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...unprecedented surge in usage this fall necessitated an unplanned upgrade of network resources, according to Harvard Arts and Sciences Computer Services (HASCS) Director Franklin M. Steen...
Most of the album is structured to let Franklin do her trademark thing: sing about making it through heartache with her faith intact. The Queen of Soul never really did melody: like an expert surgeon who leaves the nurses to stitch up, it's a little beneath her. Instead she rises and plunges over songs like The Only Thing Missin' and Ain't No Way. It's a style the Mariah Careys of the world have copied and perverted into a circus act, but Franklin actually invests her rumbles and squeaks with authentic emotion...
...production on So Damn Happy is modern, minimalist and first-rate. Franklin has always had a great ear for contemporary music, which is why she has appeared in the Top 10 recently and James Brown hasn't. She gets Mary J. Blige to contribute some fine backing vocals and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis to offer up a nice song and--presto!--Aretha is radio-ready. It doesn't take much to make the timeless timely...
...Franklin uses melody as a base camp on her way to bigger things, Sinead O'Connor clings to it as if it were the only haven between her and the abyss. The contrast in styles is made conveniently clear on O'Connor's new double album, She Who Dwells ..., which features a spectacular cover of Do Right Woman. Where Franklin started the song in pieces and pulled herself toward an emotional victory, O'Connor opens Do Right Woman deceptively whole. She does not trill or soar; she just sings notes of remarkable clarity and intensity. But as the Dan Penn/Chip...
...little girl, but she manages innocence on Love Hurts, while her version of the Abba powder puff Chiquitita raises the song to something approaching beauty. O'Connor has said that She Who Dwells ... will be her last album, but then O'Connor says a lot of things. Maybe, like Franklin, she should stick to communicating through her singing voice...