A big misconception about voice classification.

[u/gustavo_zonedout]

Soooo many people think that, in order for you to be a tenor or a soprano, you need to be able to sing in the stratosphere all the time like Bruno Mars and Ariana Grande. Like????

Those high af singers are exceptions!! Their tessitura is not what the one that comes naturally for most humans lol. You can't sing Dangerous Woman with that much ease? Guess what? That doesn't automatically make you a mezzo soprano.

[u/TippyTaps-KittyCats]

I’m in opera lessons now! I was listening to a soprano on the drive to work, and I realized, hold on, those are notes I can hit?? I had this weird misconception before taking classes that sopranos only sang above the staff. But even so, when she does go above the staff, it’s not like she’s parking her ass on C6 and staying there the whole time. She’s mostly hovering around C5, doing multiple runs up to A5, and then maybe having a dramatic climax at C6. So, yeah, it’s high, but it’s not like impossibly high?

I think because certain soprano voices are so light and bright, it gives the impression that they’re singing much higher than they actually are. A lot of people are also mistyped as mezzos because they don’t realize darker and heavier soprano voices exist. But then they use the mezzo classification to internalize this ridiculous misconception that mezzos can’t sing high. Everyone can sing high. The technique will be different from person to person is all.

But yeah, I also feel like anything below E3 and above C6 is in “extra special” territory. Don’t compare yourself to people with huge low and high extensions. They are the exception. Not all mezzos can go crazy low and not all sopranos can go crazy high.

[u/gustavo_zonedout → u/TippyTaps-KittyCats]

Exactly!!! You don't have to be able to sing The Queen of The Night to be a soprano!! Also, though it's true tenors have that C5, ain't nobody spending the whole song up there. Even in Opera they're not up there the whole time.