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Take the rebel romanticism of Jodeci and the pleading sincerity of Boyz II Men, and add a dash of the martial-arts mythologizing of the Wu-Tang Clan. Let simmer, and you'd have something approximating the R.-and-B. vocal quartet Dru Hill. Dru Hill's vocal recipe doesn't always work--the group sometimes settles for flashy sentiment instead of striving for true emotion. Still, numbers like the thoughtful remake of The Love We Had (Stays on My Mind) and the delicately felt ballad Angel make this CD really cook...
...Colgate's Dru Burgess made things even more interesting when he answered just six minutes later, tucking away a rebound which had trickled through the pads of Harvard goaltender J.R. Prestifilippo...
...Artist Formerly Known as Mariah. Possibly the worst track on Butterfly is a song called "The Beautiful Ones," written by Mr. Paisley Park himself. Mariah croons opposite the shockingly uncharismatic Dru Hill, but neither one of them can make much out of Prince's laziest lyric in years...and that's saying something. At least a quarter of the song's first two minutes are sung repetitions of the line "Baby,baby,baby." Zzzzzzzz...
...toward a keener-edged R.-and-B.- and hip-hop-influenced sound. To help with the transition, Carey hired producer Sean ("Puffy") Combs, who brought a loping, hip-hop beat to Breakdown; rapper-producer Q-Tip, who selected the chugging drum tracks on Honey; and R.-and-B. singers Dru Hill, who trade soulful solos with Carey on The Beautiful Ones...
DIED. JOANNE DRU, 74, actress; of respiratory illness; in Beverly Hills, California. Dru starred in the classic westerns Red River, She Wore a Yellow Ribbon and Wagon Master; in the early 1960s she played a New Yorker running a New Mexico dude ranch in the short-lived TV series Guestward...