Mariah Carey - Charmbracelet
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Artist: Mariah CareyEdition: Music CD
Published: 2002
CD Release Date: 2002-12-03
Music Label: Island
Soundtracks:
- Through The Rain
- Boy (I Need You) feat. Cam'Ron
- The One
- Yours
- You Got Me feat. Jay-Z and Freeway
- I Only Wanted
- Clown
- My Saving Grace
- You Had Your Chance
- Lullaby
- Irresistible (Westside Connection)
- Subtle Invitation
- Bringin' On The Heartbreak
- Sunflowers For Alfred Roy
- Through The Rain (Remix) feat. Kelly Price and Joe
Free Music Notes for Charmbracelet
Free Music Review: A Golden Treasure Filled With Charms!
Hit: 4 Stars
While Mariah Carey is known for her past hit albums this one showcases a *new* and *sensational* production! It's a diverse musical style incorporating soft, breathier vocals combined with her famous elevated pitches along hip-hop featured artists, some dance elements with R&B, and the all all-too-famous *ballads*! The listening experience takes a story line of a journey with darkness, storms, yet beautiful "rainbows" and "dreams" surfacing. As Mariah states, "This album is like a charmbracelet I'm passing down to you. Here's my story." While there are numerous versions, this one is for those that prefer less hip-hop rap featured artists found on the others. It's a spectacular production definitely for fans, new listeners, and critics!
Every single song has something to offer from expressions of love going wrong [heartache from the heartbreak], barely surviving after a fall [through the rain], desiring romance after a passionate night [I only wanted] to romantic songs like "Boy" feat. Cam'ron [celebrating a hot lover], "The One" [expressing the nervousness of finding true love], "Yours" [proclaiming being completely devoted to embracing that dream].
Each charm is put on each track [booklet] expressing the meaning behind it and the song. It's a puzzle type story that flows through the music bringing emotions of love, hope, strength despite adversity, and cherishing the dream of finally experiencing the *magic* of love.
The touches of class and detailed hard work are definitely noticeable. The thanks on the back mentions God first and foremost. More specifically, "Thanks be to God for his indescribable gifts. 2 Corinthians 9:15." The artwork is stunning in a glossy photo finish, with lyrics in English in the gold booklet.
My favorite tracks are "Through The Rain" for the empowering lyrics of standing strong after hard times, "I Only Wanted" for desiring someone the night after a special romance, "The One" showing how a new lover was unexpected and hard to trust, and "Boy" for the catchy hooks, bouncy rhythmic beats, and hip-hop blends. This is a definite high recommendation!
*The album was dedicated to the loving enduring memory of Mariah Carey's father, Alfred Roy Carey
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Mariah Carey's ninth album has been touted as her comeback album, coming as it does after the belly flop that produced the overwrought soundtrack to her ill-fated film, Glitter. With Charmbracelet, Carey goes out of her way to fix all those aesthetic glitches, tempering the overblown vocals, simpering lyrics, and uninspired funk covers of her last album and returning to what she does best--showcasing her magnificent five-octave voice and pillaging her lift history for inspiration. After her breakup with superstar Luis Miguel, MTV meltdown, hospitalization for exhaustion, and the death of her father, Carey had a lot of emotional baggage to sift through. She has and, as a result, has created an inspired and diverse 15-song opus that finds her skipping from an impassioned Aretha Franklin-like gospel ("Saving Grace") to an impish cover of Def Leppard's power ballad "Bringin' on the Heartbreak." Though he's not mentioned by name, rapper Eminem is given a pointed drubbing on "Clowns" for hinting in the press and in his own song "Superman" of a relationship with Carey. There hasn't been such a compelling musical soap opera since Carly Simon's '70s roman ? clef, "You're So Vain." However, the disc's most inspiring moment comes on "Sunflowers for Alfred Roy," a wistful elegy for her father that recounts his final days in his hospital room. This is a stunning return to form for Carey. --Jaan UhelszkiDance & DJ Music CDs
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