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Title: Campy
Review: This is so campy and contrived. I would expect better from Fleming, but after hearing this, I think she has really lost it. I guess her album of Disney tunes will be coming soon.She should stick to opera, or whatever it is that she can do well. This cheap imitation of Phoebe Snow does her no favor. Even in the classical selections here, Mahler etc, she sounds so artificial and overdone. She also has a tendency of trying to color every note, to the point that any sense of musical line, or meaning behind the words, is totally lost.And why does she have to sing so close to the microphone? So close, "the world is your laryngologist." I guess it's because she cannot really sing that low without resorting to studio tricks.I can see why opera fans would be baffled and offended by this album. I don't see how any jazz fan would like it, either, not when there's so many really great jazz singers out there, in the real world. Pass this one by a wide angle.
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