Head Voice

He had heard of the "head voice," or singing through the cavity that connects the mouth and nasal passages with the esophagus. He imagined that the pharynx was being over-selected in the evolutionary process of Western culture, since the predominant vocal style in popular music seemed to be the thin, nasally whine favored by indie-rock boys and diary-pop girls. Unimpressive in his estimation, but nonetheless commercially successful.

He had a recurring pang of awareness that his perspective on most things was not shared by the general populace. The notion had arisen out of his affinity for a risque form of chant music practiced by French Catholic prostitutes of the 18th century. "Now there was a head voice," he thought to himself as he crushed a solitary almond and blended it with jojoba oil into a paste he would later apply to his aching heels. Holistic remedies for orthapaedic ailments did not generally find favor in the mainstream either.

Since the prostitutes had been excommunicated from their beloved Church by the very church leaders who formed their principle clientele, they made unlikely but convenient teammates with the Protestants and other revolutionaries who sought to overthrow the Church and the French monarchy. He now embraced his mission to overthrow the mainstream in his own century. If he could carry it off with the aplomb displayed by the prostitutes and Protestants, perhaps he could emancipate the voices in his head. Perhaps.

Seed words: aplomb, teammate, pharynx, predominant, almond, risque, pang, arisen, unimpressive, chant