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GTFO - instant classic (87,468) by Terna from Nigeria Honestly, I feel like GTFO is the strongest track on the new album, and should've been the first single. This song just draws you in and it has repeat value, I find it a breath of fresh air every time it comes on unexpectedly. Now that I have listened to "Caution" in its entirety, I can honestly say that "GTFO" is my favorite out of all 10 songs. My top three songs from "Caution" are: 1. GTFO 2. The Distance Feat. Ty Dollar Sign 3. 8th Grade (Sunday 6 January 2019; 22:49)

Re: With You (87,452) (87,467) by Edward from USA Can you point to me where Mariah stated GTFO should've been the first single? Are we going to start with "The Justification of Mimi", in which everything that supposedly goes wrong is not Mariah's fault as if she doesn't have a say. Now we don't have Stella, JD, Randy, etc. to blame, now it's Epic or maybe Jay-Z or probably Beyonce. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 22:46)

Re: With You (87,462) (87,466) by Edward from USA Randy, that's when Mariah had confidence in penning a whole song by herself. When she did that, it was evident. I love when Mariah collaborates, but the fewer people involved in writing the lyrics, the more quality and Mariah we get. Those lyrics she wrote in the 90's weren't drilled into her head, she came up with them. I hate when some of these lambs imply that everything pre Butterfly wasn't the real Mariah, as if Tommy or somebody else handed her those lyrics. I hope one day Mariah finds her muse and write the lyrics of a whole album by herself. I also hope she doesn't take another 4 year period to release music. From MIAM to Caution the vocal decline is scary and she's only 49. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 22:35)

Portrait (87,465) by Lara from Middle East Sometimes I feel like she wrote it after she was diagnosed with bipolar II and how she decided to handle it at the moment (Sunday 6 January 2019; 22:33)

Re: With You (87,456) (87,464) by B from USA Agreed. Those are my choices for singles as well. Only one single has been released and I for one can't wait to see what Mariah and her team have in store for us this year. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 22:07)

Re: With You (87,457) (87,463) by B from USA Portrait is an introspective look at the woman behind the glitz and glam and glitter. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 22:05)

Re: With You (87,459) (87,462) by Randy from USA Yup Giving Me Life is another example of someone using gay lingo to write a song, and the music and lyric is boring. 8th Grade is boring. I think MC has set the bar so high that starting with Rainbow there has been a gradual slide of music and lyric quality. Daydream and Butterfly were perfection. Not a single song should've been left off. Now we have albums with great moments but aren't thematic, cohesive or lyrically deep. I still get chills when I think of the second verse of Butterfly the song. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 22:05)

Re: With You (87,457) (87,461) by B from USA She played it safe vocally on Caution most likely because she was derided by fans during the MIAM era for recording songs she supposedly wasn't capable of replicating live. She was also accused of using studio engineering and trickery to do so. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 21:55)

Re: Giving Me Life (87,446) (87,460) by B from USA Giving Me Life is my favorite song. This excerpt from Pitchfork's review of Caution explains what I love about the song better than I ever could. "The dreamy, guitar-god coda appended to the simmering Giving Me Life, a bittersweet look back that glides through Barbra Streisand references and an extended face-off between Carey and hip-hop demigod Slick Rick before entering its final phase. Devonté Hynes (aka Blood Orange), a student of slow jams, is Carey’s co-producer here, and his ability to sustain a sumptuous groove then explode it into something completely unexpected clashes with Carey’s controlled charm in a spectacular way." (Sunday 6 January 2019; 21:12)

Re: With You (87,447) (87,459) by B from USA You hate Giving Me Life and 8th Grade? (Sunday 6 January 2019; 21:05)

Re: With You (87,450) (87,458) by B from USA My nephew said he also sings Hero in music class. He's a little lamb. He loves You're Mine ( Eternal). He's always asking me to play it. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 20:59)

Re: With You (87,449) (87,457) by Randy from USA You're missing the point Special K and B. It's not Adele I prefer. It's the music. MC can do Adele better. Look at My All, Outside, Close My Eyes, CTTA, Through The Rain, Reflections (Care Enough), WBT, ISIL, Right To Dream, Languishing. There's not an Adele song out there that compares lyrically and vocally. Nor is there any songs on MIAMTEC or Caution that compares lyrically or vocally. It's almost as if her music is getting younger as she gets older. Do you think lyrically GTFO or Up Out My Face or I Don't fits on Music Box? She was 23 at the time. And by the way I love both those songs but overall as an artist where is the timeless music? Besides Camouflage and Portrait where's lyrical emotional depth? (Sunday 6 January 2019; 20:00)

Re: With You (87,452) (87,456) by MusicfanJ from Germany I love Caution so much. Should have been the single. Second "Giving me Life" and third "8the Grade". And for the younger people "Stay Long Love You". (Sunday 6 January 2019; 19:49)

Re: With You (87,450) (87,455) by MusicfanJ from Germany The music teachers know what they do. But I must admit I like Adele too. She's one of the few younger ones I can listen to, who have a unique voice and is able to write songs. Taylor Swift has a thin voice and Ariana is for me somehow like a kid who is just trendy. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 19:44)

Re: With You (87,450) (87,454) by MusicfanJ from Germany Haha Special K. that's cool. I've noticed the same many times. The stores are often playing Mariah even here. That makes the shopping so much better. They often play "ABMB", "Hero", "Fantasy" and a lot more of her hits. Once they were playing "Thanx for Nothing" and I thought for the first second good music and than I realized it was Mariah. Lol. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 19:35)

Preference (87,453) by Gee from U.S.A. (New York City) Everybody on this board has a Mariah that they prefer but for me I can appreciate pop MC and hip pop all the same it just depends on what MC I want to listen to at the moment. Also I am not mad with anyone’s preferences. Also as Special K touched on MC has such a vast catalog that appeals to so many so her music will continue to airplay whether it’s WY, or Hero or even Fantasy (pop version/remix). (Sunday 6 January 2019; 19:35)

Re: With You (87,436) (87,452) by B from USA GTFO has over seven million views on YouTube so maybe Epic should've listened to Mariah and released it as the official first single instead of With You. Personally, I think they should've went with Caution. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 15:46)

Re: With You (87,436) (87,451) by B from USA Thanks, Special K. You were able to make my point better than I was. Much love and respect. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 15:43)

Re: With You (87,443) (87,450) by Special K from USA It's crazy huh? It's a testament to Mariah's longevity in the game. You know I was at the mall over the weekend. I walked into one store and they were playing ABMB. Then I walk into another store and they were blasting Dreamlover. As I am walking around passing other stores I hear of course AIWFC. Then I walk into Rue 21 and they playing TMB. On the way home while listening to the radio I hear Fantasy and WY (first time I heard WY on the radio). I can't think of any other artist who has a catalog like Mariah's. My 8 year old son came home from school one day singing Hero. Yes, I said Hero. He told me they sing Hero in his music class. Oh damn, guess his music teacher prefers Mariah over Adele. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 14:48)

Re: With You (87,442) (87,449) by Special K from USA 28 plus years and you're still hoping? Well damn that is alot of hope. Well you just keep on keeping on with that hope. Thumbs up. I love Adele. I really do but her albums as a whole are boring as hell to me. You say most people prefer Adele. Hmmm, ok. How about we take it back and compare Mariah to Adele during Mariah's prime. So let's go back to, let's say 93-98. Yeah, 20 plus years ago. Would we be saying "most" people prefer Adele over Mariah? Ah hell to the no you wouldn't. So, name me an artist that has been in the game for almost 30 years that is still releasing albums that most people would prefer over Adele in the present? Hmmm. Well me personally I don't think most people prefer Adele now. I'm sure Ariana Grande would slap you two times with her ponytail and Mickey Mouse ears for saying that. Then Taylor Swift would be in all her feelings and probably write a song about what you said. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 14:27)

Re: With You (87,443) (87,448) by TJ from Norway I know. It's crazy how the time flies. I was 13 when I first heard VOL. Last January I was listening to Charmbracelet the whole month, and had so much fun with that. This January am I dedicating to Emotions. So many good songs, and some weird ones on that album. So many good memories from the time when I first got my hands on that CD. This was before I started collecting everything she released. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 07:53)

Re: With You (87,440) (87,447) by Randy from USA From MIAMTEC I like You Don't Know What To Do, Camouflage and Meteorite. The rest of the album is ok or awful. From Caution I like GTFO a lot, along with Caution and Portrait and A No No but I hate every other song. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 03:58)

Giving Me Life (87,446) by Dove from United States I love every song on Caution and I'm glad she's doing something different. I feel like Caution fits well with what's popular today - low-key singing and simple melodies. Caution is the start of a new era for her (and us). It's an exciting time. In my opinion With You is an Underneath the Stars type of song, it's pretty, and we love it, but it's an album track. IMO Giving Me Life and One Mo' Gen would sound best on radio. I even think the With You video would have looked better with Giving Me Life. It's just a bigger song. The part where she's singing, "feeling myself like I'm Norma Jean" could be the part where she's lying on the ground under the stairs. The rap part could be when she's driving, she could be listening to it on the radio. The end part could be when she's outside (at the Griffith Observatory). That whole video fits better with GML, I think. I really loved her performance of The Distance in the short pink dress. (That style dress is super flattering on her. So is the color pink.) That could have been the video for The Distance and the giant pink dress with the men performance could have been the video for With You. I think it's beneficial to have some kind of visual for every song because sometimes songs aren't given a chance otherwise. We want to listen with our ears and our eyes. Also, make the visuals pleasant so that we'll want to watch over and over. She looks really pretty in the #Beautiful video but there is something off about it that makes it hard to watch repeatedly. Sometimes when I'm cleaning I just put a playlist of videos on and even though I'm not watching every second I do look up and if the video is good (or bad) it makes me associate the song with the video. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 02:14)

Re: With You (87,439) (87,445) by B from USA Preach. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 01:57)

Re: With You (87,442) (87,444) by B from USA Adele reminds me of Celine Dion. I've even read several think pieces that basically say she's the new Celine Dion. I'm not dissing either artist. I love Adele's 21 (Someone Like You is one of my favorite songs) and Celine's Falling Into You. However, like Mariah my heart belongs to R&B and Hip-hop. (Sunday 6 January 2019; 01:52)

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