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Title: Boring.
Review: I take issue with one reviewer who opined that "mainstream America" can't stand the fact that a black male was crowned The American Idol, and therefore America won't buy his records. The truth is that Reuben is boring and gets mired down in turning single words into phrases with five or ten syllables, taking them up and down his vocal register and, in the process, completely kills the passion and melody of a song.America has heard this Reubenesque style before, only with more class. There's Barry White and Luther Vandross and Peabo Bryson. The vocal stylings of Reuben Studdard are nothing new. Reuben is a puppet who "reinvents" songs by OVERSINGING them.He will quickly fade into a pile of "has beens". Don't waste your money, unless you like your music done painfully slow, painfully over-produced, and painfully over-sung.
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