ARTE France

The French/German TV channel ARTE aired a half-hour documentary about Mariah Carey in its “Queens of Pop” special series last night, July 27th. Watch ARTE’s Mariah Carey special on YouTube and/or download a video file below.

EXCERPTS:
Daphne Brooks – Instructor, Princeton University: “She is our greatest singing act that we’ve seen in decades, for decades and decades.”

“Our reality shows, they are contests so it’s about being able to triumph in a particular way that is spectacularly satisfying to the masses. And no artist has been more spectacularly satisfying at the level of singing in the past 20 years than Mariah Carey.”

David Lee Brewer – Opera singer/vocal coach: “She’s alone. She’s in her own category.”

“White America believed that they had found ‘The Great White Hope.’ White people everywhere believed that she was white singing like a black girl. And with such a voice! My God! All of my white friends, ‘Have you heard this new Mariah Carey?’ All of a sudden Mariah Carey was all over the scene like in a splash.”

“Mariah Carey is a league of her own. No one can sing as high or as low. This means that you are a phenomenon. That’s what it means. The normal person has 2½ to 3 vocal range. Mariah is off the chart. She makes sounds. She has complete control of her vocal range. And why? Because she studied. She studied with a woman who happens to be her mother, who happens to be a colleague of mine, who’s an opera singer.”

“Her white legion of fans who believed her still identified with her. And because of that she was able to bridge every gap there was. Mariah Carey is single-handedly responsible for bridging the gap between Pop and Hip-hop, and Soul and R&B. She is responsible for bridging all of those. No other singer. She is.”

Diane Warren – Songwriter: “She wrote really accessible songs that have touched people. People connected with her.”

David Morales – DJ/Remixer/Producer: “She’s allowed to be a diva in this business as a female artist, as a professional because she is the sh*t.”

Mariah Carey Documentary “Queens of Pop” – ARTE France, July 27, 2011
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Watch part 1 HERE
Watch part 2 HERE

(MDJ)