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Why are there no artists like Mariah Carey, Whitney, Celine Dion these days?
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andersonsonson
23-09-2015
What happened to this kind of music?
kenny12
23-09-2015
Geri's not releasing her full album until Spring 2016... don't worry. It's coming.
Peter the Great
23-09-2015
Originally Posted by andersonsonson:
“What happened to this kind of music?”

What bland? There is plenty of shite music around as there is.
Blondie X
23-09-2015
It had its day and people realised how dull it was.

Plenty of fantastic female artists out there without the need for bland, watered Dow. R&B lite warbling
NScot
23-09-2015
People got sick of the wailing banshees.
That_Guy
23-09-2015
For the majority of Mariah's career, she's not been releasing the power ballads she's known for. From Butterfly on, she'd been very RnB/hip hop. Her last album was great.
Hollie_Louise
23-09-2015
Originally Posted by That_Guy:
“For the majority of Mariah's career, she's not been releasing the power ballads she's known for. From Butterfly on, she'd been very RnB/hip hop. Her last album was great.”

Agreed, I love the album (not so much the title lol). She still releases great music IMO, it's just largely unprompted or ignored.
Hollie_Louise
23-09-2015
Originally Posted by kenny12:
“Geri's not releasing her full album until Spring 2016... don't worry. It's coming.”

Yeah, because Geri Halliwell is the same kind of artist as Mariah, Whitney and Celine
FMKK
23-09-2015
Originally Posted by NScot:
“People got sick of the wailing banshees.”

Got it in one.
Hound of Love
23-09-2015
Originally Posted by Blondie X:
“It had its day and people realised how dull it was.

Plenty of fantastic female artists out there without the need for bland, watered Dow. R&B lite warbling”

Exactly!
Makson
23-09-2015
Leona says hi
Hollie_Louise
23-09-2015
Not very loudly though, it's more a whisper.
FMKK
24-09-2015
Originally Posted by Hollie_Louise:
“Not very loudly though, it's more a whisper.”

Well she's having to shout up from way at the bottom of the charts.
RikScot
24-09-2015
Originally Posted by kenny12:
“Geri's not releasing her full album until Spring 2016... don't worry. It's coming.”

Geri who?
Master Ozzy
24-09-2015
Whitney, Mariah etc are fantastic, however the type of ballad music they were doing would not work today. Both Whitney and Mariah realised that as well, which is why both started drifting towards Rnb in the later years of their careers in order to try and stay more current. Mariah's last album was still fantastic, but she's achieved in her career pretty much all there is to achieve so she is now at the stage where she can release the type of music she wants to release and not have loads of pressure on her.
jude007
24-09-2015
Originally Posted by NScot:
“People got sick of the wailing banshees.”

I guess Leona Lewis never got that memo
cnbcwatcher
24-09-2015
Originally Posted by NScot:
“People got sick of the wailing banshees.”

Still plenty of them on the X Factor from what I've seen of it channel surfing (and I don't really watch it)
Barbra
26-09-2015
Maybe they have set the bar so high that any wannabees' attempt to enter the genre is futile.
NicoleRich
26-09-2015
The public's taste for "divas" diminished in favour of cheap house and "lol" music.
Harrison_Fisher
27-09-2015
Originally Posted by andersonsonson:
“What happened to this kind of music?”

You mustn't have heard of a very talented artist called Ariana Grande
GracieL
27-09-2015
Leona Lewis was cracked up to be the next Mariah Carey, what a farce
starry_rune
27-09-2015
They're still out there

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTo0ZL8UEn4

https://youtu.be/Gnx-Vx3F_Y8?t=45s
Hollie_Louise
27-09-2015
Originally Posted by Harrison_Fisher:
“You mustn't have heard of a very talented artist called Ariana Grande”

I wish I hadn't
mgvsmith
27-09-2015
Has this 'gap' not been filled by male artists like Sam Smith, John Legend, John Newman, Hozier etc.....?
vauxhall1964
27-09-2015
Originally Posted by mgvsmith:
“Has this 'gap' not been filled by male artists like Sam Smith, John Legend, John Newman, Hozier etc.....?”

Female solo singers are as popular as ever and much more popular than most of those men (Adele, Taylor Swift, Rhianna, Beyonce, Lana del Rey, Sia, etc). It's just that the belters' style of warbling (all that 'melisma' as it's called) now sounds so naff and dated... you only hear it now in X Factor auditions!
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