I need a better receipt than that. The quality of that video is very low and there is a lot of distractions going on with all the confetti crap.
Mariah is a master magician.
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Mariah Carey releases 14th studio album - Me. I Am Mariah...The Elusive Chanteuse
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I need a better receipt than that. The quality of that video is very low and there is a lot of distractions going on with all the confetti crap.
Mariah is a master magician.
Full of manipulation? hmmm. I disagree. Cry. is basically just her crooning over a piano. The Art of Letting Go has the least amount of production and manipulation of any song I've heard in the past 5 years.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZlObJAlSi78
Leona Lewis
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gerL you know studio-riah vocals mean nothing
If you want a valid receipt, at least make the effort tbh
gerL you know studio-riah vocals mean nothing
If you want a valid receipt, at least make the effort tbh
I never understood why people disregard her voice in the studio. If it's not her voice who's voice is it? It's not Miley's voice i don't think. I don't think it's Leona's voice. It's not Celine's voice.
To be honest, her voice is polished in SOME songs, but you can hear the true quality of Mariah's vocals in songs like Cry (which is honestly the most "flawed" I think Mariah has EVER let us hear her sound in a studio recording) and the "You Don't Know What To Do" intro, which is just her straight up singing with very little accoutrements to mask her vocals.
Mimi's voice is in fine shape on this album.
Speaking of You Don't Know What to Do...I LOVE that intro...
You need to go
Don't look so surprised
Cause we had a love
That won't be immortalized
Say you need me now
So lost without me now
But our little romance is through
Because BAsically BOy, you
You just don't know what to do
OHHHHHHHHHHHHH
That intro is SO Mimi.
Mimi's voice is in fine shape on this album.
Speaking of You Don't Know What to Do...I LOVE that intro...
You need to go
Don't look so surprised
Cause we had a love
That won't be immortalized
Say you need me now
So lost without me now
But our little romance is through
Because BAsically BOy, you
You just don't know what to do
OHHHHHHHHHHHHH
That intro is SO Mimi.
Crazyorloco
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On the final track of the album she explains why the album's title is so simplistic. The rear album art is a drawing she made when she was three:
3? Hell no. It's hard enough drawing a face at three. There's a bunch of details and advanced shapes here. She was older when she drew this.
And she knows how to write... -_-
Yeah maybe 6 at the earliest lol
SweetDonuts
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One of her very best albums, now if she can get back to how she looked last year, that was hot.
There are interviews from years back where she's shown/talked about this picture, it wasn't like it was made up for the album (like some believe).
There are interviews from years back where she's shown/talked about this picture, it wasn't like it was made up for the album (like some believe).
Depends. What era of Mariah do you like? This is essentially Emancipation of Mimi sprinkled with some Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel RnB and a touch of Butterfly.
The answer is yes! You can listen to it on spotify for free.
Sounds good! Thanks!
Because a person's voice can be manipulated in the studio in such a way that it sounds more impressive than what the person is actually capable of. Case in point. She's no way, no how capable of doing that live.
In truth, most any singer's studio performance is manipulated like this at least insofar as adding extra resonance. You never hear just a straight mic feed when you listen to a pop performance, anyway. Even something like that Whitney performance of How Will I Know isn't just the mic feed; it's the post-production vocal track. This is what Mariah sounded like in 1997, for instance, on a straight unenhanced mic feed. Compare it to the final studio performance, and you should hear how her voice seems bigger and, well, enhanced. You can hear the damage in her voice much more apparently than you can hear it in the final studio version. You can even hear the part, at the climax, where two different runs are edited together which is sort of disguised in the final version!
And her voice is in better shape than it is has been in awhile, but you need to be drinking a special fanboy Kool-Aid to believe that the higher belted notes aren't the result of multiple takes and vocal layering. When she sings notes above C#5 live these days they tend to be very rough and that performance of The Art of Letting Go is a great example of that issue. Granted, there are some exceptions to the trend; for whatever reason she sings impromptu notes (e.g. Love Takes Time) or I'll Be There (the C#5s/E5s) much better than she sings them in other songs.
SecretMoblin
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!!! stan
Mariah Carey
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They don't let virgins in. This ain't Nickelodeon, baby.
PhoenixDark
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Come on bros and broettes, how did you fall for Baconbitz's trolling like that.
The real blemish on Mariah's honor is that she dated Eminem.
The real blemish on Mariah's honor is that she dated Eminem.
Come on bros and broettes, how did you fall for Baconbitz's trolling like that.
The real blemish on Mariah's honor is that she dated Eminem.
She dated who?
And yet, for all his braggadocio about having dirt on her in the form of compromising pictures, he's yet to produce any. Hmmm...Come on bros and broettes, how did you fall for Baconbitz's trolling like that.
The real blemish on Mariah's honor is that she dated Eminem.
I've listened to it twice now and it's not as good as her previous three albums. But that's just me. There are far more hits than misses. I don't think it's as good as anything she's done in the last ten years, but that doesn't mean it's still not a good outing.
Mariah Carey
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She dated who?
Yeah seriously I don't know her.
i see this low key shade
This is Mumei's preferred method of shade.
the kind of tactics you have to resort to when you stack up 75k against 238k + actual hits, i suppose
...see what I mean?
Did Rihanna get leapfrogged in the industry by a 14 year old looking imitation cooked up in Nickelodeon labs though?
Did Rihanna get leapfrogged in the industry by a 14 year old looking imitation cooked up in Nickelodeon labs though?
The slight against Ariana was uncalled for. And it wasn't really a leapfrog, more of a pole-vault.
Lol. I love that Mariah is now on GAF.
Did Rihanna get leapfrogged in the industry by a 14 year old looking imitation cooked up in Nickelodeon labs though?
Getting a number one song is considered leapfrogging a legend now? Come back to me when she gets 5, let alone 18.
PhoenixDark
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I have no training in vocals but it's pretty easy to determine Rihanna can't sing. There's nothing wrong with that of course - Mick Jagger can't really sing, neither can Bob Dylan and they both have made quite a bit of great music. My problem with Rihanna is that she seems like little more than a studio creation. Every year the best writers provide her with reference tracks/hooks, the studio cleans up the vocals, and we get a top 10 hit record. The meticulous, machine like precision is Motown-esque, not on a talent level but just in terms of how quickly the stuff is shipped out.
Personally I only like a couple of her songs, the rest make me shake my head. On the flip side Ariana Grande can clearly sing and has a few tracks I like, plus reminds me of my favorite restaurant (Taco Bell). Win win win.
Personally I only like a couple of her songs, the rest make me shake my head. On the flip side Ariana Grande can clearly sing and has a few tracks I like, plus reminds me of my favorite restaurant (Taco Bell). Win win win.
Nameless
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Mariah needs to hire her self a skilled acoustic guitarist and rock it like that going forward. I absolutely adore her voice, but this is the second straight album filled to the brim with hot garbage. On songs that aren't overproduced or blatantly trying to recapture that 'Emancipation' magic, she sounds subdued, bored, and disinterested. Just an all around dry and mechanical offering--a waste of one if the most beautiful voices ever.
Mariah has always been on GAF and serving hot tea since.
Really? I disagree completely. She put so much effort into this album (years worth), I thought you could really feel her emotion on it, compared to Memoirs and even E=mc2.
After listening to it again, I kind of like Thirsty and Make it Look Good.
But if there is one thing I don't like about this album is why does every single song need to have some sort of sound (like someone pouring a drink, or someone writing or drawing something on paper) or a conversation before the song actually starts? Gets very annoying after a while... /rant
Edit: Meteorite is also all right.
But if there is one thing I don't like about this album is why does every single song need to have some sort of sound (like someone pouring a drink, or someone writing or drawing something on paper) or a conversation before the song actually starts? Gets very annoying after a while... /rant
Edit: Meteorite is also all right.
SweetDonuts
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Bored and subdued..?, the emotion is there. Are you really not hearing emotion in Camouflage? the end of Cry? Supernatural?
and the rest of the tracks
If you're interested in acoustic type songs though:
Help Me Make It: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U8PkXNwwS5Y
Right To Dream: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNrxL6dlWCM
Mess, everyone has been so pressed since Rih has proved she was a vocalist, hitting those whistle notes performing "The Monster" with Eminem a the MTV Movie Awards. And the lies that Rihanna can't sing. Must not have seen her multiple televised performances of "Diamonds" or her performance of "Stay" at the Grammys last year.
SecretMoblin
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her SNL performance of Stay remains one of my faves, personally (and 23.5 million views!)
sad that some are unable and unwilling to accept her total domination of global pop music culture, the likes of which haven't been seen since her predecessor whitney.
This truth! Rihanna is the supreme vocalist of our generation, and the lack of credit she gets for being a vocalist like Whitney is truly saddening.
Leona Lewis
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I know it's a trap and that I'm stupid to even reply to this mess, but for the people and the sistren, I must submit that yelping like a rabid dog in heat does not equate to hitting what you generously dubbed "notes," let alone "whistle notes" :-3
By the way, after relistening to Emancipation of Mimi, I can't place this album even near it. The quality of her vocal delivery in 2003 (when she recorded most of TEoM) was the best since her mid-90s material, and I don't think she'll ever get back to that place where her raspy whispering was actually pleasurable to the ear.
I Wish You Knew
This song perfectly demonstrates the balance she reached between tender whispering and unrestrained belting, all with a clean and refined delivery.
Lord, it's so depressing what happened to such an incredible voice.
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