Imperfection makes radical creativity. It takes the creativity and makes it radical. The world of “good taste” is riddled with classism. Stodgy vocal pedagogues, early detractors from recorded popular and folk music would say (and still do), “You shouldn’t sing like that. You can’t.” They would rather people learn the “right” way to make music. But in doing so, they gatekeep who gets to make music and who doesn’t.

And this much is also true: the pop music industry thrives off singers destroying their bodies and voices. This problem will be solved in part when we redistribute creativity back to the hands of all people by allowing them to be imperfect.