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Title: Nothing new under the sun
Review: Singers like Whitney Houston, Celine Dion and Mariah are talented, and Mariah Carey is notable for her broad vocal range. But what gets me about all of these artists is the frightfully unoriginal albums and sounds they put out. Each gets some forgettable pap songs to exercise their vocal gymnastics on, sings their carefully coached guts out over a shmaltzy synthesized arrangement the basic sound of which *hasn't changed* in easy listening music since 1982, and sells 8 million albums. It's easy to see why these kinds of things keep getting produced, as they are so popular. But sometimes I wish the public would demand something new; these talents could be put to much more daring use.
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