Well I'm no producer. But I am a consumer. I have tv shows I can't watch without close caption.

Last year I was fine. Then I had chemo. Now I'm very deaf over 2000hz.

I found out that, depending on the initial pitch of the voice the following letters are high register.

K 3400Hz
f 4200Hz
s 4900Hz
th 5200hz

Thus if some one tells me to _u_ _ o _ _ I hear something like owc ohh and smile.

I asked a friend who has a Phd in sound engineering about music with lyrics and he told me that the upper frequencies are often pulled right out and that's what makes the music hard to understand, and impossible for me without hearing aids and even then not after 5 p.m. when my hearing tanks.

If the radiation didn't take my voice and turn it into the deepest hardest to understand bass I'd record some stuff and pluck out the above letters and jack them for interest. I guess that's not happening.

Our best friends are both music professors and Doctors of Music teaching at the university. One is a chorale/vocal specialist and she taught my daughter warm-ups where you worked with diction and she told her that you have to work at that all your life, because other wise people won't understand you. I doubt most people who never took a guitar lesson but play it ever took a vocal lesson either. Singing is communication, and if people don't understand the words, the impact is gone.

I had a barber tell me he had a customer who wouldn't talk to him, because what does a frigging barber know? At the end of the haircut, the guy (who has a really tough to understand Italian accent) told the guy.."So OK, no charge ata all. You just take thata bada haircut this stupid barber give you and never come back ok...fine..." plus a few other Italian descriptive words that went with it.

C'est la vie.

PS. I never said there was anything wrong with the song. I said I have hearing loss. When a song is in it's final stage someone with good ears should write out the words, stop and start. Then you make the decision about the singing part. Is 90 percent good enough? Not my call...that's up to the people who make it.

FWIW I never understood trying to listen to music in a car. Unless you have a very quiet car. Like trying to get the symphony to play in a shopping mall food court. Nice acoustics. Forget pianissimo.

John Conley
Musica est vita