http://0rz.tw/1wESF USA Today: Mariah Sings To Her Strengths in Chanteuse 尽管有过人嗓音，玛咪咪有时给人的印象却是：太用力(try too hard)。 刚出道时形象和唱功显得过度完美， 跨足嘻哈界之後又要害怕小弟弟小妹妹抢地盘。 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. 谢天谢地，新专辑终於展现她的自在与自信。 《不完美天使》里面过强的自我意识在这张专辑里面少了许多， 但最近一连串的专辑延後事件让大家觉得， 她唯一在乎的似乎只是拚命达到自己和死忠奶粉们的标准。 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. 花腔还在、高音还在，然而中低音域的大量使用让情感更能直接展现。 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. 咪咪展现时而柔美时而嘶哑的嗓音，却不干扰歌曲本身的情绪； 这点在钢琴铺陈的哀伤曲调Cry.， 以及梦幻的母爱歌曲Supernatural之中， 都可以得到验证。 大气歌曲Camouflage用福音作为背景， 为玛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. 专辑中亦有咪咪深刻演绎经典One More Try。 闪亮的Meteorite则以Andy Warhol「每个人都有15分钟成名机会」名言作为开场。 不管这位"chanteuse"是否真的一如专辑标题所说的"illusive"， 能够在变化多端的流行音乐圈一路过关斩将幸存下来， 咪咪绝对是罕见案例。 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. 推荐下载： Download: You Don't Know What to Do (featuring Wale), Camouflage, Cry --

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