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Article: BEST BEATS '08
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- Between the Lines
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- January 8, 2009
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Call it the Year of the Diva, or the Year I Became Just That Much Gayer, but how could you not feel overcome by bigfemale artist albums? Madonna, Mariah, Kylie, Céline, Cyndi - the list goes on, and so did that ear-to-ear smile on my face. For most of them, at least. But only two gay icons swooped into this annual year-end tally (Mariah, at No. 3; Cyndi, No. 6), which means I was left - happily - with divas-in-the -making, hot rock-lite dudes, a lesbian fave and a quasi-country cutie I'm probably too old to listen to.
1 Coldplay, 'Viva la Vida or Death and All His Friends'
A little stylistic switcheroo never hurt - especially when everything starts sounding like it's being engineered in a ...