Word: mariah
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...sing a Cole Porter tune; the next, '50s rock 'n roll is the genre. All right, the performers don't take their vocalizing cues from the swingin' precision of Ella Fitzgerald, the hiccupping innocence and intensity of Buddy Holly. Instead, they sound indentured to the wildly mannerist melodramatics of Mariah Carey and Michael Bolton. ("Just sing the damned song," my friend George Grizzard has been known to shout at his TV.) But at least the performers, and the show's mammoth audience, are exposed to the Great American Songbook, pre-Eminem, pre-Titanic...
...TRYING TO REPRODUCE HER OR DO YOUR OWN THING? She was very restrained as a singer. Very stripped down, no frills. It was a challenge for me to not get overly dramatic. Because I am a little bit overly emotional. But I'm not Mariah--I'm not an overembellisher. I like the song to be basically about the lyric and the melody rather than about my musicality...
...strategic game is changing too, as networks leapfrog directly to new media with original shows. NBC could never compete on the air with Fox's American Idol, but this summer on its website, NBC is trying a talent search called StarTomorrow, produced by record exec Tommy Mottola (a.k.a. Mariah Carey's ex). Also this summer, Fox's animated hit Family Guy--resurrected on TV after huge DVD sales--will find its third (but probably not its last) life online with new episodes...
...grown ass man. So I probably shouldn’t enjoy Mariah Carey’s latest album, “The Emancipation of Mimi,” nearly as much as I do. Carey has made her career peddling sentimental pop to teenyboppers and watered down R&B to the adult contemporary set—no self-respecting man belongs to either of those categories. And yet, at this very moment, “Mimi” is blaring from my laptop speakers, and I can’t tear myself away...
...standout songs, “Circles,” expands upon “Mine Again’s” soul aesthetic. The song beings with a driving electric piano riff; a pulsating bass line kicks in soon after; and a cadre of background singers harmonize nicely while Mariah tears into the lyrics like a latter-day Aretha Franklin...