Mariah Carey-EMC2(JP Bonus Tracks)
专辑名称：EMC2 (JP Bonus Tracks)
歌手姓名：Mariah Carey
唱片公司：Island / Def Jam
发行日期：2008年4月15日
专辑流派：R&B
专辑语言：英语
文件内容：mp3

01. Migrate (featuring T-Pain)
02. Touch My Body
03. Cruise Control (featuring Damian Marley)
04. I Stay In Love
05. Side Effects (featuring Young Jeezy)
06. I'm That Chick
07. Love Story
08. I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time
09. Last Kiss
10. Thanx 4 Nothin'
11. O.O.C
12. For The Record
13. Bye Bye
14.I Wish You Well
15.Heat (JP Bonus Track) (Produced By Will.i.am)
16.4Real4Real (Feat. Da Brat) (JP Bonus Track) (Produced By Bryan-Michael Cox)
Two weeks prior to the April 2008 release of E=MC2 -- Mariah Carey's tenth
album and the sequel to her big 2005 comeback, The Emancipation of Mimi --
the diva broke Elvis Presley's record of being the solo artist with the most
number one singles on the Billboard charts. Lots of publicity surrounded
"Touch My Body" reaching number one, as well it should: busting an Elvis
record is always news, but this particular record served team Mariah well, as
it paints Carey as being a diva who's bigger and better than the rest. An
unintentional side effect of this very record is that it also tacitly pointed
out that Mariah has been around a long, long time: 18 years, to be exact,
roughly two years shy of the two decades that it took Elvis to establish his
record. Unlike Elvis -- or any other major artist who's been around for two
decades, for that matter -- Carey seems determined not to look back, to exist
in some kind of eternal now, never acknowledging that she has a past, unless
she's wielding her divorce from her ex-husband/ex-record label chief Tommy
Mottola for some kind of sympathy, something she does once again here via
vague allusions to naet?and "violent times" on "Side Effects." Mariah
refers to that separation so often that it's hard not to think of it as
something recent but it happened a long, long time ago -- well over a decade
prior to the release of E=MC2, to be precise -- but as the separation was the
pivot point for Carey's career, it's easy to see why she keeps returning to
it, even if the emotional heft of her singing about the pain has long since
diminished.
After that separation, Carey restyled herself as a relentlessly modern R&B
diva, chasing every passing trend in a given year, a move that often kept her
on the top of the charts -- apart from the post-millennial stumble of
Glitter, of course -- but had the side effect of making Mariah a musician who
became progressively less mature with each passing year, culminating in the
hazy soft-porn fantasies of "Touch My Body," the single that broke Elvis'
longstanding record and will likely only be remembered for that achievement.
Like so much of Emancipation and E=MC2, which is a virtual replica of its
predecessor in almost every way, "Touch My Body" is all about sound, rhythm,
and texture and not so much about song, something that helps sustain Mariah
Carey's run at the top the charts, but something that also pushes melodic
hooks, and in the process singing, into the background. As Carey's
multi-octave voice has always been her calling card, the one thing that even
her biggest critics have grudgingly acknowledged as her unassailable
strength, this is a little odd -- especially on the T-Pain duet "Mirage,"
where she succumbs to auto-tune -- but it not only makes Mariah modern, it
also camouflages her slightly diminishing range, so it does have a dual
purpose. Sometimes all this production is good and occasionally it's married
to a full-fledged, hooky song, as on the excellent "I'm That Chick," a sleek
slice of Off the Wall disco that's nearly giddy in its energy and melody, and
perhaps on "I'll Be Lovin' U Long Time," which also has a lightness that so
much of E=MC2 lacks. Everything else pushes the rhythm and bass to the
forefront and mixes Mariah into the middle, so it becomes a wash of sound --
sound that is designed to be fashionable, but like so much fashion, it's tied
to the time and dates quickly. Which is why it's misleading to judge Mariah
based on her new record of possessing the most number one singles, as she's
not about longevity, she's about being permanently transient, a
characteristic E=MC2 captures all too well.
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