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I'm not sure if what I said about Mariah Carey was taken wrong. I don't think anyone can deny that Mariah's changed her style from when she debuted 15 or so years ago to now. That's all I was saying. She definitely has a more "urban" feel to her now. I wasn't comparing Mariah to Fergie if that's what you thought. No, no, no. I wouldn't say that at all.
As for what Katharine said back at the end of Idol. Yeah, she did say Norah Jones/Joss Stone back then. Although I'm wondering if she was seeing how far she could push things. How much she could get away with. I think she was definitely trying to say, "I'm not doing fluffy pop ballads!" when she said that. However, I think she discovered in the process that she had a little more power than she imagined she did. And then maybe she found out that all these fancy R&B producers were willing to work with her and she thought, "Wow, I can go even more mainstream than I imagined!"
Just a guess trying to explain the change. Although we're still not totally sure what the entire album sounds like at all. We don't know what these "powerful ballads" sound like. All we have is about 4 1/2 minutes of stuff that may or may not be on the album. At least in the form we have them now.
Although that quote makes it sound like the jazzy, bluesy stuff would be predominant on the album. It isn't. The contemporary stuff is. But all of what she mentioned sounds like it'll be on there. She'll have a little Joss Stone/Norah Jones...it just won't be all like that. But is this surprising? That her album is a little bit of everything. That's Katharine.
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