Lynn has opened up about her vocal issues for the first time.
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Speaking to Rock Sound for her cover feature, Lynn shared for the first time that she’s had to adjust her singing style pretty dramatically over the past year due to issues with her voice.
Lynn shared “The past year I was dealing with a lot of issues and I to had to work through that on the middle of touring and it was really, really fucking difficult and hard and vulnerable and scary. I haven’t really said anything about it. I’m still very much working through it and kind of just figuring things out, but it is something I’ve wanted to address at some point because I think a lot of people noticed. I had to pretty much relearn to sing right at the beginning of our record cycle, ran into a lot of issues and still don’t really know what was going on, but would go to sing and it would feel like somebody was grabbing my throat and I could not get anything out and there’s so much tension and anxiety, and when you get anxious obviously you can feel it physically and that just adds to it.”
She continued, “It’s just the feeling of being choked up for pretty much an entire year and I had to work really extensively with a vocal coach to unhinge that and loosen that up and open up again. I had to do every single step in front of crazy audiences and it definitely got really difficult at some points, but also was so important to go through and really just flipped my perspective on performing and our relationship with performing live. …read more
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