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[royalan]

It was overcast that day...
And I was feelin some kinda way....

Oh, Mariah, never change....

 

[3phemeral]

I wasn't feeling Cry at first, but then it started getting into gospel-Mariah teas with vocals somehow remind me of her Butterfly album.

 

[Vazra]

So far it sounds like Classic Mariah. So I aint complaining.

 

[3phemeral]

So far it sounds like Classic Mariah. So I aint complaining.

It really does sound like classic Mariah. I'm beside myself. Faded is playing again. Do these Radio streams only play once per user, or do I have access for a certain amount of time?

Where is Touchdown? Does he need a defibrillator?

 

[Aguila]

It was shit until this bop, You Don't Know What To Do.

Let's see about the rest.

 

[royalan]

Dedicated: Giving me riding-in-the-car-top-down-in-the-summer-sunset teas.

Can't lie: Mimi's snatching wigs so far...

 

[<+)O Robido O(+>]

You mean the album is...

???

It's exactly the kind of album you'd expect from an uninspired, washed up, over the hill R&B Diva. It's not bad, per se, it's just not memorable. It's a very cohesive, yet bland album. Roy will inevitably like it. So there's that.


Fake edit: Meteorite is slaying.

 

[royalan]

It's exactly the kind of album you'd expect from an uninspired, washed up, over the hill R&B Diva. It's not bad, per se, it's just not memorable. It's a very cohesive, yet bland album. Roy will inevitably like it. So there's that.


Fake edit: Meteorite is slaying.

This is as close as Rob will get to praising something not made by Prince, Rihanna, or Satancé.

 

[Dr. Malik]

#Beautiful is still such a jam

so far 3/4 aint bad

 

[<+)O Robido O(+>]

This is as close as Rob will get to praising something not made by Prince, Rihanna, or Satancé.

You forgot Madonna trollop.

fake edit: For the love of.... of all the George Micheal songs to cover...

 

[royalan]

Make It Look Good...YAAASSSSS

 

[3phemeral]

Faded is straight up from the MOAIA playbook. Not complaining, though.

 

[cory64]

I ran out of skips already.

 

[royalan]

Ok "You Don't Know What To Do" sealed the deal: the album is great.

Mimi Redeemed!

 

[Leona Lewis]

Ok "You Don't Know What To Do" sealed the deal: the album is great.

Mimi Redeemed!

dat Xtina bloat at the end tho. Should've ended at Camouflage, FULL STOP

Still, her best album in YEARS, decades even

 

[<+)O Robido O(+>]

The 1st song reminds me of the last song from the Dreamgirls movie.

Spoiler

Beyonce's impact.

 

[royalan]

dat Xtina bloat at the end tho

Still, her best album in YEARS, decades even

You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know!

I LIIIIIVVEEE

 

[3phemeral]

I ran out of skips already.

Didn't realize you could skip. lol Makes it easier to check out the new tracks when the released tracks play. Here comes Make It Look Good!

 

[cory64]

I don't see it for Meteorite.
Camouflage is nice.

 

[Leona Lewis]

You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know! You don't know!

I LIIIIIVVEEE

We'll see if you agriH that Camouflage would have been the perfect ending point

 

[royalan]

MONROE SLAYING VOCALS ON SUPERNATURAL

 

[3phemeral]

Her singing along with the harmonica, who knew it would give me life? A HARMONICA.

 

[royalan]

WAIT

METEORITE

Mimi serving Gay-Cocktail-Lounge-Realness

 

[cory64]

"Money ($ * / ...)" isn't on the stream?

 

[Leona Lewis]

"Money ($ * / ...)" isn't on the stream?

nope

for some reason

 

[Dr. Malik]

That Coldplay thing opened NBC’s anemic night with 1.7 mil and a 0.4.

 

[3phemeral]

Unfortunate that her singing those abrupt sections along with Wale weren't on the final track, but I love that she added dem scats.

[edit] Ah ah ah ah - ah ah ah ah ah'm slayed from Supernatural.

 

[royalan]

Camouflage was amazing.

 

[cory64]

Morbah is feeling her oats on this album, I'll give her that

 

[royalan]

One More Try...

 

[3phemeral]

Meteorite is slaying me so far. Reminds me of a track that I'd listen to while playing Rainbow Road on Mario Kart.

Album pre-order SEALED.

 

[Leona Lewis]

Camouflage was amazing.

The track is genius, brilliant, I want to learn the chords on piano this very second, tears streaming down my face

Godriah, those whistles at the end

 

[cory64]

There's not a bad track on this album tbh
Let me spin it again

 

[3phemeral]

Not one but TWO gospel-inspired tracks on this Album? I can't.

 

[royalan]

There's not a bad track on this album tbh

But I thought you ran out of skips tho?

 

[cory64]

^for the previously released tracks
Heavenly her coda to Make It Happen ;________________;

 

[Leona Lewis]

But I thought you ran out of skips tho?

I guess she was skipping the already released stuff

Lord knows I'm not Thirsty for another stroll through Miguel's pretend sexual fantasy

 

[Koodo]

bye, where can I listen to this outside of the anUS. Is this not being streamed on the store proper as well?

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

Um, this album is kind of GREAT

I was not expecting this from the elusive chanteuse!

 

[Dr. Malik]

Sony Tier:

Cry
Faded
#Beautiful
Thirsty
You Don't Know What To Do
Meteorite
Me. I Am Mariah...

Lana Del Rey Tier:

the rest

 

[Leona Lewis]

emotional journey Camouflage

power top dance floor anthem Meteorite

summer jam with the partition open Dedicated

the holy trinity of the album

 

[cory64]

Conventional wisdom says X&Y is Coldplay's worst album, but amidst that record's shiftless bloat, there were real-deal highlights that hit with blunt impact and have since stood the test of time. Ghost Stories contains no such moments, and thus threatens to rob X&Y of its dubious title.

"Ink" is the album's most indefensible moment, musically and lyrically, and the song handily snatches the title of Worst Coldplay Song from X&Y's impossibly leaden, fuckin'-magnets stinker "What If".

The closest the record comes to a bona fide anthem is the moderately enjoyable "A Sky Full of Stars", a rocket-fueled single on the level of "Clocks" and "Speed of Sound" tainted by Swedish dance producer AVICII's cheap-sounding drum presets and boilerplate synth motifs.

Coldplay have become one of the biggest acts in the world since their comparatively modest debut, and as a result Ghost Stories' attempts to return to close-mic'd intimacy come across as out-of-touch as Lucille Bluth asking how much a banana costs.

x

 

[3phemeral]

Did she repurpose One More Try as a reference to her miscarriage?

 

[royalan]

Lord I just preordered a Mariah album.

On first listen: it took her a long-ass-time to get this album out, but at least now we know she wasn't lying about really wanting to get it right, because it shows. Doesn't touch her best work, but the album isn't a lazy effort at all and is miles above her last few albums. I love how midtempo the whole thing is. Very R&B/Pop Lounge...

And she actually out-Retroriah'd Ariana Grande.

 

[Partition]

Why is this Mariah album like actually good????????

 

[Mau ®]

The KINGS remain unbothered.

And #1 on the charts and hearts of their fans.

 

[3phemeral]

OMG Heavenly didn't come off as the slaying type, but it just kept swelling and swelling to Heaven. Gospel Mariah is slaying me over and over.

I DON'T BELIEVE. NO!​

 

[cory64]

Her 21st century trinity tbh

 

[Crumpet Trumpet]

it makes me sad that there will likely not be a hit from this album because nothing strikes me as radio friendly, but the album is so good

maybe meteorite?

 

[cory64]

it makes me sad that there will likely not be a hit from this album because nothing strikes me as radio friendly, but the album is so good

maybe meteorite?

It could be Money.