Is there a name for that style of male singing that’s kind of over the top, baritoney grunge? Eddie Vedder is definitely an early example (see “Yellow Ledbetter”) but the style was brought to perfection and therefore killed by Scott Stapp, the singer for Creed.

Today I was listening to Amoreena, the Elton John song, and Elton’s got a bit of that heya yeaheeyeah too. I wonder how far back that goes