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Title: Lovely, But Empty
Review: I am not upset with Fleming's choice of material - she is ever tasteful - but I am upset with the fact that she approaches this material as she does everything else she sings. It is too thought-out rather than felt. She provides a glimmering, glamorous surface to each song, many of them sung at funereal tempos, but invests these songs with no depth, only a self-conscious, self-regarding - if lovely - pseudo-serious generic polish to each number. She is a singer who is all affect, to little effect. Everything here is beautiful, but she reveals not one moment of emotional honesty or artistic risktaking in this entire high-toned enterprise.
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