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Jan 24 10 8:17 PM

kevo2002 wrote:
I don't think Carlos is disputing that Mariah is the better singer (otherwise I don't think he'd be on this messageboard). He's more talking about media hype and critical acclaim for one reason or another.


Precisely.

Mariah is far more an artist (and as I said, she proves this on a deeper level than with just her voice) but the media generally portray Whitney as the greatest female singer of the last few decades. I dont agree but I can see why - she's more showey, its all about the massive belts and little else in subtlely or depth but to most people, thats all they need. She is seen as the pinacle of power vocals and OTT belts. Not knocking her either, she was of course, amazing.

We're also spinning hopelessly off topic anyway - going back to the point, Christina was never in Whitneys league vocally as that EW article claimed. Thats too high a bar for Christina to match. I dont even think she'd manage that at her best.