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Apr 24, 2015 · Why 'The Emancipation of Mimi' Made Mariah Carey a Star for the 2000s. Ten years ago, Mariah Carey reinvented herself for a new generation, and Jermaine Dupri remembers how it happened. In 2005 ...
The Emancipation of Mimi. The Emancipation of Mimi is the tenth studio album by American R&B singer Mariah Carey, released through Island Records on April 12, 2005. The album was considered Carey's "comeback album" by critics and became her highest-selling release in the US in a decade. [1]
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Both songs were composed with Dupri and among the last cuts to be completed for the album. “It’s Like That” was picked as The Emancipation Of Mimi’s first single and returned Mariah to the US Top 20 on its release in January 2005. Later nominated for a Grammy for Best Female Pop Performance, it had replaced the shuffling “Stay The Night” on the rel...
Released just a few weeks after “We Belong Together,” on April 12, 2005, The Emancipation Of Mimi (a fitting title, given that Mimi was a name Mariah used among her closest circle, and creative emancipation was certainly the order of the day) earned Mariah the best opening-week sales of her career to date. If anything, the album’s 14 songs liberate...
Rapper Twista joins Mariah on “One And Only” and Nelly appears on “To The Floor,” both effective album cuts that position Mariah as a credible urban draw when the out-of-the-park success of “We Belong Together” could have easily drawn her back towards the MOR heartlands she was obviously keen to visit, but not remain stranded in. “Say Somethin’” (w...
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Feb 18, 2024 · For the bulk of Mimi, Carey reunited with Jermaine Dupri, the So So Def super-producer who had worked on Charmbracelet, 1996’s “Always Be My Baby,” and produced her best remixes (“Honey ...
Apr 5, 2005 · But despite her recent willingness to discuss her private life, Mimi is, for the most part, a party record, exemplified by its Jermaine Dupri-produced first single “It’s Like That,” in which Mimi celebrates her emancipation by arriving at the party already shit-faced: “I came to have a party/Open off that Bacardi…Purple taking me ...
Nov 20, 2020 · Makin' It Last All Night (What It Do) (Ft. Jermaine Dupri) Lyrics. To celebrate the album’s 15th anniversary, The Emancipation of Mimi was re-released exclusively on vinyl on November 20, 2020 ...
Listen to The Emancipation of Mimi by Mariah Carey on Apple Music. Stream songs including “It's Like That (feat. Jermaine Dupri & Fatman Scoop)”, “We Belong Together” and more.
