipster chick singing this when I first heard it

 

[Rue]

Same here breh.... Miguel got me with the gender bender vocals too ... Never heard of him before this. I left VH1 on the TV loud enough to hear while was cooking breakfast. I hear this boom-bap hip-hop beat with J. Cole spittin over it , :flames: I thought to myself, then all of a sudden I hear Sade come in singing the R&B portion. I left the eggs in the pot to go see. As I'm walking to the TV, I'm thinking to my self: 'how the hell did J. Cole get Sade on his record?!?! Jay-Z had to pull some of his Illuminati strings to make that happen, J. Cole must be the truth if he got Sade ridin' with him. I look at the TV... Who bytch this is?!? [It was the video model] then I see the marshmallow soft, Prince looking, El DeBarge and Jet Li love child, big-head-face doo-doo stain ass singin' nikka I'm watching like meanwhile my eggs are in the pot like ... then this.. and thats how Miguel cause me to burn up my Gorden Ramsey Style Scrambled Eggs

 

[Pazzy]

the day that I found out it was a group of men singing like that... Man... I was legitimately mindfukked. My parents used to play the radio where songs like these would come on as a kid and I coulda swore it was a woman singing. never knew Dudes could sing that high.

 

[Pazzy]

Another classic.....thought this was a dude for the longest, and the video didn't help

This chick was like the Dej Loaf of her day ....coulda sworn it was some young breh rhyming



Also, I gotta include Rah Digga on Cha Cha Cha ...first time I was introduced to her....



Back then I knew about Busta (of course), but I wasn't familiar with Flipmode Squad (even though he always name-dropped them in songs) so I assumed it was his all-male crew/gang or some shyt. Heard this song on the radio first and thought Rah Digga was some random young nikka from the squad

Yeah, rah digga do sound like a guy and her voice is deeper than her husband's.

 

[FlexPavilion]

I always thought the girl singing the hook was a white dude with a high pitch voice.

 

[GrindtooFilthy]

this video will fukk you guys up, lol. watch from 3:00 till the end