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| | Charmbracelet Central |
 | | With Charmbracelet, Carey goes out of her way to fix all those aesthetic glitches, tempering the overblown vocals, simpering lyrics, and uninspired funk covers of her last album and returning to what she does best--showcasing her magnificent five-octave voice and pillaging her lift history for inspiration. |
 | | The first single from Charmbracelet, Through the Rain, is an inspirational ballad in the vein of earlier Carey hits such as Hero, and thus represents a departure from the uptempo singles she has more recently used to introduce her increasingly hip-hop-driven CDs. |
 | | Again, Charmbracelet can often be as melodramatic and sappy as a 13-year-olds diary, and the idea here is that Mariah has regained the naiveté that was supposedly lost in the mean world of showbiz. |
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