Charmbracelet is one of my favourite albums of all time. I feel like it's definitely her most personal too.
Through The Rain is just magical to me. It came at a time when I needed it - it truly helped save me mentally/emotionally. At the time my house had been set on fire during a moment of turmoil in my town. There were race riots and my house was targeted because of my dad and his powerful position. I was only 13 but it was such a trying and turbulent time because my baby cousin died a few weeks after the house incident. I was so sad that year and didn't have many friends because I distanced myself. Isolation as a teen is not good. Anyway this song premièred and I began to cry. Her words and voice just reached into my soul and made me feel for the first time that everything will be OK and that I can make it through this.
So when the album came out I just had to have it. I remember going to Asda that Friday and sneaking to the music counter with my sister and we put our pocket money towards it.
That's when I came across My Saving Grace. Every time I listen to it I think of Mariah because she was MY saving grace.
It truly is a special album to me because it was the landmark moment that helped change my life. That's why I take personal offence when it's trashed because I don't know where my life would be without it.
HAPPY ANNIVERSARY, CHARMBRACELET
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My favourite songs are The One, Yours and lately Bringin' on the Heartbreak grew on me 
