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What other music are people into right now? (97,338) by Todd from Sydney, Australia Always curious to hear what other music MC fans are into at the moment. I've recently and accidentally developed quite a fondness for country music after hearing "Tennessee Whiskey" by Chris Stapleton. This has thoroughly confused my Spotify, and after finding all sorts of new "yee-hawww" songs I like, my "made for you" auto playlists are now completely [censored] up. (Thursday 11 February 2021; 11:35)

Re: Favorite Mariah album? (97,318) (97,337) by Todd from Sydney, Australia I think the Emancipation of Mimi would be my favourite, very closely followed by Butterfly and/or Merry Christmas. (Thursday 11 February 2021; 11:31)

Re: Favorite Mariah album? (97,328) (97,336) by TJ from Norway The big five-o? Really? I always believed I was the oldest one here. But then again, I stopped counting after 23. (Wednesday 10 February 2021; 19:37)

Re: Favorite Mariah album? (97,319) (97,335) by 123 from USA Stacey it's my favorite album as well. I love the pic. Wish it would be used as an updated pic to the 25th anniversary to her perfect album with Slipping Away attached as a bonus. That era and the music was perfection. (Tuesday 9 February 2021; 17:58)

Re: Cool On You (97,332) (97,334) by 123 from USA Yeah I do not care for One Night sans the intro. I thought it was cheesy. I've let it play a couple times and it's tolerable but glad it didn't make the cut. I prefer Slipping Away to be added in a 25th anniversary edition of my favorite album Daydream. (Tuesday 9 February 2021; 17:56)

Re: 4Real4Real was the original Ribbon? (97,325) (97,333) by this_is_qhm from the Philippines Ribbon is much better, though. Better executed, more melodically interesting, and catchier. It's like 4real4real meets the darker production sonics of Side Effects. (Tuesday 9 February 2021; 16:57)

Re: Cool On You (97,309) (97,332) by Terna from Nigeria "Cool on you" for me too was an instant favorite sparse production and all. While on the other hand, I skipped "One Night" mid song with the very first listen. I haven't played it ever since either. Haha. (Tuesday 9 February 2021; 14:46)

Re: Favorite Mariah album? (97,318) (97,331) by Terna from Nigeria Butterfly. (Tuesday 9 February 2021; 14:43)

Re: Favorite Mariah album? (97,318) (97,330) by Lainsky from Philippines Ever since it was released, Butterfly have become and will always be my favorite album of hers. The rest of the albums interchange depending on my mood. Lately, I played mostly Caution and The Rarities. (Tuesday 9 February 2021; 04:08)

Re: 4Real4Real was the original Ribbon? (97,325) (97,329) by LoverboyFirecracker from Canada I totally hear it it now. (Tuesday 9 February 2021; 01:35)

Re: Favorite Mariah album? (97,319) (97,328) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Oh Stacey, your kids must go loopy if you have that album on repeat. I love Daydream. But I cannot forgive Mariah for leaving One Night off of that record. It's so absolutely insane. The same goes for All I Live For and Here We Go Around Again and Cool On You and Mesmerized and Loverboy Firecracker Original and Out Here On My Own. Like most Mariah albums there are lesser favoured tracks and a couple I could do without, but The Rarities is genuinely my favourite album in spite of these same flaws. I'm with you. I can play Daydream back to back every day and twice on Eric's birthday (the big five-o this year). But The Rarities is genuinely my goto album every day and I don't see it stopping. It is so thrilling. How is your husband, by the way? I hope he and the rest of your family are well. (Monday 8 February 2021; 21:35)

Re: Favorite Mariah album? (97,318) (97,327) by Tijl from Belgium "Butterfly" will always be precious to me as during that era I really became enamored with Mariah. I really liked "Memoirs" when it was released and listened to it non-stop. After all these years my favourites interchange depending on my mood. As music is profoundly intertwined with memories and strong emotions, good or bad. Perhaps that is why, despite really enjoying "Caution" as an album, I hardly listen to it nowadays. It is just too hard to relive that time in my life. (Monday 8 February 2021; 21:30)

E=MC3 (97,326) by Andrew from the United Kingdom Rereading lots of threads here I just wanted to state to Mariah or Mariah's team reading this that a sequel to the upbeat single driven nature of E=MC2 is what's called for but it should not be another retread of familiar sounds. Mariah did Unforgettable and it *suited* her. Dance remixes and up-tempo always did before she abandoned it for rather over familiar formulas. I don't recall one person here resisting Unforgettable but everyone (almost) resisting I Don't. That song and Why You Mad? And Infuhmuzz and Infinniddee and so on remain largely hated by the lambs. One of Mariah's gifts used to be taking a current sound and making it hers and owning it. C&C said it in 1993. This isn't her trying, this is hers. However, stuck in the past retreading the same old formulas will kill her recording wise. Something current with a Mariah twist that is fun and accessible and emotive would do well. One of the great things about Cruise Control was that it didn't require an octave jump of screeching. It was a refined song from start to finish. Shawn Mended listens to "old school" Mariah because it sounded refined and fun and accessible with fantastic melodies and beats. It made people happy so they bought it, they played it, they talked about it. E=MC3 is a term I have in my head for a level of currentness and sophistication and refinement and fun and so on that Mariah needs to find again. And for the the love of God, work with new or underused people, take from different inspirations even. Use Mark Shaiman and listen to Tchaikovsky. Listen to Eighties Whitney and look at Ariana's interpretation of it. There is more to recording that Y'all Know What This Is. Because we all do. It had its day. That was fine back then. Now, time for new genius, please. (Monday 8 February 2021; 21:25)

4Real4Real was the original Ribbon? (97,325) by The Real Deal from USA Has anybody else noticed the music, melody structure and harmonizatons of 4Real4Real sound almost identical to Ribbon? (Monday 8 February 2021; 20:44)

Re: E=MC2 (97,323) (97,324) by The Real Deal from USA I agree - or at the very least they could've cross promoted "Migrate" to urban and "I Stay In Love" to pop/AC, or they could've released "Migrate" as a standalone single and release "I Stay In Love" as a third. By the time they did release it, the album was already an afterthought. (Monday 8 February 2021; 18:18)

Re: E=MC2 (97,312) (97,323) by 123 from USA I love I Stay In Love and it should have been the second single over Bye Bye. It might be in the save vein as WBT but it's still good and one of the few vocal moments in the album. It would have been a number 1 record because that's what the public wanted from her at the time. The only problem with E=MC2 is that she stays in her mid range with no real vocal moments versus all the singing she was doing on the Mimi album and people weren't really feeling that. Plus she disappeared from all promo as Bye Bye was released and right before the album and didn't come back to promote until July. By then, the public was no longer interested in the album or single. (Monday 8 February 2021; 16:09)

Re: 4Real4Real (97,305) (97,322) by 123 from USA I always loved this song from first listen. The melody is super catchy. I know the some of the lyrics are questionable (hotter than cable tv?) but the melody is so good and the repetition of 4real at the end is just super catchy. (Monday 8 February 2021; 15:59)

Re: Cool On You (97,313) (97,321) by 123 from USA I love Cool On You from the first listen. It's classic uptempo sassy Mariah. I agree that the production sounds sparse and unfinished. I also wouldn't have minded some more vocal at the end of the song. I would have liked it as a single. I would have probably replace Bye Bye or OOC. They aren't bad songs but they don't really do anything for me. (Monday 8 February 2021; 15:50)

The love of my life (97,320) by We are lambily from USA 80's legend Bonnie Tyler recalls a famous travel encounter with Mariah Carey in a new interview: "I once found myself a seat away from Mariah Carey on a flight from New York. I'd heard stories she was a diva but she was lovely. We chatted over a glass of bubbly." Yet here is another story that completely reassures what I have always known, Mariah is a sweetheart. The fact that she has spent 30+ years in the business and people still speak so highly of her says a lot. My goal for 2021, is for Mariah to keep providing funny segments, quest appearances for tv shows and stuff like that. 2020 was a great year and I hope they continue on this path. I really do want a new album but I want her to take her time. She should do features for other people's albums. (Monday 8 February 2021; 07:27)

Re: Favorite Mariah album? (97,318) (97,319) by Stacey from USA Daydream. Daydream. Daydream. Did I mention my favorite album is Daydream? (Monday 8 February 2021; 02:41)

Favorite Mariah album? (97,318) by Libra Lamb from USA I think that my favorite Mariah album depends on my mood. I definitely can't say that I have a favorite, I love them all, but my "favorite" changes all the time. Depending on what's going on in my life, I bounce around. That's the thing though, she's done almost every genre. I do miss those days when we would get some good remixes. It's been a while since we got really hot remixes. Maybe next album. Fingers crossed. (Sunday 7 February 2021; 23:38)

Re: Cool On You (97,309) (97,317) by Stacey from USA Cool On You is one I listen to as well as Mesmerized. (Sunday 7 February 2021; 23:36)

Re: E=MC2 (97,312) (97,316) by The Real Deal from USA I Stay In Love is my second favorite MC song of all time. My first is Can't Let Go. I honestly think it sounds more like Can't Let Go as opposed to We Belong Together or Don't Forget About Us. If anything the song with you has more of the harmonic structure of those two aforementioned. And as far as single choices from e equals MC squared I would have chosen the following: Touch My Body, Migrate, I'm That Chick (with intro), I Stay In Love, I'll Be Loving U Long Time (solo). I do like Cruise Control but I always felt there was something missing from the song such as where she spells out the word Cruise I feel like that should have been omitted or that needed to be repeated twice. So that being said, I would not have chosen that as a single. And even though Side Effects charted for a week, I don't think that its chorus was catchy enough for single material. (Saturday 6 February 2021; 21:34)

Re: E=MC2 EPs (97,315) by BFF from United States I wonder why she left off "Bye Bye" or if something happened. Seems like there were multiple versions that could have been included on an EP. "E = MC2" is one of my least favorite Mariah albums. Although I would have loved to see a few more of the singles go to #1, it really just felt like she was recycling ideas already explored on "The Emancipation of Mimi," which I like but think is slightly overrated. I thought the "Memoirs" album was much stronger than "E = MC2." Everything in Mariah's post-2001 period is pretty hit or miss with me with the exception of "Me I Am Mariah", which is a great album with a silly title. (Saturday 6 February 2021; 21:18)

Re: E=MC3. Two towsun' twenny one. Watch it. (97,304) (97,314) by LoverboyFirecracker from Canada "You can keep your One Mo Gen and Givin' Me Life snoozefests while you sit in your armchair with your cocoa. I wanna sing, dance and party. " Oh, definitely. I'll take "E=MC2" over "Blahtion" any day. It's probably my favourite album from hers. So much fun. (Saturday 6 February 2021; 18:28)

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