R&B singer Kelly Price is really going after everyone. On part
one of the "R&B Divas LA" reunion show, host Wendy Williams
confronted her about comments she made on social networking site
Twitter, stating Mariah Carey can't sing. Price used to be Carey's back
up singer and left before the singer wanted her to do so.
Williams, who called Price a "mean bully" read her tweet
about Carey, "I’m looking at a concert on TV right now of a
certain singer and asking myself what happened to your voice. Sometimes
the gimmick goes too far. One day you go to sing and realize it ain’t
happening. This is making my voice hurt."
I'm not a fan of how Mariah Carey got her record deal (having sex
with Sony Music president Tommy Mottola while he was married with small
kids, breaking up his marriage, then marrying and using him for preferential
treatment at the label). Not a fan of Carey repeatedly stealing
copyrighted music from stars such as Earth, Wind and Fire and the
Emotions (for which she was sued) as well as ripping off lesser known
songwriters (who also sued her).
However, when Carey began in the early 1990s, it did appear she
could sing very well. Price is attributing it to a studio gimmick. But
seriously, if you could do that in a studio then Rihanna and Britney
Spears would sound like Whitney Houston. There is a physical change
regarding the sound of Carey's vocals around the time of her third CD
"Music Box" when her voice began to deteriorate. You can hear
the deterioration on "Music Box" as compared to her
self-titled debut CD.
Kelly Price
Other singers have experienced similar things, but Carey's is one of
the most notable vocal declines in pop music history. Her former
labelmate Celine Dion stated she had lost her voice for a few weeks,
but it came back. Dion still sounds the same today, with no decline.
However, I always wondered what happened to Carey, as singers'
voices usually don't change/decline until they are in their sixties
(some singers experience no negative change at all, such as Patti
Labelle). I've heard singers in their eighties and their voices didn't
change the way Carey's did, especially over the course of a couple
years.
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