Word: mariah
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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PERFORMER: MARIAH CAREY...
...BOTTOM LINE: Mariah Carey could be a pop-soul great; instead she has once again settled for Salieri-like mediocrity...
...DOES A SINGER AS TALented as Mariah Carey continue to limit herself to churning out generic pop songs? Her self-titled debut displayed great promise, showcasing her gospel energy and vocal range on such hit songs as Vision of Love and Vanishing. songs as Vision of Love and Vanishing. But Carey's third full album, Music Box, seems perfunctory and almost passionless . . . and that raises a lot of other questions...
...playfulness. A Groove of Love is a funny parody of macho music posturing, Ice- style ("Love to me means tight butt jeans/ Girls they only waste time with crushed dreams/ The mike is my bitch"). C+C's dance-music dazzlements have attracted such heavy-duty commercial talent as Mariah Carey, for whom it is helping produce the follow-up to her 4 million-selling debut album; and funk mistress Lisa Lisa, whose new record it is producing while she and Clivilles strike up a romantic association to complement the professional...
...YORK--Phil Collins garnered eight Grammy nominations, including six for his socially conscious "...But Seriously" album, and veteran Quincy Jones and newcomer Mariah Carey got five apiece...