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...Still, the Madonna analogy limps. For one thing, Mui really could sing. Her sultry alto voice wrapped itself like a python around Canto-pop ballads, giving them a power, precision and, often, a desperation that never begged for pity. She sang of a strong woman's isolation-above, apart, alone. She was not the Madonna of Chinese music, but its Garbo...
...marketing plan. And they are misinterpreting it with amazing predictability. Instead of learning the lesson that it's possible to get attention for doing what you have always done, the new crop of career revisionists is trying to get attention for doing what Tony Bennett has always done: sing standards. Former teen angel Mandy Moore has a new standards album; even legendary cradle robber Rod Stewart has two. Standards are now perceived as the foolproof way for singers to flex their urbanity and be congratulated on their good taste while also appealing to those aging boomers who still roam...
...Zelcer ’07 was Harvard’s “Idol” Saturday night, but the evening’s only standing ovation went to a man who can’t sing...
...can’t actually sing,” Tannen said, saying that before the show he was “a little bit intimidated” by the other performers, whom he characterized as “really talented singers...
...Chili Peppers made for great gossip-page photographs and generated enough heat to get Dad his own MTV Unplugged, and that's where Tony really shook things up. He stood by the piano in his shiny suit and sang the exact same standards he has been singing since Larry King was a boy. People marveled - What a voice! What taste! What class! But the only thing that had changed was the context. A decade later, singers looking to revive their careers are still picking over Danny Bennett's marketing plan. And they are misinterpreting it with amazing predictability. Instead...