Are you forgetting Britney's influence on pop music in the late 90's/early 2000's?
The teen-pop craze died in 2000. The Spice Girls, *NSYNC, & Backstreet Boys cease to exist, whereas there are plenty of R&B and pop singers that utilize the melisma technique Mariah popularized. And Mariah has "inspired the entire American Idol vocal school."
The teen-pop craze died in 2000. The Spice Girls, *NSYNC, & Backstreet Boys cease to exist, whereas there are plenty of R&B and pop singers that utilize the melisma technique Mariah popularized. And Mariah has "inspired the entire American Idol vocal school."
Rolling Stone has been very kind to Britney, especially in the past few years. I think you know where I'm going with this...
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Influenced Brandy, Christina Aguilera, Leona Lewis
"When I was little," Mariah Carey says, "I used to wake up with a really raspy voice and" — she shifts to her signature squeak — "talk in a really high voice. My mother couldn't understand it, and she's an opera singer. But then I started to try to sing using that voice." Carey is famous for her staggering vocal range — including those ravishing high notes — and power. Her mastery of melisma, the fluttering strings of notes that decorate songs like "Vision of Love," inspired the entire American Idol vocal school, for better or worse, and virtually every other female R&B singer since the Nineties. But technical skill alone doesn't make for hits, and Carey's radiant, sweetly sexy presence has been knocking them out of the park for two decades. She's scored more Number One singles than any solo artist — 18 and counting.
