Word: vocally
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...higher-pitched and more rock-like previous work, it often gives an appealingly off-beat vibe. Within the deeper registers of country instrumentation, the listener simply can’t make out what she’s singing. The arrangements do little to make up for the bland vocal performances: the sound is cut-rate honky-tonk blues alternated with cut-rate Norah Jones jazzy-pseudo-neo-soul. That’s not to say it’s all bad, because when Marshall puts some effort into it, as in the title track, it’s lovely...
...While nobody at the meeting spoke in support of Summers, many of his most vocal supporters did not attend yesterday...
...Another vocal Summers supporter, Kenan Professor of Government Harvey C. Mansfield ’53, was in Cambridge yesterday but said he forgot about the meeting...
...double-platinum status while the thoroughly enjoyable follow-up, Breakaway, has sold 5 million copies, spawned four Top 10 hits and earned Clarkson, 23, a prime performance slot at the Grammys this Wednesday. (If justice prevails, she'll also pick up awards in her two nominated categories, Best Pop Vocal and Pop Vocal Album...
Even more amazing than Clarkson's emergence as a credible pop singer is that her glitz-free approach--she favors hook-filled, unpretentious songs, like the addictive Since U Been Gone, delivered with a vocal minimalism alien to her dolphin-shrieking peers--has made her kind of, well, cool. Since U Been Gone was named the third-best single of 2005 in the Village Voice's industry-wide poll of music critics, which a few years ago would have been as inconceivable as seeing The Da Vinci Code's Dan Brown on the list of Pulitzer finalists. "There...