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Music Singer Barb Jungr frets that that maturity and individuality have all put disappear in new music:

"Dido and Katie Melua exemplify this model for endless replicants of a thread of breathy vocalising. Soul sisters gyrate on MTV cunningly sounding wildly improvisational and yet curiously indistinguishable from one another. Where is the new Aretha? The new Ella or Billie? Well, I'd hazard a guess that the young Aretha wouldn't have got past the door of any of the major record companies today. They wouldn't know what to do with her. Whatever one now thinks of Donna Summer, it's curious to note that when she was singing her early disco hits, she always sounded like Donna Summer. When she teamed up with Stock, Aitken and Waterman, she just sounded like anybody else on their roster; they managed to expunge the sex even from Donna Summer - hell, that's some achievement!"

It's actually quite difficult to follow her argument, and although I can see some of her points, I wildly disagree with the contention that the blanding out of vocal styles is still going on, especially in the wierd lumping together of Dido and Melua. Whilst I'm not a fan of the latter I would say that there is as much of a difference between her and the unmentioned Norah Jones as can be -- they're different classes of vocal performance.