Why are there no artists like Mariah Carey, Whitney, Celine Dion these days?

grindy · 10-15-2015, 04:33 AM

Poor Mestmed.
Joins a forum, eager to talk about what he erroneously thinks to be good and 'real' music, and gets **** from literally everyone here.

Black Francis · 10-15-2015, 09:29 AM

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Originally Posted by Two Spirit

She had Falling Into You, which was released a year before the Titanic soundtrack and it went multi-platinum many times over. She also had four or five albums before that.

I only know this because my mom used to be a Celine Dion fanatic, and she owned most of her discography through 2002's A New Day Has Come.

She also had a hit with this song.

Lilja · 10-15-2015, 10:20 AM

Regardless of what you think of her, Mariah Carey has a heck of a vocal range. She even won a guiness record for highest note ever recorded. I remember hearing a while back that she could even open garage doors with her voice...which could come in handy if you lost your clicker

Celine Dion won Eurovision for Switzerland in 1988 with this song..that's a pretty big deal (if you are into Eurovision like me

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Black Francis · 10-15-2015, 10:34 AM

I heard that one time during a concert Mariah reached such a high pitch she opened up a wormhole to another universe.

**Janszoon** · 10-15-2015, 01:02 PM

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Originally Posted by Black Francis

I heard that one time during a concert Mariah reached such a high pitch she opened up a wormhole to another universe.

I heard that whenever she performs near the ocean dolphins start spontaneously beaching themselves.

The Batlord · 10-15-2015, 02:19 PM

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Originally Posted by Lilja

Regardless of what you think of her, Mariah Carey has a heck of a vocal range. She even won a guiness record for highest note ever recorded.

I'm assuming that means she called Guinness just so they could come all the way down out to one of her concerts and honor her in their book?

1.) That's hella douchey.

2.) I doubt Guinness people are just roaming the countryside looking for singers, so I imagine there's a pretty small pool of candidates who've competed for that award.

Trollheart · 10-15-2015, 03:33 PM

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Originally Posted by Lilja

Regardless of what you think of her, Mariah Carey has a heck of a vocal range. She even won a guiness record for highest note ever recorded. I remember hearing a while back that she could even open garage doors with her voice...which could come in handy if you lost your clicker

Celine Dion won Eurovision for Switzerland in 1988 with this song..that's a pretty big deal (if you are into Eurovision like me

):

Neither of the things bolded are in any way an automatic indication of talent. Observe!

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Originally Posted by Black Francis

I heard that one time during a concert Mariah reached such a high pitch she opened up a wormhole to another universe.

I wonder if in that universe there was a duplicate of her, identical in every way, except that she could actually sing?

The Batlord · 10-15-2015, 03:40 PM

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Originally Posted by Trollheart

I wonder if in that universe there was a duplicate of her, identical in every way, except that she could actually sing?

I don't think any of us are questioning her singing ability, just her ability to make us care.

Mr. Charlie · 10-15-2015, 06:22 PM

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Originally Posted by Mestmed

What happened to this kind of music?

It lives on:

Not my cuppa tea personally, but I sympathise with what you're feeling. I loved rock n roll and that disappeared too, leaving nothing but a smear called rock. I loved goa trance, that vanished, leaving psy trance. But what can you do? Stuff changes. You gotta roll with it.

grindy · 10-15-2015, 06:25 PM

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Originally Posted by Mr. Charlie

Not my cuppa tea personally, but I sympathise with what you're feeling. I loved rock n roll and that disappeared too, leaving nothing but a smear called rock. I loved goa trance, that vanished, leaving psy trance. But what can you do? Stuff changes. You gotta roll with it.

You sound like you're at least seventy.

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Lilja Music Addict Join Date: Jan 2012 Posts: 521	Regardless of what you think of her, Mariah Carey has a heck of a vocal range. She even won a guiness record for highest note ever recorded. I remember hearing a while back that she could even open garage doors with her voice...which could come in handy if you lost your clicker Celine Dion won Eurovision for Switzerland in 1988 with this song..that's a pretty big deal (if you are into Eurovision like me ): Last edited by Lilja; 10-15-2015 at 10:34 AM.

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