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Strummin' In The Girls' Room: Jason Mraz's Folksy Ditty Climbs The Charts [100 And Single]
Posted on September 05, 2008
Last fall and winter, chart fans noted the return to the radio of a style that, until recently, was pretty unfashionable on Billboard's Hot 100: pure-pop female singer-songwriters.Strummier and sunnier than their Lilith counterparts in the '90s and closer in kinship to California's post-Joni ladies of the '70s, two gals with hard-to-spell names led this '07 boomlet with a pair of Top Five smashes: Colbie Caillat, with Bubbly, and Sara Bareilles, with Love Song. The surprise success of American Idol's Brooke White, who seemed every week to be channeling Carole King, only fueled the theory.T...
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