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Basically, Mariah Carey has built a singing style around the ability to moan with conviction.
That is not a particularly unusual gift within the realm of contemporary R&B, and it's also a very thin peg on which to hang an entire album. Nonetheless, that is the most obvious attribute of Carey's new Columbia album "Butterfly," which hits stores today.
Song after song, Carey slurs her lyrics in a breathy exhalation hovering somewhere between a murmur and a sigh.
Judging from the opening lines of the first song, "Honey," the objective is to attain some kind of lush pillow talk:
"Honey, you can have me;
When you want me;
If you simply ask me to be there;
And you're the only one who;
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