Word: singer
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...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...
Carey cites soul singer Aretha Franklin as one of her influences. But on her new album, Carey tones down her vocal fireworks, seemingly in an effort to be more "mainstream." On the basis of just this album, select the pair of words that best indicates a relationship similar to that expressed in the capitalized pair ARETHA FRANKLIN: MARIAH CAREY...
Coroners, clowns and country singers should never be too happy; there's just something about their work that makes a crying-on-the-inside quality appropriate. Luckily for fans of country singer Clint Black -- and unfortunately, perhaps, for the man himself -- he is one of those people whose disquiet, in his lyrics at least, has increased as a function of his rising success. The reasoning of such people tends to be variants on the following: I have a new car, a home, a pretty wife . . . Hmmm. Now that I have these things I could lose them: my car could...
...sitcoms often are, for instance, it's hard to imagine anyone but Fox churning out a turkey like Living Single. Rap singer Queen Latifah plays one of four "upwardly mobile" black women trying to make it in New York City. Sound familiar? So are all the jokes, including an extended one in the pilot episode about a roommate whose suave boyfriend turns out to be -- gasp! -- married, and predictable put-down lines that depend on characters behaving like either insufferable snobs or total idiots. Stuck-up roommate: "Are you saying that I am shallow?" Wisecracking girlfriend: "Like a kiddie pool...
...fade-in of the tramp's a cappella singing, it slowly builds and swells, with new instruments constantly added to a basic string quintet. Cellos and basses come and go; horns, trombones and contrabassoons add color; a full string orchestra emerges, along with a vocal choir. Finally, pop singer Tom Waits joins in, his raspy, passionate baritone contrasting with the old man's reedy tenor. Its long journey finished, the music slowly drifts away on the wings of this unlikely duet...