She sings carefully, with no interpretive knack.
That's different here too, especially on "Globo," a melancholy ballad sung carefully in octaves with Mr. Zenón; and on a version of the tango standard "Los Mareados," about star-crossed lovers attempting to drink away their fate.
The two other songs in English are "Thank You," by David Poe, and "A Case of You," by Ms. Mitchell, each sung carefully, and each hewing to the album's implicit theme of dualism.
It began slowly as Ms. Arby sang about carefully fording a crocodile-infested river, then galloped on safer ground, moving at breakneck speed behind her joyful wails.
They called themselves One Direction and every note they sang, every carefully over-practiced gesture, every fluffy strand of hair seemed a dead on pastiche of boys in a band.
Well sung and carefully considered, her final scene was muted, settled at the same low emotional temperature as most of her performance.
Verna's Sharpless, meanwhile, is beautifully sung, and carefully characterised as a reticent, stiff-backed bureaucrat increasingly adrift in an emotional situation over which he has no control.
In the ballad "Maps," when she carefully sang the line "They don't love you like I love you," many women in the crowd turned to the men they were with and mouthed the lyric, making it theirs.
He is a dextrous rapper, but he simply cannot sing outside the carefully controlled studio environment.
