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well... in Mariah's defence, the best vocalists aren't on mainstream music anyway..
even cuz mainstream music is very image oriented and most of it's songs aren't as complicated as more traditional music pieces like operas and enka... even because those singers are trained to excel their singing without technological suports, as those more traditional styles were created as a way to make an artist being heard by an audience having only their voices to rely on, while in mainstream music even the most gifted vocalists ( mariah, celine, beyonce, aguilera, michael, etc) are always using technological enhancement in order to deliver a superhuman like espetacle.
also, the average music listener is more interested in emotion than skill, so, a flawed voice (like ayu, hikki, namie, koda, madonna, britney, rihanna, janet) that can deliver the right amount of emotion, sometimes even because of the flaws on the singing technoque, is better than a very skilled singer that delivers this emotion on a less popular and more erudit way when we talk about pop.
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