It's cloying, and she sounds unremarkable outside her genre.
On the canvas before her is a fiddler copied from "Merry Company," advertising her genre specialty.
But, from the beginning, she was perfectly fitted to her genre.
It's weighty and considered, but there aren't enough hooks to lift Case beyond her genre.
She understands families, with their loyalties and betrayals, better than anyone writing in her genre.
On her second album, "In My Mind," Ms. Headley doesn't try to reinvent her genre.
Here, fully in command of her genre, Austen revels in her characters and their foibles.
A similar instrument, the Cretan lavta, accompanies Flamenco singer Rocío Márquez as she takes her genre back to its Andalusian roots.
She made that boundary porous in a way that enriched literature for all of us, without ever spitting on her genre roots".
Now Ms. Leakes, 44, has landed something most of her genre peers only dream of (or grasp at): a regular role on "The New Normal," a comedy created by Ms. Adler and Mr. Murphy and starting Tuesday on NBC.
(She also worked with the pop producer Jeff Bhasker on a pair of songs, "Holy Ground" and "The Lucky One," that don't take her out of her genre comfort zone but do amp up the intensity).
