Christmas is Mariah Carey time, basically her first few albums up to and including the Christmas album - i.e. before she got into all of the hip-hop and rap stuff.
Better singer than anyone in metal, period. It's too bad most of her music is not very good.
Ugh. I hate to be a hater, but I can't stand Maroon 5. Just way to banal and formulaic pop to me. I don't believe they focus group their songs, but it always sounds like that to me. Interestingly, I actually have a lot of respect for the guys in the band because they write their own stuff. And Adam Levine can play pretty much every instrument. But I'd just like to hear something out of what I consider the safe zone. Then again, I'm aware they don't have to cater to my tastes!
For my constant rotations I have a hard time doing a full album unless it's a theme album, and then it feels more like one big story. My favorite for that is The Wall. But I've also lately found myself listening to a lot of AAL and Chimp Spanner because there's enough dynamic variation in their songs to prevent it from all blending together.
There's a couple Maroon 5 songs I like, but I rarely put them on unless I'm in a dancing mood. I like Jason Mraz for similar reasons. Fun music! Can't stand Taylor Swift though.
Was on a Steven Wilson binge last week, now it's Ihsahn, 3, and Deftones.