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Title: She can do better. YOU can do better (in buying another album)
Review: I'm going to echo one of the popular complaints about this album. As fantastic as her voice is (and she really was "the best" of that group that came up from the Mickey Mouse Club), Christina seems to always be trying to prove that she can sing. On her original albums, it's not AS big of a problem for me (do you, Christina), but on a Christmas album, it's just unnecessary. The over-the-top runs kill most of the songs that should be pleasant to listen to. O Holy Night is my absolute favorite Christmas carol and I couldn't sit through her version. I had high expectations of it. She is a BIG voice, but she doesn't seem to reign it in for these songs. Same for The Christmas Song. I can deal with changing the arrangements, those can be nice changes sometimes. But I can't take the oversinging. The only song that is "reasonable" for me is Hark the Herald Angels Sing. Everything else is really forgettable.
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