Mariah Carey‘s fourteenth studio album ‘Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse’ struts into stores one week from today.
Yet, the diva is giving her ever-loyal Lambs and the music buying mass the ability to try-before-they-buy. How? Well, the the LP has been made available to stream in its entirety on iTunes Radio.
After years have delays, has the final product delivered? Has Mimi and the army of hitmakers she’s assembled (a list that includes Darkchild, Hit-Boy, and Mike Will Made It) turned in the album her career so desperately needs?
Take a listen to the album and, as ever, let us know below…
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‘Me. I Am Mariah…The Elusive Chanteuse’
Your thoughts?
This album is everything! God bless Mariah and the music she makes!!!
@TGJ
Yall really need to fix this crappy website!
It has really been going through it!!
Iron out these kinks and bugs already!!!
This is the album she needed. Mariah is back with a heavy R&B influence album. The beats are amazing and her high notes at end of songs are flawless. Great album. Another Emancipation of Mimi here.
CIARA GIVES BIRTH TO BABY BOY!
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Ciara is officially a mom. Sources say the “Body Party” singer gave birth very early Monday morning in Los Angeles.
The baby is the first for Ciara, who is engaged to rapper Future and expected to marry him in the fall.
Future has three other children from previous relationships. One of whom he adopted as his own
In March, La La Anthony and makeup artist Yolonda Frederick threw a baby shower for the new mom, where Carmelo Anthony gifted Ciara with a pair of baby Air Jordans.
Ciara’s rep, Chris Chambers, had no comment.
Congratulations!
Ciara was pregnant? Is it even possible?
LOL IS IT POSSIBLE FOR IGGY TO OUTSELL CIARA? LOL
Congrats Cici!! Wishing you and your son the best!
This album is absolutely amazing, the arrangements, the melodies, her vocals, stellar. This album has delivered the existence of who Mariah Carey is…..The Elusive Chanteuse
Im streaming Mariahs album now…..
Cry – OMG Love it!!!
This album sounds like it will be a hit, Her vocals are on point! Thank You Jesus!
#2 FADED!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I didnt know Mike Will MadeIt produced on this album!!
Slay me bittch!!!!
Yeah the album is GOOD! I am most definitely feeling this! It’s grown and s*** and More in the direction Mariah needed to go in! Vocally she’s slaying and the musicality is on point! 25 years in and you’re still doing it honey YES! Fav tracks : cry, dedicated, make it good, supernatural and a couple others! Yes!
Mind you “thirsty” and “you’re mine” are much better when looked at as album tracks. What the f*** is this b**** doing releasing those two fillers when she has better s*** on there… Way better!!!
OMG I HAVE BEEN DE-WIGGED, INCREDIBLE ALBUM
Love it!!!
An amazing album it was definitely worth the wait. I can’t wait to purchase my copy on the 27th. Kudos Mariah!
BTW congratulations to my fav Ciara on giving birth to a beautiful baby boy.
Yes sis, Im soo happy for her!!!!!
Exciting times…..
I saw your comment in the Gaga post too…. LOVE YOU!
Love you too sis
I really hope she gets the success she deserves for this album
I have a confession…..
I actually really like “Youre Mine” even though it was a massive FLOP.
There I said it……
Why does it’s chart position have anything with your personal liking of the song? You love Ciara Hun so clearly it’s no surprise that you like songs that aren’t commercially successful. No shade cause I love Cici but IJS. You saying it like it’s a guilty pleasure cause it wasn’t popular.
Ooooh
Maybe I do secretly like songs that slide under the radar, and dont get the hype and attention of Bandwagoners…….
BYE
Nothing wrong with that dollface. Own that shiiiit!
This is a GROWN album! She did dat! Her singles are NOT the best on the album. I loved all the song I DID NOT hear before the album streaming begun. I will be most definitely purchasing this album.
Oh god she’s on her schizophrenic s*** again.
Let me go take my medicine boo…
Yes doll face cause the last thing Mariah wants a b**** “living” for her when they were just talking über ish about her just hours previous.
Yea, your right! Im just a piece of shitt. I need Jesus tbh..
Ugh, I love how you get me together! Love your honesty…
LMAO, Yes Stephy….. Kii me bittch!
What an amazing album!!
mariah will reach her nr19 hit on billboard with this album and cry will just be all that love her so much I’m her biggest fan in south africa and the universe
I doubt it. But good luck for her if she really is trying… still. Love u Mariah.
So bland, generic, ghetto, cheap and dated, and poor COWRIAH can’t SING anymore 🙁 Oh and you can bookmark this will F-L-O-P harder than S****** Jean
This is very harsh. VERY! Also much is actually not ghetto. “Thirsty” by far is. But off the top I can’t call anything else ghetto or rachet as “T” was… is!
Are you upset because Gaga went from the most popular new act to a struggling one only 3 albums in? Mariah’s 3rd official album so 20 something million.. Hahahahahah bookmark that h**!
In that order. Ring the bell. Lol.
this album has different sounds,how can a gaga fan talk about generic music?,LOL,and she has had some really good vocal momenrs live in the last yearcare about gaga my friend,mariah didn’t struggle to sell albums after only 5 years since her debut like it happended to gaga,so please don’t be hypocrite.
I’m not about to bash Lady Gaga cause I respect her but ummm Mariah Carey’s 3rd album sold 32,000,0000+ Copies Globally, produced 3 number 1 hits & went certified DIAMOND! What has Lady Gaga’s 3rd album done besides…
Obviously did NOT listen to the album and is just a total troll/hater. Nothing about this album is “Ghetto”. SMH
B**** shut yout stupid ass up! Keep hating Mariah will always hold her throne, shes the.boss of all these chicks! N she looks thick n beautiful, bye b**** it only makes sense she has mad haters
I feel like I was reborn god came down and touched the top of my head with this album!! #MariahCarey slayed this album!
I really enjoyed:
“Dedicated”
“You Don’t Know What To Do”
and “Supernatural” was cute.
Collectively it was not bad. From a first listen, I say 2.5/5 Stars. I still do not know why she chose to release two basic filler songs as singles, especially “Thirsty” that mess should not have made the album TBH. Should have went with “Dedicated.”
You don’t like “Make It Look Good”?
I feel like I was and reborn god came down and touched the top of my head with this album!! #MariahCarey slayed this album!
I think that overall, this is a decent album. Not sure if I’d put it up there with my favorites from her, but its still decent. Lyrically, she really brings it, and there’s some really nice melodies on there. I felt like this album was sort of like a coming of age album for Mariah. Only downside for me was that, right now, none of the songs are that memorable, but this could change in the future.
LET THE 1990’s GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!
They can’t let the 90’s go let go they all 45; This queen needs to listen to CRY . That is a 90’s power vocal
B**** you’re the main one crying about how you miss 90s Mariah
True, but I just decided to let it go! She ain’t neva gonna sound that good again. But this album is still great…
Eh, let me have my opinion.
Let it go boo.
LOL SHOULDN’T U BE TELLING MARIAH TO LET THE 1990’S GO? LOL
Ugh I love “Heavenly”!
i hope mimi is putting a tour behind this cause she is the only one of my faves i havent seen live…the last two concerts i attend where bieber and gaga and seeing 1Direction next year so im excited to see mimi..i pray it aint this year though
I hope you feel better! I remember you said you was feeling sick. Hope you doin ok…
LOL YOURE NOT MISSING ANYTHING.
MARIAH IS NOBODY’S LIVE PERFORMER. WATCHING PAINT DRY IS MORE ENTERTAINING LOL
Ok i gave it a listen and i must say im not disappointed! It’s a nice body of work. Beautiful, Cry, You Dont Know What To Do,Make It Look Good Heavenly and The Art Of Letting Go are my faves so far.
It has to be said…This Album is BETTER than The Emancipation of Mimi. FOR REAL!!!
EVEN IF IT FLOPS THIS IS AN INCREDIBLE ALBUM!!!
She SANGS on this album!!! So incredible.
Eh idk about better than the Emancipation but it’s def a great album! The emancipation tho is just always going to be one of Mariah’s best !!
I guess I say this because MIAMTEC is the album I have been waiting for mariah to deliver for so many years. The TEOM has some stellar songs both lyrically/vocally but there are also a few I often skip…This album, as a whole, is a lot more cohesive. It flows, and carries you on a journey. I love it.
What songs exactly do you skip on THE EMANCIPATION OF MARIAH CAREY?!?!?
@Stephy…”To the Floor”, “Circles”, “Your Girl” and “Say Somethin'” (I’v grown to appreciate SS) Now before you pop off, I am a massive MC fan, and have been for years (Not an TEOM bang-wagon hopper). I don’t have a favourite album, I have a lot of favourite songs/vocal performances. I am not a fan who believes Mariah can do no wrong, and I am not a fan who believes the 2000’s Mimi lives in the shadow of the 90’s Mariah. I even LOVE her whisper vocals (love Charmbracelet).
Her vocals are impeccable on TEOM, and as much as I love “Circles”, and “Your Girl” at times I found them a little obtrusive. I must say my least fav song on TEOM is “To the Floor”. I almost never listen to it.
So, in saying that, and a lot more of what I haven’t said (this is already an essay, don’t want it to become a thesis) I have come to the conclusion that, for me, MIAM…TEC is a better album than TEOM.
Lol. Well, I love the ENTIRE album! Including TO THE FLOOR. Anyways, your opinion is your opinion…
I feel you but idk i think the standout track on the emancipation still standout more than any of these and her vocals were better too. but i do think it’s a really good great , grown&s*** album! Def going to buy it
You def have a point! And def grown/s*** (Thank the Lord it’s grown) I I like the rawness of these vocals, there’s power, and subtly…Maybe I’m jumping the gun but the more I listen, the more it speaks to me, beyond that of hit songs.
@shaquinisha-rose
Better than ‘The Emancipation’
THE BLASPHEMY, you’re going to burn in hell for saying that.
Lmao.
Cry and CAMUFLOGE are music box throwbacks. Excellent gospel vocals. Yes she is singing her face off. She really is an incredible singer. No shade. EXcellent comeback
Not bad at all mariah! She just pick the wrong singles but she has a legit body of work 75k first week max and maybe after it will pick up when she promotes the album
Omg mariah slay My life my new jam “make it look good”
Somewhere, Rihanna is singing this after she streamed Mariah’s Album…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRwfcQHNfSY
Ooooh Stop it! Leave Miss Ri-ri alone!
What, Her hero finally came along hunny!
The last vocally challenging song Riri attempted
True, but at-least she knows what her voice can do.
Girl let’s not do this right now . Just celebrate the album….
Wow
What have I done to deserve this wonderful album??
All I can say is Mariah is most definitely getting my coins next week
Those that say this album is terrible should just go hang themselves
Hmm my avi :/
@Future Cici, you know Ciara’s baby boy gonna be TALL as shitt! He gonna be beautriful too.
That baby will be beautiful…. I wonder what career path he will choose. It will be Interesting…. It also make me feel old as shitt!
What does Gaga have to do with this? Why can’t we just sit for a minute and discuss how BASIC, OVERRATED and TALENTLESS Mooriah is? What exactly are you getting from throwing these 1990’s receipts at me? And if those old ass ‘diamond albums’ WERE because of Mooriah and her greatness and NOT the actual sales climate being huge for albums during her prime then why can’t she even fill arenas these days to save her life?
Are you comparing Artpop from 2013 to Music Box from 1993? Are you f****** retarded son??
Please don’t go there not now 🙂
Yes because mariahs 3rd album her sales were growing and on Gaga’s 3rd album her sales are growing- cobwebs. I like Gaga but she’s far less of an anything than Mariah and will have a musical legacy/influence NOTHING like Mariah’s. Not even close. No need to address any of your other madness. Not here for her generic EDM mess
TROLL ALERT!
of course you can not compare the actual sales. but you can’t deny the fact, that mariah was one of the biggest sellers during that time. meanwhile gaga’s sales went on a downward spiral after the fame…and she is not able to keep up with the stardom of her first album… so – what about mariah? yes, her sales aren’t as strong as they once were. but she is still in the business. personally, I don’t see gaga a few years from now on…she’s taking the last coins of her annoying monsters as long as they are young enough to listen to the garbage she puts out and afterwards she’ll disappear
Absolutely Mariah’s best effort since ‘The Emancipation’, 8/10 🙂
Awwwww You always make me smile every now & then. *Kisses*
🙂
such a solid record. very, very good.
This album will debut at #1 I don’t see any strong competitors besides Coldplay and frozen
I say she’s going to get a 150K – 200K debut pretty solid in today’s world
The Kii would be Frozen snatching yet another legendary wig!
LOL
i dont even wanna think about it
NO JOKE, THIS IS THE RNB ALBUM OF THE YEAR, MAYBE THE BEYONCE ALBUM IS A CONTENDER BUT THIS IS RIGHT THERE WITH THAT
I wonder what JohnVidal and Dossome think of this album?
B**** it is A+mazing!
Mariah just should have let her fans pick her singles after hearing the complete body of work….. Those filler singles did NOT do this album justice by leading up to its release…..
Hopefully a lesson learned for Ms.Cannon-Carey for this sloppy era.
Theres a lesson in every era.
I still don’t know what ‘legacy’ or ‘influence’ you’re talking about when she was pretty much the Katy/Rihanna of the 90s. No musical or lyrical creativity, no growth, no one even takes her seriously. Legend my ass, a legend sells out a f****** ARENA, that’s all I know!!
TROLL ALERT!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KDf1rIhRtKg
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w8CtTeRYMoc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b5Wf1cziYf0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aHF-DMK1PHg
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOD BYE HATER!
Bye.
Right! Legends do sell out Arenas. Stop trying to compare what’s not happening (Gaga) to one if the biggest musical influences in history. Not happening !!!! Stop trying to make fetch happen- especially all the way for the slums of non-factor ass Brazil. Nobody cares about you
http://youtu.be/l-3hU9sJSnM
SREEEEEEEAMING @ legends sell out arenas! Preach B****! Preach B****! #Throws hat in ring
Yessssss @ Brazil Monsters! Spill that hot boiling tea all over Mooriah crabs! #legend my ass
You doing too much,,,
not a f****** monster talking about other artists that have been really successful for more than one album…mariah is a legend – point blank – every f****** artist that accomplished to be in this industry for over 20 years deserves respect. on top of that – mariah is an amazing songwriter and has timeless hits.
gaga’s songs will be forgotten in 10 years, some of them are already forgotten, to be honest… her “star” began to disappear during her SECOND album…
a lot of current stars label mariah as one of their influences. who labels gaga as an influence? suicidal, fat, insecure teenagers with emo friends!
This is classic Mariah and I love it. She has a good body of new music that takes you back to the Emotions and Music Box era. I love it!
YESS B**** IM ON ON THE FIRST SONG (CRY) AND IVE ALREADY GOT MY LIFE SLAYRIAHHHH YASS
This is truly an honest and solid body body of work from Mariah. I can see why she wanted us to hear it as an album not just a couple singles
Hoottttesst Mariah album! FINALLY A SOLID effort! Hope it gets the success it deserves
& btw beyhive Mariah got the album title from a picture she drew as a child not from “Sasha fierce”
“I camouflage my tears and you wear your disguise” if that song didn’t get you into your feelings then I just don’t know what to tell ya… Anyway this album is great it’s like a mixture of butterfly and glitter. Meteorite and you don’t know what to do are just everything!!definitely worth the wait and I’m happy she made it right ! Proud lamb!
OH MY GOD!!!!!
I know!!!
yesssssssssssss mariah you have def delivered !
Yaaaas, the queen Slayed me. The album has a lot of gems and I’ll definitely be streaming tf out of this album until the 27th. Anyway I’m currently off to hair store to buy a wig cause I’ve been scalped.
I was very skeptical at first (like the majority of y’all on here) but she has erased all that with this release! This slays! Cry is my new go to breakup song for sure! I will deff be buying this.
This got me crying…..INCREDIBLE BODY OF WORK…..QUEEN. i hope she gets a hit to gain public interest cause this is a MASTERPIECE. Her artistry , vocals …ON POINT.
If she would have released “you don’t know what to do” simultaneously with “beautiful” she would have had two hits to go with…yes, “beautiful” didn’t chart that high, but it was a real summer jam (at least for me). But I do not get what they have thought with releasing “art of letting go” and “you’re mine” (both are good songs, but no single material”…. “ydkwtd” needs to be a single – ASAP
I know one of the girls who sang on the choir for “Heavenly”
CT stand up! Fabulous album!
She did that!! Faded!!!! The more people release the more i desire r8!!!
Meeee toooooo I heard Sia wrote another song for her! I wonder if she’s gonna drop before the monster tour!!!
I can’t even know what to say ! i can not wait to hear this going to meet maryjane holland and listen to this all morning! best way to wake up is MCC driving you OOC !!! *just for the nostalgia dahling ! Mariah has never really done any wrong to me musically, Glitter soundtrack was dope love the throwback 80’s vibe it had far ahead of her time bringing that back but because of 9/11 the public needed a distraction from the issues and “the Mimi Meltdown” was it! But just like Britney none of her albums have disappointed her true fans. We appreciate the artistry it takes to actually help compose and write your own songs she consistently offers up an expression of herself unlike most of her contemporaries and even old school competition (Whitney, Celine NEVER WRITE)! shout out to Barbra Streisand who never lip syncs though and whom wrote or helped write some of the best songs ever! I’ll be back with my fave songs! Happy there’s not much hate on here (so far) **Cheers Toast Bravo to you all the mans of the hour** lol here’s your Standing O
“But just like Britney none of her albums have disappointed her true fans” -EXCEPT Britney Jean! That has to be said.
But you’ve got a point. Mariah never disappoints with her albums. Some are not THAT good, but none is horrible. Same goes with Britney, well except the above mentioned album by Will.I.Am ft. The voice of Britney Spears…
And it’s true – Mimi is an exceptional talented songwriter…I never got why she hasn’t wrote more songs for other artists…
i ENJOY Me. I am Britney JEan …the rare actual chanteuse. lol it’s good work out music like most of her stuff it stops there. She’s just getting back into her artistry which is why i support her never ending dress rehearsal piece of me vegas stint. She seems hungry for it actually attempting to challenge herself with this choreography a FAR cry from the Circus Tour / House of BLues(lip syncing while chewing gum=\ ) moments. But yeah Britney Jean i feel like the label didn’t want to go to urban and step on the toes of what they’re doing with Cyrus. Britney can snatch wigs with her real Black Out 2 moment when she gets out of vegas which i think they know holding off on will guarantee massive world tour for the future. These company’s plan out their agendas years in advance. Long live Mimi Though listened to the album can see her coming for Nick on a few tracks lol he wants to spill tea she can too!
The album is boring and bland.
You all are hyping this up when honestly,this is no better than any other R&B album out now. Sam, how much is moo moo and these artist paying you to act like different people to fill your comment section? You deleted my statement yesterday, but majority of these comments share the same IP address.I guess you have to still fake it, despite interviewing D-List celebs.
either or 5/10 just retire Mariah!
troll
Ha-Ha! You tried. Boop!
SINNNGGG!!!! B****!!!!!!
Mariah Carey did THAT ! She let yall haters HAVE IT !!!! That album is the EVERYTHING !!! It was well worth the wait !
These other “songwriters” out her need to listen listen to this album and take notes on how to WRITE MUSIC ! This album is a masterpiece. No joke.
This is a grown ass woman album ! It is amazing.
I’m not even a Mariah fan…. This album is everything. She will get my coins.
So I was super critical about The Art of Letting Go, You’re Mine and Thirsty, but I am impressed by the album on first listen. Her voice is not the spectacle it once was, but it’s still great and I CAN NOT EXPRESS MY ABSOLUTE JOY AT THE FACT SHE HAS FINALLY DITCHED THAT GOD AWFUL WHISPER. I do agree that there are no standout hits other than what she’s already released. But I do wish it success because she’s stayed true to her, not trying to follow trends, and she still slays basically every other singer out there. Monroe’s voice on Supernatural sounds so much like Mariah, had tears in my eyes.
On first listen I thought it was boring AF. Didn’t even get a chance to finish listening to it but I was playing it getting ready for work. I will say this I did let it okay without skipping a track. It’s full of ballads. Not bad. But I kinda expected more. I loved Supernatural tho. I can’t wait to come home and listen to the lyrics because Mariah be saying some s*** in her songs an they stand out when I’m in my feelings.
The album is not full of ballads. Lies.
TGJ sure didn’t have any snarky, shady comments about Mariah today. Cat got your tongue ? LMAO Yall can’t hate on an album this good.
Okay. So funny. Everybody so quick to brag her. But now? She has a masterpiece out to be heard. No shady ass comments.
New York Daily News Reviews Me. I Am Mariah…
Mariah got the memo.
For her first pop album in five years — housed under the diva-like title “Me. I Am Mariah….The Elusive Chanteuse” — the star needed to heed the warning of her disastrous last work. And she has.
That disc, 2009’s “Memoir of an Imperfect Angel,” became the worst selling, and most creatively dire, recording of Carey’s nearly quarter-century career. It also set off the longest stretch since she scored a slam-dunk smash single, dating back to 2008’s “Touch My Body.”
Carey’s new music was long-delayed. In between, she put out an indifferent Christmas album and started fresh recordings, only to abandon them. The star also had personal challenges, like a pregnancy (with twins) she has described as “really difficult.” Worse, she had to co-judge “American Idol” with Nicki Minaj.
While the new “Chanteuse” has a formal release date of next Tuesday (May 27th), iTunes started streaming it early this morning.
The music reacts to Carey’s fallow years in most every way it should. It returns her to the type of grand balladry, and formal melodies, that first made her a star. It’s her most melodic, least-trendy album in memory – both moves that greatly flatter her.
Though the disc contains cameos from rappers like Nas and Wale, it has far fewer hip-hop inflections than the faux-hip “Memoir” disc. Instead it stresses songs like the opening weeper “Cry,” an inspired throw-back to initial hits like “Vision of Love.” Accompanied primarily by piano, Carey unfurls the full range of her instrument, something she had too often scaled back of late to suit songs over-indebted to their beats. The result lets her lean into the song’s drama, which she engages completely.
That’s not to say that Carey has abandoned more up-beat material. “Meteorite,” which starts out quoting Andy Warhol’s “15 minutes of fame” line, shoots us back to the days of Studio 54, with a spiraling, string-drenched disco beat. The pre-release single “#Beautiful,” with guest star Miguel, has a classic R&B melody, boosted by a looming backbeat.
Whether in more elegant ballads, or most assertive R&B songs, the new tunes give Carey more to play with than usual. It’s as if she’d been listening to Beyonce’s albums, gaining tips for how to bridge trendy music with the classic type. Even a hip-hop influenced ditty like “Thirsty” has a broad tune.
As on many discs, Carey sticks in a famous cover. They’re often corny ones (see: her run at Foreigner’s “I Wanna Know what Love Is” last time). But here she makes a smarter choice – George Michael’s “One More Try.” Backed by a gospel organ and choir, Carey dances over the notes, wringing every ripple out of the tune. She even tailors her worst tics – those endless melismas – using them to mine emotion rather than to falsely impress.
Contrary to its title, the new album may be Carey’s least elusive work. Rarely has she made her talent more clear.
Source: New York Daily News
Very accurate review. This album is so good! Her best since Emancipation
It’s so quite in here now. Where those haters at now? Oh I see. Now that Mariah put out a classic bomb ass album no haters want to flood her post? Smh. Talent always shut these fools up. Mariah didn’t have to do this. She put out this amazing cd. These females needs to chase after her quality of music. Not so much her voice and looks. Anybody can look good or train to sing like or better then Mariah. But what they can’t do is compete with her artistry and music style. Who has put out a great full body of work like this lately ? Which one of those females y’all keep comparing to Mariah? Rihanna album ? Adriana album ? Jlo ? Katy Perry? Nicki( lol) that one wAs for fun. Lol. Nicki ??? I love Beyonce but her album can’t even compare to this one. Sorry y’all. Mariah is the best and Queen first. Just brace it. Stop being mad.
AT LEAST BEY CAN SING HER SONGS LIVE
Great comeback. Have a great day I’m going to go back to listen to Mariah’s new classic cd. Enjoy your Old live Beyonce clips.
Ooops!
FLOPPPPPP
Songwriters need to take note on how to write an album. Can’t stop listening to this.
Exactly.
ok i was doubting mariah…but i must say i really love this album. i love this one almost a much as TEOM
i love beyonce but i wish she wouldve put more vocals in her album like mariah right now the only contenders is between mariah and beyonce
Mariah slayed me ! Coins girl coins.
Wow! I really didn’t know what to expect with this album but with all Mariah albums, this one delivers! I enjoyed Memoirs…but this one def is so much better! There’s a song for everyone on here! Make It Look Good is my favorite! How can Mariah continue to get better? She’s a one of a kind, i tell you! God put her on this Earth to make music, seriously!
oh my lord this is perfect
Heavenly
She slayed! I don´t have many more words to say right now. I´m processing this. Kind of speechless.
She gets my coins gurl yaaasssssss ! She surprised the hell outta me.
USA Today: Mariah Sings To Her Strengths in Chanteuse
For a woman who has one of the most technically astonishing voices in pop music, Mariah Carey has at times seemed oddly inclined to try too hard. And who could blame her, really, given the gleeful snark that she has inspired in detractors — first for sounding (and looking) too perfect, then for her forays into hip-hop and attempts to sustain her viability as younger acolytes crowded the field.
So what’s most striking about Carey’s new album — titled, rather insistently, Me. I Am Mariah …The Elusive Chanteuse (***½ out of four) and now streaming on iTunes Radio ahead of its May 27 release — is how relaxed and confident she sounds. Gone is the self-consciousness that marred her last studio album, 2009’s Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel. Instead, Carey — whose delays of Chanteuse’s release date inspired predictable hand-wringing (as did the less-than-spectacular performance of the lead singles) — gives the impression that her only concerns are meeting her own standards, and those of the fans who have stuck with her through everything.
The tender, aching ballads and joyful pop-soul numbers here both mark a return to form and reveal increased nuance, particularly in the singing. The artful melisma, robust belting and decorative high notes are still there, but Carey spends a great deal of time using her supple middle and lower registers to convey feeling simply and directly.
Tunes such as the pensive, piano-driven Cry and the dreamier Supernatural, an account of maternal love featuring Carey and husband Nick Cannon’s young twins, showcase the creamy and husky textures of her voice while keeping the focus on sentiment, not ornamentation. The spine-tingling Camouflage, co-written and produced by Carey and Big Jim Wright (other collaborators include longtime colleagues Jermaine Dupri and Rodney Jerkins), finds her pining performance embellished with gospel-tinged backing vocals.
There’s also a poignant cover of George Michael’s One More Try, and the snappy, twinkling Meteorite, which begins with Andy Warhol’s observation that everyone will be famous for 15 minutes — which seems truer today than it did when he made it, or when Carey’s career launched 25 years ago, for that matter. Elusive or not, this chanteuse is a survivor, and that’s a rare thing in today’s fickle, polarized pop landscape.
Download: You Don’t Know What to Do (featuring Wale), Camouflage, Cry
The reviews are being excellent!
And btw… why do these guys at TGJ always have so much to talk about Mariah Carey in absurd posts… and then when a big one (a f****** entire album) they stay silent? Did she leave them that stunned? 🙂 Serves them right.
In that order. Ring the bell. Lol. My exact point. Where are all the negative comments? Now you have an actual topic to criticize.
Nothing? No Ariana? No Rhianna? No one saying such and such album is better ? Exactly ole hating ass bloggers. Y’all stay mad.
Entertaintment Weekly Album Review: Me. I Am Mariah
Let’s start with that subtitle: The Elusive Chanteuse? It’s hard to take it seriously when the first two words in Mariah Carey’s new album title are Me and I, and she’s standing right there on the cover in a crocheted swimsuit like a vision of Aphrodite that somebody airbrushed on the side of a van. And although the singer hasn’t released a proper studio full-length since 2009’s Memoirs of an Imperfect Angel, she’s been everywhere: claiming she needed ”a fragrant moment” with her perfume on HSN; telling 20/20 that she gave birth to her now 3-year-old twins while blasting her own song, “Fantasy,” in the delivery room; having a hold-my-hoops showdown with Nicki Minaj on American Idol. (Her time as a judge on Idol, she told Billboard, “was not festive.”) So it’s genuinely exciting that she opens her new album with “Cry,” an emotional Mariah-at-the-piano ballad that could make people start to care about the music again.
Working with longtime collaborator Jermaine Dupri, Carey front-loads the track list with midtempo R&B and soulful torch songs that spotlight her best asset: That Voice. She comes on strong with Jennifer Holliday-in-Dreamgirls bravado on “You Don’t Know What to Do.” (“You’d better SING IT, girl!” yelps guest Wale appreciatively.) And she’s whistle-toning all over the end of “Dedicated,” a fun, Wu-Tang-sampling tribute to hip-hop’s golden age, featuring Nas.
Nostalgia is a big theme here, both lyrically (she’s looking through old photo books on “Faded”) and musically, with arrangements that borrow from Inner Life’s disco rave-up “I’m Caught Up (In a One Night Love Affair)” and the O’Jays’ Philly-soul classic “Let Me Make Love to You.” Stevie Wonder even whips out a harmonica solo for “Make It Look Good” that could’ve been unearthed from the crates. There are still way too many slow, generic love songs and too much schmaltz, like the harp-strumming “Supernatural” (featuring the giggles and babblings of “DemBabies, a.k.a. Ms. Monroe and Moroccan Scott Cannon, a.k.a. Roc N’ Roe,” according to the album credits). But it’s easy to get nostalgic yourself during the gospel epic “Heavenly (No Ways Tired/Can’t Give Up Now),” backed by a full choir and samples of the late Rev. James Cleveland, with Mariah trilling like crazy. This might not be the “Vision of Love” Mariah, but she sounds more like that girl than she has in a while.
That Voice has been through a lot, and you can hear it. There are times on The Elusive Chanteuse when she’s trying to power through a note where it sounds like digital technology might be holding her up by the straps of that crocheted swimsuit. But who else has survived EDM and Auto-Tune and still climbs her way up the octaves like this? Ariana Grande may have been christened the “new Mariah,” but we still need the old one. And she is telling you that she’s not going. B
TGJ is quiet cause after the world heard this masterpiece they would look llike idiot to talk shittt about MC. Cat got your tongue, Sam ? Shitttt talking muttha fukka !
I will wait too… Where y’all at now?? Let me get my pillow and sit until they arrive. Haters please shout your faces.
I need to have a physical copy in my hands ASAP!
I just heard Money feat. Fabolous! Love it! Such a summer groove! This album is….i can’t i can’t. I’m in love with it!!!!!
Love it! It’s like a mixture of Charmbracelet, EOM, and E=MC2.
I was worried, but Mariah really made a great album. It’s so damn good. I can’t even know what to say !
Mariah new album is totally fire!!! positive review from all over the website all the track is well written and the tempo is soo good this is definitely her comeback seriously i cannot stop listening all the track and MONEY just added to the track and it Sooo R&B jamm with the help from Fabulose strongly recommend> CRY / FADED / CAMOUFLAGE / SUPERNATURAL OMG I CAN”T DECIDE!!! I MEAN ALL CAN BE POTENTIAL SINGLES!! LOL!
GOOD JOB MARIAH!!!! And i already pre-ordered the album
I Just realised the song Mariah sang a snippet of on 20/20 isn’t on the album! That little bit sounded soooo good.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ji71oa4bX8g
p.s did anyone get to hear “Money ($ * …)”?
Told you so!!!!! Amazing album
Somebody pleeze bring back 90’s Mariah…this new s*** is mediocre and it insults my intelligence.Toni Braxton came back with a mature highly suscessfull album with Babyface. Mariah needs to retire and hand the mic over to Ariana Grande and enjoy her money.