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Nov 19, 2002 · Recovering diva Mariah Carey’s highly-anticipated new album, Charmbracelet (yes, she’s perpetually trapped in the eighth grade), reprises the singer’s now-signature mix of hip-hop and pop, but throws in a few happy surprises along the way.
- Butterfly
With her hypersonic wail, dewy-eyed platitudes, and...
- Every Mariah Carey Album Ranked
Every Mariah Carey Album Ranked. We've ranked all of the...
- Review: Mariah Carey, Glitter
Mariah Carey’s new movie, Glitter, has finally given the...
- Butterfly
- Charmbracelet
- Memoirs of An Imperfect Angel
- Music Box
- E=Mc²
- Glitter
- Rainbow
- Me. I Am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse
- Caution
- The Emancipation of Mimi
- Mariah Carey
The sense that Charmbracelet was rushed out to try and control the damage left in Glitter’s wake is inextricably tied in with the album’s DNA. At the time, we admit to feeling admiration that she was at least giving off the impression of dusting it off and stepping back up to the plate…or the hoop, given that the most enduring takeaway from the who...
Having then-It producers The-Dream and Tricky Stewart on the boards for all 17 tracks of 2009’s Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel makes the album one of Mariah’s most sonically consistent, but it also sounds cheap and same-y, lacking the fullness of her best work. Mariah is in fine voice throughout, and there are several standout tracks, including the ...
Notable almost exclusively for its hit singles, Music Box is the album that, following the slightly less chart-domineering Emotions, made Mariah a bona fide superstar. One of those singles, “Hero,” was, tellingly, written for another artist before Tommy Mottola insisted she keep it for herself. One of Mariah’s signature ballads, the song trades in ...
The problem with having a winning formula is that, eventually, it’s going to boil down to just that: a formula. The irresistibly titled E=MC² stands shoulder to shoulder, at least according to my TI-85, with The Emancipation of Mimi in that I honestly prefer Mariah in the loopier, more freewheeling territory of Rainbow and Glitter, but I can’t deny...
Especially in light of a #JusticeForGlitter Twitter campaign that shot the soundtrack to the top of the iTunes chart 17 years after its release on September 11, 2001, it’s tempting to look back fondly at Glitter as an overlooked gem that simply suffered from a case of bad timing. Indeed, the album is dotted with authentically ’80s-inspired treasure...
It’s funny to think that, chronologically, only two studio albums separate Mariah’s most lyrically and musically chaste effort, Music Box, with this, her most unbridled album to date. Butterfly gets all the credit for the singer’s personal and sexual liberation, but you won’t find Mariah dog-whistling herself to orgasm for nearly six minutes on tha...
Like Charmbracelet before it, Me. I Am Mariah… The Elusive Chanteuse hits familiar beats from Mariah albums past in paint-by-numbers fashion: a “We Belong Together” retread (“You’re Mine”), a soul-bearing confessional (“Camouflage”), a dubious ’80s cover song that she somehow manages to make her own (“One More Try”), a disco throwback (“You Don’t K...
Mariah makes it abundantly clear on Caution that she isn’t to be fucked with in this or any other decade. She wisely relies on the rap-inflected R&B sounds that have been her bread and butter since Butterfly, while bringing in unexpected collaborators like Skrillex and Blood Orange. She also switches up the message: In the aftermath of a highly pub...
The Emancipation of Mimi is a peculiar title for many reasons, not least of which is that the album represents neither an obvious personal nor professional liberation for Mariah: By 2005, she was long divorced from both her first husband and record label. The album did, however, mark the first time she seemingly tossed out the proverbial playbook; ...
With rock-inflected kiss-offs like “You Need Me” bumping up against socially conscious anthems like “There’s Got to Be a Way,” Mariah’s self-titled debut is very much a product of its time: slick, eclectic, and easily interchangeable with albums from the same era by Whitney Houston, Celine Dion, and Taylor Dayne. And while artistic constraint is th...
Aug 21, 2001 · Mariah Carey’s new movie, Glitter, has finally given the singer an excuse to dig out her old high school 45s and fully transform herself into the ’80s discoball diva she is at heart.
The disparity between the song's hyper-polished sterility and its almost prepubescent sexuality (as made literal in the song's stupid-brilliant promotional clip) epitomize that elusive pop instinct. With "Touch My Body", Mariah brings sexy back - to the schoolyard.
Mariah is in fine voice throughout the album, and there are plenty of inspired moments to be found: the hard-edged "Standing O"; "Inseparable", which is probably her most successful attempt at a redo of "We Belong Together"; and "Up Out My Face (The Reprise)", which features a kick-ass marching-band arrangement that could have been used to ...
May 16, 2020 · To celebrate the 30th anniversary of #VisionOfLove, we've ranked all of Mariah Carey's studio albums from best to worst. See the full list here:...
"The Roof (Back in Time)" is a song by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, taken from her sixth studio album, Butterfly (1997). It was released as the third single from the album in Europe, on March 20, 1998, by Columbia Records .
