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 | Title : Daydream
Author : Mariah Carey
Release Date : 19951003
Binding : Audio CD
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Editorial Reviews :
'Fantasy' provides the only real transcendent chapter on this album. Reinterpreting Tom Tom Club's 'Genius of Love' with a percolating dance beat, the single emphasizes everything that makes Mariah Carey great. Her voice swoops, squeals, and careens over the seductive rhythm, while the words capture just the right amount of vulnerability and determination. Unfortunately, the thrill is short-lived, as the multiplatinum singer soon falls back into typical adult-contemporary schlock and pointless vocal gymnastics, particularly on 'Melt Away' and the bombastic cover of Journey's 'Open Arms.'
Buyer Reviews :
This is without doubt the best Mariah Carey album, with all of her best and most popular material on it. It contains just the right amount of R&B influence, with Jermaine Dupri helping to write some of the numbers, whilst still retaining her pop roots. What's perhaps most interesting though, is the fact that this album is not only quite intelligent but also deeply personal. Indeed, it's rare that a diva ever writes her own material, but Mariah does.
There are very few of the obvious love songs here, with the majority seeming to concern Mariah's split from her husband. Songs such as 'I Am Free' are particularly explicit in this fact, with more subtle references to it in 'Long Ago', for example. In these songs Mariah understands that she's lost that sense of innocence, that the giddy sense of love expressed in the excellent 'Fantasy' are just that - a fantasy. In many ways, 'Daydream' has a sombre tone. Particularly on the duet with Boyz II Men, 'One Sweet Day', this has a real sense of loss to it, whether it's a person or a sense of innocence.
What's also refreshing is the fact that there's no filler here, with each song being great in its own right. Although it's easy to pick out the best tracks, it's much harder to pick a track that you don't like. More obviously, Mariah has such a fantastic voice that it's hard not to be blown away on several of her songs. What's nice though is that her vocals are often restrained on the slower songs to a more effective subdued tone. This is surely one of the best pop albums of the last decade.
(by darkangel3030)
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