Mariah Carey - Emotions
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Artist: Mariah CareyEdition: Music CD
Audio: English (Unknown)
CD Release Date: 2008-02-01
Music Label: SBME SPECIAL MKTS.
Soundtracks:
- Emotions
- And You Don't Remember
- Can't Let Go
- Make It Happen
- If It's Over
- You're So Cold
- So Blessed
- To Be Around You
- Till the End of Time
- The Wind
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Music Review: 90s guilty-pleasure pop at its most divine, conveyed only as Mariah could do it.
Rating: 5 Stars
A perfectionist always, Mariah really delivered on Emotions. However, this album did not yield quite as many sales as her debut album, released only a year before. Frankly, I don't know why.
1991 was a good year for Mariah career-wise, at least. She won a couple of Grammys, including Best New Artist, had 4 consecutive #1 hits from her debut under her belt, and had completed her second album already. Yet to be household-name superstar-level famous, back when she was only 21, she was still out to prove herself as a singer and songwriter. Still shy in interviews, still sporting her early trademark curly hair and a youthful promise for the future, she had burst onto the music scene just a little over a year earlier, stunning many with her shockingly enormous voice projected from such a tiny body. Performances like "America the Beautiful" at the NBA finals in 1990, which preceded the onset of her debut album, set the stage for a new diva to take over the music scene, and rightfully so. The girl has a vocal range that no other MAINSTREAM pop artist has been able to match before or since.
Back to 1991, though. Emotions is a much better album than her debut, when looked at as a whole. It is a very cohesive collection of songs, which all seem to go together nicely (with the exception of the very last track, "The Wind"). It has some vocally demanding ballads, punctuated at just the right intervals with even more challenging vocally demanding up-tempo numbers. And yes, she freely uses her trademark whistle-register on this album, but the song structures seem more crafted to fit these notes than on her debut, where she would come out of nowhere with a whistle which didn't seem to fit the song. Here, she whistles, but the songs seem more crafted to fit these high notes, "Emotions" being the pinnacle example of this sort of structure. Additionally, this album is a little less over-produced with synthesizers than her debut album (being one year further away from the '80s helps with this). The best songs on the album are:
"Can't Let Go" (I don't know why this only reached #2 -- really, was Color Me Badd or whatever held it from the top spot that much better of a song?)
"To Be Around You" (Definitely one of my favorite uptempo Mariah numbers of all times. It sounds exactly what I remember 1991 should sound like, but in a good way. Not in a way that makes me want to forget that I can remember the early 90s)
"You're So Cold" (Good uptempo number, but what I really like about it is her showing off the lowest register of her voice in the very beginning without any background but a piano.)
"If It's Over" (I like this as a soulful ballad, but also I simply love the fact that, at only 21 years old, Mariah was writing songs with the legendary singer-songwriter Carole King. What do most people have to say for our accomplishments at 21 years old?)
When I first bought the CD, honestly, I wasn't expecting to like most of the songs besides the lead single, Emotions, simply because I hadn't heard of most of them. As a pretty big Mariah fan, I should have known better -- the true gems of her albums are almost never released as singles. However, it has evolved into a CD which I can listen to without skipping over any songs (except "The Wind", but since it is the last track, that isn't too much of a hassle). I tend to listen to CDs only when driving, so "The Wind" with its breathy, slow vocals that I can't understand very well and its jazzy, almost beatless, background, coupled with its minor key tonality, doesn't lend itself to driving if I am constantly needing to read the lyrics to understand her. However, even though I don't enjoy it, I do commend Mariah for taking the artistic stretch and including it on the album.
I highly recommend this album for anyone who feels any sort of nostalgia for the '90s, anyone who likes Mariah Carey's song catalogue or anyone who needs a good purely pop CD that you don't have to think too deeply about while you're enduring the stress of navigating your crazy daily commute.
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