Mariah Carey - Glitter
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Artist: Mariah CareyEdition: Music CD
Format: Soundtrack
Published: 2001
CD Release Date: 2001-09-11
Music Label: Virgin Records Us
Soundtracks:
- Loverboy Remix
- Lead The Way
- If We
- Didn't Mean To Turn You On
- Don't Stop (Funkin' 4 Jamaica)
- All My Life
- Reflections (Care Enough)
- Last Night A DJ Saved My Life
- Want You
- Never Too Far
- Twister
- Loverboy
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Free Music Review: Better than its reputation...
Hit: 4 Stars
First of all, I just want to say that this review is not defending the movie. It is as bad as everyone says it is, and should be avoided at all costs.
As for the album, I have a different take. Many consider the album a huge embarrassment for Mariah Carey, partly because of the movie that it was inspired by, partly because of her famous mental problems shortly before it was released, and partly because it flopped in a big way, prompting Virgin records to buy out her record-breaking contract. However, the album deserves better.
Don't get me wrong. This album has some glaring flaws. The biggest problem is that this album is her most schizophrenic. Some of the tracks have that typical sound that many of her hit songs, and the others have an 80s sound to it. Together, it sounds like it is trying to be two albums in one (which, let's face it, was her intention), and it just doesn't work.
That being said, there are some fantastic songs on here. All of the ballads, such as "Lead the Way," "Twister," "Reflections," and especially "Never Too Far" are just beautiful, and a few of them (the latter especially) sound like the old school Mariah Carey everyone loves. Other songs, such as "Didn't Mean to Turn You On," "All My Life," and "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" have a fun, 80s sound to it that really puts you in a nostalgic mood.
All and all, I'd say this is Mariah's best album that nobody heard. Even if released at a different time, it probably would have struggled on the charts just the same, but the material would still be good. While it isn't her best album, nor an album to help the curious start to discover her music, it's still an album that many would enjoy.
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Despite songbird Mariah Carey's emotional troubles during the release of the soundtrack to Glitter, she has never sounded giddier. In keeping with the semiautobiographical flick's 1980s time frame, Glitter mines the rich and rhythmic fields of discofied funk and club-friendly jams, and Carey soars on thumping covers of Indeep's "Last Night a DJ Saved My Life" (featuring DJ Clue, Busta Rhymes, and New Jack of the moment Fabolous), and Cherrelle's skittish, synth-soaked love song "Didn't Mean to Turn You On," which in a nice touch, is revisited by its production auteurs Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis. Also well worth a listen is "All My Life," a sweet and nasty Rick James track that finds Mariah looser than she's ever been; it's on those uptempo jams that Mariah is all sass and sex. Unfortunately, she loses the mood on the by-the-numbers ballads, which slow the party down just as it's getting hot. --Amy LindenDance & DJ Music CDs
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