Posted January 1, 200916 yr Well i used to love Mariah back in the days of the ballads and i must admot im not such a big fan of her recent material or even her last 4-5 studio albums which mariah do you prefer?
January 1, 200916 yr mariah became better in time. her alltime career peak (musically) was 1997 butterfly had the best ballads and midtempo songs.. emc² is her second best album ever.. mariahs best music can be heard on butterfly emc² emotions teom
January 1, 200916 yr Author ballads for me i so prefered mariah then i used to be excited about her albums then now i wudnt buy them for nothing
January 1, 200916 yr Old. She tries way too hard with the new stuff. As much as i love some of the material; She tries too much
January 2, 200916 yr Author im so happy with the result so fa r for a while i thought i may have been alone in prefering the old mariah
January 3, 200916 yr Mariah didn't debut until 1990. Anyway, I think her last two are my favourite albums. But 'Fantasy', 'Dreamlover', 'Vision Of Love', 'Emotions' and 'Hero' are some of my favourite Mariah songs. But I'd also say 'Heartbreaker', 'Migrate', 'We Belong Together', 'Get Your Number' and 'It's Like That' are some of my favourites. It's almost like old Mariah and new Mariah are two different artists to me. I went for the new one though because those are the albums I've listened to more though I probably like more singles from 1990-1998 than 1999-2008 but that's because the Charmbracelet and Glitter eras were a bit rubbish.
January 5, 200916 yr Mariah was best with her ballads. I feel like she sold her soul to regain her popularity and it's just not the same.
January 5, 200916 yr Without a doubt, her best period was doing ballads. The new stuff is very dull in comparison and doesnt make best use of her amazing voice.
January 7, 200916 yr Author Im delighte dto see im not the only one by any means who prefers the old material,i would love mariah to do an album of ballads again
January 7, 200916 yr Like someone said, it's like comparing two different artists when you look through the catalogue. I'm into more of the fresh sound. I dug her Emancipation era most. She completely reinvented herself and it proved to be just as successful. She was becoming a bit bland, and it was time for a change. I love Mariah in general, though. Vision of Love was a perfect debut single for the time, but it's quite dated now and songs like that wouldn't give her major success in her native of USA.
January 8, 200916 yr Without a doubt, her best period was doing ballads. The new stuff is very dull in comparison and doesnt make best use of her amazing voice. I guess part of the reason is because she doesn't really have that amazing voice any more. I know they can work wonders in the studio but there must be some limits? Im delighte dto see im not the only one by any means who prefers the old material,i would love mariah to do an album of ballads again I'm not sure why you speak as if she hasn't recorded a ballad since the mid nineties. :lol: What about "We Belong Together", "Bye Bye", "I Stay In Love", "Thanx 4 Nothin", "Through The Rain" etc. A whole album of ballads would be pretty dull and would fail to sell these days. As AAC said, she completely reinvented herself, mostly because she had to. She still does ballads but I'll just as happily listen to something like "Migrate" or "Get Your Number" from her latest eras. I'm happy that Mariah "sold out" because she'd have been shelved and retired from music if she carried on the way she was before 'The Emancipation' came along. (though she's been more R&B since or before "Honey")
January 8, 200916 yr I guess part of the reason is because she doesn't really have that amazing voice any more. I know they can work wonders in the studio but there must be some limits? I'm not sure why you speak as if she hasn't recorded a ballad since the mid nineties. :lol: What about "We Belong Together", "Bye Bye", "I Stay In Love", "Thanx 4 Nothin", "Through The Rain" etc. A whole album of ballads would be pretty dull and would fail to sell these days. As AAC said, she completely reinvented herself, mostly because she had to. She still does ballads but I'll just as happily listen to something like "Migrate" or "Get Your Number" from her latest eras. I'm happy that Mariah "sold out" because she'd have been shelved and retired from music if she carried on the way she was before 'The Emancipation' came along. (though she's been more R&B since or before "Honey") Exactly. She still does ballads - just not those mellodramatic clichéd pop ballads backed by a choir. Now, she has produced some of the best pop ballds of all time and Music Box is one of the best albums ever made, but her early 90's image would not work now. She does plenty of ballads, but now they're just contemporary. I do get her appeal before she went into R&B as I've always loved her, but it's called being savvy. She knew she was almost yesterday's news (which she was becoming before Emancipation).
May 4, 200916 yr Author I just wish she could return to makinig an album of that style for her new album
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