![]() It's a weird album, filled with world beats played out on synthesizers with Enya's crisp enunciation giving it a nearly choral feel. While Watermark has its roots in traditional Irish music with Celtic rhythms and melodies that flow as easily as a Riverdance routine, its music truly doesn't fit into any established genre. When Watermark was released in 1988, rock critic Robert Christgau gave the album a D+, saying that the album "makes hay of pop's old reliable women-are-angels scam." It's a fair assessment, but he says that like it's a bad thing - when in fact, it's why the album should be included in a canon of the greatest albums made by women. In an occurrence that could have ended the career of a less confident artist, her follow-up, Watermark, was critically panned. ![]() It's an impressive feat made even more impressive by the fact that her self-titled debut album was scarcely remarked upon by the global press. And in the past 16 years, Enya has spent 283 weeks - about five and a half years - in the No. Her fans kept her 1991 album Shepherd Moons on the Billboard 200 chart for 238 weeks. ![]() Turning The Tables A New Canon: In Pop Music, Women Belong At The Center Of The Storyĭespite her lack of interest in the trappings of fame (save for the castle she bought herself), Enya truly is famous.
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