Bono sings like a girl

“Some male and female singers have exactly the same voice, just shifted in pitch.” DJ Danny Baker coined the phrase the “Seven Percent Solution” for the phenomenon as described by Brunel University engineer and designer Dan Lockton.

What on earth are we on about? Check it out on Dan Lockton’s audio projects page which includes many U2 examples and audio of Danny Baker discussing the U2 tracks with Bob Geldof.

66 thoughts on “Bono sings like a girl”

  3. Quality. That actually gave me a better understanding of some of Adam’s bass parts. When U2 were talking about the ‘best of’ Cd’s Bono said on numerous occasions that he thought he sounded like a girl..!

  4. Quality. That actually gave me a better understanding of some of Adam’s bass parts. When U2 were talking about the ‘best of’ Cd’s Bono said on numerous occasions that he thought he sounded like a girl..!

  7. Bono sounds alot like the singer from JJ72—Mark Greaney. Wonder what his voice would sound like up-tempo?

  8. Bono sounds alot like the singer from JJ72—Mark Greaney. Wonder what his voice would sound like up-tempo?

  11. I’ve always maintained that Bono sings like a girl because I can’t sing most of U2’s stuff, except for some of the more recent stuff. Most of the songs are way too high for me to sing and I’m a girl that sings like a guy, can’t sing with girls most of the time. 🙂

  12. I’ve always maintained that Bono sings like a girl because I can’t sing most of U2’s stuff, except for some of the more recent stuff. Most of the songs are way too high for me to sing and I’m a girl that sings like a guy, can’t sing with girls most of the time. 🙂

  13. Finally, I have scientific evidence to support my thesis! Someone else out there agrees with me! he he he…I like it when bono just talks instead of sings because he sounds like a real man.

  14. Finally, I have scientific evidence to support my thesis! Someone else out there agrees with me! he he he…I like it when bono just talks instead of sings because he sounds like a real man.

  21. So…If i record mysterious ways that fast then slow it down 7 percent will I sound like Bono?

    I agree with the “too much time” comments, dude.

  22. So…If i record mysterious ways that fast then slow it down 7 percent will I sound like Bono?

    I agree with the “too much time” comments, dude.

  25. Happy New Year to you all, and especially to Adam, Larry, Edge, and the short fat chick with no feet and substantial facial hair issues…..

  26. Happy New Year to you all, and especially to Adam, Larry, Edge, and the short fat chick with no feet and substantial facial hair issues…..

  31. Chrisse Hynde sings on Pride? I’ve never heard of that before…that’s pretty cool if it’s true

  32. Chrisse Hynde sings on Pride? I’ve never heard of that before…that’s pretty cool if it’s true

  37. On the roadkill thing, a lot of these were rumored ATYCLB titles, and tough/sometimes you can’t make it on your own is supposedly the same song. I also find it odd that American Prayer is on an actual album as it is co-written. I’d take it with a grain of salt.

  38. On the roadkill thing, a lot of these were rumored ATYCLB titles, and tough/sometimes you can’t make it on your own is supposedly the same song. I also find it odd that American Prayer is on an actual album as it is co-written. I’d take it with a grain of salt.

  39. For what it’s worth, I’m the paige who usually posts here — I did not post that roadkill thing. Does it seem highhanded for me to ask that paige to add another initial or something to distinguish her posts from mine, in case she says something horribly stupid for which I get pinned, or something terribly brilliant for which I get credit, or vice versa?? Carl, I take that with not only a grain of salt, but the entire Margherita!

  40. For what it’s worth, I’m the paige who usually posts here — I did not post that roadkill thing. Does it seem highhanded for me to ask that paige to add another initial or something to distinguish her posts from mine, in case she says something horribly stupid for which I get pinned, or something terribly brilliant for which I get credit, or vice versa?? Carl, I take that with not only a grain of salt, but the entire Margherita!

  41. Roadkill stuff’s a load of toss. I think it’s Sometimes you CAN make it on your own, the last I heard someone talk about it. Three other titles I’ve heard are missing from this list.

  42. Roadkill stuff’s a load of toss. I think it’s Sometimes you CAN make it on your own, the last I heard someone talk about it. Three other titles I’ve heard are missing from this list.

  43. @vonb You might have misheard that, I think it is “can’t”.. it fits in with a published title/verse a while back: http://www.u2wanderer.org/disco/novx00_1.php I’ll take your word for it that the “someone” you’ve heard other conflicting titles from is more informed than whomever posted the linked to tracklist. 😉

    @paige The renaming thing sounds like a good idea, though co-ordination w/ other Paige could be difficult. You could call yourself “original paige” or something. 🙂 I was trying to be nice with the grain of salt, but i took it to be a “load of toss” (nifty expression) myself.

  44. @vonb You might have misheard that, I think it is “can’t”.. it fits in with a published title/verse a while back: http://www.u2wanderer.org/disco/novx00_1.php I’ll take your word for it that the “someone” you’ve heard other conflicting titles from is more informed than whomever posted the linked to tracklist. 😉

    @paige The renaming thing sounds like a good idea, though co-ordination w/ other Paige could be difficult. You could call yourself “original paige” or something. 🙂 I was trying to be nice with the grain of salt, but i took it to be a “load of toss” (nifty expression) myself.

  45. Now, now Carl, why should I alter my name when I am, after all, as you say, the ORIGINAL PAIGE??? (I stink at emoticons, but I’m smiling here!) I knew you were being nice, I was being nice too, geez, we even screw ourselves up on these things when we’re being nice to one another! I’m with vonb on the title for more reasons than one, but mostly because I like the implication, either way. Love to see what Bono will do lyric-wise with either concept. Like when the Stones were recording years ago, and rumors came out that one of the songs had the line, I wanna be your slave, and one could only guess, and it turned out that the lyric was DON’T wanna be your slave. Now THAT’S two different concepts!

  46. Now, now Carl, why should I alter my name when I am, after all, as you say, the ORIGINAL PAIGE??? (I stink at emoticons, but I’m smiling here!) I knew you were being nice, I was being nice too, geez, we even screw ourselves up on these things when we’re being nice to one another! I’m with vonb on the title for more reasons than one, but mostly because I like the implication, either way. Love to see what Bono will do lyric-wise with either concept. Like when the Stones were recording years ago, and rumors came out that one of the songs had the line, I wanna be your slave, and one could only guess, and it turned out that the lyric was DON’T wanna be your slave. Now THAT’S two different concepts!

  47. I took no offense at what you were saying, just clarifying my original position now that the gloves were off.

    You can hold down ALT and hit 0174 for a

  48. I took no offense at what you were saying, just clarifying my original position now that the gloves were off.

    You can hold down ALT and hit 0174 for a

  49. @carl: I might have misheard it, if it hadn’t been exactly what we were discussing — much emphasis put on the fact that it was *can* not *can’t*. Problem is I can’t remember if it was in jest or not.

  50. @carl: I might have misheard it, if it hadn’t been exactly what we were discussing — much emphasis put on the fact that it was *can* not *can’t*. Problem is I can’t remember if it was in jest or not.

  51. @ vonb, ok that makes sense. I’m going to lean towards it being made in jest, but I suppose we’ll just wait for an official tracklisting to confirm.

    btw, your link displays oddly, “http://http;//u2log.com” though since we’re already here it isn’t that significant. 🙂

  52. @ vonb, ok that makes sense. I’m going to lean towards it being made in jest, but I suppose we’ll just wait for an official tracklisting to confirm.

    btw, your link displays oddly, “http://http;//u2log.com” though since we’re already here it isn’t that significant. 🙂

  53. uh…what were we talking about again?…the way Bono has sung and not something we haven’t even heard yet. according to roadkill…he he he…hold on is only 1:10 secs…which is really short for a song about holding on :op

  54. uh…what were we talking about again?…the way Bono has sung and not something we haven’t even heard yet. according to roadkill…he he he…hold on is only 1:10 secs…which is really short for a song about holding on :op

  57. Oy, heaven forbid the u2log.com comments ever go off topic. 😀

    Some 7% clips sound better than others, but they don’t sound like real female singers to me, sounds like chipmunkish male singers. It would be more interesting if they tried to categorize singers tenor’s sound more femalish than bari’s/bass’s sped up etc. Someone should speed up lemon just to be perverse.

  58. Oy, heaven forbid the u2log.com comments ever go off topic. 😀

    Some 7% clips sound better than others, but they don’t sound like real female singers to me, sounds like chipmunkish male singers. It would be more interesting if they tried to categorize singers tenor’s sound more femalish than bari’s/bass’s sped up etc. Someone should speed up lemon just to be perverse.

  59. Paige: your dilemma reminds me of that scene from Office Space with the guy named Michael Bolton, like the singer. “Why don’t you change your name?” someone asks. “Why should I have to change my name? He’s the one that sucks.”

  60. Paige: your dilemma reminds me of that scene from Office Space with the guy named Michael Bolton, like the singer. “Why don’t you change your name?” someone asks. “Why should I have to change my name? He’s the one that sucks.”

  61. LOL, Lucy! The simplest solution, really, would be for Adam to propose — this way, I’d sign as “Mrs. Clayton,” you would all know it was really me and a real-live, gen-u-wine U2 wife coming to you, and Adam and I could save money by having Bono the Girl as both Best Man and Maid of Honor!

  62. LOL, Lucy! The simplest solution, really, would be for Adam to propose — this way, I’d sign as “Mrs. Clayton,” you would all know it was really me and a real-live, gen-u-wine U2 wife coming to you, and Adam and I could save money by having Bono the Girl as both Best Man and Maid of Honor!

  63. This whole 7% thing is nothing new. My old Soundblaster soundcard in my old PI 100 MHz pc could already do that trick. You could plug in a mic and press the “male to female” button and then it would pitch the sound about 7%. This guy cannot claim that he discovered something, because first of all, the samples sound like chipmunks rather than women and second of all, it has been done so many times before…

    Anywayz, happy new year to y’all 🙂

  64. This whole 7% thing is nothing new. My old Soundblaster soundcard in my old PI 100 MHz pc could already do that trick. You could plug in a mic and press the “male to female” button and then it would pitch the sound about 7%. This guy cannot claim that he discovered something, because first of all, the samples sound like chipmunks rather than women and second of all, it has been done so many times before…

    Anywayz, happy new year to y’all 🙂

  65. he doesnt claim that he discvered it, he says he knows it has been done b4. i quite like it, i think bono does sound good as a girl.

  66. he doesnt claim that he discvered it, he says he knows it has been done b4. i quite like it, i think bono does sound good as a girl.

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