>she sings in the Star Search tradition.
>
>I don't believe she sounds like she grew up in the church...
>she sounds like she grew up singing along to Mariah Carey
>records.
>
>That's the case with many of today's "sangers" we have today
>(Aguilera, Yonce, Kelly Clarkson) etc... their idea of soul
>singing is kinda like a copy of a copy of an echo.

At least, I could hear some conviction from Mariah when she says she has been alienated, Beyonce(a good singer too) sounds like a mannequin if it had a voice.