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They may not sing but their popular tracks still have vocals don’t they?

In electronic music, vocals are just another sampled oscillator garnish, taking as just much credit as the drum machine... Far cry from the front & center heroic place occupied by the pop music singer.

This is in part because of exploitation and lack of credit/royalties given to the vocalists instead of the lack of importance to the music.

Take a look at the story of Martha Wash, the huge iconic voice behind "everybody dance now", "ride on time" etc. You can't deny that these type of vocals are the tent-pole of those tracks but they basically scammed her by using demo sessions and using lip-syncers in music videos.

https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/martha-wash-the-most-fa...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSefwVQVVpU

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