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USA Today: Mariah Sings To Her Strengths in Chanteuse
儘管有過人嗓音，瑪咪咪有時給人的印象卻是：太用力(try too hard)。
剛出道時形象和唱功顯得過度完美，
跨足嘻哈界之後又要害怕小弟弟小妹妹搶地盤。
For a woman who has one of the most technically astonishing voices in pop
music, Mariah Carey has at times seemed oddly inclined to try too hard. And
who could blame her, really, given the gleeful snark that she has inspired in
detractors — first for sounding (and looking) too perfect, then for her
forays into hip-hop and attempts to sustain her viability as younger acolytes
crowded the field.
謝天謝地，新專輯終於展現她的自在與自信。
《不完美天使》裡面過強的自我意識在這張專輯裡面少了許多，
但最近一連串的專輯延後事件讓大家覺得，
她唯一在乎的似乎只是拚命達到自己和死忠奶粉們的標準。
So what's most striking about Carey's new album — titled, rather
insistently, Me. I Am Mariah ...The Elusive Chanteuse (***½ out of four) and
now streaming on iTunes Radio ahead of its May 27 release — is how relaxed
and confident she sounds. Gone is the self-consciousness that marred her last
studio album, 2009's Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel. Instead, Carey — whose
delays of Chanteuse's release date inspired predictable hand-wringing (as did
the less-than-spectacular performance of the lead singles) — gives the
impression that her only concerns are meeting her own standards, and those of
the fans who have stuck with her through everything.
花腔還在、高音還在，然而中低音域的大量使用讓情感更能直接展現。
The tender, aching ballads and joyful pop-soul numbers here both mark a
return to form and reveal increased nuance, particularly in the singing. The
artful melisma, robust belting and decorative high notes are still there, but
Carey spends a great deal of time using her supple middle and lower registers
to convey feeling simply and directly.
咪咪展現時而柔美時而嘶啞的嗓音，卻不干擾歌曲本身的情緒；
這點在鋼琴鋪陳的哀傷曲調Cry.，
以及夢幻的母愛歌曲Supernatural之中，
都可以得到驗證。
大氣歌曲Camouflage用福音作為背景，
為瑪咪咪的感性演出增添色彩。
Tunes such as the pensive, piano-driven Cry and the dreamier Supernatural, an
account of maternal love featuring Carey and husband Nick Cannon's young
twins, showcase the creamy and husky textures of her voice while keeping the
focus on sentiment, not ornamentation. The spine-tingling Camouflage,
co-written and produced by Carey and Big Jim Wright (other collaborators
include longtime colleagues Jermaine Dupri and Rodney Jerkins), finds her
pining performance embellished with gospel-tinged backing vocals.
專輯中亦有咪咪深刻演繹經典One More Try。
閃亮的Meteorite則以Andy Warhol「每個人都有15分鐘成名機會」名言作為開場。
不管這位"chanteuse"是否真的一如專輯標題所說的"illusive"，
能夠在變化多端的流行音樂圈一路過關斬將倖存下來，
咪咪絕對是罕見案例。
There's also a poignant cover of George Michael's One More Try, and the
snappy, twinkling Meteorite, which begins with Andy Warhol's observation that
everyone will be famous for 15 minutes — which seems truer today than it did
when he made it, or when Carey's career launched 25 years ago, for that
matter. Elusive or not, this chanteuse is a survivor, and that's a rare thing
in today's fickle, polarized pop landscape.
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