Although it generated modest commercial returns, the impact of ‘Je m’appelle Barbra’ has lingered in other ways.
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Working as a powerful conversation starter, the album’s twenty-one tracks collectively bring some painful and uncomfortable truths about America to the surface.
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Every vocal performance on ‘Torch’ is shot through with a genuine longing and wisdom gained from sorrow—the color and texture of Simon’s rich contralto is in peak form throughout the LP.
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With the right team of collaborators at her disposal, Beckham’s debut solo affair actualized her aesthetic goal of something cool but approachable and something commercial but engaging.
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During this crucial juncture in her career, Jackson took stock of her legacy and peered back to where she first centered her creative voice: her breakthrough 1986 album ‘Control.’
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For everything Ellis-Bextor has done since, ‘Read My Lips’ remains a thrilling snapshot of a young woman at the outset of a very promising career in pop.
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A search for identity somewhere lost between Mother Love Bone’s demise and Eddie Vedder’s surfing daydreams, ‘Ten’ is gorgeous & boundless.
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Hailing from the Isle of Wight, the group started their jazz-funk journey with 1981’s eponymously titled debut album.
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Balancing creative control, self-expression and commercial accessibility was an important lesson for Beyoncé to learn so that she could be remembered as more than just a modern day hitmaker.
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Circumstances seemingly aligned to prevent ‘Another Passenger’ from finding the larger audience it deserved, but it has gone on to gain an ardent following with Simon loyalists.
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