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...MARIAH CAREY Crowd-pleasing diva began the evening with six nominations, ended it with nothing...
...WATT of Everything but the Girl, the winningly unprepossessing British duo whose single Missing is nudging Mariah Carey and Whitney Houston in the singles charts, success is fun but not essential. "It's thrilling to have a pop hit," says Watt. "But I'd got used to our life as an underground band." Not surprising, since he and TRACEY THORN have been recording since 1982. In 1992, when Watt nearly died of Churg-Strauss syndrome, an autoimmune disease that can affect the lungs and intestines, they reassessed everything. One result: Missing. Now the album's moving too, but Watt...
...MARIAH CAREY Daydream (Columbia). Carey is a hitmaking, money-generating corporation; her sometimes overemoted songs have in the past sounded like a musical interpretation of a bull market. Her new album is different: the vocals are subtler, the melodies more restrained, the lyrics more artful. Carey may be big business, but artistically her stock is on the rise...
...argues that those who (rightly) lionize Malcolm should re-examine the radical final stage of King's life, in which he sought to unify "poor blacks, whites, Latinos and native Americans in a multiracial coalition ... to challenge the unfair distribution of wealth." Dyson also offers a defense of singer Mariah Carey against critics who say her music is not "authentically" black. He writes: "What Carey's career may teach us is that paranoia about purity is the real enemy of black cultural expression, which at its best is characterized by the amalgamation of radically different elements." Dyson's worthy amalgam...
...ONLY MARIAH CAREY'S MUSIC HAD the drama of her life. Her songs are often sugary and artificial--Nutrasweet soul. But her life has passion and conflict. Carey's mother is white, her father is black, and she is constantly prodded by skin-color busybodies to define her racial identity. Raised on Long Island, Carey grew up so financially strapped that she and her divorced mother sometimes had to move in with friends. Last year, in a revelation pursued aggressively by the tabloids, it came out that Carey's sister is HIV-positive and, according to some reports, that Carey...