FinishMySong Blog

There’s a certain vocal technique that’s become known by everyone as the Mariah Carey school of singing. Various other people who are really big in the music industry employ the technique for nearly all their songs, particularly the slower ballad-type material, including Whitney Houston and Christina Aguilera. But Carey is the undisputed queen of this method : where one long note is required sing 23 little ones.

And each time I hear her doing her stuff it makes me wonder ‘Is this person even able to project one pitch continuously for more than, say, a second or two?’ It really is so frustrating to hear Carey singing the most simple melodies in the an unnecessarily complex but utterly ‘showy’ fashion. For example, she was on Magic TV this afternoon providing the female vocal to Luther Vandross’ lead for a version of the famous Richie & Ross duet, Endless Love. Now, the song doesn’t call for much from the female part except for a few harmonies in thirds apart from the main vocal but still Carey managed to ornament her way through the whole thing, adding grace notes and appoggiaturas at every possible place in the music. And it is just PAINFUL to listen to!! This girl, famed for having one of the widest vocal ranges in pop music, really needs to go back to basics with her singing classes!